MSI 5870 Lightning

[thilanliyan]

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=243678

 

[Jd007]

Dual. Eight. Pin. Power. Holy mother of god. Not even the GTX 295 had those. What could a 5870 possibly need that much power for?

 

[Tempered81]

1.5ghz

 

[MegaWorks]

1.5 ghz!!!! the clock core!! 😱

 

[happy medium]

1.5 ghz!!!! the clock core!! 😱

Mabe by next summer 2011.🙄

 

[Qbah]

Holy crap! The PCB is so dense with circuitry! It looks so awesome 😀 No idea how this card would scale to those speeds... Not to mention memory needs to follow (at least to some extent) - 1.5GHz means a 76% overclock on the core 😀

 

[Tempered81]

haha, no 1.5g is what they think it will do on ln2 & voltmod

stock is prob ~1000mhz

 

[Hauk]

Hey Galaxy, here's an example of a properly utilized engineering department..

 

[Farfrumhumpn]

Extremely cool to see any company make any component for the extreme minorty. Now if MSI follows it up with a mobo for modders they'll be in business big time 🙂

 

[thilanliyan]

Hey Galaxy, here's an example of a properly utilized engineering department..

All they have to work with are G92 cores though...they probably can't even get their hands on any GT200 cores. 😛

 

[GodisanAtheist]

They should have put 4 G92's on a board and done a native QuadSLI on 'em. That would have really made it interesting...

 

[PingviN]

4 of these in CrossfireX running LN2 with a nice voltmod? Well, I'm sure that would be quite the sight.

 

[toyota]

Dual. Eight. Pin. Power. Holy mother of god. Not even the GTX 295 had those. What could a 5870 possibly need that much power for?

you say that as if the gtx295 was a huge power hog when the 4870x2 actually consumes much more power while being slower. http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/video/display/evga-geforce-gtx295_7.html#sect0

 

[Farfrumhumpn]

4 of these in CrossfireX running LN2 with a nice voltmod? Well, I'm sure that would be quite the sight.

For benchmarking yes, for 24/7 running the most extreme cooling you can get is phase change.

 

[Elfear]

you say that as if the gtx295 was a huge power hog when the 4870x2 actually consumes much more power while being slower. http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/video/display/evga-geforce-gtx295_7.html#sect0

I guess it depends on which review you read: http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/foru...tx-295-1792mb-gddr3-video-card-review-18.html


The MSI Lightning looks pretty sweet. It will be interesting to see how high they can clock on stock cooling.

 

[cbn]

Wouldn't dual 8 pins be more practical on a HD5970?

 

[Tempered81]

Mabe by next summer 2011.🙄

First one out the gate at 1420/1420 so far 🙂

pics:

http://hwbot.org/forum/showthread.php?t=5578

 

[soccerballtux]

First one out the gate at 1420/1420 so far 🙂

pics:

http://hwbot.org/forum/showthread.php?t=5578

too bad you or whoever can't actually game with that setup :/
1.4ghz is insane though.

 

[Daedalus685]

too bad you or whoever can't actually game with that setup :/
1.4ghz is insane though.

High score in vantage, or the high score in a MW2 match... In the end so long as it is fun..

That is some intense over clocking though. Very impressive that a GPU can be cranked that fast.

 

[Tempered81]

Creepin' up towards 1.5g, here is 1450mhz core

http://hwbot.org/forum/showthread.php?t=5599