MSI Teases GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Lightning Z again - Carbon backplate

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 01/06/2019 01:39 PM | source: msi | 2 comment(s)

Remember a while ago when we posted a photo from MSI who was teasing a photo on their social media, it showed absolutely nothing you can make from it. However, they have been stating that a new flagship is inbound. A new tease has been posted, it looks like the lighting is going Carbon fiber.

So a flagship, of course, would be the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Lightning and this the photo has to be released to that. It shows a carbon fiber plating, and not a fake sticker one. That could be a GPU shroud or simply the casing? The enw teaser shows the backplate will be based on a carbon-fiber texture. We expect the MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Lightning Z to be announced at CES 2019.

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Brit90
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#5624064 Posted on: 01/07/2019 02:33 AM

Actually, I said it was a Mercedes Car interior, and then someone corrected me after I worked it out was a car that it was from a BMW
We worked it out, but has nothing to do with a GPU or anything.
As for Carbon Fibre - does anyone care? It's about 15grams if that.
PRICE of manufacture of carbon fiber = $10 to $20 per pound = $22.046 to $44.092 per Kilogram

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#5624145 Posted on: 01/07/2019 09:21 AM

Let's hope it's not actual carbon fiber but rather an aesthetic, as actual carbon fiber would be terrible for thermal performance compared to the standard metal shields.

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