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MSI R5870 Twin Frozr II

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Anyone know the release date of this card?

1000MHz core speed, a 15-phase digital PWM design and two 8-pin PCI-Express 2.0 power connectors

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Very nice. I read a review of MSI's 5770 lightning, and it was a fair bit better than stock so these should be really good too.
 
MSI lightning cards have always been very good. But they normally come with a 20% price premium.
 
Bah, it sucks, thats basically a cooler that should be cheaper to make than the stock cooler, all alu, few heatpipes, two quiet proper fans. I beat that cools significantly better and is cheaper to produce than the stock cooler on the 5850/5870, but we end up with stupid blower fans.

The only time you should give a damn about a blower fan and exhausting the heat is people sticking them in tiny little boxes like Shuttles and the like, any even remotely decent case with a few 80mm fans moves so much air so quickly it will barely change case temps, let alone cases with 120mm intake/exhaust which have been standard for years now.
 
Those heatpipes look like nickel plated copper to me and the base plate will most likely be copper too. I think it is worth a bit of a premium for the PCB mods and superior/quieter cooler.
 
Be nice if you could just buy the cooler. Infact MSI would probably make more money just selling that cooler than the complete package. As loads of people already have 5800 cards. I for one would buy a better slim cooler for my 5870 given half a chance that also looked nice. if that cooler was £35 or less it would be on my card now!!
 
They'll need to rework the box. It looks a lttle too small for the card and you cannot have a premium product getting damaged in transit:).
 
It was always going to be, the lightning is the overclocked edition, though they've released it at 900Mhz it seems rather than 1Ghz, which is rather tame, the voltage required to get up to 1Ghz, even with good cooling, means it starts to pump out a lot more power than at 900Mhz, should potentially overclock better with better power design and cooling, and thats the point. You pay for a card with better overclocking components, for better overclocking, thats what you pay for, not the mild overclocks that come as standard.

Likewise the non lightning version gives you a chance to buy a better overclocker without paying for the extra stock speed, same card, lower price.
 
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