Posted on Monday, September 13 2010 @ 19:51 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
MSI presented the N480GTX Lightning, a new GeForce GTX 480 graphics card with the Twin Frozr III cooling solution and a custom PCB. The card is expected to retail for around $500, you can view more photos
at TCM.
Pictured below, the upcoming GF100-powered card has an oversized PCB with Military Class Components, V-check points, four Proadlizer capacitors, 16 phase PWM, a PWM clock tuner, dual BIOS, and three PCIe power connectors (the 6-pin one is dedicated for the 1.5GB of GDDR5 memory on-board).
MSI's creation also comes equipped with a Twin Frozr III cooler bearing two 90mm fans and five heatpipes, includes a backplate, 480 CUDA Cores, GPU, shader and memory clocks of 750 MHz, 1500 MHz and 4000 MHz, respectively (stock clocks are 400/1401/3696 MHz), 4-way SLI support, and dual-DVI, HDMI and DisplayPort outputs.
