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MSI GTX 780 Ti Lightning Pictured, Overclocked, and Tested

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Ahead of its launch, French tech publication Le Comptoir du Hardware scored an early sample, and wasted no time in taking high-res pictures of the card, its innards, and putting it through a battery of benchmarks. Their first opinion? That EVGA's GTX 780 Ti Classified K|ngp|n has met its match. Taller than most graphics cards, and thicker than two slots, MSI GTX 780 Ti Lightning is based on the same new-generation TriFrozr cooling solution as the GTX 780 Lightning. Its underlying PCB is unchanged, too. The card draws power from a pair of 8-pin PCIe power connectors, and conditions it using a gargantuan 20-phase VRM. The VRM uses two separate controllers for GPU and memory+PLL. The GPU and memory both draw power from the power connectors, while only the PLL draws power from the slot. This way, memory OC isn't held back by the PCIe slot power supply.

The PCB also features consolidated voltage measurement points, independent fan headers for each of the cooler's three fans (letting you control individual fan-speeds), and dual-BIOS. The cooling solution is features multiple aluminium fin stacks that draw heat from a large nickel-plated copper base, using seven 8 mm-thick heat pipes; which are ventilated by a trio of fans. MSI claims that the cooler is capable of handling thermal loads of up to 550W. The "Lightning" logo on the cooler's top lights up to the thermal load the cooler is handling. It's white up to 150W, gets brighter between 150W and 210W, and goes red beyond 210W.



The card ships with out of the box clock speeds of 993 MHz core, 1059 MHz GPU Boost, and 7.00 GHz memory. The reviewer was able to overclock that up to a staggering 1248 MHz core, and 1314 MHz GPU Boost, while leaving the memory untouched; and the memory in a separate attempt up to 8.00 GHz, while leaving the GPU untouched. The card was tested on a system with Core i7-4960X, 16 GB of quad-channel DDR3-2500 MHz memory, and an MSI Big Bang XPower II motherboard. It achieved 3DMark 11 (performance preset) score of P17872 single-handedly.



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It's a shame that only reviewers and overclockers can benefit from such card using an unofficial BIOS.
NVIDIA should stop this bananas thing and let lower-level enthusiast an access to unlocked BIOSs
 
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Looks phenomenal. I want to see the cooler on the 290X

Its a pity no one can buy this card anyway. Only 12 will be made.
 
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Looks phenomenal. I want to see the cooler on the 290X

Its a pity no one can buy this card anyway. Only 12 will be made.

Where did you hear that?
 

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The BenchBros overclockers said so on their FB. You can thank Nvidia for banning manufacturers from unlocking voltage.
 
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i think this is the best looking cooler i've seen if r9 290 cooled with this i will buy it for sure
 
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i think this is the best looking cooler i've seen if r9 290 cooled with this i will buy it for sure

Check Linus Tip on YouTube, he showed the R9 290X Lightning in CES 2014 with 3 power outputs, the additional power output is for Overclocking.
 
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EVGA>Gigabyte>ASUS>...long long nothing...>MSI
 
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