MSI GeForce GTX 780 Gaming review

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Alright pretty pictures time. Here shall follow a couple of pages with photo's from our photo-shoot. And there is, the GeForce GTX 780 from MSI and yes, it is a rather cool looking dude. The card is using an updated revision of ther TwinFrozr design, which now has dual 10cm fans for pretty good heat dissipation.

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Above and below is the card, the MSI GeForce GTX 780 Gaming edition with that TwinFrozr IV cooler, the card is a 3GB model. That's definitely sufficient if you are a hardcore gamer with very high monitor resolutions. TwinFrozr IV - I know, it is a lot of marketing, but the cooler really gives overall good temperatures. The aluminum radiator covers the VRM and even memory area. The cooler can dissipate 450W of heat whilst remaining silent. As a result under full load this card manages to around 60 degrees C in our testing (we kid you not). The card is 10.5 Inches in length which is 27 cm.

 

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With the GeForce GTX 780 you will receive four display connectors, you'll spot a full size Display port connector, one full size HDMI connector and two DVI connectors (dual-link). You can combine these connectors to setup a surround view (multi-monitor) setup. One card will give you more than sufficient performance to play your games on three monitors.

To date, we still receive this question a lot, but dual-link DVI does not mean you can hook up two monitors to one connector. Dual-link means double the signal, that way monitor resolutions over 1920x1200 can be supported or you could use a 120Hz monitor. So explained very simple, dual-link DVI supports high-resolution (above 1920x1200) or high-refresh rate (120Hz) monitors.

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MSI offers this Gaming edition 3GB edition factory clocked for you and we noticed the Boost clock passing 1100 MHz. And as our article will show later on, there's room for tweaking as we got this puppy running stable over 1200 MHz on the boost frequency, which is very nice.

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The GeForce GTX 780 will have a maximum power design of 250 Watts, but they are made to overclock as well. As such you will see one 150W 8-pin PEG, and one 75W 6-pin PEG (PCI EXpress Graphics) connector. Another 75 to 150 Watts is delivered though the PCI slot and thus motherboard. This should be plenty for a decent overclocking session.

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