[Computex09] MSI presents Military Grade GPUs

Several manufacturers have been starting to use higher quality components lately, both to ensure stability and to optimize the performance potential. MSI's also working with this concept: the company has announced new high-end graphics cards with the Military Grade tag. When the logo is present on an MSI-card, it meeans they've used solid cap capacitors and/or Hi-C Cap capacitors, as well as SSC-spools. Those spools are interesting because not only are they of better quality, they do not cause a buzzing noise either. Most conventional spools cause a humming sound while stressed, allowing for a passively cooled graphics card to still make noise.

Part of the Military Grade strategy, MSI has introduced two series of graphics cards. First, there are cards equipped with the Lightning-cooler, of which an earlier version was also available previously under the name Twin Frozr. This cooler will be used on basically every high-end nVidia GPU. Then there's the Cyclone line-up. The cards use a special cooler featuring extra thick 8mm heatpipes. This should significantly improve the card's overclocking potential.

The components of a Military Grade graphics card.

The new version of the Lightning cooler, mounted on a GeForce GTX 275.

The Cyclone coolers use extra thick 8mm heatpipes.

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