Taiwan-based Micro-Star International (MSI) has today let loose its latest overclocked NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280, and its been given the tongue-twisting title of MSI N280GTX OC HydroGen.
The elements of the overly-long name worth noting are OC and HydroGen. Those two tell you all you need to know about this graphics beast - it's heavily overclocked, and water-cooled.
The card, pictured below, features a core clock of 700MHz and MSI claims that to be the world's highest, though, it only matches ZOTAC's GeForce GTX 280 AMP! edition.
In favour of the MSI option, however, is the single-slot "HydroGen micro channel water cooling tank". Taking up far less room than a stock-cooled GeForce GTX 280 makes it ideal for a multi-card SLI setup.
MSI tells us the N280GTX OC HydroGen will run at approximately 40°C when under full load. Sound optimistic to us, but if true, that's some 34°C lower than the overclocked BFG GeForce 280 GTX we tested last month.
There's no word on availability or pricing just yet, but a release date and further details should be forthcoming.
Official press release: MSI introduces the 280GTX HydroGen graphics Card
