FOR: Excellent cooler, silent fans, HDMI cable included.
AGAINST: A slightly overclocked core is completely pointless.
The MSI R5870 Lightning is one of
the very few Radeon HD 5800
series cards to feature a custom
design. It’s not just the cooler; MSI has
gone all out and built this card right up
from a custom PCB to components of topnotch
quality that meet military standards.
The PCB of this card measures 10.1
inches which is just about half an inch
less than the length of the reference PCB.
But it’s wider by three-fourth of an inch to
accommodate the extra components used
for the 12-phase power design for the GPU
and 3-phase power design for memory.
MSI has used Hi-C capacitors instead of
solid-state capacitors all over which they
claim have 8 times the lifespan, lower
operating temperature and are more
efficient. The reference design features a
pair of 6-pin PCIe power connectors, but
this card uses two 8-pin PCIe connectors
to feed the additional circuitry and provide
extra power to the GPU for better stability
while overclocking.
SPECIFICATIONS
Rs 24,500
www.in.msi.com
GPU: Radeon HD 5870; Core | Memory speed: 900 MHz
| 1200 MHz; Video memory: 1 GB GDDR5; Memory
bus width: 256-bit; Video outputs: 2x DVI, HDMI and
DisplayPort.
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