MSI Europe showed a nice screenshot of Elmor’s latest overclocking feat and overclocking experience with MSI’s recently announced HD 7970 Lightning card.

MSI’s Radeon HD 7970 Lightning overclocked up to 1800MHz for the GPU. Apparently all it took was some LN2 and Swedish overclocker Elmor, which proved his OC skills at various overclocking events.

The card was normally chilled by LN2 and stable core clock ended up at 1800MHz with 1700mV of voltage. Memory ended up at impressive 1925MHz (7.7GHz effective). Elmor used MSI’s Big Bang XPower II X79 motherboard and Intel Core i7 3960X Sandy Bridge-E CPU overclocked to 5207.8MHz. The 3DMark 11 score ended at 15035 marks in Performance mode.

MSI has definitely made dream graphics card for any overclocker and that custom PCB is surely doing a nice job.

Click for full resolution screenshot.

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Zotac introduced a GeForce GTX 460 2GB graphics card with slightly overclocked frequencies. This model has a 710MHz core, 1420MHz shaders and 2GB GDDR5 clocked at 3600MHz.

ZOTAC® International, a leading innovator and the world’s largest channel manufacturer of graphics cards, motherboards and mini-PCs, today announces the ZOTAC® GeForce® GTX 460 2GB – the first ZOTAC® graphics card powered by NVIDIA® Fermi architecture with 2GB of graphics memory. The new ZOTAC® GeForce® GTX 460 2GB delivers best-in-class performance with unmatched features for a superior gaming experience gamers can rely on.

High-resolution gaming receives a performance boost with the ZOTAC® GeForce® GTX 460 2GB and the large 2GB graphics memory. Paired with an ultra-wide 256-bit memory interface, the ZOTAC® GeForce® GTX 460 2GB can communicate between the GPU and 2GB of graphics memory at lightning-fast speeds to transfer ultra-quality textures for phenomenal in-game details that blur the line between the virtual world and reality.

“PC gaming is always at the forefront of visual realism and continues to push the limits of hardware. Our latest ZOTAC® GeForce® GTX 460 2GB gives gamers that want maximum detail and quality settings an extra performance edge that lets them enjoy stunning details with smooth frame rates,” said Carsten Berger, marketing director, ZOTAC® International.

The ZOTAC® GeForce® GTX 460 2GB graphics card features maximum connectivity flexibility with four digital output connectors – dual-link DVI, HDMI and DisplayPort – for compatibility with all current digital display standards. A DVI-to-VGA adapter is included with the ZOTAC® GeForce® GTX 460 2GB for users with analog VGA displays.

A complete copy of Prince of Persia®: The Forgotten Sands™ is included with the ZOTAC® GeForce® GTX 460 2GB to let users instantly take advantage of the available graphics power. Prince of Persia®: The Forgotten Sands™ places gamers in control of the Prince to save the kingdom of Azad in an epic adventure with beautiful visuals and classic Prince of Persia® game play. It’s time to play with the ZOTAC® GeForce® GTX 460 2GB.

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How far can you push a GeForce GTX 480 before you run into limitations ? It’s a processes that the TGT team from Point of View certainly is pushing the envelope on. They released the Ultra Charged TFC GeForce GTX 480 based on an Arctic Cooling solution.

This card does not come with the reference clocks of 700 MHz for the GPU, 1,401 for the shaders and 3,700 for the memory but instead runs at 763 MHz, the 480 shader cores operate at 1,526 MHz and, finally, the 1536MB of GDDR5 VRAM at 3800 MHz.

The product itself really is the reference board with updated firmware and a massive three-slot (maybe even four from the looks of it) Arctic cooler with three fans.

We checked pricing and this board will carry a 529 EUR pricetag.

AMD has revealed its newest workstation-class graphics card, the ATI FirePro V9800. It flaunts 4GB of GDDR5 RAM and 1,600 stream processors, while supporting maximum resolutions of 2,560×1,600 at 60Hz. The design is an evolution of the FirePro V8800, with double the RAM and improvements in power and efficiency.

