Cheers guys, advice taken.....:grin:


KG_ , what is the RMA service you mention regards your supplier?

Return Material Authorisation

If something goes wrong and you need to return the goods for repair/replacement.


I've found that saving £20.00 on items from such manufacturers can cost you in the long run when trying to RMA faulty products.
The warranty periods could be 12 months instead of 24/36.

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Thanks for all the suggestions, advice chaps!

I just installed the 2Gb MSI N560GTX Ti Twin Frozr which seems a well made card and comes slightly OC'd over the standard settings. The Asus 1Gb 560Ti Direct CU has slightly higher clock speeds out of the box but the difference is only marginal. The MSI Afterburner software was installed so I can tweak it to match if necessary.

With my 2.7Ghz Duel Core system I don't expect to see a massive improvement other than running with some of the eyecandy enabled in MP and more Video settings at high with a few at medium/Low (Buildings, trees, etc).

Benchmarking isn't something I do - I tend to make judgements in game but I did check FPS on the Black Death Track and the results are marginally better but not significantly better - more a case of less sudden large fluctuations (except when the bomb explodes and sudden dip to 9fps for a brief moment). In game it seemed better and used the Quick Mission 'Intercept Bombers over London' for comparison using High settings and Shadows, clouds enabled.

After the next update I will be looking to upgrade to an i5 - 2500K 8Gb. At the moment I am happy with the SP and MP performance on my current system.

Forget the "Fly over London" and "Black Death" benchmarks...

What I want to know is how much fps you have at ATAG, high flying & low flying... ;)

~S~

Unfortunately................the new board died! Or something catastrophic occurred after a few hours of use! Got a BSoD, Win7 reported a hardware failure on reboot, tried several times and waited patiently for the Win7 Repair to do its analysis but no joy. Re- fitted the ASUS GTX560Ti 1GB and hey presto - booted up fine and running ok!


Guess I will have to call the supplier and return it but not sure I want another now!


Edit: Appears it was a driver problem. Rolled back, Re-installed - so far so good!

New driver's are available today 1.31.12 ver.285.62