MSI GTX 780 Lightning Edition - PAX Prime 2013
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2014-05-07
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Linus Tech tips coverage of pxs 2013 is brought to you by Western Digital Intel
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and steel series the star of the show
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here at the MSI Booth is of course the GTX 780 lightning this is their first
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non-reference GTX 780 fully non reference we're talking completely
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redesigned cooling completely redesigned PCB completely redesigned freaking
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everything so the PCB is actually not only larger than a normal GTX 780 but
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they've got their GP reactor on the back of it which can provide better voltage
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stability during extreme overclocking they've got a dual BIOS mode for the
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card that has got an ln2 optimized or liquid nitrogen optimized mode or a
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normal mode depending on how you're going to be using the card they've completely redesigned even the concept
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of their cooler so all them military class components are covered by a back
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plate on the back a unisync on the front
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and then three fans instead of two fans like you'd normally find on their
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traditional twin frozer so that I guess they could call that like a like a tri
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frozer or something like that they're still using their propeller blade fans
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and they have their dust removal technology meaning the fans spin
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backwards on startups so that you don't get dust and Gunk all built up into the
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heatsink it's got eight super pipes
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which is MSI's branding for basically
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larger than normal heat pipes that are able to carry heat away from the heat
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generating components more effectively than regular pipes and of course you've
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got all of the usual NVIDIA technology so support for three monitors and NVIDIA
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3D Vision surround with an auxiliary monitor support for SLI up to four-way
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although three-way is really the highest that we normally recommend or two-way
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for people who are more concerned with performance per dollar it needs two 8
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Pin PCI Express plugs and while I don't have the details on what it's clocked at
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by default I think we can all agree that whatever it's clocked at with the
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cooling solution that you've got on here it's going to be running at that speed
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all the time because GPU Boost 2.0 depends on keeping the card cool in
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order to get the best performance guys don't miss any of our packs coverage
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remember our trip to the show is powered by Western Digital Intel and steel
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