So time to pull out the box and card.
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containing the video card
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The box comes with loads of information about this product and a nice window. But let's open it and take out the card. Besides the actual card what's included ?
First of all the DVD with drivers tools
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one mini display cable:
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So we can measure the volts on memory GPU and VDDCI with provided cables:
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What else can we see in a quick look. One small switch for Performance mode and silent fan mode
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The new twin frozr III cooler fans slightly stick out side the housing! For better cooling:
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On the back there we find a few small switches. What do they do?
Well for extreme overclocking you can unlock the OCP (Over Current Protection).
PWM Clock tuner from 300 to 350 Mhz for riple elimination.
A V-switch for instant adjusting voltages on GPU, memory and PLL
A MSI 580 Lightning also has a cold bug switch. We will check later if this ATI version really didn't need it
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Left to the OCP switches we see the leds on control for the VRMs. Let's first remove the massive cooler and see what underneath it