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here at the MSI Booth is of course the GTX 780 lightning this is their first
non-reference GTX 780 fully non reference we're talking completely
redesigned cooling completely redesigned PCB completely redesigned freaking
everything so the PCB is actually not only larger than a normal GTX 780 but
they've got their GP reactor on the back of it which can provide better voltage
stability during extreme overclocking they've got a dual BIOS mode for the
card that has got an ln2 optimized or liquid nitrogen optimized mode or a
normal mode depending on how you're going to be using the card they've completely redesigned even the concept
of their cooler so all them military class components are covered by a back
plate on the back a unisync on the front
and then three fans instead of two fans like you'd normally find on their
traditional twin frozer so that I guess they could call that like a like a tri
frozer or something like that they're still using their propeller blade fans
and they have their dust removal technology meaning the fans spin
backwards on startups so that you don't get dust and Gunk all built up into the
heatsink it's got eight super pipes
which is MSI's branding for basically
larger than normal heat pipes that are able to carry heat away from the heat
generating components more effectively than regular pipes and of course you've
got all of the usual NVIDIA technology so support for three monitors and NVIDIA
3D Vision surround with an auxiliary monitor support for SLI up to four-way
although three-way is really the highest that we normally recommend or two-way
for people who are more concerned with performance per dollar it needs two 8
Pin PCI Express plugs and while I don't have the details on what it's clocked at
by default I think we can all agree that whatever it's clocked at with the
cooling solution that you've got on here it's going to be running at that speed
all the time because GPU Boost 2.0 depends on keeping the card cool in
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