MSI GTX 770 Lighting Pictured

[N.Broekhuijsen]

Some images have surfaced of MSI's GTX 770 Lightning edition.

MSI GTX 770 Lighting Pictured : Read more

 

[hero1]

Should we be expecting reviews tomorrow morning? I thought there would have been one this past week.

 

[mahanddeem]

Looks nice ! very similar to my 680 Lightninig

 

[neaton14]

glad the lighting is good on this one!
(does look nice though)

 

[lhowe005]

Hard to get excited about a card with 2gb of memory. Even with the 680's why are all the 4gb cards so blah looking and all the nice looking ones are only 2gb.

 

[EzioAs]

So, GTX x70 has a lightning version nowadays? I thought that was only reserved for GTX x80 GPU. Although since the GTX 770 is the GTX 680, maybe they just flashed it.
I'm slightly disappointed that we won't see new Twin Frozr design with upcoming cards though.

 

[varun706]

Hope MSI won't cheat by overvolting this time around.

 

[17seconds]

Hard to see, but the box says "Unlocked Digital Power" alluding to higher/unlocked voltages for higher overclocks.

 

[jossrik]

Where are all the AMD cards? Also, stop naming your cards "SubZero" "Ice" "FroZen" when you mean "Room Temp".

 

[Marcus52]

I'll have to say "no" to series 700 if they are 2GB and I'm not all that thrilled with a 256 bit memory path.

 

[brythespy]

I thought it was going to show some sort of lighting for the card, like the TITAN glows and shit in your case. Y U SO TYPO?

 

[TheBigTroll]

MSI didn't cheat on their lightning cards. they aren't stupid when they know for sure this goes under LN2

 

[mapesdhs]

Honestly toms, can you please at least spell-check article headline text
and links from the home page? It's Lightning, not Lighting.

Ian.

PS. I don't think I'll bother with any of these cards until NVIDIA starts
using 3GB+ RAM by default. Either that or I'd just get a 4GB model.
AMD does have an advantage here.

 

[Guest]

where's the 780 and 3-5 gb version for my 2560 x 1600 display Msi?

 

[madjimms]

Two 8 pins? the GTX 780 reference has two 6 pin connectors.. I'll pass on this space-heater.

 

[WithoutWeakness]

Assuming the chip on the back of the GPU is for additional VRM phases like the 680 Lightning was then this should be a monster overclocker. The GTX Titan is heavily limited in overclocking ability due to it's low number of VRM phases and the way GPU Boost 2.0 handles voltage to overclock the core. Additional VRM phases should smooth out voltage ripple under heavy load and allow this to overclock very well. I can't wait to see this and the 780 Lightning in benchmarks against the GTX Titan.

 

[TheBigTroll]

Two 8 pins? the GTX 780 reference has two 6 pin connectors.. I'll pass on this space-heater.

more pins mean nothing regarding if it will become a space heater or not. a rerference card will heat up your room just as well

 

[sonic123]

Does this means (excuse my great ignorance) that a launch time tomorrow of the GTX 780, even tough they don't say anything in their sites, companies like EVGA, ASUS, MSI and the like actually that card GTX 780 ready to be sold?

 

[NegativeX]

Title of article misspelled, "lightning."

 

[hero1]

So this is sad. Here's a pic from NCIX that showed the pricing they had for GTX 780 and then taken down. It will be retailing close to $900!! WTF.

http://imageshack.us/a/img585/4882/gtx780atncix.png

 

[NegativeX]

Title of article misspelled, "lightning."

 

[Lazarusrizing]

Umm... I happen to have built my computer around an MSI GTX 680 Lightning, so I am somewhat familiar with the card and I can honestly say that there is absolutely no visual difference between this and my 680 Lightning. So really the only thing that says that this is a 770 is that they said it was. And since the card number is blurred out I have my doubts about this really being a 770.

 

[WyomingKnott]

Aren't the two additional pins both ground pins?

 

[bemused_fred]

Hard to get excited about a card with 2gb of memory. Even with the 680's why are all the 4gb cards so blah looking and all the nice looking ones are only 2gb.

I'll have to say "no" to series 700 if they are 2GB and I'm not all that thrilled with a 256 bit memory path.

I don't think I'll bother with any of these cards until NVIDIA starts
using 3GB+ RAM by default. Either that or I'd just get a 4GB model.
AMD does have an advantage here.

And your list of games that actually need 4GB over 2 GB are.....? That's what I thought.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/geforce-gtx-680-geforce-gtx-660-ti-sli,3429.html

Unless you're gaming at ultra in 5760x1080, you really don't need more than 2 GB.

 

[mapesdhs]

bemused_fred writes:
> And your list of games that actually need 4GB over 2 GB are.....?

For me, Skyrim fully modded, and when I get my new 2560 monitor, Crysis2 aswell I expect.

Just because *you* don't need it doesn't mean it's not relevant for others.

My point is simply that AMD's use of 3GB gives a nice buffer for some time at the detail
levels now in vogue, whereas NVIDIA's 2GB cards are already on the edge or just not
good enough in many cases.


> Unless you're gaming at ultra in 5760x1080, you really don't need more than 2 GB.

Ah, so an article says it, so it must be true. The whole modding scene of games like
Skyrim completely blows away many generic article conclusions. The article is very
useful, but it doesn't paint the full picture. Improving the visual look of games via
mods is extremely common these days, which naturally increases the VRAM loading
even when not dealing with multiple displays. I like high-res texture packs, better
looking scenery, etc., and I like to max out the detail, draw distance & AA, so yes
indeed, for my next GPU upgrade I want more than 2GB. If you don't, fine, but
claiming others don't just because you agree with an article analysis of baseline game
performance is misleading.

Ian.