Short Glimpse of MSI GTX260 Lightning Black Edition

[gzhil]

Just got this MSI GTX260 Lightning Black Edition and I can say MSI did a good job on this one starting from the box until to the unit itself 

Let?s get started shall we and open up the box?

There it is the GTX260 Lightning with AirForce Panel and underneath it is some kind of a drawer. Once you pull it out you will find the accessories, driver software cd, manual, DVI & HDMI adapter and cables for connecting the AirForce Panel to your mobo.

As you can see it is using a dual fan heatpipe cooling solution called Twin Frozr and makes the video card cool down very well even at high overclock speeds. On the rear side of the video card there are the HDMI, VGA & DVI Ports.

More on the AirForce Panel, here is an overview on what it can do.

Below are the values you can do with the AirForce

GPU Core
1.0700V
1.0825V
1.0950V
1.1075V
1.1200V

Mem Core
1.8500V
1.8600V
1.8700V
1.8800V
1.9000V

Core
655
660
665
670
673
676
680

Memory
1000
1010
1020
1030
1040
1050

Shader
1404
1440
1458

Panel in working mode and by the way  it is touch sensitive. Selecting Lightning on the panel will bring you up the MSI windows software showing all the specs from the settings you have made. I hope MSI also included fan controls on the panel

Let us now test this baby for benchies.

Test Up System:
Intel i7 920 2.66 OC?ed to 4.0ghz
3x1 Team Xtreem Dark 1600mhz
MSI Eclipse SLI bios version 1.6b1
Coolermaster V8
MSI GTX260 1792mb DDR3 Lightning Black Edition
MSI 9800GTX+ MOA 512mb DDR3 Edition SLI
Sapphire 4850x2 1GB DDR3

Test Software:
3dmark06 (the only test that I can do as of now)

Using the Game Mode of the AirForce Panel. System OC?ed at 4.0ghz and all stock VC

MSI 9800gtx+ MOA Edition SLI  Core 760/ Memory 1150/ Shader 1890
MSI GTX260 Lightning Edition Core 655/ Memory 999/ Shader 1404

Next:

Max out the Core Voltage and Mem voltage on the AirForce Panel. System OC?ed at 4.0ghz and overclocked VC

MSI 9800gtx+ MOA Edition SLI  Core 810/ Memory 1175/ Shader 2010
Sapphire 4850x2  Core 690/ Memory 1100
MSI GTX260 Lightning Edition Core 730/ Memory 1130/ Shader1500

That?s it. I will try to update this post once I got time playing with this video card again 

 

[HU16E]

Sweeeeet! Looking forward to the update!

 

[gzhil]

Some updates

?System overclocked to 4.2ghz
?MSI N260GTX Lightning @ core 765/ shader 1530/ memory 1125

Picture of my system for this VC test

 

[Svet]

Memory voltage used on the latest results?
P.S: No doubt its brilliant MSI product

 

[gzhil]

thanks man.

For the GPU voltage was 1.225v
For the system

My 920 is already at 1.54v hehehehe
QPI: +0.23
PLL: +1.84
IOH: +1.16
ICH: +1.52

If i have time again. Will try to do some OS tweaking and see if my 3dmark06 would increase

 

[Fr3aKsTyLeR]

I'm dieing to wait the radeon hd 5870 lightning!!! It would be dream come true! Do u know when it might be bublished? And have to say that that gtx260 is awesome too!

 

[gzhil]

Hi there dude. Some say it will be out around february i think It would be sweet to have a 5870 Lightning hehehe

 

[r44t_pl]

hi I'm looking for the bios to the card Msi GTX260 Lightning. Or can someone help me?? Pleas.

 

[HU16E]

This is easily missed among all the review text;

hi I'm looking for the bios to the card Msi GTX260 Lightning. Or can someone help me?? Pleas.

Resurrecting a thread that was started over 3 years ago of a product review is not the right place to request assistance. Recommend to open a new thread in the VGA Section of the forum.

https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?board=9.0

 

[flobelix]

Thanks Froggy for already pointing out. I removed all the useless quoting from the hijacking post.

r44t_pl,

hijacking and resurrecting other topics is not allowed never do this again. >>Please read and comply with the Forum Rules.<<

With your own issue open an own topic. This is quite obviously a two year old review and not an "ask anything related to this vga" thread. To prevent further hijacking posts in this thread:

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