MSI GTX 980 Ti Lightning Edition - PAX Prime 2015
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2016-05-06
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Thank you to HyperX for sending us to PAX Prime 2015 this year. Check out
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their Cloud 2 gaming headset in the video description down below. Also,
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thank you to ASUS and Corsair. All right, guys. Time to check
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out the MSI Lightning 980 Ti. This thing
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is huge. I'll get into the dimensions later, but it has
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2,816 CUDA cores running at a base clock
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of 123 MHz and a boost clock of 134 MHz.
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Although, as you guys know, that probably doesn't really matter due to how GPU boost works. But it's the
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highest advertised boost clock on a GTX 980 Ti that I know of, which is pretty
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beastly and probably means that the final boost clock from GPU Boost will be
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absolutely huge, especially due to the size of the cooler on this thing and the
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amount of fans on this thing and all that kind of stuff. In terms of memory,
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it has a stock amount of memory at 6 gigs of 384bit GDDDR5, but it's running
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at 7,096 freaking MHz. In terms of power
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input, you have two eightpin connectors and one six pin connector, which should
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help your GPU boost numbers. In terms of power phases, you have 12 GPU and three
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memory phases. It has a 10 layer PCB and
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triple over voltage, triple temp monitoring, and V checkpoints. All for
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your GPU, memory, and PLL. There's twin BIOS. They have a gaming BIOS and an OC
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BIOS. Although, I would just run it on the OC BIOS no matter what you're doing.
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It's just removing some kind of base limiters, but you'll be fine. GPU boost
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is going to stop you from frying your card anyways. Under those three giant
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fans that I mentioned earlier, you have triple 8 mm heat pipes and some other
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heat pipes in there as well, which should help cooling. These things are huge, just like the car. Speaking of the
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huge card, this thing is 330 mm long,
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140 mm tall, and 63 mm thick. So, yeah,
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be careful if you're going to try to fit this into a case. You got two SLI
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fingers on the top and a PCIe 3.0 connector on the bottom. And then in
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terms of IO, you have three display ports, one HDMI and one dual link DVI
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connector. And those are actually goldplated. Not that that does anything
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for the quality of the connection, but it will apparently help you plug things
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in over time because it's a little bit malleable and will form to your
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connector. I'm really interested to see how well this thing boosts on an actual
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rig. But as I can't test this here, we'll just have to wait. Thank you guys
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for watching. Check out HyperX's gaming YouTube channel up in the card section
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in the top right hand corner. And also, thank you to ASUS and Corsair for
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sending us here this year. Be sure to subscribe to HyperX's channel. I forgot to give them that call out. If you want
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to see the products brought here this year by HyperX, ASUS, and Corsair, check
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out the link in the video description down below. And thank you guys for watching.