Today we have a new review on the Radeon HD 6950. A series (6900) that has been received with somewhat mixed feelings. Everybody expected the overall performance to be a notch higher. Then again armed and tagged with the right price these boards can kick ass for sure and certainly you can play all your games in high monitor resolutions with exemplary quality settings.

MSI is addressing the product as well with several models. One of the ... well, quirks is bit a big word, but the slight negative of the R6950 was its huge size and the huge cooler. As such MSI went back to the drawing board and redesigned the PCB, armed it with quality components and decided that they would need to slap a nice cooler on there. As such we see the model as tested today, running slightly above reference specification yet with the latest twin Frozr II cooler mounted on top of it.

The end result is a nice performing product that remains quite silent yet keeps cooling performance well under control as the load temperature of the R6950 now drops back to roughly 60 Degrees C, and that is interesting especially when you are tweaking and overclocking. As this article will show you, we'll bring the card quite close to a full GHz clock frequency, and that my friends means added value on what seems to be a very interesting product.

Let's startup this review and have a look what the R6950 Twin Frozr II is all about, shall we ?