In our initial GTX 550 Ti review, we alluded to the fact that we would soon have a roundup live in order to better showcase the lay of the land in the retail market. Well, that’s exactly what we will be doing here with no fewer than four cards from four different board partners being featured. When taken at face value, the reference GTX 550 Ti 1GB really isn’t anything to get too excited about even though it does bring forth some unique technologies which could very well filter down to many future NVIDIA cards. But the board partners set out to rectify this situation by releasing a long list of pre overclocked and altogether custom cards that push the GF116 in new directions. Some don’t even come with an associated price premium over the MSRP.