Final thoughts and rating
The race to produce the very best GeForce GTX 560 Ti graphics cards is hotting up nicely. Available in reference form for around £200, NVIDIA's partners aren't charging huge premiums for grounds-up designs that offer significantly higher frequencies out of the box.
KFA2's GeForce GTX 560 Ti LTD OC is indicative of a high-quality custom design that ticks many of the right boxes. Solid on performance and comparatively good on power consumption and power-draw, the card's PCB-wide cooler is excellent at keeping the GPU cool. Add in a bevy of enthusiast-orientated features and you have a £240 card that's close the pinnacle of GTX 560 Ti engineering.
While we have little but praise for the actual product - KFA2's done a sterling job - the price may well be a stumbling block for potential purchasers. The £240 outlay is perilously close to GTX 570 money, which is an intrinsically better GPU, and above the cost of a Radeon HD 6950 2GB card.
But the biggest competition comes from NVIDIA's own ranks, where two GTX 460 1GB cards can be purchased for not a whole lot more and will offer superior performance when tied together in SLI. What's more, the continued availability of heavily discounted Radeon HD 5870 and HD 5850 cards hamper the attractiveness of any new GPU released at £200.
Our bottom-line thinking is that KFA2 has engineered a very good GTX 560 Ti card whose appeal is somewhat diminished by a high retail price. Bring it down by at least £20 and it becomes worthy of very serious attention.
The Good
Really good cooler
Looks the business
Lot of thought has gone into design
GTX 570-like performance
The Bad
Price may be an issue
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The card can be purchased from Dabs.com, Scan.co.uk, and eBuyer.co.uk.
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