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And here it is powered on, the default is rainbow fading LEDs, you can turn that off/on or change animation and colors as you prefer, it actually is very pleasant on the eyes. As you can see already, heat travels mostly upwards, there is a vent at the front side bracket though, but the warmest air will be dumped inside the chassis. As we always state, chassis ventilation not just a must, with this design it's a necessity. We'll look a bit closer at that in our thermal imaging chapter though.

All AIB premium cards are on the heavy side alright. This is due to added premium cooling. The radiator surface area has increased, bringing some extra weight. but yeah that's 1.58 kg right here. The card does not bend though, it has been reinforced, but surely it will apply lots of stress to the PCIe slot, please do opt a motherboard with PCIe slot metal reinforcement. Included as well is a metal bar/strut to secure the card which is handy when you need to move around the PC for say a LAN party.

  
Size then, that's roughly 32 cm / 12,5 inches of graphics card right there. Please always do make sure that the card physically fits inside your chassis as that is a bit lengthy alright.

The LEDs embedded in this graphics card can be controlled with the Mystic light engine software utility available from MSI. Likely also configurable from the MSI Gaming APP. As mentioned, you can configure it to whatever you want that to be.

Check out the backside where there is a thick sturdy metal back-plate. It is nice to see some gaps, I would have liked to see a little more mesh at the GPU area though. A very nice but familiar looking product with the metal accents and dark. Taste, of course, differs per person though.