Introduction

I think that I am the only person in Wisconsin that isn't a cheesehead. If you haven't seen or heard, the Packers ended up winning the Super Bowl. How this happened is beyond me. It wasn't because Aaron Rodgers is the second coming of Jesus, like the media outlets claim. For some reason, all of the top teams fell apart, for one reason or another, post season. The Falcons just had a horrible outing on both offense and defense that was completely uncharacteristic of their season. The Bears defense held Rodgers to no throwing touchdowns and a 55.6 passer rating, but ended up losing their only good (Cutler) QB's performance to an injury sometime during the 1st half. Heck, their 3rd string was able to score multiple times on the Packers, he just made rookie inexperienced mistakes. Then the Steelers, during the biggest game of the year, decided to have a lax defense while Roethlisberger made stupid decisions. Pretty much all of the Packer's scores were on turnovers. It must have been fate, either that or someone put something in the opposition's Gatorade.

At least I have the solace of computer components to distract me from all the ruckus around here. Within the past month, NVIDIA has been busy releasing a new line of cards for us consumers to gobble up. The main focus of this line being that it's time to upgrade from the older outdated technology, and I agree. The Steam survey still shows the majority of gamers on their service using old outdated 8800GT video cards. 38.04% of their users also still have DX9 systems. DirectX 10 has been out since the end of 2006 and DirectX 11 was released with Windows 7 in 2009. That means there are still people gaming on nearly over 5 year old technology. Because of the advances in technology over the past 2 years with DX11, if you haven't upgraded, it's about time. The benefits have been proven, even in older systems. CPU and GPU use is much more efficient in gaming and everyday tasks.

The EVGA Geforce GTX 560Ti SuperClocked Edition looks to fill that new upgrade spot. The GTX 560Ti SC is positioned to fill that middle performance spot that was once held by the popular GTX 460. The SuperClocked branding from EVGA means that this GTX 560Ti comes factory overclocked. The core clock speed is set at 900Mhz, memory at 4212Mhz, and shader clock is 1800Mhz. The technology in the 560Ti adds more on top of the old 460 in terms of processing power. There are 384 CUDA cores, 8 streaming multiprocessors, 64 texture units, and 32 ROP units. The EVGA Geforce GTX 560Ti SC retains all of the newest features, like DirectX 11, CUDA, PhysX, PureVideo HD,  3D Vision, and OpenGL technology.