MSI GTX 770 Lightning in the Wild

I was wandering thru the Guanhua Digital Plaza looking at all of the Asus Z87 motherboards for sale (slightly before the NDA lift) and noticed that several of the shops had GTX 770 Lightning edition cards on display.

It is really no surprise that this card would be on the market so soon after the launch given that it is identical to the GTX 680.  The only real change is a faster memory path and new memory chips.  Cost for this card is $550 USD making it $150 bux more than the base model, my only phjear is that MSI flashed the bios on the GTX 680 and resold it as the faster card.

On a related note there was a single R7970 Lightning for sale too making it one of the rarest cards in existence that you can still buy in Taiwan.