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welcome back to tech yes it is but Randy's coming back to you guys today with finally coming back to you guys today with an unboxing and review of the msi gtx 780 lightning edition baby now this thing just rocked up in the mouth so the postman was like look when you want me to deliver this thing I just said look any time of the day is like any time of the day how's it yeah any time today so he delivered to this thing to me at nine thirty at night because I wanted to ASAP anyway I know there's some people out there they're gonna be same thing and look Brian why didn't you get the AMD you know 290 and then there's I know there's going to be some people in the audience alike gtx 780 you boy and fist pump and so you know honestly when you guys get a GD MLG msi gtx 780 lightning edition for 520 USD delivered internationally then that is reason to fist pump so anyway based on how this thing goes they might even have to rename this the msi gtx 780 fist pump edition so as soon as we as soon as i got this box it sort of it gave me an oz daljik feeling in that I haven't really sort of got a box this heavy before like the box just looks really good before you even unbox it so there's just so much detail here it's got a lot of stuff printed on the box itself but I'll explain it as I go through the unboxing here now as soon as you unbox this thing this is just amazing I'm just shocked like this is like a collector's item I mean this box is really heavy it's really sturdy and it sort of gives a new definition to the premium products and you know i think msi this time around are doing a really good job with their products i mean you guys know that I got the msi g45 as it was you know it's a good it looked like a good value for money board and it actually turned out to be an extremely good value for money board overclocked well did all this well and then I thought hey the MS I'd lightnings going for a good price I'm gonna try and pick it up now basically before we get into it you know this this thing just literally just screams attention they've really paid attention to detail with this product here's the first part of the box here you've got what looks like a bottom casing so you pull this out and it looks like you've got a back plate here so you can attach that to the actual back of the video card believe it looks like a black back plate but yeah I'll actually get on to that later once of unboxed it all and installed and i'll let you know but you guys know what it actually is but then we open up this side here we've got the certificate of quality just to let you know that they've put in a lot of components but we'll go through what the components are when we look at the car itself now you do get an sli bridge with this and also a 626 pin to eight pin adapters by the looks of it you also get the CD but you're not going to need the CD because you just get your gonna generally download the latest drivers anyway off the MSI often the video website so that's the first part of the unboxing and my start and God my god this is just like literally it's like a treasure box like god damn this thing is attention to detail so okay so I thought I'd save you guys some time and I just quickly take it out of the static wrapping and show you the card itself so here's the graphics card itself as you can see here it is just a mammoth of a card it is one huge cars the biggest graphics card I've ever seen the air cooler itself is two and a half slots now these are the three fans so this is the new trife Rosa design from MSI and I must admit it's a really impressive design i mean the fans themselves they're big these are ninety two millimeter fans and these this one here is an 18 millimeter fan and they feel really sturdy like there's no shaft play at all in the fans now another thing is you could ease up fans are all independently controlled so you can set different fan speeds for different portions so if you're just overclocking the GPU you can overclock these two fans and leave this one pretty cool leave it on a lower state so whatever you want to do you can do it with this graphics card now let's look at the cooler on the side here we'll have a look so you can see here there's a two and a half slot cooler and it is just a beast it feels really well-built feels about one and a half kilo I'll have to wait and check it for you guys but if it is indeed one knife kilo then it's pretty much twice the size of my galaxy gtx 670 and it's a lot bigger than my gigabyte gtx 670 as well so let's have a look at the rear here now we've got the as we turn over to the rear of the card we have the msi backplate and also this is the GPU reactor basically this is a thing this is an add-on from msi which you can remove it lights up blue and it looks really good as well i'm awesome it looks really good but also it has a function and that is it's an extra filter for overclocking so it's an issue filter for the power which basically helps deliver a more stable overclock so you can remove that if you want to but I'm going to keep it on the back plate feels really well-built as well it looks really good as well over here we have to sli connectors as well which is capable of supporting in theory up to quad sly but you know really i think the video put a limit of just try sli so it's up to you guys but you know try us allies you wouldn't want to go over that anyway because drivers and you know you think it doesn't scale at all one super prove very little once you go past three cards so anyway let's look at so it's what nice lightning printed there as well but looking at the this side of the card now ISM is where things start to get interesting this here lights up green blue and red i think in depending on the power state it'll light up a different color so it's really cool you can just quickly look at your card and know how much power you're using without a power meter which is actually a pretty cool thing this here this little switch if we look in here that's actually the bios switch as well so there's actually three states there even though it is very difficult to get to the middle state the middle states are the one on the left if I flick it to the left that is your that should default overclocked out of the factory bios if we push