MSI GTX 650Ti Boost Video Card Review

Video cards with a factory overclock are good for any gamer since they can offer you better performance with only a minor price premium, overclocking them beyond this is just fun and a way to get a little more performance from your purchase.

Overclocking the Kepler is a little different than what we have done in the past.  There are no shader controls and you now have to deal with the non-adjustable Boost Clock.  By adjusting the power slider you can control how much boost is applied but it will also limit your overall overclock.  For these tests we were fortunate to get a rather decent overclock of 1153Mhz Core and 1627Mhz Memory with a boost clock ramping things up to 1218Mhz.

During our benchmarking runs we left Afterburner running so we could monitor temps and core usage.  After several runs we go back and look at the stats under load.  The total boost under load was right around what GPUz reported at 11200Mhz.

At 120Mhz+ we cannot expect much in terms of a big performance gain due to the limited number of CUDA cores available.  Both 3DMark benchmarks showed minor gains and Crysis 2 leveled out at +2FPS on average.  This is not what we like to see from an overclock but that was all the card would do and still remain stable.

Keep in mind that overclocking is not guaranteed so your results may vary from one card to another,