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| MSI Radeon HD 6970 Lightning review |
Category: VGA |
| Added: 28 June 2011 |
HAWKs, Lightning's, AfterBurner, Kombustor, Predator ... yeah the aeromotive theme of MSI products certainly stands out. And that makes sense, they try to compare and brand their products towards military class FAST (preferably flying) products. And with much success, ever since the last year or two the more high-end and enthusiast gear and sales definitely kicked off for MSI.
Today a perfect example of a review on all of the above, MSI took an Radeon HD 6970 GPU ... and just that. Then they designed a PCB around it, applied eighteen power phases, made a military class selection in components, upgraded the memory, added a lot of extra features, armed it with the new Twin Frozr III cooler and factory overclocked the product for you.
The end result surprised even us, a totally silent high-end product with a lot of overclocking headroom that has the looks to kill and the means to show of some pure muscle power.
Today as such, we'll review the R6970 Lightning, the most high-end, single GPU based product in the enthusiast lightning series. Pre-clocked at 940 MHz, you can actually take the product towards 1 GHz fairly easy with the help from MSI's AfterBurner software that allows the full spectrum of voltage tweaking on GPU and memory. The end result as stated, surprised even us. This is just a really nice card with a lot of features, extras and it just oozes with build quality.
Let's have a peek and then head onwards into the review.
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| MSI GTX580 Lightning Review |
Category: VGA |
| Added: 20 May 2011 |
by Tom Logan
Marketing is always full of semantics. Companies love to proclaim their card as the 'Fastest in the World'. Sometimes that's true only because there is more than one GPU on the board. So the HD6990 is the Fastest Graphics Card in the World, but not the fastest single GPU.
For those of us in the know, we always respect being able to do the most with the least, which is why the GTX580, the "Fastest Single GPU in the World" always makes us smile and drool, in equal quantities. Anyone can be super-fast with a multi-card setup. To have crushing performance from a single chip, that's something special.
In case the standard GTX580 isn't quite enough for you though you might look to a pre-overclocked model. If you've been around OC3D for a little bit you know how highly we rate the Twin Frozr cooling solution from MSI and here we have a Twin Frozr equipped, pre-overclocked model in the form of the MSI GTX580 Lightning.
Seems like a perfect combination. Is it? |
| NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 Round-Up |
Category: VGA |
| Added: 18 May 2011 |
by Mathew Miranda in Graphics/Sound
When the GeForce GTX 580 arrived, it extended NVIDIA's lead in the single-GPU graphics card market. Although the green team's own GTX 480 previously held the title of fastest single-GPU, its reign was temporary as the first generation Fermi card required some tweaks in order to unleash all 512 shader cores, reduce heat output and power consumption, and minimize noise levels. With these issues addressed in the GTX 580, NVIDIA continues to be a leader in single-GPU graphics performance. AMD's Radeon HD 6970 was initially targeted to take on the GTX 580 in the high end market, but it's obvious now that those expectations were unrealistic. Rather, it's more competitive with the GTX 570 and the dual-GPU powered Antilles (Radeon HD 6990) is AMD's real heavyweight contender.
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| MSI 260GTX OC EDITION 3DMark06 & Crysis |
Category: VGA |
| Added: 18 February 2011 |
Hi huys to days ago arrived at home my MSI 260gtx OC EDITION and my ASUS P5Q DLX. In this my first test i decid directly bench with oc, after this test, belive me the vga and cpu want more oc, so check this out my bench for now, later i will try with more oc.  |
| Show Off: MSI GTX260 OC Edition |
Category: VGA |
| Added: 18 February 2011 |
This is a small review of the MSI GTX260 OC ED in SLI. These MSI card has got a default clock speed setting of 620 Gpu / 1296 Shader and 1080 mem.
Due to time constrain, I was only able to test Vantage, 3DMark06 and Crysis.
Test setup:
CPU: Intel E8400 @ 4.2 GHz ~ 4.4 GHz
BOARD: XFX 780i
GFX: MSI N260GTX-T2D896-OC
Settings of GFX card used: Stock 620/1296/1080, Overclocked 734/1512/1242 , 721/1512/1260
Software used for Overlclocking card: EVGA Precision Tool 1.2.0
RAM: 4GB DDR2 RAM @ 956MHz ~ 978MHz
OS: Vista Ult x64 SP1 / Win XP SP3
This cards clocks itself to 300 gpu, 1000 shader, and 100 memory (MHz) in 2D idle mode.
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| New Lightning Series graphics card N275GTX Lightning |
Category: VGA |
| Added: 21 January 2011 |
The world well-known graphics card and mainboard manufacturer, MSI, officially announced new product of top-of-the-range Lightning series graphics card, N275GTX Lightning. The MSI N260GTX Lightning that is released in April has broken the world record by reaching incredible 1.1GHz GPU clock that no other GTX 260 cards can exceed. After N260GTX Lightning, MSI introduced the new N275GTX Lightning with Military Class components, 10 phase PWM, 1792MB GDDR3 memory, Twin Frozr II thermal design with SuperPipe technology, and several overclocking functions. The performance of MSI N275GTX Lightning is even faster than reference GeForce GTX 285 graphics cards, which prove its perfect design and best quality.
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| Graphics Add-in Board Market Sees Ups Amidst Downs in Q2 2009 |
Category: VGA |
| Added: 21 January 2011 |
Cut-throat competition between major graphics processor vendors had to happen in the worst of times as far as the economic weather goes. The latest papers by Jon Peddie Research (JPR) covering the state of graphics add-in board market reveals that Q2 2009 has been a better quarter than Q1, but still worse compared to last year. This quarter, around 16.81 million units were shipped, which is a welcome 3 percent increase over the previous quarter (16.32 units), while compared to Q2 2008, shipments are down 15 percent. In contrast, the integrated graphics (IGP) market saw a 4 percent increase compared to last year. One of the factors that could have contributed to the slump, according to JPR, is the replenishment of inventories in Q2, which overshadowed its digestion (sales). As for gainers and losers, AMD gained a handy 4 percent of market-share, while NVIDIA lost just that amount. AMD stands at 35 percent, with NVIDIA at 64 percent, against last quarter's 31 and 68 percent respectively. JPR however notes that "despite its renewed competitiveness, however, AMD hadn't yet seen a sustained growth in market share, as NVIDIA adamantly refused to give up any volume, aggressively cutting prices as necessary to avoid a loss in share," so in essence, NVIDIA's move to introduce drastic price cuts for some mid-thru-high end products seems to have worked in its favour. Hopefully H2 2009 looks better under JPR's watchglass, as new product launches are definitely indicated, and of course, there's the holiday shopping season incoming. Source: Jon Peddie Research |
| PowerColor Preparing First HD 4750 Accelerator |
Category: VGA |
| Added: 21 January 2011 |
PowerColor is going to be one of the first to be out with a Radeon HD 4750 accelerator. Based on the same 40 nm RV740 graphics processor as the Radeon HD 4770, the HD 4750 features lower clock-speeds, and overclocking headroom, that lets it do away with the six-pin auxiliary power input, relying entirely on the PCI-Express slot. PowerColor's offering is based on its own PCB design, and sports an aluminum fan-heatsink made by Arctic Cooling. The same PCB,with the 6-pin power connector in place, went into making the recently announced PowerColor HD 4770 PCS, which sports the same cooler. The card makes use of a 3+1 phase power design, and loads 512 MB of GDDR5 memory across a 128-bit memory interface. From previous bits of information we gathered, the HD 4750 features clock speeds of 730 MHz (core), and memory at 800 MHz. Expect it to be priced in the $80 range.    Source: INPAI |
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