MSI GeForce GTX 580 Lightning review - Product Showcase

Product Showcase GeForce GTX 580 Lightning

Alright, first photo coming right at ya... the packaging. Which we always show you so you know what to look for in the stores. Has anyone been to a store lately, or all we all ordering on-line these days?

So, above you can see the GeForce GTX 580, the MSI's Lightning. It will become available for roughly 499 USD/475 EUR.

MSI made a rather nice design sticker on the product you'll find all the regulars like manual, driver CD, DVI converter, one PCIe PEG power converter to cables and also two flexible SLI cables.

Overall a nice and dark looking card. Let's look at the card from several different viewpoints. The GTX 580 card is quite good looking with black gold monitor connectors and then that new cooler. This is TwinFrozr III cooling BTW, a cooling block GPU leads directly to aluminum fins through heatpipes where the fans will blow air to cool it off. The cooling works excellent, but the biggest plus... it's very silent as our tests will show you.