it to the right that is your liquid nitrogen or everything unlocked by us in the middle is a fail-safe bias but i think you're going to need a pin because you have to be very careful to get to the middle so but another way i love this feature because as i'll talk about this at the end of it at the end of this video I'll talk about this car a lot more in depth but over here we've got 28 pin connectors as well so basically really good you know can support and you know it's got the extra phases in the car and it needs these power connectors to deliver more stable pouch i really like let's look at the front of the card now okay so looking at the back of the card sorry not the front of the card we have three independent voltage connectors here so one for the GPU one for the memory and one for the auxiliary so you can hook up an independent meter and check the voltages manually if you wish to which is really good feature you can see here all the three fans are connected independently as well so you can disconnect them if you wish to or you know do what you want to so there's as you can see here here's the heat pumps as well in pro two one two three four five six seven seven heat pipes as well I believe that eight millimeter as well so let's turn over to the rear of the card now ok so here is the rear of the card we have for display outs here we have a DV DV ID this is a dvi-d port which is your this is the port i'm going to be using from 120 hertz monitor this is a dvi-i i believe so both support 120 hertz both the dual link ports as well which is really good now interestingly enough you'll probably see here these are gold plated so that's another good feature from msi now the hdmi it supports full hdmi out as well as a DisplayPort out so that's the display port options you have there ok lastly i will say msi also include a 16 plus three phase power design with this if you contrast this to a reference design a reference design is only six plus two phases so you've got over double the phases for the GPU and you've got fifty percent more phases for the memory so it's really this card is just made to be a high overclocker also msi include their dark solid caps as well and a copper mosfet so they just put really high components into this graphics card to ensure the high overclocks and also to help with long activity of the cards so really good features anyway i've talked about off about this card lets put it in to the computer put it in the rig let's test it up i'm going to be comparing this to the overclock gtx 670 and then also i'm going to be overclocking it and comparing it to itself so let's get on with the results alright so now we're looking at the results here are the first benchmark being at battlefield 4 DP at Ultra and also when i was doing these benchmarks it taught me a lot about the different games i was benchmarking as you can see here battlefield 4 is a very GPU dependent game looking at the results here we've got the 780 on a custom overclock or the and I've got a gtx 780 on a factory overclocked or the fock and so the difference between the factory overclock and the custom overclock was about ten percent so it was a huge gain over the gtx 670 as well if you look at the just factory overclock versus factory overclock we can see here that we're getting about a forty percent increase over gtx 670 which is huge and this is a gigabyte model as well I'm comparing the gigabyte model to the GTX 780 and so the gx7 ad just is a beast of a card my ipoh is probably wondering what my custom overclock is when my custom overclock is 1200 and I think it boosted all the way up to twelve hundred and fifty-four megahertz with a 49 millivolt boost as well on the millivolt so I gave it a bit more voltage and I was mad at the max I managed to get out of it was 1254 bus before it started artifacting so it wasn't mediocre overclock not the best but certainly not the worst either looking at Skyrim eternity be ultra here you guys can probably see there is just next to no difference at all we got 160 1.08 161 so it even did a little bit worse when the GTX 780 was installed and then we had 160 2.72 when 780 was overclocked so that's the different results there so as you can tell Skyrim is a CPU intensive game and one GPU maxing out the CPU which is pretty impressive and that's a 4670k by the way which is the latest architecture so that's pretty that was an eye-opener for me how CPU intensive Skyrim really was i looking at here we got the gtx 670 with a 9840 on GPA 3dmark11 with the GPU school getting looking at the 780 it scored 14 thousand 235 so that's a huge increase almost fifty percent there and learn i managed to overclock it i managed to get the memory also upped but i got the memory up 400 megahertz as well so i was running at six thousand four hundred megahertz and I got this the clock up to 12 54 so that was a custom overclock there and that managed to score 15,000 850 which is damn impressive and these overclocks by the way I absolutely know artifacting I mean some people will get these really high over clocks and there will be artifacting during their doing the test just so they can achieve an epic highest score but I'm not definitely not going to do that as his note point but here we got here unigene Valley I will he saw here the average frame rate the average FPS was 102 on the custom overclock and 92.8 on the factory of clock so there was at least a good a solid ten percent 12 I'd say about twelve percent increase in frames per second across all different benchmarks and comparing that to the gtx 670 again it was a good fifty percent faster just factory overclocked versus the gtx 670 factory overclocked so very damn impressive this crap this card is an absolute beast I'll talked about after these benchmarks I'll sort of talk a little bit more about the card in different features but I we see here power consumption was a lot more though 390 in unigene Valley when we moved over to the gtx 780 it consumed about a hundred watts more on average my whole total system usage when I overclocked it went all the way up to 5 40 that's when it was peeking out so i was pretty damning I mean I wouldn't say impressed but I was surprised at how much power consumption went up when I put the gtx 780 in mind you the performance is huge and it's