MSI releases a 'Military Class' GTX 260.

Posted By: Steve McBarnes - 12:58:00 Tue, April 21, 2009

You heard that right. This GTX 260 is of such high quality that the men and women of the US Military can rely on it. MSI has a press release and a mini site up for the NGTX260 Lighting, but here's a list of the features that are really worth mentioning.

Contact points on the PCB that allow you to check GPU and memory voltage with a voltmeter.
The Black Edition comes with a touch sensitive "AirForce Panel" that fits in a drive bay.
The card has 1,792MB of GDDR3. This Palit is the only other GTX 260 with that much RAM.
The Military Class solid capacitors should last 2.5 times as long as regular solid capicitors.
The Military Class HI-C Caps should operate at a 20% higher temp than regular HI-C Caps.
The card has a 10 phase PWM that should deliver 60% higher power output.
The card uses the Twin Frozr cooler found on some of MSI's GTX 275s.
The Black Edition comes in a special weapon style packaging. For those of us that love cool boxes I guess...

8 Comments

Tuesday, April 21, 2009 2:23:52 PM

anonymousD
n00b

speechless lol

Tuesday, April 21, 2009 3:25:10 PM

Casecutter
Member

Jen-Hsun Huang is suppling the military, and my taxes will be going to off shore companies?
Hey wait a minute isn't a lot this the same upgrade ATI add to all 4890 Boards?
Contact patchs I just hope you can't slip and short it all out?
And why a VGA port not two DVI-D and a adapter? They are giving a you a DVI-D -VGA adapter like high end gamers are still on 19" tube monitor...
MARKETING BS.

Tuesday, April 21, 2009 9:56:50 PM

WhistleHeat
n00b

Wow. That's an interesting card. I like the look but I think the RAM is overkill. Plus, I agree with Casecutter on the VGA comments. Two DVI-Ds is the future, no wait, the present.

Wednesday, April 22, 2009 1:26:32 AM

MrWizard6600
Member

MSI 54GTX260 instead of MSI 74LSGTX260.

Wednesday, April 22, 2009 4:06:50 AM

PingoPongo
n00b

I got the info about it already yesterday, but anyway its a kickass card. I mean like a touch panel for OC... Damn how id love to get my hands on this card. It should also perfrom better @ 1680x105 and higher as it has more VRAM. And the multimeter measuring points are uber-nice. The cooler should also be sufficient enough imo.

Wednesday, April 22, 2009 11:04:05 PM

senorbolsa
Member

I have a 20in tube and I love it! ;) however the sub-d analog on the card is retarded since the design supports dvi to analog sub-d.

Friday, April 24, 2009 11:20:14 AM

Radiator
Senior Member

Lol . That was my first reaction to it .
Military class ? So they can put these in M4 machineguns . I'd like to see that... really would O.O .

Sunday, April 26, 2009 6:16:03 AM

PingoPongo
n00b

They use these cards in their main rigs :P
In the ones they practise COD4 and Crysis on...

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