Thursday, February 19th 2009
MSI Preparing Custom GeForce GTX 260 with 1.8 GB Memory
MSI is said to be readying a custom graphics card called the N260GTX Lightning, based on NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 260 GPU. There is currently no word on clock speeds but one would expect this card to come factory overclocked. The graphics card has a custom red PCB, featuring 8+2 phase power, 5000 hour capacitors, 1792 MB of GDDR3, D-Sub, DVI and DisplayPort or HDMI and a dual slot, dual fan cooler, featuring 5 heatpipes. MSI will also be bundling an AirForce panel which appears to allow on the fly adjustments to core and memory voltage, core, shader and memory clock speeds, as well as profile selection and brightness and contrast adjustments. The MSI N260GTX Lightning is expected to make its first official appearance at CeBIT 2009.
Sources:
TechConnect, Matbe
30 Comments on MSI Preparing Custom GeForce GTX 260 with 1.8 GB Memory
Isn't it just a 260 with double the memory?
Afaik, you cant change mem voltages through softmods atm, but this has a mem voltage adjuster on it.
saying all that - its a shame there isnt some tool you can download to find out how much RAM your game is using up on your graphics card - theres really no way to tell that 'enough is enough' other then going by the basics & nerds intuition.
maybe this shoulda been a 'industrial' card for CaD peps & 3d studios who would probably love this card more & find it a little more useful then the average people who think 'bigger is better'
Also so much for 5000hours capacitors. I mean i wouldn't even want to post that up. It only lasts for 204days for 5000hours. That's even less then a year. More like this card is up for those who are willing to spend some extra cash on a standard GTX260 but with more memory.
great to see such a great custom design, 8+2 power phases, double framebuffer, custom pcb, top grade components, and on the fly clock and voltage adjustments.....
this card would be a tweakers bliss. i would love two. :roll:
They way capacitors are sold is their life expectancy running at maximum temperature. Average capacitors are sold, hours before failure at 80*C, decent capacitors are, hours before failure at 105*C.
So the actual life span of a cap probably at only 30-40*C is much longer. Capacitor capacity is measured in Farads. Usually written as micro Farads (μF)
That really makes me re-think my vrm and capacitor cooling situation, as they reach 80C and im constantly folding.
If I go X58, I may move to these cards, possibly in Tri-SLI. Unless of course somebody releases a 2GB 285. lol.
would be insane to see a GTX295 with 3584mb total memory :eek: they're not using the outer pcb for memory chips on either side :D