MSI Shows New GTX 590, Radeon HD 6970 Cards

[Marcus Yam]

Believe it or not, computer vendors are already hosting press conferences for CES even though the show doesn't officially open until Thursday, January 6.

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[buddhav1]

cool story bro

 

[gkay09]

GTX590 ??

 

[Guest]

LOL even the photo says GTX 580 not 590.

 

[Tamz_msc]

In the picture it says N580GTX Lightning.Where is Tom's reading GTX 590?

 

[blink180heights]

Boing!!! instant boner! These days the cards really get hot which is why i had to take both the covers off of my 2 9800 GTX+s. Great to see this card come with 2 fans.

 

[joytech22]

Must.. Have ZOMGDROOL.

 

[dEAne]

Military Class II designed - I got to have this card.

 

[bluekoala]

I don't think those battlecruisers would fit my case.

 

[stingstang]

@Buddhav1: DELETED!
@blink180: You know that the airflow through the shrouds increases cooling, right?
@bluekoala: +1
@Tom's: Yea but...that's all the info you've got? No clock speeds or anything?

 

[Von Death]

Remember when hardware used to get smaller each year? These cards better get me at least 30FPS on Frogger...

 

[apache_lives]

lol @ "carries "high stability components," which MSI claims are high quality capacitors" - nothing MSI makes is "high stability"

 

[elcentral]

still no dual gpu single pcb cards when can i replace my 295?. -_- guess ill haw to wait for the next cards to come

 

[kikireeki]

Is it the camera angle or that thing is really gigantic?

 

[vvhocare5]

This must be a really slow news week with you guys hanging out in Las Vegas. First a Micron release on SSD's and now MSI with a GTX580 card. Im waiting for the Patriot Super RAM news release.... maybe some Monster AC power cords to reduce noise on the power line...

snooze....

 

[belardo]

"Military class design" as in gaming class, not something you'd find on an F22 or a tank or anything else that is real military.

 

[tsnorquist]

Someone really needs to make a revolutionary leap forward in heat dispersion. These cards are starting to look like AC units with the fans, fins, and size!

 

[bv90andy]

Military Class

they sure know what slogans are hot these days. And the US Gov. sure knows how to manipulate its people.

 

[snotling]

[citation][nom]dEAne[/nom]Military Class II designed - I got to have this card.[/citation]
Well, my story may not be typical MSI quality so I won't say all they do is crap but I recently got one of them boards with "military class" components and "better overclocking" features... While it is true that the BIOS had ALL THE SETTINGS YOU COULD DREAM OF... it blew up after 8 hours of use and only 15 minutes or so of running the AMD "stability test"

The funny part was that MSI support told me "This board doesn't support BE1100T" right of the first line of the exchange... WOW... if Marketing is going to say: "This board is tough" don't go for the "Board not tough enough" argument right away!

Funny thing is was not overclocking yet... just running stock speed! so I was well within the powerdraw of Other 6 core parts (on auto overclock) that are supported with the board...

Another thing I want to bring up about supported component lists that is common to all manufacturers or at least most of them: they support no actual RAM that you can buy!

exactly, if you look at the part numbers of certified RAM for a given board, most of them are not on sdale anymore... why? because the test was made during design, 6 months later these parts have been phased out already and replaced by cheaper, better, faster and in stock new DIMMS.

So the whole "supported" part or not, really is a stupid point to make for a motherboard maker because if we were to stick to the list, then we would just not get anything going.

My 2 cents... sorry for ranting.

 

[wikiwikiwhat]

whatever, the twin frozr II kicks butt. I have a GTX470 version and its working quite nicely.

 

[falchard]

Its military class because shit blows up.

However, I love MSI products. They never think about if its too much.

 

[dalta centauri]

Got one of MSI's 870 boards that was under 75$. Had alot of features, supported phenom 6 cores, 16gb DDR3 1600MHz, and had crossfire support.
Overclocking wasn't hard, it was actually well done for the low price. For me MSI products haven't failed, and they do have alot of interesting features for boards that aren't overpriced.

 

[17seconds]

Those are nice looking cards, but why can't anyone design a good aftermarket cooler that vents heat outside the case?

 

[scuba dave]

Actually, the reason it's called "Military Class" is a play on an electronics rating scale. With all components, there is a +/- tolerance value they need to stay within. Most components are +/- 10%, while those used for "real" military purposes(electronics controlled weapons systems), are almost always at the +/- 1% marker, while everything is designed to operate within a +/- 15 % standard, to compensate for several components leaning one way or another, and providing extra time to facilitate getting a replacement... Anyway, thats all another topic.

The point is here, that MSI is using higher grade electronics components than what is standard (1% vs 10%). The end result is that, theoretically.. the board should be able to last quite a bit longer as it will take alot more effort/time for the components to get outside of the tolerance required to operate. And what does all that mean for the consumer? This board *might* be able to hold a higher overclock, with a higher record of stability. Other than that.. There wouldn't be a single benefit. The use of "military class" here seems to be a lure to bring in money.

Just my two cents.

 

[shin0bi272]

[citation][nom]stingstang[/nom]@Tom's: Yea but...that's all the info you've got? No clock speeds or anything?[/citation]

model with stock cooler for a general idea
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127559