MSI 275GTX Lightning rocks on air with pics

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after MOA2009 in Beijing i recieved the MSI 275GTX Lighting so i decided to do a little testing on it.
everyone was very impressed with the card and in particular its ability to bench reliable at -190 degrees centigrade....in other words no cold bug.
there are a couple of other very notable features on this card.
firstly it has a very nice heatsink with two 80mm fans...this allows it to be very silent and very cool when running.
a unique feature of the card are the two voltage monitoring points that allow for very easy reading of both the vgpu and vmem voltages.
the last feature i'll mention here is the fact that MSI has provided software that will monitor temperatures, voltages, fan speeds and clocks...this software also enabled me to overvolt the gpu voltage to at least 1.5vgpu when loaded without any need to vmod the core and also deafeating any ovp at the same time.

i took a few pictures of the card as well....clicking the images will in most cases bring up a full size image almost as big as straight out of the camera.

the box
















so before the testing i took a look at hwbot for the fastest clocks achieved on any 275GTX in the 3D benchies.
the highest clocks achieved in the benchies were:
01=730/1260
03=780/1300
05=840/1340
06=850/1340
aquamark=840/1340

so i decided i must beat these card clocks in all the benchies and prefferably with just the stock cooler.
i'm happy to say the MSI card proved itself very well in this regard.
i did the vmem mod so i could take the full 1.8gb of memory on the card to 1350mhz and for the core of the card i just used the afterburner software to raise the clocks and voltage....so easy.
i easily attained 850/1350 through most benchies which proves that this card even on stock cooler is way more capable than any other 275GTX on the 'bot.

i see this morning that some russian :P has nitrogenned a card over the weekend and attained 900mhz core clocks...only 50 more than i could do with stock cooler on air
anyway below are the benchies...please just bare with the E6500k on air scores.
also absolutely no tweaking was done....this was just a test to see if the MSI card could whip the pants off the competition and how easily it could do it.











laterz