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Linus tech tips coverage of pax 2013 is brought to you by Western Digital Intel and steelseries the star of the show here at the MSI booth is of course the GTX 780 lightning this is their first non-reference gtx 780 fully non-reference we're talking completely redesigned cooling completely redesigned PCB completely redesigned freaking everything so the PCB is actually not only larger than a normal gtx 780 but they've got their GPU reactor on the back of it which can provide better voltage stability during extreme overclocking they've got a dual BIOS mode for the card that has got an ln to optimized or liquid nitrogen optimized mode or a normal mode depending on how you're going to be using the card they've completely redesigned even the concept of their cooler so all dem military class components are covered by a back plate on the back a unison con the front and then three fans instead of two fans like you'd normally find on their traditional twin frozer so that's I guess they could call that like a like a try frozer or something like that they're still using their propeller blade fans and they have their dust removal technology meaning the fans spin backwards on startup so that you don't get dust and gunk all built up into the heatsink it's got eight super pipes which is Emma sighs branding for basically larger than normal heat pipes that are able to carry heat away from the heat generating components more effectively than regular pipes and of course you've got all of the usual and video technology so support for three monitors and nvidia 3d vision surround with an auxiliary monitor support for nestle I up to four way although three ways really the highest that we normally recommend or two way for people who are more concerned with performance per dollar it needs to eight pin PCI Express plugs and while I don't have the details on what it's clocked at by default I think we can all agree that whatever it's clocked at with the cooling solution that you've got on here it's going to be running at that speed all the time because GPU boosts two point O depends on keeping the card cool in order to get the best performance guys don't miss any of our packs coverage remember our trip to the show is powered by Western Digital Intel and steel series