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For this Radeon R9-290X article we'll look at performance with an overclocked Core i7 3960X running at 4600 MHz. Here we see the MSI card installed on our test bench. We need to tell you a tale or two about the GPU and the architecture of course, but lets first look at the Lightning installed and powered up. 

A LED lit cover acts as load indicator. There are actually three colors that will get displayed. MSI calls this Triple Level Signals and simply is a on-board LED that shows real-time load on the card by displaying three colors, Green for Light Load, Blue for medium load and Red for Heavy Load.

At the backside of the card you'll notice several LED lights as well. The two arrays of LEDs indicate the phase load activity on the Lightning. The GPU reactor lights up as well. Overall MSI didn't use to bright LEDs, so that all looks pretty sweet.