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what's up everyone Eber here with hardware connects and our CES 2019 coverage continues with some awesome looking graphics cards from MSI but first a quick shout-out from our sponsors MSI fantex Corsair thermaltake and razer without them our attendance at the show would not have been possible all right so let's start off with the RT X xx atti Lightning Z because this is one of the craziest graphics card we've ever encountered ever since it was first released the Lightning series have been one of the fastest most overclockable and extreme lineup of graphics cards available while its official specs will be released a bit later this month there's a ton of stuff we learned while visiting MSI let's start with the exterior because it jumps out right away the triple slaw heatsink shroud is a mix of gold and carbon fiber meanwhile MSI also added an OLED screen on the side so that it can be controlled in MSI's mystic lighting software that's the interesting addition which could really give your extreme PC build a touch of personalization but I have to wonder if the display output can be flipped in the software for people who use inverted motherboard layouts unlike some other OLED screens on components like a Souza's new a iOS this one is monochrome so you won't be able to add colored logos under that shroud is a huge cooler with eight heat pipes and more than enough capacity to keep the overclocked RTX 28 core from throttling I didn't quite like the RGB LED effects on the fans but that's just my personal opinion that huge amount of cooling will be needed since Emma sighs hoping they'll be able to provide a somewhat unlocked v bios that would allow the lightning Z to exceed envious stock voltage and power limits honestly though if Emma site can't pass those limits lightning Z could be a very tough sell especially since its price is expected to be around $2,000 moving on with our little tour there's also voltage read points integrated into the PCB that will come in handy for overclockers supposedly the card is built to provide up to 600 watts of power since the r-tx 20 atti can consume over 500 watts when over volton that's just nuts guys and it means that this card has three eight pin power connectors that's right three eight pin power connectors meanwhile the backplate is pretty interesting too since it also uses carbon fiber and there's another heat pipe which passes with all these features and such a massive heat sink the r-tx 2080 TN lightning Z weighs a ton so MSI's including an anti sag bracket that attaches to your cases io slots so a single lightning will take up five slots and that could make installing a bit challenging there were also to our TX 2060 cars on display and they'll be available to buying on January the 15th make sure you watch our full review of the our TX 2060 right over here okay so let's start off with the Ventus OC since it will retail for about the same price around $350 as invidious founders edition from a specs standpoint the OC in the name doesn't amount to much since it boosts clocks hit seventeen ten megahertz instead of sixteen 80 megahertz on the referenced version that won't give you any extra performance for cooling the Ventus has a pair of MSI Torx fans direct contact heat pumps on the cooler and a great looking back plate nice thing about this card is that it doesn't have any hard gb so if you're going for a stealth build this could be a great addition that doesn't cost more than the founders edition movie on to the higher-end r-tx 2016 gaming Z and honestly this card looks amazing with MSI's tomahawk series motherboards it will cost about $25 more than the Aventis card but it also comes with a boost clock of 1830 megahertz which is 115 mega Hertz higher than the reference spec and that should get you some in-game performance gains even though that this card features more stealth black and gray color MSI has added a few RGB touches but nothing crazy like some other GPUs on the market it also gets the full Twin Frozr seven heatsink design with the Torx 3 fans and the ability to completely turn off the fans when in idle mode so there you guys have it what do you think of the Lightning Z we all know that the RT X 2080 is already super expensive but would you pay even more for a GPU like this I really hope that MSI can get an unlocked BIOS for its overclocking won't be an issue but anyways stay tuned for more coverage from CES 2019 I'm Igor with hurricane X signing off and we'll see you in the next one