MSI launches GeForce GTX 480 Lightning

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 09/12/2010 03:54 AM | source: | 0 comment(s)

MSI just launched a new GeForce GTX 480, this is the Lightning edition that has been pimped up and equipped for extreme overclocking, especially with sub-zero cooling like LN2.

The GF100 based card has a total of 16 phases PWM opposed to the regular 8th. The cooler is called the Twinfrzr III model and is aluminum and comes with 2x 90mm fans. The card is clocked at 750 MHz GPU, 1500Mhz on CUDA cores and 1000MHz on the memory (4GHz GDDR5).

Since the card is targeted against the overclockers, there are also a number of switches for allowing extreme temperatures increase voltage limitations and an OCP unlocker switch and a PWM Clock Tuner. The comes with a dual BIOS should you mess up one during a tweaking project.With MSI Afterburner you can adjust the voltages for GPU, memory and the PLL, the MSRP for the Lightning N480GTX is 550USD, the photo's are courtesy of Tweakers.net, click on the thumbnails.

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