REVIEW: GTX960 Gaming 100ME the Green Dragon

[tErOn]

Managed to lay my hands on the limited edition MSI GTX960 Gaming 100ME (aka the green dragon)

pls note, this card doesnt come with the green dragon. It climbed out of my toy storage box to meet its own kind. Look how happy it seems to be!

The 100ME stands for the 100 million Edition. MSI released this limited card to celebrate their 100th million gpu.

If you are a fan of green, or if you have a green themed PC, you will not want to miss out on this card.

Lets go through the unboxing:

its huge, its dark, its green!

I like this motto #evillaughter

The specifications of this card are as follows:
Graphics Processing Unit: NVIDIA Geforce GTX 960

Interface: PCI Express x16 3.0
Boost / Base Core Clock:
1304 MHz / 1241 MHz (OC Mode)
1253 MHz / 1190 MHz (Gaming Mode)
1178 MHz / 1127 MHz (Silent Mode)
Memory Size (MB): 2048
Memory Type: GDDR5
Memory Interface: 128 bits
Memory Clock Speed (MHz): 7010
DVI Connectors:1 (Dual-link DVI-I), Max Resolution: 2560 x 1600 @60 Hz.
HDMI Connectors: 1 (version 1.4a/2.0)
Max Resolution: 4096x2160 @24 Hz (1.4a), 3840x2160 @60 Hz (2.0)
DisplayPort: 3 (version 1.2)
Max Resolution: 4096x2160 @60 Hz
Maximum Displays: 4

Note: 1 DVI, 1 HDMI, 3 x Display ports

HDCP Support: Y
RAMDAC speed (MHz): 400
DirectX Version Support: 12
OpenGL Version Support: 4.4
Multi-GPU Technology: SLI, 2-way

2 cards can work together for you. Be sure to use a beefier PSU if you are intenting to do that.

More on the next post:

 

[tErOn]

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Card Dimension(mm):267 x 139 x 48

On display here, the TORX fans which work independantly of one another, along with their Zero Frozr technology.

Card Weight (g): 860
Power consumption (W): 145
Recommended PSU (W): 400
Power Connectors: 1x 8-pin

Checkout the thick SuperSU heatpipes

Accessories: 1x 8-pin Power Cable, 1x DVI to VGA Dongle

Along with the CD, MSI Product series Brochure and MSI Gaming Series Brochure.

Special Features:
GPU Backplate

Farcry 4 mousepad

Green Dragon Themed design, all green LED and connector dust plugs are all green.

This is a side by comparison with my MSI GTX780ti.

More on the next post:

 

[tErOn]

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There are 4 modes for the LED styles. Breathing, Flashing, Double Flashing and Random (I use random so that i can see all the different modes)

Windows experience Index. Full score for GPU DUHzzz

Some Kombustor Benchmarks the rest of the scores are here:
Tessellation 8144points (135 FPS)
Lakes of Titan v1 x16 7565points (126 FPS)
Lakes of Titan v2 x32 7565points (126 FPS)
Lakes of Titan v1 x64 7565points (126 FPS)
OpenCL Julia4D (GPU-2048x1024) 3632points (60 FPS)
Plasma (1M-particle) 10733points (178 FPS)
GPU core burner v2 (Furry PQTorus) 1432points (23 FPS)
GPU core burner v2 (Furry Donut) 2254points (37 FPS)
GPU core burner (Furry MSI) 2892points (48 FPS)
GPU core burner (Furry Donut) 4349points (72 FPS)
GPU memory burner (1024MB) 3683points (61 FPS)
GPU memory burner (2048MB) 3679points (61 FPS)
HDR+Shadow+DoF v1 3081points (51 FPS)
PhysX 3 Fluids (GPU) 2247points (37 FPS)
PhysX 3 Fluids (CPU) 1808points (30 FPS)
Tessellation burner 20712points (345 FPS)


Some of you may be already be wondering about the difference between this card and the usual offering, the MSI GTX960 Gaming 2G.

Here are the main differences:
The GTX 960 Gaming 100ME:
costs $10 more at the SRP of 379.
sports a GPU backplate that -
brings the total weight of this card to 860grams vs 812 grams of the MSI GTX960 Gaming 2G
gives the card a total thickness of 48mm vs 36mm of the MSI GTX960 Gaming 2G
Comes with free bundled Farcry4 mouse pad

My thoughts on this card:
Unless you absolutely positively must avoid getting a green card, its definitely worth the $10 difference over the MSI GTX960 Gaming 2G, considering the added backplate which gives support and prevents this card from bending and helps with heat dissipation, and not to mention the Farcry 4 mousepad you are getting.
MSI cards has always come with plenty of OCing headroom for you to play around with.
The MSI Gaming App provides an easy to use and configurable platform for you play around with.

However, being a visual person (thats why we get better GPU dun we.) I would love it if MSI allowed us to change the color of the LED as well.

 

[tErOn]

Reserved for updates

 

[ov2rey]

Cannot see image...

 

[tErOn]

Cannot see image...

very fast!!

Fixed the images..lemme know if there are still viewing problems

 

[royfrosty]

Ups for you. =)

 

[OmegaSupreme]

Nice green.

 

[clon22]

You guys are fast!
Nice one too.
Will update on the contest and FB page shortly.

 

[clon22]

Bumps for competition views.

 

[Fatfool]

Why'd you get the GTX 960 when you already possess a GTX 780?

 

[clon22]

Coz they taking part in this :
http://forums.hardwarezone.com.sg/h...duct-review-challenge-prizes-won-5031890.html
Their entries will only be up online next week.

 

[Fatfool]

Coz they taking part in this :
http://forums.hardwarezone.com.sg/h...duct-review-challenge-prizes-won-5031890.html
Their entries will only be up online next week.

OH I see, they are on loan.

 

[clon22]

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[clon22]

TGIF!
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[clon22]

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