Most cattle GTX 480: MSI Lightning finally listed

After a multi-day preview on the Akihabara market in Japan, MSI's lightning-fast version of the GTX 480 finally arrived, and many stores have put it on the retail counter.

MSI N480GTX Lightning is the pinnacle of the GeForce GTX 480 graphics card. It has a large body and is extremely luxurious in terms of materials, power supply, cooling, and overclocking, and is fully compliant with the US Department of Defense’s military regulations MIL-PRF-39003L:

-Power4 power supply architecture: 16-phase independent power supply, including core 12-phase, video memory 3-phase, PLL dedicated one phase, maximum supply current up to 480A, more than three times the public version; three auxiliary power supply interfaces, two of which are used For GPU input power supply, six-pin dedicated to memory input power supply, can greatly reduce the memory current fluctuation; each phase power supply is a separate copper MOS tube; back four special high-speed film-type decoupling capacitor.

- Third-generation Twin Frozr III radiators: Two 90mm PWM intelligent speed governing fans, five 8mm SuperPipe pure copper heat pipes, integrated heat sink, and auxiliary backplane, boasting 40% more wind volume than the previous Twin Frozr III. The public version reduces the core temperature by up to 18°C.

- Triple press: With Afterburner 2.0 software can freely adjust the core, video memory, PLL voltage, improve performance up to 34%.

- Overclocking characteristics: dual BIOS, core/video/PLL three voltage measurement points, PWM clock adjustment switch (range 260-350MHz), core/video/PLL voltage instant adjustment switch V-Switch, overcurrent protection unlock switch OCP Unlock ( Above 320A), XtremeCool, a special switch for liquid nitrogen limit overclocking.

- Military regulations grade materials: SFC super ferrous salt inductors, tantalum capacitors, solid capacitors and so on.

- Other specifications: 480 stream processors, core / stream processor frequency pre-superimposed to 750/1500MHz, memory 256-bit 1.5GB GDDR5, equivalent frequency up to 4000MHz, the output interface of two DVI, HDMI, DisplayPort.

MSI N480GTX Lightning official suggested retail price of 549 US dollars, and now Japan's Akihabara is priced at 64770-64800 yen (including tax 5%), or about 5300 yuan.