Thursday, January 21st 2010
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MSI HD 5870 Lightning disassembled
As we previously reported, MSI is working on a Lightning Edition of the ATI Radeon HD 5870. The card will be designed with overclockers in mind and comes with two 8-pin PCI-Express power connectors for maximum power delivery. It also has easily accessible measuring points for the GPU voltages - a voltmodder's dream. Today we received several new pictures from an anonymous source in Taiwan that shows the card in all its glory.More pictures below the fold.
37 Comments on MSI HD 5870 Lightning disassembled
Anyways, Sweet!, they should have upped the caps, theese are a simple mod in most cases that can decrease the rippel by a conciderable amount!
Other words for it is power stability.
EDIT : 2 x 8-pin ... hmm .... why would it need so much power just because its clocked at 1000mhz ... i've seen people achieve those clocks with reference cards ...
lol maybe amd should look at something similar to this for the reference 5890 design and give it uber clocks.
Awaiting on price is the next step for me.
www.techpowerup.com/reviews/MSI/GTX_275_N275GTX_Lightning/images/front.jpg
I prefer them rear facing myself, infact I'd prefer them rear facing and on the other side of the PCB so close to the mobo as possible.
Same for putting the card in.
Cables in first follow by plugging the card into the mobo.
Anyhow, nice looking card, will surely keep tinkerers happy.
HAVE YOU SEEN THE PHASES ON THE CARD, They want users to have the MAXIUMUM AMOUNT OF POWER to be able to stream right to the gpu..... Its not for just showing off, its for getting the 1.5Ghz core with double the regular voltage people....
When kingpin gets the sucker does a little cap mods, he will do something insane with the card, and it helps to have 2x8 pins on that card for maxiumum power transfer.
So lets not just go cry babying and putting negatives on the 2x 8pins on the card, This card was specifically maid for overclocking, And if you just want to only have a 1 Ghz HD 5870 then go purchase other offerings. But if you want some insane speeds, the best quality, the best power thruput, and are trying to get a benchmark world record, then just buy MSi's offering of a extremely pimped out HD 5870.
**** Basicly***** To sum it up, this isnt a card the average user and video card overclocker would even buy, they might, but they wont push massive volts and they wont use extreme cooling like fully water or up. But i want to see in the right rig how far this HD 5870 can go ;D