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MSI N260GTX Lightning - Graphics Card Review

MSI N260GTX Lightning - Graphics Card Review Welcome to PCWizKidsTech talk. Today I wanted to show you the MSI N260GTX Lightning. It’s a black edition. This one is at NVIDIA GeForce card as you can see and it comes with overclocking capabilities from the default 655 MHz core speed and the memories at 2.1 GHz effectively that’s because it’s using GDDR3 1792 MB. Wow, that’s a lot of memory. This is maxed out with the shader default frequency of 1404 MHz as well. Now, look at the box. It looks like one of those cases that you would carry your sniper gun inside with compartments. Here’s a drawer that if you pull out it has all the additional parts that come in the bundle. Let's go ahead quickly and run through that so you know what it comes with. So obviously it’s going to come with all the manuals and the CD and drivers of course, that you would expect but also it has some cables and some dongles there as you can see. So the first one here is the adopter from DVI to VGA. So if you have an older monitor then the HDMI also out from DVI and some cables. These are actually USB cables for that panel that you see here at the top that comes included. So what happens here is that you connect these cables to the panel so you can control the overclocking. So you can either have the panel on the inside of your case or on the outside. We’ll go through that in the second. This is the manual for it, of course that gives you all the instructions on how to use it. There’s the driver software CD that I mentioned a second ago with the utilities and some additional manuals on the card itself on the lightning series here that were using and this is a premium version of course. They do have one that does not come with the panel. This one here comes with the panel and the nice looking case. Now, let's go through a little bit more about this card itself. As you can see this is a heavy and a large card. It’s using two fans and it’s got a very thick board on it so it’s made out of high quality parts. Also, it’s using two 6-pin PCI Express connectors so you got to make sure that you have that amount of connectors on your power supply of course. And the quality of the capacitors and everything you can tell that is a very good and really well made board. It comes with DVI and VGA out and a natively built in HDMI out which supports the audio for HDMI built-in, so you don’t need a cable for that. So very nicely done there for that and like I said it is a heavy board. It is using the twin fan called the twin pros or that’s the nickname and five heat pipes. I like the coloring though of the dark chrome look to the card. It’s got a nice brushed metallic finish to it, so it matches with your dark black case on the inside and on the outside you’ve got the AirForce panel. This allows you to basically touch the panel and increase and decrease the memory speed, the frequencies that you can overclock to and you can install this in a 5 ¼ inch board on your case or you can have it sitting out outside of your case just like that and just plug it into your USB port on the outside of your case. You’ve got two options either inside of the case like this or outside of the case and as you can see here it’s a touch panel. It doesn’t have buttons yet the feel for the panel and press it to increase the memory or the core speed and the shader frequency as well. You can max it all out. Now, it does come with predefined modes, so if you're not quite sure you know what to set it at. If you're not really using the card for 3D gaming well it has a default mode that you can reset it. Obviously, it comes with a bunch of other modes depending on what you want, depending on what you want to do with it. When you click on this lightning button here at the bottom, it displays what those settings are for each of those modes so whatever it is that you’ve selected. So the gaming mode obviously has the most frequencies, the highest because you're doing heavy 3D gaming so it makes sense. Now, the requirements like I said you need to have PCI Express 2.0 compliant X-16. It uses the width of two slots. It doesn’t use two PCI slots. It uses one PCI slot but it’s two slots wide. Now, it does need a 600W power supply so keep that in mind and make sure that your case has enough room for it as well. But as you can see it’s not that bad. It fits nicely in my Lian Li PC-7FW case as you can see here. So it’s not that terribly large and there's still room at the end as you can see because the power connectors are facing up. On idle I'm getting 40 degrees Celsius, on full load 63 degrees Celsius. Let's take a look at some more benchmarks here. Now when I press those modes on the panel you can see the default reset mode is the following. You can see the GPU clock there. On power saving mode you can see that that’s the GPU clock speed that power saving has. On office mode when you select that on the panel it’s obviously very low, frequencies because you're hardly using it. Theater mode you can see here as well slightly higher for watching movies and stuff like that and of course the gaming mode that I mentioned a second ago ups all the frequencies and you can actually unlock it by holding down that lightning button for more than three seconds. It will change from the default gaming mode higher so that where you can overclock it beyond gaming mode and here you can see that I've overclocked it even further beyond the gaming mode, so there is flexibility here for those hard core overclock or enthusiasts. Now, here are some 3D vantage GPU scores so if you're looking to compare against an ATI card the HD 4870 that I have is the closest card that comes to this one. So if you're looking okay, what else can I buy or where you're comparing it against, well the 4870 is it. Here are the benchmark results for Tom Clancy’s Hawks for example, very, very close. Here it is for Call of Duty as well, very close as well but you can see that the GTX lightning, the MSI card does beat the 4870 and some of the scores didn’t beat it in a good racing though. Those are pretty interesting. It was the same on Fallout 3 but on Stalker Clear Sky definitely beat it as well on the minimum max and the average definitely higher than the ATI 4870 as you can see here. Here’s the 4870 results. So at least they got 10 frames per second more on the GTX. Now, I tried to overclock both to be as equal as possible on the same machine so you know but MSI quality board with military class components definitely showed off here that it was a quality premium board and you can tell. This is isn’t a cheap mainstream card. It is a really nice one and if you look into over clock high this is it. So I like to thank MSI for providing it and I hope you enjoyed this video and thank you for watching.

