14 DAY TRIAL // These days, it seems that if you're a maker of custom graphics cards and want to be one step ahead of everyone else, overkill is the way to go. MSI is proving this through the GTX 780 Ti Lightning.
The video card has been pictured and benchmarked ahead of time, and it's a mighty beast indeed.
It uses a TriFrozr triple-slot cooler and has two 8-pin power inputs, without which it wouldn't be able to power that 20-phase VRM or work that GPU at 1248 MHz base, and 1314 MHz Boost.
There are two separate controllers available too, one for the GPU and another for the memory+PLL.
Keep in mind, though, that the out-of-the-box speeds of the adapter are 993 MHz, 1059 MHz Boost, 7 GHz memory.
The clocks we have mentioned before are the ones that the reviewer chose.
Said reviewer tested the thing in 3DMark 11 (performance preset) on a system featuring MSI Big Bang XPower II motherboard and Core i7-4960X CPU, plus 16 GB RAM. The score was of P17872.
