WEBVTT 00:00:00.640 --> 00:00:08.280 so today we have a pretty cool product this is the MSI GeForce GTX 480 00:00:06.200 --> 00:00:16.199 lightning now there haven't been a whole lot of nonreference GTX 480s but this is 00:00:13.200 --> 00:00:22.240 definitely as non-reference as they come it uses a custom cooler so this is a 00:00:18.439 --> 00:00:24.439 twin frozer 3 now please note that all 00:00:22.240 --> 00:00:29.759 of the other GTX 480s that I'm aware of that come with aftermarket air coolers 00:00:26.199 --> 00:00:32.000 are triple slot this one is dual slot 00:00:29.759 --> 00:00:36.040 and even with a dual slot cooler they've achieved better cooling than the stock 00:00:33.840 --> 00:00:41.680 heat sink it also features their power four architecture which is power for 00:00:39.239 --> 00:00:46.360 extreme overclocking including a 16 phase pwm which can provide yeah it's 00:00:44.879 --> 00:00:50.280 okay so it's double the phases of a reference GTX 480 and in order to 00:00:48.719 --> 00:00:54.520 deliver a ton of power to it you've actually got two eight pin connectors 00:00:52.120 --> 00:00:58.879 and one six pin connector for power you've got 00:00:56.079 --> 00:01:04.199 proyer hm features incredible capacitance and czy low ESR 00:01:02.000 --> 00:01:09.080 so to optimize the power supply for extreme overclocking oh okay cool all 00:01:07.080 --> 00:01:13.479 right we've got copper Moss all right so new generation mosfet with built-in heat 00:01:11.280 --> 00:01:17.720 spreader that's pretty cool too we've got the super farite chokes High SE cap 00:01:15.960 --> 00:01:22.200 this is all military class stuff here as well as all solid caps triple over 00:01:19.960 --> 00:01:27.600 voltage which we first saw with the hawk the GTX 460 Hawk Edition and then we 00:01:25.200 --> 00:01:31.759 also have lightning power layer which is a unique PCB design for the GPU memory 00:01:29.759 --> 00:01:36.399 and and power layer eliminates power increases power supply stability and 00:01:33.479 --> 00:01:39.799 eliminates power noise and ripple all right so there lots and lots of layers 00:01:38.479 --> 00:01:47.600 all right let's keep going down here where we have dual 9 cm pwm fans at it's 00:01:42.759 --> 00:01:49.240 90 mm dual formin one heat sinks so dual 00:01:47.600 --> 00:01:53.159 form one heat sinks cover on the front and rear of the PCB to di oh okay I 00:01:51.079 --> 00:01:57.600 think they mean it has a front and a back plate and then you've also got like 00:01:54.840 --> 00:02:03.280 a unisync here so you've got uh cooling for the vrm as well as the memory 00:02:00.119 --> 00:02:05.640 superpipe technology which means big fat 00:02:03.280 --> 00:02:10.520 thick heat pipes high density fins and a nickel plated copper base wow that took 00:02:07.960 --> 00:02:14.800 a long time fortunately the back doesn't really say anything that the front 00:02:12.480 --> 00:02:20.879 didn't already tell us and we can finally get this guy opened up now there 00:02:18.319 --> 00:02:25.840 aren't a whole lot of these made so you can consider this basically 00:02:24.040 --> 00:02:31.400 like limited edition all right comes in a huge box as 00:02:29.400 --> 00:02:36.800 you've proba already noticed and let's have a look at what accessories we get 00:02:33.720 --> 00:02:39.720 with the GTX 480 lightning first we get 00:02:36.800 --> 00:02:44.640 a six pin to 8 Pin adapter okay that's PCI Express power 00:02:42.400 --> 00:02:49.200 another six pin to 8 Pin adapter and then a dual Molex to six pit adapter 00:02:47.440 --> 00:02:52.200 mind you if you don't have a power supply that's already capable of 00:02:50.760 --> 00:02:57.319 powering this card then you need to re-evaluate your build priorities here 00:02:54.959 --> 00:03:02.920 are the plugins for the voltage checkpoints and then we also have a DVI 00:03:00.280 --> 00:03:07.959 to VGA adapter as well as another oh no rather yeah DVI to VGA and DVI to HDMI 00:03:06.760 --> 00:03:13.200 go ahead put that back in there this card is heavy wow all right we got some 00:03:10.840 --> 00:03:19.360 bubble wrap in there down here we looks like we have a CD some sort that you'll 00:03:16.680 --> 00:03:23.799 probably throw away oh here wow it actually comes with an HDMI cable look 00:03:21.120 --> 00:03:29.080 at that okay it comes with the after burer software as well as the NVIDIA 00:03:26.400 --> 00:03:35.400 drivers quick users guide and last but not least lightning series little 00:03:31.280 --> 00:03:36.879 template thing all right let's look at 00:03:35.400 --> 00:03:42.640 the cards so I'm just going to put this back together so that I can put