Thursday, July 19th 2012
MSI Readies Liquid-Cooled HD 7970 GHz Edition Lightning Graphics Card
The performance lead that MSI's Radeon HD 7970 Lightning maintained over reference HD 7970 was cut down, first by NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 680, and then by AMD's own Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition, leaving its engineers to go back to the drawing boards, and design an even faster graphics card. The result: a liquid-cooled HD 7970 GHz Edition Lightning graphics card, which could push clock-speeds up even further. The card ships with a pre-installed full-coverage water-block, made by EK WaterBlocks (EKWB). It comes ready for 6-display Eyefinity, with four mini-DisplayPort and two DVI. Here's hoping one of those is a dual-link DVI. More details are awaited.
Update: We've received word that it's not that MSI has a new product in the works, but that EKWB has a water-block tailored for MSI's existing R7970 Lightning.
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Update: We've received word that it's not that MSI has a new product in the works, but that EKWB has a water-block tailored for MSI's existing R7970 Lightning.
50 Comments on MSI Readies Liquid-Cooled HD 7970 GHz Edition Lightning Graphics Card
I like the card itself, it's a very strong overclocker, especially when cooled properly but that bloody CSQ theme on EK products is very hard to like with the circles :|
The block and PCB both have the Lightning (LTG) label. The first factory released watercooled lightning?
EKWB are currently putting the retail Lightning blocks into production.
Fail if it does not have dual DVI.
it's not a new card, just a wb from ek
not even ghz edition, just overclocked 7970
- Overclocking
- Water block
Right now I can get a well reviewed reference card (PowerColor AX7970 3GBD5-M2DHG Radeon HD 7970 3GB 384-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card) for approximately $429 and buy a laundry list of water blocks here for aprroximately $100-$130.$429+$119= $548
This power color card water block card is $669:
www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814131463
They are charging that kind of money for a block, a OC, and putting it on... It absurd. Ridiculous.
The LCS 7970 in UK started at £600 (about £150+ over basic card). Now the LCS is £400 in some places (on offer). That's only £100 over basic, so selling at an excellent price.
And the double slots are obviously necessary because the lightning has stacked dvi ports.
Again not a new card, just a block iv been waiting for since late march.
(Awaits for "how much will this card cost? $600?!?!?!")
We got that it wasn't a new card a few posts ago, when an MSI Rep posted.
No need to get your panties in a bunch.
And it can’t be at $600… :wtf:
The Lightening is $520 at Egg right now, and the MSI Twin Frozr IV heatsink/fan unit is probably no more than $20 unit to produce; IdK? The EK-FC7970 DCII (Acetal+EN/Nickel) is a $120 (retail), so MSI could be getting what's just a slightly custom at their volumes for like $30. If MSI markets this and still include the backing plate with the GPU Reactor, for $560-570 tops it will peak peoples interest. $600 or more forget about-it. :shadedshu
When there's the reference VisionTek 7970 right now at TigerD is $378 (and 6-games including BF3). I’d work from that and then the HEATKILLER Full Coverage Water Block along with their backing-plate that's still only $153. And, just see what OC's I could wring out of that… for like $530 altogether. :twitch: