MSI 980TI Lightning Revealed [Reviewed by guru3d]

[TheMcSame]

Any word on the length of this card? I assume it's going to be longer the 6G card.

I'm guessing it'll be close to the G1 and Zotac's AMP cards.

[Revan654]

I'm guessing it'll be close to the G1 and Zotac's AMP cards.

 

Ok, I'll stick with 6G then.

[Accursed Entity]

I wonder how much this baby will cost... I'm not paying more than $749.

[TheConverter]

I would not even count Ubisoft games, nearly all of them are broken anyway, all these games support 21.9 and there is even more than this list

 

 

 

The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape From Butcher's Bay - Assault on Dark Athena

Counter-Strike Global Offensive (fix)

Crysis 3

Dead Space 1 and 2

Deus Ex: Human Revolution and The Missing Link

Skyrim (fix)

Far Cry 3 and Blood Dragon

Hitman Absolution

Mass Effect 1,2 and 3

Max Payne 3 (the cutscenes are screwed up though)

Metro Last Light

Mortal Kombat Complete Edition (fix)

Oblivion

Outlast

Remember Me(fix)

Shadow Warrior

Sleeping Dogs

Tomb Raider

Velevet Assassin

The Witcher 2 (fix)

 

Alan Wake

Alan Wakes American Nightmare

Aliens Colonial Marines

Alien: Isolation (native 21:9 ingame only cutscenes are 16:9)

Batman Arkham Asylum GOTY + Original

Batman Arkham City GOTY + Original

Batman Arkham Origins

Battlefield 3

Battlefield 4

Brothers A Tale of 2 Sons

Crysis 3

Castlevania Lords Of Shadows Ultimate Edition

Dead Space 1

Dead Space 2

Dead Space 3

Deadfall Adventures

Dear Esther

Devil May Cry 5

Dirt 3 Complete Edition (Steamworks)

Elite Dangerous

Fallout 3 (you need to edit the ini files as launcher is hard coded): http://www.wsgf.org/dr/fallout-3

Fallout New Vegas (you need to edit the ini files as launcher is hard coded): http://www.wsgf.org/dr/fallout-new-vegas/en

Gauntlet (2014) 2560x1080 is native otherwise you need to edit the config file for 3440x1440

GTA V - Native 21:9. Cutscenes are 1920x1080 16:9 as expected.

Half Life 2: Update 

Half Life 2 + Episodes 1+2

Hard Reset

Hard Reset EX

Lego Indiana Jones 1 + 2

Lego Batman 1 + 2

Lego Batman 3 (maintitlescreen cutscene has wrong aspect ratio otherwise all ingame cutscenes & the maingame content are native 21:9)

Lego Movie Videogame

Lords Of The Fallen

Max Payne 3 (some cutscenes are not full screen this is by design)

Metro Last Light

Metro Last Light Redux (some minor hud elements are stretched 16:9 only)

Metro 2033 Redux (some minor hud elements are stretched 16:9 only)

Middle Earth Shadow Of Mordor (16:9 cutscenes)

Need For Speed The Run

Need For Speed Hot Pursuit 2010

Portal 2

Prince of Persia 2008 (looks amazing as it has native 21:9 support although main menu is 16:9)

Ryse Son of Rome (some prendered cutscenes are 16:9 but ingame cutscenes are 21:9)

Shadow Warrior 2013

Tomb Raider 2013

Wolfenstein The New Order

Wolfenstein The Old Blood

Witcher 3

 

Also most new games will support it as well, want me to list more games.

 

Yes but 60hz is slideshow, 75hz is a bit better but still not enough. Is it so hard to make a 144hz 3440x1440 panel? 

 

Also you cheated on your list I said NO .ini hacks/edits or third party programs, only changing the option ingame is NATIVE SUPPORT.

You can edit .ini files/use third party programs to make 99% of the games out there either support 8K, 5 monitors or 210:9 resolutions what ever you like.

 

The problem with 21:9 will always be 16:9 videos that the other 99% people on this world use.

[TheConverter]

I wonder how much this baby will cost... I'm not paying more than $749.

 

1099€ for the FreeSync version, god knows how much for the G-SYNC one? 1499€?

[ChrisxIxCross]

THE WAIT IS FINALLY OVER!!!! All pics and everything has been revealed! Full post is up on videocardz.com! @Lays @jesper101996

http://videocardz.com/57482/msi-geforce-gtx-980-ti-lightning-detailed

 

 

[ChrisxIxCross]

I love how they're not forcing the yellow this time around and the card is mostly black with just the two yellow accent rings. Hopefully will be available at retail soon!

[Kinda Bottlenecked]

Meh is still think the last gen design was better. But still nice to see the middle fan bigger. 

 

Hmm... That full back plate probably means there won't be those fancy LEDs anymore

[ChrisxIxCross]

Meh is still think the last gen design was better. But still nice to see the middle fan bigger. 

 

Hmm... That full back plate probably means there won't be those fancy LEDs anymore

Thank god I thought those looked awful.

[TheMcSame]

Nice to see improvements but the last lightning card was certainly better looking imo.

[ChrisxIxCross]

Nice to see improvements but the last lightning card was certainly better looking imo.

Why's that? I'm really liking the aggressive styling approach on this one compared to the previous design.

[Kinda Bottlenecked]

Thank god I thought those looked awful.

 

I think it might be better if they have lesser yellow. I don't like the letters "OC" thrown into my face

[TheMcSame]

Why's that? I'm really liking the aggressive styling approach on this one compared to the previous design.

Idk really, it just doesn't really look interesting or unique, kinda reminds me of the G1 which is a pretty dull looking card.  

[ChrisxIxCross]

Nice to see improvements but the last lightning card was certainly better looking imo.

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[ChrisxIxCross]

Idk really, it just doesn't really look interesting or unique, kinda reminds me of the G1 which is a pretty dull looking card.  

Ehhhh I guess kind of but imo its the best looking 980 Ti out there by far.

[Rekx]

@ChrisxIxCross Updated the thread :-) The card looks sick. Especially the backplate. 

[danielhowk]

Wouldnt the 3 fan problems mistake gonna happen again ?

[ChrisxIxCross]

@ChrisxIxCross Updated the thread :-) The card looks sick. Especially the backplate. 

Awesome! And yes card is totally beast I think it will still look really good in my Black & White build! 

[Lays]

Wouldnt the 3 fan problems mistake gonna happen again ?

No because there isn't a tiny ass fan that spins at 4k rpm

[ChrisxIxCross]

Wouldnt the 3 fan problems mistake gonna happen again ?

No it won't, they fixed the design like I thought they would and have decided to go with 3 equally sized fans like on the Gigabyte G1 and Asus Strix. 

[ChrisxIxCross]

Now I'm wondering what the price will be... What do you think @Lays ? 

[DildorTheDecent]

That looks phenomenal. 

[Lays]

Now I'm wondering what the price will be... What do you think @Lays ? 

 

 

~750-849

[ChrisxIxCross]

~750-849

Yeah I'm thinking it'll be somewhere around that range too. You thinking about picking one up soon?

[Lays]

Yeah I'm thinking it'll be somewhere around that range too. You thinking about picking one up soon?

 

 

Idk, I'd have to drain my loop and take out my classy and sell it w/ the block to pay for the card.  Although now that I know my 980 OC's like a bat out of hell I should probably be able to get a pretty good price out of it w/ the block.

 

And I'm currently saving up money to trade my 4770k for my friend's 4790k because it does 5 ghz at 1.3v.  Would be really useful for me as it'll only cost me about 100 dollars, and it'll save me from wanting to upgrade for a while.