MSI GTX 780 Lightning Review @ Hardware Canucks

Dare I say I'm obsessed?  Ever since reviewing the EVGA 780 Classified I have become extremely interested in what other companies plan to release using the GTX 780 GPU.  The obvious choice is the MSI Lightning due to its track record but is the silly yellow fan enough to destroy that legacy?

Some may be wondering why it took this long for MSI to launch the GTX 780 Lightning considering we’re now some four months after NVIDIA announced the reference card. Truth be told, we haven’t seen a single Lightning generation that was introduced close to a technology’s original unveiling. This is simply because MSI pays minute attention to their flagships by specifically binning cores and engineering the best possible cooling / PWM solution. Al of this takes a significant amount of time. We also can’t forget that the GTX 780 still has a good amount of shelf life left so it’s not like the Lightning is being rolled out during its twilight days. 

It would seem that overclocking is about the same out of the box and with behind the scenes, backdoor bios support those numbers are likely to improve under the guise of LN2 chip chilling.

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