This week at the Master Overclocking Arena 2010 finals, MSI has presented its newest Lightning series graphics card, the N480GTX Lightning which is based on the GeForce GTX 480, but doesn’t look a thing like reference models due to its many modifications. The upcoming GF100-powered card has an oversized PCB with Military Class Components, V-check points, four Proadlizer capacitors, 16 phase PWM, a PWM clock tuner, dual BIOS, and three PCIe power connectors (the 6-pin one is dedicated for the 1.5GB of GDDR5 memory on-board).

MSI’s creation also comes equipped with a Twin Frozr III cooler bearing two 90mm fans and five heatpipes, includes a backplate, 480 CUDA Cores, GPU, shader and memory clocks of 750 MHz, 1500 MHz and 4000 MHz, respectively (stock clocks are 700/1401/3696 MHz), 4-way SLI support, and dual-DVI, HDMI and DisplayPort outputs. The N480GTX Lightning is said to go on sale @ $550.

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