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CES: MSI paves the way with R5870 Lightning!

mathwat

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Of course there isn't a single person here at Guru3D.com who is not into graphics cards. The biggest buff prolly is yours truly and as you guys probably read, I really dig the Lightning series graphics cards from MSI. We tested their GeForce GTX 265 and 275. But as it seems MSI is making a move towards the Radeon series now as well. Here's a photo of the up and coming R5870 Lightning. All quality and made for extensive overclocking.
The cards clocks I'm not yet sure of, but I'll be certain to ask later today when we actually meet with MSI. Here's a photo though:
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source :- http://www.guru3d.com/news/ces-msi-paves-the-way-with-r5870-lightning/


mathwat
 
Yup I read about this awhile back.

http://www.techpowerup.com/110696/MSI_Readies_HD_5870_Lightning_Graphics_Card.html

MSI is designing a high-end graphics card based on the ATI Radeon HD 5870, to be featured in its Lightning series of overclocking-friendly graphics cards. A PCB drawing of the same surfaced recently, revealing a taller than usual PCB, with a high-grade VRM to support high-levels of overclocking, among other noticeable features. The PCB seems to have a 12-phase vGPU and 3-phase vMEM, it is fed by two 8-pin PCI-E power connectors, though it remains to be seen if MSI places two actual 8-pin connectors. Some parts of the PCB make use of high-C surface-mount capacitors. The display connectivity cluster seems to be identical to that of the reference design PCB, with two DVI-D, and one each of HDMI and DisplayPort. It is likely that MSI uses a high-end cooler for this card, perhaps similar to the Twin Frozr II design. More information will surface during the upcoming CES event.
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also the last topic about this showed the difference between the size of the cards, the msi was about 1-2inch smaller :) but abit wider.
 
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