the card 00:03:39.000 --> 00:03:44.760 on here to demo it this thing is 00:03:42.640 --> 00:03:47.400 impressive looking so the first thing we see through the 00:03:47.480 --> 00:03:53.680 packaging is the back plate that covers 00:03:50.680 --> 00:03:55.840 the entire back of the GPU now this is 00:03:53.680 --> 00:04:00.319 okay it's non- reference and even nonstandard this PCB you can see that 00:03:58.640 --> 00:04:05.599 the PCB clearly goes higher than the PCI bracket on the 00:04:03.840 --> 00:04:12.000 back of the card so you've got an additional it looks like about a 3/4 in 00:04:08.680 --> 00:04:14.000 layer here where they've actually H 00:04:12.000 --> 00:04:17.479 housed a lot of the interesting features so they've got some components mounted 00:04:15.799 --> 00:04:23.479 there they've got all the V check points here and then they have all of the power 00:04:19.759 --> 00:04:25.800 plugs also on that little um Riser part 00:04:23.479 --> 00:04:29.520 of the PCB itself all right so let's have a look at the cooler this is a dual 00:04:27.560 --> 00:04:34.960 slot cooler as I mentioned before and youve we've got about about half of the 00:04:31.840 --> 00:04:37.520 back IO plate for rear exhaust so that 00:04:34.960 --> 00:04:40.800 means that probably about W probably not much probably about a quarter of the air 00:04:39.039 --> 00:04:44.840 flow from this fan here is going to go out the back of the case the rest of it 00:04:42.880 --> 00:04:49.400 is going to be released into the case so you can see the ventilation here in the 00:04:46.919 --> 00:04:53.840 back and then there's also room for the air to exit and many other parts of the 00:04:51.639 --> 00:04:58.160 cooler so you can uh kind of reach down there here you can see the superpipe so 00:04:55.680 --> 00:05:01.680 we've got one big long superpipe here and then we have another shorter super 00:04:59.880 --> 00:05:07.039 pipe so those are the thick heat pipes and then we also have several regular 00:05:03.639 --> 00:05:08.560 heat pipes this uses a PCI Express 16x 00:05:07.039 --> 00:05:13.039 interface so that's one of the only standard reference things about this 00:05:10.960 --> 00:05:17.240 card all right you can clearly see the unisync here so if you actually removed 00:05:15.000 --> 00:05:20.919 the twin frozer three cooler from the top of it you could probably Mount GPU 00:05:19.120 --> 00:05:24.080 only blocks and as long as you've got some air flow over the card I'm sure you 00:05:22.440 --> 00:05:28.199 could actually run it that way you've got two SLI fingers which means we've 00:05:25.960 --> 00:05:34.000 got support for two-way as well as three-way Crossfire nice little MSI logo 00:05:31.319 --> 00:05:37.880 here so you can see that the GPU is actually right under there that's why we 00:05:35.479 --> 00:05:42.880 do have some ventilation holes here all right we've got more VMS here we've got 00:05:40.479 --> 00:05:47.000 more ventilation holes here and what are we actually cooling with this thing I'm 00:05:45.240 --> 00:05:51.280 just trying to look under the back plate to see if I can uh I don't think it's 00:05:49.759 --> 00:05:54.919 actually cooling anything I think the point of it is more for Aesthetics than 00:05:53.120 --> 00:05:59.199 anything else so in terms of connectivity options once again we are 00:05:57.440 --> 00:06:04.680 nonstandard we have goldplated connectors and we have a variety of different 00:06:02.199 --> 00:06:11.080 flavors we have two DVI connectors one HDMI and one DisplayPort and what else 00:06:09.160 --> 00:06:13.720 we got here okay we got more heat pipes up at the top I think I already showed 00:06:12.599 --> 00:06:17.520 the top why don't we just get kind of some good angles of the card and you can 00:06:16.160 --> 00:06:21.400 uh you can sort of check it out for yourself here actually here oh should 00:06:19.520 --> 00:06:27.599 probably remove the uh plastic shroud shouldn't I yeah let's do 00:06:25.280 --> 00:06:32.599 that there you go now you can see it better I just completely slipped my 00:06:30.479 --> 00:06:38.440 there we go so now you can see the twin frozer 2 in all of its Glory there's the 00:06:35.120 --> 00:06:40.800 90 mm fans you can see the aluminum fins 00:06:38.440 --> 00:06:43.919 are very dense so what that means to me is that these fans probably have to 00:06:42.360 --> 00:06:48.599 generate a pretty good amount of static pressure in order to get satisfactory 00:06:45.800 --> 00:06:48.599 cooling on this 00:06:51.919 --> 00:07:01.520 card very impressive also large that is all don't 00:06:57.639 --> 00:07:01.520 forget to subscribe to lus techtips