There are otherwise six Mini DisplayPort outputs, with the connected displays driven by ATI EyeFinity. Support for DirectX 11, OpenGL 4.0 and ATI CrossFire Pro is ensured, and the card gets a 256-bit memory interface. The same Cyprus GPU is used as in the V8800, but it’s faster in this application at 2.72 terraflops as opposed to 2.64. Power usage is lower, at less than 225W.

The card is priced at $3,499

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EVGA released two new GeForce GTX 460 1GB graphics cards, these are the FTW editions with 850MHz core, 1700MHz shaders and 4000MHz GDDR5 memory. The model with the reference cooler costs $259.99, while the External Exhaust edition costs $269.99.

In addition, the EVGA GeForce GTX 460 FTW supports NVIDIA 3D Vision, Surround Gaming, PhysX and CUDA technologies making this card the ultimate value for the gaming enthusiast. And with award winning support, utilities and community, you can’t go wrong with the GTX 460 FTW from EVGA.

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MSI just launched a new GeForce GTX 480, this is the Lightning edition that has been pimped up and equipped for extreme overclocking, especially with sub-zero cooling like LN2.

The GF100 based card has a total of 16 phases PWM opposed to the regular 8th. The cooler is called the Twin frozr III model and is aluminum and comes with 2x 90mm fans. The card is clocked at 750 MHz GPU, 1500Mhz on CUDA cores and 1000MHz on the memory (4GHz GDDR5).

Since the card is targeted against the overclockers, there are also a number of switches for allowing extreme temperatures increase voltage limitations and an OCP unlocker switch and a PWM Clock Tuner. That comes with a dual BIOS should you mess up one during a tweaking project. With MSI Afterburner you can adjust the voltages for GPU, memory and the PLL, the MSRP for the Lightning N480GTX is 550USD, the photo is courtesy of Tweakers.net

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If you want a REALLY fast pre-overclocked GeForce GTX 460 then Point of View might have the answer for you as they are releasing the BEAST. No-no seriously .. it’s branded as Beast.

The Beast series are of highest and yield graphics cards and feature stability even beyond the documented clock settings of 855 MHz core clock, 1710 MHz shader clock and 4020 MHz memory clock (1005 MHz Quad Data rate GDDR-5).

All of the POV/TGT GeForce GTX 460 “BEAST”TM products are hand selected and manually tuned with a proprietary tuning algorithm developed by TGT’s highly skilled hardware and software engineering team.

The POV/TGT GeForce GTX 460 “BEAST” is available with both, 1GB of GDDR-5 display memory as well as with 768MB of GDDR-5 memory at lower cost.

We have no information just yet about pricing. More info here.

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HIS today unveils its HD 4890 iCooler x4 1GB (256bit) GDDR5 PCIe, the best performance 4890 GPU combined with the high performance dual slot iCooler x4. It delivers great in-game performance on a single GPU HIS graphics accelerator.

iCooler x4 features a high performance dual slot cooler. It comes with four 6mm copper heatpipes that transfer heat effectively from the GPU to the internal fins around.

Unfortunately the clock frequencies were left alone as the card is clocked at 850 MHz on the core and has a memory clock 3.9Gbps / MHz. Pricing remains TBA.

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Rumors are all over the web regarding the pending release of ATI’s Radeon 5800 series DX11 class graphics cards. We ‘think’ that the first released card will be the Radeon HD 5870 which is developed under codename Cypress.

From what we heard is that this card will be lined up directly against the GeForce GTX 285 pricing wise, the rumor is that this high-end DX11 class graphics card will get a price tag of 299 USD.

Though I personally doubt it a little given the issues with the 40nm node, there is a a rumor that this graphics card would be based on a 40nm fabrication process.

* 1GB GDDR5 memory
* ATI Eyefinity technology with support for up to three displays
* ATI Stream technology
* Designed for DirectCompute 5.0 and OpenCL
* Accelerated Video Transcoding (AVT)
* Compliant with DirectX 11 and earlier revisions,supports OpenGL 3.1
* ATI CrossFireX multi-GPU support for highly scalable performance
* ATI Avivo HD video and display technology
* Dynamic power management with ATI PowerPlay technology
* 2x DL-DVI, DisplayPort, HDMI
* PCI Express 2.0 interface

Once thing is certain, we look very much forward to this new product release, whatever and how fast it may be, it looks like the shader processor count might be doubled up by the way.