Earlier this week we took a look at the ASUS Ultimate ENGTX550 Ti video card and today we are taking a look at a competing card by MSI.  MSI is no stranger to the video card market and have been pushing hard into the North American channel by pushing their 'Military Class' components, custom GPU coolers, Afterburner overclocking utility and some very nice factory overclocks to persuade consumers to pick their video cards over another brand . With the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti series the engineers at MSI went developed two different cards. One card features the Cyclone II GPU cooler and the other features a GPU cooler that is based primarily off the NVIDIA reference design. MSI is only releasing the two overclocked versions in North America, so we could only find out pricing on those cards. As you'll see from the list below the Cyclone II cooler carries a $5 price premium over the NVIDIA reference designed cooler and custom red/black fan shroud.