For gamers, keeping the GPU cool is of utmost importance and with only two (air cooling) options, stock or aftermarket, you will need to choose wisely before making an investment in a new video card. Let's face it, years ago if you wanted to game or overclock your GPU,you needed an aftermarket heatsink/fan combination. In the past few years, manufacturers have realized this and have been producing their own combinations to help alleviate the cost of purchasing an aftermarket cooler. The MSI N250GTS 2D1G OC is a video card with such a cooler, on this card you will not find the stock cooler that you may find on a NVIDIA reference board. On the MSI N250GTS 2D1G OC you'll find that MSI has replaced it with a four heatpipe heatsink and cooling fan. The MSI N250GTS 2D1G OC is a preoverclocked version of the 1GB Geforce GTS 250, clock speeds are set to 760MHz on the core and 2300 MHz on the memory.