Having been on the market for the best part of a year, there's no shortage of GeForce GTX 260 graphics cards to choose from. The problem for NVIDIA's partners, then, is just how do you go about differentiating yourself from the competition?
Taiwan's MSI has a solution in the form of the N260GTX Lightning edition, a card that doubles up the amount of GDDR3 memory and makes use of a dual-slot cooling solution that features two fans and five heatpipes.
Unlike the array of GeForce GTX 260-based products on the market, MSI's Lightning edition features 1,792MB of GDDR3 memory - putting it on par in terms of quantity with a GeForce GTX 295. Further details remain few and far between, but we're told the card features an 8+2 phase power design and, as expected, makes use of long-life capacitors.
There's no mention of GPU, shader or memory frequencies just yet, but it looks as though this'll be overclocker-friendly as MSI will be bundling an AirForce panel designed to simplify frequency adjustments.
We're expecting to see MSI's N260GTX Lightning edition on show at next month's CeBIT, and Team HEXUS will be on hand to bring you all the details. Stay tuned.