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MSI N260GTX Lightning - Graphics Card Review

Welcome to PCWizKidsTech talk. Today I wanted to show you the MSI N260GTX Lightning. It’s a black edition. This one is at NVIDIA GeForce card as you can see and it comes with overclocking capabilities from the default 655 MHz core speed and the memories at 2.1 GHz effectively that’s because it’s using GDDR3 1792 MB. Wow, that’s a lot of memory. This is maxed out with the shader default frequency of 1404 MHz as well.

Now, look at the box. It looks like one of those cases that you would carry your sniper gun inside with compartments. Here’s a drawer that if you pull out it has all the additional parts that come in the bundle. Let's go ahead quickly and run through that so you know what it comes with. So obviously it’s going to come with all the manuals and the CD and drivers of course, that you would expect but also it has some cables and some dongles there as you can see. So the first one here is the adopter from DVI to VGA. So if you have an older monitor then the HDMI also out from DVI and some cables. These are actually USB cables for that panel that you see here at the top that comes included.

So what happens here is that you connect these cables to the panel so you can control the overclocking. So you can either have the panel on the inside of your case or on the outside. We’ll go through that in the second. This is the manual for it, of course that gives you all the instructions on how to use it. There’s the driver software CD that I mentioned a second ago with the utilities and some additional manuals on the card itself on the lightning series here that were using and this is a premium version of course. They do have one that does not come with the panel. This one here comes with the panel and the nice looking case.

Now, let's go through a little bit more about this card itself. As you can see this is a heavy and a large card. It’s using two fans and it’s got a very thick board on it so it’s made out of high quality parts. Also, it’s using two 6-pin PCI Express connectors so you got to make sure that you have that amount of connectors on your power supply of course. And the quality of the capacitors and everything you can tell that is a very good and really well made board. It comes with DVI and VGA out and a natively built in HDMI out which supports the audio for HDMI built-in, so you don’t need a cable for that.

So very nicely done there for that and like I said it is a heavy board. It is using the twin fan called the twin pros or that’s the nickname and five heat pipes. I like the coloring though of the dark chrome look to the card. It’s got a nice brushed metallic finish to it, so it matches with your dark black case on the inside and on the outside you’ve got the AirForce panel. This allows you to basically touch the panel and increase and decrease the memory speed, the frequencies that you can overclock to and you can install this in a 5 ¼ inch board on your case or you can have it sitting out outside of your case just like that and just plug it into your USB port on the outside of your case. You’ve got two options either inside of the case like this or outside of the case and as you can see here it’s a touch panel. It doesn’t have buttons yet the feel for the panel and press it to increase the memory or the core speed and the shader frequency as well. You can max it all out.

Now, it does come with predefined modes, so if you're not quite sure you know what to set it at. If you're not really using the card for 3D gaming well it has a default mode that you can reset it. Obviously, it comes with a bunch of other modes depending on what you want, depending on what you want to do with it. When you click on this lightning button here at the bottom, it displays what those settings are for each of those modes so whatever it is that you’ve selected. So the gaming mode obviously has the most frequencies, the highest because you're doing heavy 3D gaming so it makes sense.

Now, the requirements like I said you need to have PCI Express 2.0 compliant X-16. It uses the width of two slots. It doesn’t use two PCI slots. It uses one PCI slot but it’s two slots wide. Now, it does need a 600W power supply so keep that in mind and make sure that your case has enough room for it as well. But as you can see it’s not that bad. It fits nicely in my Lian Li PC-7FW case as you can see here. So it’s not that terribly large and there's still room at the end as you can see because the power connectors are facing up. On idle I'm getting 40 degrees Celsius, on full load 63 degrees Celsius.

Let's take a look at some more benchmarks here. Now when I press those modes on the panel you can see the default reset mode is the following. You can see the GPU clock there. On power saving mode you can see that that’s the GPU clock speed that power saving has. On office mode when you select that on the panel it’s obviously very low, frequencies because you're hardly using it. Theater mode you can see here as well slightly higher for watching movies and stuff like that and of course the gaming mode that I mentioned a second ago ups all the frequencies and you can actually unlock it by holding down that lightning button for more than three seconds. It will change from the default gaming mode higher so that where you can overclock it beyond gaming mode and here you can see that I've overclocked it even further beyond the gaming mode, so there is flexibility here for those hard core overclock or enthusiasts.

Now, here are some 3D vantage GPU scores so if you're looking to compare against an ATI card the HD 4870 that I have is the closest card that comes to this one. So if you're looking okay, what else can I buy or where you're comparing it against, well the 4870 is it. Here are the benchmark results for Tom Clancy’s Hawks for example, very, very close. Here it is for Call of Duty as well, very close as well but you can see that the GTX lightning, the MSI card does beat the 4870 and some of the scores didn’t beat it in a good racing though. Those are pretty interesting. It was the same on Fallout 3 but on Stalker Clear Sky definitely beat it as well on the minimum max and the average definitely higher than the ATI 4870 as you can see here. Here’s the 4870 results.

So at least they got 10 frames per second more on the GTX. Now, I tried to overclock both to be as equal as possible on the same machine so you know but MSI quality board with military class components definitely showed off here that it was a quality premium board and you can tell. This is isn’t a cheap mainstream card. It is a really nice one and if you look into over clock high this is it. So I like to thank MSI for providing it and I hope you enjoyed this video and thank you for watching.

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