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today I'm gonna be taking a closer look at the msi geforce gtx 780 lightning edition built to be perfect setting a very high standard they are msi but the 780 lightning is kind of MSI's flagship people have asked me what the differences between the Lightning Edition and the more mainstream Edition of MSI's cards like the red ones versus the yellow ones for example and the main difference is going to be this card is the flagship it's a very over built they put a ton of like extra componentry and high-end componentry and also often with these types of cards msi will bin the GPUs that they have from Nvidia they will test them they'll see which one's perform the best and they'll put them in their highest end cards kind of makes sense but for that reason you'll get very good overclocks with this card out of the box and you will often be able to push this card even further thanks to the cooler they've done as well as the custom PCB that they've designed and all of that good stuff let me flip over to the back here really quick so if you guys are interested you can take a closer look at MSI's marketing information here triple force architecture so three signals three colors on the on the lightning logo on the side of the card depending on the load try frozer that's an upgrade from twin frozer if you're wondering why it's tri it's because there's three fans now instead of two independent control system so you can independently control the all of the all the fans individually it's kind of nice to reduce the temperature of the GP of the memory and the power modules digital PWM control as well so a digital power delivery for the card airflow technology seven eight millimeter keep pipes desperate movable technology on the fans that means they spin in Reverse for 30 seconds when you start up to kick any dust buildup off of them high-end components used in the build itself if you've if you've ever bought like a flagship card from somebody like msi or another graphics manufacturer you might look at the packaging itself you can tell they spent a few extra bucks on it so that you can get that feeling of yeah I just spent a lot of money look how nice everything is alright so there's card you get like to lose super squishy little cell foam and this I love this phone every time I get this film I want to keep it and find out something useful to do with it anyway and then look at drawer yeah none of those silly boxes within other boxes we got a drawer alright now I mentioned the GPUs are bent to that ends a lot of people will buy this card they'll take this cooler than MSI's put a ton of work into designing when they'll take it off and they'll pop on a water block or something like that no but MSI has anticipated that so they've given you this extra little backplate or actually might be a top plate I'm not even positive but basically when you remove the default heat sink fan you put that on that still gives you some contact points here for the VRMs for example they've already provided some some thermal pads on there so you just peel that off and that way you can water cool and still have a nice nice play down there to keep things sturdy and cooled quality stability for military classic components outdated driver disk click user's guide some other stuff apart from an SLI bridge which is really long I did want to point out they do give you some voltage read connection connectors right there so the plug that actually goes under the board and then these point parts which you can connect to your multimeter for voltage readings and yeah that's pretty cool and now the card itself the msi gtx 780 lightning a yellow and black is the color scheme for this one if you're interested in a matching motherboard hey check out MSI's z87 series the empower macs for example matches this car beautifully coincidence that msi would design a motherboard that matches very nicely with their highest and graphics card here's a Lightning logo on the side that will light up we did a quick demo if you guys want to check out our new egg TV video on this card I did a lighting demonstration I am planning on plugging this in to my system here and doing some game demos for you guys hopefully in a few moments here but yeah if you want to see all the lights in action you can check that out speaking of lights for all the power phases right here they have corresponding LEDs on the back these will light up depending on how much loads on the card so you see a few of them light up when card is first started up say in 2d mode and then you'll see a bunch more light up if you put a heavy load on the card cool for power you get to eight pin pegs PCI Express graphical connectors here's your three independent fan connection points over there here are those voltage contact points so for voltage readouts three of those each one will split off into two for voltage readings massive massive aluminum Finneran just tons this card is very heavy it recommends if you're installing it in your case just make sure that some some sometimes cases love those little supports you can do for graphics cards it's gonna work otherwise just whenever I have a card that's heavy I'm always a little concerned about possible drooping in the slot and you know drew pitch you never want that if you can avoid it but sometimes it's hard to otherwise but if you look at the cooler itself this is gonna take up more than two slots so you're gonna need at least a single PCI Express slot in between this card and another one of these cards if you're gonna go for a multi card configuration it's it's capable of up to four weig but I think you're only gonna be able to see four-way with this particular card for people who are actually going to pop off this cooler and install a custom water block so yeah you also have the GPU reactor in the back which as you can see that for trude's a bit too the reason that MSI put this right here is to move the capacitors closer to the GPU that way when the GPU calls for power it's right there and doesn't have to shuffle it all the way across the plane of the PCB in order to get it there it does provide a it does make a bit of extra bulk on the back of the card effort varying opinions about whether people are ok with that or not your mileage may vary but I haven't run into a conflict with it personally so I can't say that I particularly dislike it or anything like that apart from that's yeah three gates of gddr5 memory 384-bit bus all the specs you would expect from a GTX 780 you got your your DV tool - dual link DVI HDMI and DisplayPort as well as some extra ventilation back there for air to escape and PCI Express gen3 that's handy to have yeah but what I'm going to do with this next I'm going to take this back to my personal system that I have set up which is not a not a testbed by the way it's just a system I use it on a daily basis just about for video editing and gaming and whatnot so it's not specially customized so I'm going to pop this in there yeah I'm gonna play some games for you guys sounds like fun so there you go guys definitely amazingly performance amazing performance on this card especially if you're go for higher resolutions like 2560 by 1600 that I was playing at a very good performer as the 780 is designed to be and I like the additional memory again for high resolutions if you're rockin 2560 by 1440 or 2560 by 1600 or even 4k sometime soon 780 is actually a great solution for that amongst the current generation of video cards but that is all for this video I really appreciate you guys stopping by and watching thanks for bearing with me during my move and my somewhat limited ability to post videos on my channel of course you can always catch me over on the new ik TV channel because I do still go there on a daily basis and make videos since that's that's my job but yeah if you enjoyed this video if you like watching me play games go ahead hit the like button I think it's like down there or something we'll see 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