780 GTX Lightning - Cooler revealed!

[MrEliasen]

Taken directly from the MSI FB feed: "Denmark! Anyone longing for the GTX 780 Lightning? Not long to go now, and Tweak knows what the cooler looks like. Check it out."

http://www.tweak.dk/nyheder2.php?id...MSIs_nye_GeForce_GTX_780_Lightning_sluppet_ud

Sorry it is in danish, but luckily the pictures are multilingual

This is fresh off the press, minutes ago!

EDIT: In case you are worried about the link, I have attached the combined images. All credit goes to Tweak.dk

 

[WYP]

Nice, look at those heat pipes!

 

[Excalabur50]

All the heat pipes are 8mm but I still don't know whether to hate or love that yellow fan in the middle

 

[MrEliasen]

All the heat pipes are 8mm but I still don't know whether to hate or love that yellow fan in the middle

Guess if you want to do a black/yellow rig the yellow fan would fit in beautifully. Personally I quite like it, but I am not liking yellow though, specially not in my rig haha.

I do like the sort of "plated" look though, very much indeed!

 

[Greenback]

It would be nice if other companies did their products to match

 

[yassarikhan786]

I don't like the yellow fan in the middle. Other than that, it looks cool and should perform well.

 

[vorticalbox]

Nice, look at those heat pipes!

I know looks like it will be a cool card

 

[AMDFTW]

i wonder if the middle fan will make it abit louder with it being smaller? and i guess it matches there new mobo ram and ssd's

 

[SieB]

Do not like the design of the cooler personally, should of mad all the fans yellow or just gone with all black. The Heatsink on the other hand looks rather good.

 

[Kaapstad]

I think all black would have been better. As it is with the yellow it is going to look awful on a RIVE which a lot of potential customers are likely to be using.

 

[WillSK]

i wonder if the middle fan will make it abit louder with it being smaller? and i guess it matches there new mobo ram and ssd's

I'm pretty sure MSI don't make RAM or SSDs but please share if they do. I'm assuming you mean the new stuff from Kingston in which case yes there's some good matching there

I too was wondering about the noise of the smaller fan

 

[yassarikhan786]

The smaller fan may not be that noisy, considering that the Gigabyte windforce coolers use smaller fans, which are very quiet at anything under 80% and not that bad at 100%. I'm sure MSI are good enough to match Gigabyte in that regard.

 

[Kaapstad]

The smaller fan may not be that noisy, considering that the Gigabyte windforce coolers use smaller fans, which are very quiet at anything under 80% and not that bad at 100%. I'm sure MSI are good enough to match Gigabyte in that regard.

I would have thought for gaming the fans will be quite quiet. When it comes to benching and overvolting they could get a bit noisy but that won't be high on the users priorities.

Also most users who are going to really push these cards are going to get waterblocks for them.

 

[yassarikhan786]

I would have thought for gaming the fans will be quite quiet. When it comes to benching and overvolting they could get a bit noisy but that won't be high on the users priorities.

Also most users who are going to really push these cards are going to get waterblocks for them.

Are you talking about the windforce coolers? If so, you are right. The fans are incredibly quiet when gaming.

 

[Kaapstad]

Are you talking about the windforce coolers? If so, you are right. The fans are incredibly quiet when gaming.

I was thinking about my Asus Matrix Platinums, for gaming they are quiet but for benching they can get a bit noisy.

 

[Sliceoflife]

Is there any release date for this?... cause by the end of September i'm thinking about buying 2x GTX 770 lightning... but if the 780 comes out by then, i might just get them instead of the 770...

 

[vorticalbox]

i wonder if the middle fan will make it abit louder with it being smaller? and i guess it matches there new mobo ram and ssd's

it'd be more worried about that the fins it blowing on are blocked by the heat pipes (at at least seems to be from pictures)

 

[Excalabur50]

The only real save in grace with a heat sink on a graphics card that don't look the greatest is once it's in your rig because it faces down you can't really see it, so if it performs well and is quiet I guess that's what really matters.

 

[Kaapstad]

This guy has just broken the Firestrike 2 card world record using a pair of MSI 780 lightnings.

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=24821035&postcount=1558

Having said that the last thing on his mind was the colour of the fans, he was using LN2.