MSI GeForce GTX 780 Lightning photos leaked

TechPowerUp got its hands on leaked pictures of the MSI GeForce GTX 780 Lightning Edition. Expected to be released on August 28 for around $800, this video card uses MSI's new TriFrozr cooling solution - which offers a large compound dual-fin stack heatsink with seven 8mm diameter heatpipes and three fans: two 100mm ones on the edges and a 70mm one in the center. Each of the three fan's speed can be controlled individually and the card also has a LED-lit badge that doubles as a GPU load indicator.

Under this elaborate cooling solution is a brute of a PCB. Drawing power from a pair of 8-pin PCIe power connectors, the custom-design PCB by MSI features a 20-phase digital PWM voltage regulation, which use a combination of high current chokes, International Rectifier PowIRstage, DirectFET chips, tantalum capacitors, and MSI's GPU Reactor module that cuts out electrical noise. The GPU is wired to 7 GT/s rated Elpida-branded memory chips, and three (that's right, three) GPU BIOS ROMs. One stores a failsafe reference BIOS, another factory-OC air BIOS, and one that primes the GPU for liquid-nitrogen cooling-assisted overclocking.