"MSI has sucessfully taken the already great NVIDIA GTX 680 reference design and improved on it to give it that unique Lightning touch. Thanks to a large overclock out of the box the card is one of the fastest GTX 680 cards currently available. Its 100 MHz base clock increase can result in a 5% performance boost when compared to the NVIDIA reference design. Manual overclocking works great, too, and is paired with MSI's excellent Afterburner overclocking software. On our card, we saw the highest GTX 680 GPU clock of all our reviews, reaching 1225 MHz, which is much higher than other GTX 680s we tested so far, which usually reached in the 1150 MHz range. Memory overclocking does not work so well on the other hand, not being able to break 1800 MHz, which most other cards can do just fine."