definitely worth it I look at the max temps this is this is a very good test to look at because we see how good the try froze our cooling solution from msi is this is all with the fan speed set to auto so I think the max fan speed was reported was forty-six percent and even then it was barely audible so amazing job from the try throes of their got up to 68 degrees maximum this was done at about 15 16 degrees ambient temps and attempts went up to 68 degrees I've still got another 10 degrees room there and I can just leave my fans on auto and not have to worry at all the factory overclocked ran really cool maxing out at 61 degrees and only thirty-eight percent on the fan speed so I mean if you wanted to go really heavy on the over closer you could up the fan speeds to maybe seventy percent and even then it wouldn't be that loud okay so you guys are probably wondering how big is this thing so this is when i'll start to talk about the card a little bit more and what impressed me about this graphics card now i have thought when I first got my gtx 670 i thought damn this card was huge this was back last year sometime in i think may i forgot one exactly when I purchases but that was coming from a radeon 5850 and the gtx 670 was bigger than the radeon 5850 now this gtx 780 is just a beast it's a mammoth of a card it's longer it's thicker it just the cooler is also a two and a half slot so we'll look at the photos here and you can see that's just that much longer on the end and it's also a little bit thicker I believe as well the actual width of the card is thicker not to mention the depth of the card as well is a bit bigger as well so this card is just a beast when I first read the reviews and people like oh this guy's big I thought now it can't be that much bigger than two gtx 670 but believe me it is a lot bigger than a gtx 670 so it's just a huge card I managed to get on the scales and it did weigh in at fifteen hundred and seven grams so over twice the weight of my galaxy gtx 670 and almost two times the weight of this gigabyte windforce as well so this is just one beast of a card however it does use a bit of extra power and one thing to note is that so pull up to the big screen for you guys is that is one thing to note with this card is that does use the extra power but it does give you impressive performance figures so the trife rosa from msi is just one well built graphics card i'm really impressed with this card even though i got a mediocre overclocker it's not that big of a worry for me i wish i could have got one of those cards that went up to fourteen hundred megahertz but once I started going past about 1260 I started noticing little bits of artifacting even if I did up the millivolts 262 that was the max with the bios I mean I can flash the bars but there's no point as I'm not going to need the extra overvoltage as my card starts to max out its overclocks at around twelve fifty so it doesn't like anything above that so every GPUs unique if you guys want I could make a GPU over tutorial more of advanced one in the future but it took me not too long to find the max overclock on this thing but it was a really impressive card and i can highly recommend this card is the premium product so this year this is probably the second best product i've got the end of Max t40 was the one of the best value-for-money products I have bought this year thirty dollars it was an amazing cooler this product for i got it for five hundred twenty dollars to live it off ebay it is damn impressive so I mean this is the second best product of board this year and I mean I just have been buying impressive products this year and this is definitely one of them so if you guys enjoyed this review please give it a thumbs up and if you have any questions about this Claude please put a comma in the conversation below also will say that when you first start this card up as well it's kind of like I don't know if it's just them if they unintentionally did this but when you start up the card there's kind of like this lightning sound as well as like foods as the fans really spin up really quickly for a split second and it's actually pretty cool it adds that touch to the card not to mention yeah the card just felt Wow with the build quality felt impressive and you know the treasure chest box was another bonus of having this card my god so highly recommend this card I mean I'm getting speeds that are similar to a 780 ti superclocked so when I overclocked my 780 ti I'm getting speed similar to a 780ti factory overclock so yeah that's pretty impressive from MSI here so I mean 780ti is cost me at least eight hundred dollars in Japan and then again that's not a superclocked version as well so really good purchase this time around I do think the gtx 780 is your sweet spot card at the moment I mean it's it's it's just in that league it's it's a really upper high-end graphics card and I can't recommend them enough so I'm going to be enjoying my games just all maxed out I'm going to plan on buying a 1440p monitor as well I kind of want one that at least goes to 80 hurts I mean I know the 120 Hertz ones are about a thousand dollars on ebay at the moment they're just ridiculously expensive so if anyone knows where I can get a cheap 1440p 120 Hertz monitor let me know in the description I'd love to find where i can get one as I'm kind of keen to get one so maybe next year early next year anyway guys I hope you enjoyed this code a little vlog about this card if there's anything else I missed about this graphics card and you pacifically no please leave a comment the comment section below as well let people know and also after the new years so I don't have much time until new years after years i will start whatever you guys request and upvote the most i will start doing vids on that whether it be benchmarks where the big tests i will probably be buying an FX 8350 and testing it against the for 670 cares this is just a lot of debate and a lot of i guess a lot of argument going on around did not just my channel a lot of forums i read too so anyway i'll hopefully i get that done when I can you as if you haven't really hit the sub button to i'm going to be coming back with some more action more tech news for you guys and hope you enjoyed this video and peace out for now baronies you bait