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MSI 980TI Lightning Revealed [Reviewed by guru3d]

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Why the triple slot though. So massive! I hope it doesn't interfere with other PCI-e slots.. although it probably will.

 

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Why the hell does it have an F22 on it?

Lol because its fast like Lightning! /s

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Why the hell does it have an F22 on it?

It might be a YF-22 instead of an F-22, pretty sure that's (unoffically) called "Lightning II".... That or it's actually an F-35 Lightning II. Both make sense I guess.

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It might be a YF-22 instead of an F-22, pretty sure that's (unoffically) called "Lightning II".... That or it's actually an F-35 Lightning II. Both make sense I guess.

Ah I didn't know that, yeah that definitely makes more sense.

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Why the triple slot though. So massive! I hope it doesn't interfere with other PCI-e slots.. although it probably will.

 

Yeah, and the sag maybe is going to be bad in some builds, even with the backplate.

 

Why the hell does it have an F22 on it?

 

If I get this card I'm going to cover that up haha

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Still love it but expected a bigger overhaul

 

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FIRST REVIEW IS HERE! THIS THING IS A BEAST! http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/msi_geforce_gtx_980_ti_lightning_review,1.html @Lays @jesper101996

 

Has a good pic of the side view too.

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FIRST REVIEW IS HERE! THIS THING IS A BEAST! http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/msi_geforce_gtx_980_ti_lightning_review,1.html @Lays @jesper101996

 

Has a good pic of the side view too.

8800MHz effective on the memory?! Well, almost, but that's insane. That has to be a typo.

 

 

We got the Hynix based memory on this card running at almost 8800 Mhz

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8800MHz effective on the memory?! Well, almost, but that's insane. That has to be a typo.

Lol pretty crazy I was not expecting to see that at all.

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Review confirms 750$ USD price tag @Lays @jesper101996

 

Every year or so MSI releases a Lightning model, and when I get the news I walk around like a kid waiting on some new toys in my office. Once the new toy arrived I did have that big smile on my face. After three days of testing I am however a little dimmed about my excitement. Hey you guys know me, and I tell it like it is, I expected more tweaking performance from this Lightning model. The 1.5 GHz barrier bother me. As always, tweaking varies per production batch and even per GPU, your results may be much better, but yeah ... also can be worse then ours. I however suspect the limitation we ran into has to do with the custom design and new PWM used. Weirdly enough we noticed the exact same thing on the ASUS Poseidon. Now, I also need to place things in perspective, as aside from that slightly dim tweaking result, this card design is showing near perfection as all the right boxes are ticked from default performance, to it being in-audible, to the nice temps and to its design. The performance is overall faster than a GeForce GTX Titan X, yet pricing should be better at MSRP the 750 USD marker. In the end this product will offer you a AAA gaming experience in any monitor resolution, as even Ultra HD now becomes a viable resolution for single GPU setups. The card does so while keeping itself at nice temperatures. Compared to the GeForce GTX 980 Ti at 2560x1440 you can expect an increase of up-to say 25% performance (over the reference GeForce GTX 980 Ti) and overclocked you can add another 10%. We adore the MSI GeForce GTX 980 Ti Lightning for what it really is, a very fast product with nice aesthetics, excellent noise levels and great cooling performance. With the MSI GeForce GTX 980 Ti Lightning you can flick on all exquisite image quality settings and get yourself submerged into a quality gaming experience. We had hoped for a slightly better OC on air-cooling, though we probably are complaining a little more then needed. The Lighting is a truly sexy product that comes very much so recommended by Guru3D.com. We are awarding the product a Top Pick award as it definitely deserves that.

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Review confirms 750$ USD price tag @Lays @jesper101996

 

Updated the thread with results form the review :-)

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Sadly Samsung memory is going to be reserved for XOC overclockers only while Hynix will remain on retail. @Lays http://hwbot.org/submission/2962014_wizerty_unigine_heaven___xtreme_preset_geforce_gtx_980_ti_7563.23_dx11_marks

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FIRST REVIEW IS HERE! THIS THING IS A BEAST! http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/msi_geforce_gtx_980_ti_lightning_review,1.html @Lays @jesper101996

 

Has a good pic of the side view too.

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lol it's not a "beast" but seems extremely average

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First thing I would do would be paint over the yellow accents, but that wouldn't even be that hard.

 

Even though I don't really like yellow, this is still a SEXY card.

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lol it's not a "beast" but seems extremely average

Reason why I say its beast is mainly because of how fast they were able to push the memory, thats pretty damn quick considering that its Hynix. As far as the GPU overclocking goes yeah pretty average.

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LOL LIGHTNING SUCKS DICK

F U MSI YOU JUST FUCKED UP

Considering its priced at 750$ it looks like MSI was satisfied with competing with the Classified and not KPE.

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Tweaktown review is up and they're saying its 729$ and available now which is odd http://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/7317/msi-geforce-gtx-980-ti-lightning-video-card-review/index.html

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That card looks sick

Someone told Luke and Linus at CES 2017 to "Unban the legend known as Jerakl" and that's about all I've got going for me. (It didn't work)

 

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Yeah, and the sag maybe is going to be bad in some builds, even with the backplate.

 "sag will be bad"

Faceplate + backplate= I wish it had sag7a54e3a95c.jpg

 

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Tweaktown review is up and they're saying its 729$ and available now which is odd http://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/7317/msi-geforce-gtx-980-ti-lightning-video-card-review/index.html

They have no clue what they're doing

 

 

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Finally MSI has officially announced it on their website http://www.msi.com/news/2106.html @jesper101966

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