Moving on, we’ll start with MSI’s custom PCB. As a result the card’s significant overclocking abilities are not available without resorting to 3 rd party software hacks or modified BIOSes, which although outside the scope of this article should do the trick. Greenlight requires that MSI is limited to the same 1.212v GPU limit that everyone else is also limited to, and while MSI can unlock this card for specific parties such as the competitive overclockers they work with, they cannot do so for the public at large. The one downside in this setup, and we may as well mention it right away, is that while MSI has overbuilt this card for extreme overclocking, they’re technically not allowed to offer that functionality to the public as per NVIDIA’s Greenlight program. Meanwhile MSI’s custom Twin Frozer cooler, though not quite as extreme, is no slouch either. MSI has designed the card for extreme overclocking, which is heavily reflected in the design of the custom PCB. Going by design and construction, the GTX 770 Lightning stands alone in that regard. The fact that these cards are already using 7GHz memory puts everyone in a bind in this respect, including MSI. At 1150MHz the GTX 770 Lightning is 104MHz (10%) over a stock GTX 770, however like the other factory overclocked GTX 770s features no memory overclock to speak of. In practice most buyers won’t end up engaging in the extreme overclocking MSI has designed the Lighting series for, but that still means that the resulting cards are solid and well built.įor the GTX 770 Lightning, alongside MSI’s vast suite of customizations the company is also shipping the card with a factory overclock, the highest such overclock of all of the cards in today’s roundup. Lightning is MSI’s imprint for overclocking friendly cards, representing MSI’s best, most overbuilt products, designed to be competitive for the highest overclocks for any given video card family. The final card in our roundup is MSI’s GTX 770 Lightning.
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