Guru3D: It's not often that we are as impressed with a graphics card as the product we test today, so a little warning in advance might be appropriate here.
So dark clouds however the Guru3D laboratories in the Netherlands, a flash, a thunderbolt and BAM Lighting strikes ... the smoking hot MSI GTX 580 Lighting edition has landed in our facility.
Overclockers Splave of the USA, and Smoke of Russia, have recently set three world records with the MSI N580GTX Lightning graphics card. In June, Splave used an LN2 cooling system to push the graphics card up to 2501.6 in the Unigine Heaven (DX11) benchmark; the world record for single-card, single-core score. Apparently that was not good enough as he set the new record this week, of 2562.51. Over the past few days, Smoke, also using LN2, has set the world records for the 3DMark 11 and 3DMark Vantage benchmarks with single-card, single-core scores of 11,390 and 46,546 respectively.
MSI will have a wide variety of products at this year's Computex show but as far as GPU are concerned MSI new N580GTX Lightning Xtreme Edition will certainly be the star of the show. MSI's newest Lightning member will be the cream of the crop when it comes to graphics cards and will have some quite unique features including the triple temperature monitors, new fans with Smart Temp Sensor for the quite well known Twin Frozr III cooler and a decent factory overclock.
ive never been known to like msi products. the few i ever used broke on me but this 580gtx is looking kinda nice as a card. i might consider picking one up from evga in the future.
I love MSI. Their cooler designs are really great, and keeping my 9800GT frosty. This card has some nice fans too, they change color depending on heat. Blue is cold and as the GPU gets hotter the fans turn white with a red LCD to show that it's hot.
you know how it is theirs certain brands that you mess with for me its evga, gigabyte, asus and pny. i might buy a msi board but im really scared. but that fan thing is really cool
