Power, temps and noise
The standard GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448 numbers are taken from this review of a custom-cooled Gigabyte card. At that time we wondered why the power-draw was so high. The EVGA card fits in better with the rest of the GeForce pack, coming in just below the GTX 570.
The card-wide cooler is about 7°C better than if using the reference heatsink found on Fermi GF110 cards.
But it's not particularly quiet. The higher-than-average noise profile suggests the fans put out an irksome pitch. Rather, they combine to make more of a whooshing sound. That said, we'd still like it to be a couple of decibels quieter, really, given the apparent quality of the cooling on offer. Examining the logs shows the fans to spin at 1,400rpm when idling, rising to 2,300rpm at the most burdensome point of the Crysis 2 looping test.
