Introduction

I know it's hard, but there comes a time when we have to get rid of old things. We place a ton of sentimental value on older things and try to cling to them for dear life. There are still people out there that carry around old Nokia phones and refuse to let go. In extreme cases, people turn into hoarders. Ever watch that Discovery show "Hoarding: Buried Alive"? It's insane what people hold on to. I'll admit it, I tend to hold onto things myself a little longer than I should. Right now, I have a closet full of old computer components. You never know when you might need them, right? (spoken like a true hoarder)

In the computer world, change happens at such a rapid pace that what you walk out of the store with today, could already be obsolete. This causes an issue with consumers, find a product that will last, based on their budget. People with lots of expendable cash have the opportunity to upgrade at will, but that is a very tiny segment. The grand majority can only afford an upgrade every few years. Research and patience is needed to find that perfect upgrade.

The NVIDIA Geforce GTX 560 TI might be that next perfect upgrade. NVIDIA armed the GTX 560 TI with 384 total CUDA cores and 8 polymorph engines. The GeForce GTX 560 Ti uses the same Streaming Multiprocessor (SM) configuration as GTX 460, with 48 CUDA Cores, four dispatch units, and eight texture units and special function units per SM. There are four 64-bit memory controllers (256-bit) with 1GB of GDDR5 memory. Clock speeds for the GeForce GTX 560 Ti are 822MHz graphics clock/1644MHz CUDA Cores. Memory speed is 4008MHz.