MSI GeForce GTX 770 Lightning Review
Published by Christian Ney on 07.08.13Page:
Conclusion
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MSI’s brand new GeForce GTX 770 Lightning is a really nice piece of
hardware. First thing first: the Lightning is a fast card, performance
wise it is on average 8.5 % faster than the reference GeForce GTX 770 in
the games tested. It is also really cool and does its job silent. MSI's Twin Frozr IV
proved to be better than ASUS' DirectCU II in both cases. In addition,
the card comes well equipped also regarding the power design that has
been beefed up to the edge and the overclocking features which make it
LN2-ready almost out of the box. One word about the bundle, the latter is good with more accessories you usually get with a graphics card. |
- Factory Overclocking
- Performance - Cooling - Power Design - Overclocking features |
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| Cooling / Noise Level | + | - | |
| That's the first time we get to test with MSI's new
GTX 770 Lightning: the Twin
Frozr IV cooler. We have to say that we have been impressed. GPU Temperatures were
excellent with a maximum of only 63°C
under heavy FurMark load with the fans locked at 30 % fan speed. Now
with the fans in auto, the Lightning did very well too. After
playing BattleField 3 for an hour the maximum temperature hit by the
GPU was 61°C. In this case the maximum fan speed was as low as 44%,
translated it means a noise level of 35 dBA. In comparison the max
values we got with the ASUS GTX 770 DirectCU II OC were 64°C, 76% and
36.2 dBA. In Idle the MSI card was only 2°C warmer than the ambient temperature. |
- inaudible in 2D
- Silent in 3D |
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| Performance | + | - | |
| The 770 Lightning puts itself right in the middle
of the GTX 780 and the GTX 770 performance wise. In other words, the
Lightning ended up being 8.5% faster than the reference GTX 770 and 7%
slower than the reference GTX 780. Too bad MSI can't release its card
with the memory overclocked out of the box (because of hardware
limitation), we would have liked to see it catching up with the 780. A closer look at power consumption shows, that our test system, equipped with the GTX 770 Lightning, burns 53 Watts under idle conditions and 211 Watts under load. Unfortunately we can't say weather it's very good or very bad since we don't have any card with a reference PCB in our hand but since the Performance/Watt ratio is the second best one we can't say anything bad about. |
- Performance/Watt
- Power consumption under load - Power Consumption in idle |
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| Recommendation / Price | + | - | |
| With a starting price of 388 Euros excluding shipping costs accross the EU, the Lightning isn't really cheap. That's 55 Euros on top of the cheapest 770 and 25 Euros more expensive than the DirectCU II OC from ASUS for exemple. But considering what you get with the Lightning we think that's a fair price. So if you are looking for a strong GTX 770 you are doing nothing wrong going for the MSI Lightning variant. |
- High-End Gaming
- Extreme Overclocking |
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| We gave the GTX 770 Lightning from MSI 5 out of 5 stars. | |||
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