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everyone we're at the msi booth now at CES 2019 and we have something special for you it's the msi lightning z28 ETI and this one there were some leaks online of the PCB but from what I saw none of those leaks had the cooler and we have that here for you today it's still getting finalized so this thing isn't 100% done yet but release date or at least the model here isn't release date is January 22nd priced TBD but what we do know is some about the cooler and the V BIOS before that this video is brought to you by the gigabyte Z 390 a RS master motherboard which comes equipped with one of the more powerful z3 90 V RMS for heavier overclocks on the new 9th Gen Intel CPUs the ARS master is also one of the few motherboards with a real heatsink this generation featuring a mix of high surface area fins and looks oriented hover blocks oh and it's also got updated RDV illumination learn more at the link below so from the cooler side first of all you've got some gold plating on there but that's just aesthetic stuff so up to you if you like that or not it is a triple fan design the thin stack and the heatsink it's going to be where most of the interest is and that's because they are using it looks like eight heat pipes so most there are two of those that are eight millimeters by eye and then the remainder are six millimeter heat pipes and those route through the entirety of the rest of the fin stack the backplate as we've seen in previous msi designs does have a heat pipe on it as well so there is a backplate here with well the back plates got a let's see that looks like another six or eight millimeter heat pipe told it's composite which is noteworthy so composite heat pipe those tend to be like a mixture of materials typically with heat pipes you have mesh sintered weave composite this is a composite key pipe from what we understand today there are thrown pads on the back these are extra thick they're all pads but there's a reason for it because the backplate has sort of a curved design on it so to elevate it off and make sure there's component clearance they did have to use the larger they're all pads as for LEDs of course have to talk about those there's an OLED on top of the card we have b-roll of that and it shows similar to the MSI godlike mother the OLED can show a display of clock speed temperature you can have like an animation on it if you want that's your your kind of thing so I think that covers most the basics of what we've seen here there are a couple of more advanced elements to note on the cooler and one of them is going to be the air flow control they're calling it which is on the right side of the card so similar to what we saw with some of the EVGA designs recently where they really advanced like just drilling holes through for example the fins stack MSI is also advancing just the simplicity of the the heatsink to a point where it can exhaust on that air a bit more efficiently get it out of the card faster so you're not limited to just the top and bottom exhaust because that's the fin or Ian tation for the rest of V by oh so that's worth note there are two bios options on here there's a switch and one of them is a 350 watt v bios that's stock out of the box bare-bones and then the other one is supposed to be they're not 100% confirmed yet but 500 550 watts something in that range and then there might be like an unlocked B bios that Nvidia will be providing for the higher end cards like this one in the future so covers v bios got the cooler and the the base plate we can't show you today base plate and the PCB are the model here is a static demo it is not final so we can't show that unfortunately I don't know the MOSFETs on it I know that it's a 16 plus three-phase so V ma'am 3 and V core 16 phases and then the base plate will have a sort of like pin fins on top of it so for in terms of service area that's a good thing to see for the base plate but the rest of it TBD we'll find out once we have one so that covers the Lightning just a quick note there are some 2060 models here as well so this would be one of them and I mean it's it's 20 60s will probably be reviewing these depending on how popular the card is because as of now reviews just went live so we'll keep you posted on 20 60s but let us know what you think about the Lightning and hopefully we get a chance to look at the full PCB once it's done thank you for watching as always subscribe for more I'll see you all next time