MSI 760 TF or Hawk?

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I'm currently deciding which MSI 760 to get. currently on newegg the TF edition has the best rating of all 760s while the Hawk barely has any ratings.

I was dead on at getting the N760 Hawk but im starting to change to the TF.

btw don't reccomend me any other card Im just asking about these two ty

 

[bigcyco1]

QUOTE: MSI has engineered a fantastic GeForce GTX 760 with their GTX 760 HAWK. The card comes overclocked out of the box with the highest frequency we've seen on a GTX 760. This translates into a performance improvement of almost 10% over the reference design—something you'll definitely notice in-game. With those clocks, it even ends up faster than the AMD HD 7970 and only 7% behind AMD's flagship HD 7970 GHz Edition. I only wish MSI had also overclocked the memory since our manual overclocking tests show that there is plenty of headroom to do so.
Compared to the MSI GTX 760 GAMING, the company beefed up their cooler for the HAWK, which provides additional cooling potential to make sure the card handles the increased clocks while still leaving enough headroom for manual overclocking. Temperatures are great, and noise levels are good too. The only GTX 760 that is quieter is MSI's GTX 760 GAMING, making it a good alternative if you value low noise more than the absolutely highest performance. It's also great to see a backplate on the GTX 760 HAWK, something many cheaper cards lack.
The GTX 760 HAWK also comes with several advanced overclocking features, like voltage monitoring points and a dual BIOS that is optimized for liquid nitrogen. Even if you don't use liquid nitrogen, the dual-BIOS feature can be useful if a BIOS flash goes wrong, for example.
Power consumption of the card in gaming is slightly higher than the reference design, but its increased performance allows the GTX 670 HAWK to beat the reference design in performance per watt. Only Furmark maximum power is significantly higher, which suggests that MSI increased the card's power limit to make optimum use of the dual 8-pin power connectors and improved VRM circuitry.
The GTX 760 HAWK is available online for $290, which is quite hefty. Reference designs retail for around $250 and 4 GB cards (which don't provide any performance improvement) start at $300. To be honest, even with the GTX 760 HAWK being as awesome as it is, I find it hard to justify the price increase. In my opinion, $270 or $275 would be acceptable, but not much more. The large performance increase will, on the other hand, offset cost by providing better performance per dollar, and you don't have to invest time into manual overclocking. If the GTX 760 HAWK is too expensive for you, then I'd strongly recommend the MSI GTX 760 GAMING because it is only $260 and has excellent low-noise properties without losing much on performance. Source with benchmarks hope this helps you decide bud.http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/MSI/GTX_760_HAWK/31.html

 

[MikeYFItalian]

If you don't really want to overclock, get the Hawk. If you don't mind overclocking, you can get the Twin Frozr. I would personally get the Hawk simply because you should be able to overclock it nicely.

 

[bigcyco1]

It's only about 7% faster then the MSi GTX 760 TF OC Gaming stock vs stock.I will let you decide if you feel it's worth it or not.But here are some facts to consider The Hawk produced the highest overclock out of seven GTX 760s tested at TechPowerUp. At Guru3d, they include some stable settings that allowed them to post a Boost Clock of a 1372 MHz.Granted there is noway to say the card you get will be able to do the same.
Source: http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/geforce_gtx_760_ms
Source: http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/MSI/GTX_760_HAWK/29.html.

 

[BlankInsanity]

QUOTE: MSI has engineered a fantastic GeForce GTX 760 with their GTX 760 HAWK. The card comes overclocked out of the box with the highest frequency we've seen on a GTX 760. This translates into a performance improvement of almost 10% over the reference design—something you'll definitely notice in-game. With those clocks, it even ends up faster than the AMD HD 7970 and only 7% behind AMD's flagship HD 7970 GHz Edition. I only wish MSI had also overclocked the memory since our manual overclocking tests show that there is plenty of headroom to do so.
Compared to the MSI GTX 760 GAMING, the company beefed up their cooler for the HAWK, which provides additional cooling potential to make sure the card handles the increased clocks while still leaving enough headroom for manual overclocking. Temperatures are great, and noise levels are good too. The only GTX 760 that is quieter is MSI's GTX 760 GAMING, making it a good alternative if you value low noise more than the absolutely highest performance. It's also great to see a backplate on the GTX 760 HAWK, something many cheaper cards lack.
The GTX 760 HAWK also comes with several advanced overclocking features, like voltage monitoring points and a dual BIOS that is optimized for liquid nitrogen. Even if you don't use liquid nitrogen, the dual-BIOS feature can be useful if a BIOS flash goes wrong, for example.
Power consumption of the card in gaming is slightly higher than the reference design, but its increased performance allows the GTX 670 HAWK to beat the reference design in performance per watt. Only Furmark maximum power is significantly higher, which suggests that MSI increased the card's power limit to make optimum use of the dual 8-pin power connectors and improved VRM circuitry.
The GTX 760 HAWK is available online for $290, which is quite hefty. Reference designs retail for around $250 and 4 GB cards (which don't provide any performance improvement) start at $300. To be honest, even with the GTX 760 HAWK being as awesome as it is, I find it hard to justify the price increase. In my opinion, $270 or $275 would be acceptable, but not much more. The large performance increase will, on the other hand, offset cost by providing better performance per dollar, and you don't have to invest time into manual overclocking. If the GTX 760 HAWK is too expensive for you, then I'd strongly recommend the MSI GTX 760 GAMING because it is only $260 and has excellent low-noise properties without losing much on performance. Source with benchmarks hope this helps you decide bud.http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/MSI/GTX_760_HAWK/31.html

It's only about 7% faster then the MSi GTX 760 TF OC Gaming stock vs stock.I will let you decide if you feel it's worth it or not.But here are some facts to consider The Hawk produced the highest overclock out of seven GTX 760s tested at TechPowerUp. At Guru3d, they include some stable settings that allowed them to post a Boost Clock of a 1372 MHz.Granted there is noway to say the card you get will be able to do the same.
Source: http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/geforce_gtx_760_ms
Source: http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/MSI/GTX_760_HAWK/29.html.

yeah I saw they managed to get it to 1400Mhz. I guess ill be getting the hawk then let's just hope its not DoA

 

[bigcyco1]

Lol!I hope not that would be horrible.

 

[BlankInsanity]

Lol!I hope not that would be horrible.

how come? What did you mean when you said let's just hope its not DoA?That's what i was responding to.