MSI GeForce GTX 480 LightningMSI a week or two ago finally launched their new GeForce GTX 480, this is the Lightning edition that has been pimped up and equipped for extreme overclocking, especially with sub-zero cooling like LN2, for the professional overclocking community actually. But for the regular enthusiasts who need to deal with petty air-cooling … this apparatus surely doesn’t disappoint either.

The MSI Lightning series graphics cards have, from ground up, a custom board design. I mean literally; the only thing original on that graphics card is the GPU from AMD or in today’s review, NVIDIA. And even at GPU level MSI tries to tweak a little by applying a factory overclock on it. We spot a custom PCB, specific component usage, a bucket load of VRM phases and Twin Frozr cooling. This Mc Daddy of graphics cards should be ready for some good overclocks. But let me not sidetrack just yet as there are other features worthy of mention. See the card has a total of 16 phases PWM opposed to the regular 8th (the GPU has 12, Memory has 3, PLL/PWM has 1). The card even comes with triple PEG power connectors, two 8-pin for the GPU and one 6-pin for memory.

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