Wednesday, July 10th 2013
MSI GeForce GTX 780 Lightning Release Date Surfaces
MSI posted a reveal trailer (yeah, we have those for graphics cards now) for its flagship GeForce GTX 780 Lightning graphics card. In addition to the highest factory-overclock among MSI's ranks (currently held by the GTX 780 Gaming Series), the card reportedly features redundant BIOS, and a feature that lifts various BIOS-level limits, protections, or fail-safes. If we understand this correctly, the GTX 780 Lightning should be among the first GK110-based graphics cards to feature over-voltage beyond NVIDIA's limits. Very little is known about the card's design, but given that MSI's new TwinFrozr IV cooling solution leaves GTX 780 Gaming Series with overclocking headroom, and runs cool enough, it wouldn't surprise us if MSI sticks to that cooler, albeit paint it yellow. As for the release date, MSI plans to launch the card on the 7th of August, 2013.
The reveal trailer follows.
Source:
Expreview
26 Comments on MSI GeForce GTX 780 Lightning Release Date Surfaces
BUT! BIOS level limits, overvoltage? The biggest thing holding these monsters back is NVidias stupid voltage lock. If this raises the limit to at least 1.25, thats gonna be awesome.
Damn shame the BIOS will never be available for reference 780's :shadedshu
www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2AC41dglnM
My MSI GTX560TI twin frozr oc has really good VRM's on it, 7+1 i think, and a nice big heatsink on them under the twin frozr cooler.
As i read the headline, I was listening to the song in my head for a good 15 mins.
Twin Frozr cards are generally awesome, I dont know sales figures, but I'd say they dont sell enough for what they offer.
I wonder who makes the Twin Frozr coolers?
still rocking out on the 580 Lightnings
I would not be surprised if this comes at 1.25v and clocks poorly due to leaky chips which is understandable because the lightning is aimed to the ln2 crowd.
The only 1.212v BIOS I know of is the custom OC 780 BIOS.
It's weird, some cards can't go up to 1.212V unless you use a tweaked vbios.
I don't like what Nvidia is recently doing regarding restrictions etc., it gets worse all the time.
It makes no sense to have the card pegged at maximum clock even when it is not needed...
Post 27. I recognise it as it has GK110XOC
with a 500$ price tag it would be a product worth considering. since i saw titan oced to 1600mhz, i wont probably be interested in buying. for a titan lightning on the other hand i would be willing to pay even full 800$. not more though.
I have an AMD HD 6900 series card and am looking to move up to drive my 1440P monitor, which is overclocked and stable at 110Hertz.
Is this card the one to get when it comes out, or wait until later this year for price breaks?
This card or two of the 4GB 770?