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welcome back to the msi booth and today i am holding the infamous lightning todd msi is bringing it back with the 1080 TI and this thing is literally huge I could probably do a workout with this thing but let's take a look at this and some other graphics cards here on display at Computex 2017 Beibei 2017 Computex coverage for tech yes city was brought to you by MSI and corsair for a limited time only you can get a free copy of Ghost Recon wildlands 4 lakhs edition with any purchase of an MSA product click the link in the description below to find out more so here is the Lightning here in the flesh I've got a hands-on with this product and now I got to learn a lot more about it as well we have three PCI eight pin connections so this thing will be designed for extreme overclocking but also the air cooler is a triple I believe it might even be bigger than a triple slot is absolutely huge you've got RGB lighting on the side and on the rear of the card and also talking about the rear of the card they are putting a heat pipe on the rear of the card to help with cooling how well that's going to be in the real world I don't know yet but I'm guessing it may do a pretty decent job since it does of course incorporate a copper heat pipe directly linked and of course on the front you have three massive fans with the middle fan being a 2.0 design so they're telling me it's a complete revamp of the cooler and also the fans and of the rear there you've got your display out to display up to HDMI 2.0 and one DVI so absolutely phenomenal card and of course looking at the VRM we have an 18 phase design 14 plus 3 plus one for the PLL so three phases of the memory 14 phases for the vehicle and we are good to go taking a closer look at the specs on the Lightning's it comes with three profiles out of the box this is silent which boosts up to fifteen hundred and eighty-two megahertz there's also the gaming mode where this is the default out of the box setting which will go up to sixteen hundred and ninety five megahertz on the core and then there is the lightning mode which boosts all the way up to 17 hundred and twenty one megahertz on the core the memory itself I'm also told out of the factory is coming in 11.1 gigabits per second so it is a boost up on the original 1080 TI now with the power consumption there is a rating of 350 watt TDP which is a huge 100 watts above the factory 10 80 TI founders Edition also included on this graphics card is of course that dual BIOS which for ln2 overclocking and in that second mode you do have pretty much all the limits removed so you generally don't have to go back and put on or flash a custom blast and it's also another good thing for models in that you don't have to worry too much about coming into a bad feed BIOS flash on your card also with the VRM on this PCB I am told that it is implementing a dual MOSFET design so this will help with efficiency and will lower power consumption even though that 350 watt TDP is quite high but keep in mind that the 1080 TI founders Edition actually utilizes this same Joule mosfet design and flow frequency switching so the 1080p I founded in its own right is pretty good out of the box looking over the cooling solution you get to 100 millimeter fans and also a 90 mil fan in the center and with the heat pipes MSI tell me this time around that I've included six massive extra thick heat pipes coming on the front of the card and also that P plate coming over the rear of the card however on the front of the card there is one heat pipe apparently covering the vrm and if we did that live stream with Johnny guru before we'll know that keeping not only your V core is cool as possible but also your vrm cooler is a crucial factor in getting the best overclock as the lower vrm temperatures are generally the better that can deliver power to the vehicle and hence get better overclocks also this time around MSI have included RGB lighting both on the rear of the guard and on the side logo which can be connected by the mystic lining software and it sort of glows through with a clear translucent sort of matte plastic so it's not in your face and it does look very subtle though as for pricing and availability there's no official word yet though MSI do tell that later this month they will have an update on both so stay tuned for that and also another thing guys about the Lightning one thing I forgot to mention is if you guys don't like the cosmetics with the silver and the black they will be releasing different kind of badges here like black carbon and also gold or red so they will have some cosmetic options for a graphics card like this considering it will be the flagship card so now here we are with MSI GTX channei DTI a gaming edition and now a new feature they're implementing on this is USB type-c so they're bringing that on this particular graphics card of course all the standard features will be available with the gaming card except you now can get audio and video out of this thing via the type-c connector so nice little jazzy add-on by MSI with the 1080 TI gaming and thanks for watching guys that wraps up our coverage of MSI's graphics cards but Computex 2017 and let me know in the comment section below what was your favorite graphics card of Computex I'm basically waiting on the vega cards even though they were delayed this can't be taxed so there was another delay but I'm really looking forward to what that brings to the table and of course the Lightning was one massive graphics card I personally am a big fan even though he'd bend in the PCIe slot can get real with very high graphics cards but it does have the cooling and it does have the options to match and I'll catch you guys in another tech video very soon these are for now Bay