It arrived this morning and all installed! Packaging is AWESOME. Quaility & build is pretty slick as well.





Did a quick bench and im not sure if this is good or not?

1150/1600 +100mv 50%PL

http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/5617915

Now, about going crossfire.. I might have a problem...



It will fit but its gonna sit right against the top card :/ Temps might suffer for the top card if i go that route. Anyway gonna run some games on my resolution see if my needs warrant it first then i'll decide

The only problem I have at the moment is the Lightning logo LED is flashing like a disco light at all 3 different colours, anyone with this problem with a fix?
Also, if i restart or turn my monitor off or on I get no video output? I can only fix this if i physically press the reset button, is this software/driver related? didnt happen on my old nvidia card :S

Divine Pain said:

It arrived this morning and all installed! Packaging is AWESOME. Quaility & build is pretty slick as well.

Spoiler

Did a quick bench and im not sure if this is good or not?

1150/1600 +100mv 50%PL

http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/5617915

Now, about going crossfire.. I might have a problem...

It will fit but its gonna sit right against the top card :/ Temps might suffer for the top card if i go that route. Anyway gonna run some games on my resolution see if my needs warrant it first then i'll decide

The only problem I have at the moment is the Lightning logo LED is flashing like a disco light at all 3 different colours, anyone with this problem with a fix?
Also, if i restart or turn my monitor off or on I get no video output? I can only fix this if i physically press the reset button, is this software/driver related? didnt happen on my old nvidia card :S

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Nice card and on the "Roll of Honour"

Very nice.

You can compare your score with the Firststrike bench thread
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18485414

Divine Pain said:

It arrived this morning and all installed! Packaging is AWESOME. Quaility & build is pretty slick as well.

Spoiler

Did a quick bench and im not sure if this is good or not?

1150/1600 +100mv 50%PL

http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/5617915

Now, about going crossfire.. I might have a problem...

Spoiler

It will fit but its gonna sit right against the top card :/ Temps might suffer for the top card if i go that route. Anyway gonna run some games on my resolution see if my needs warrant it first then i'll decide

The only problem I have at the moment is the Lightning logo LED is flashing like a disco light at all 3 different colours, anyone with this problem with a fix?
Also, if i restart or turn my monitor off or on I get no video output? I can only fix this if i physically press the reset button, is this software/driver related? didnt happen on my old nvidia card :S

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The score is about as average as it can get

Divine Pain said:

The only problem I have at the moment is the Lightning logo LED is flashing like a disco light at all 3 different colours, anyone with this problem with a fix?

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If the Lightning logo is flashing it is probably because you don't have the extra 6 pin PCI-e connector hooked up. Mine does the same if I don't have all 3 connectors plugged in.

Should add it makes no difference unless you want to push the overclock further

I know it goes red if i have all 3pci power connected, didnt know it would flicker like a 90s disco light everytime i move my mouse. Ill probably end up connecting that 3rd pcie cable if theres no way round it. Annoying as hell. Thanks for that info tho.

Gaming wise im hitting close to 60 if i tune down some settings on da:i. Rome even on high is still 30-40 fps mark. Considering a2nd lightning but worried about temps. Does anyone know if theres any difference if i move it to the bottom pcie lane in the z87 sabertooth board? I think its pcie2 4x or something like that

Divine Pain said:

I know it goes red if i have all 3pci power connected, didnt know it would flicker like a 90s disco light everytime i move my mouse. Ill probably end up connecting that 3rd pcie cable if theres no way round it. Annoying as hell. Thanks for that info tho.

Gaming wise im hitting close to 60 if i tune down some settings on da:i. Rome even on high is still 30-40 fps mark. Considering a2nd lightning but worried about temps. Does anyone know if theres any difference if i move it to the bottom pcie lane in the z87 sabertooth board? I think its pcie2 4x or something like that

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I have my 2nd one coming tomorrow, and i wanted to know the same question about using the 2nd in the pcie 4x slow, and how much performance it would lose. would it work out 8x 4x?

I tried a second one in the same slot you are looking at. The temps ramped up fast! Couldn't live with the noise of the fans on the top card so have ordered water blocks and going to try full water Cooling.

Top card was hitting about 75-80 very quickly. I've got a corsair 450d case

AMDMatt said:

Yep, your fault too.

Will definitely keep these this time, i really regret sending both back last time when i should have at least kept one. This time I'll house them elsewhere or keep them as spares if they don't clock well. To be fair my three other reference 290X cards are poor clockers, so these must be better than that.

This will take me up to 11 290X/P cards now.

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Cards arrived?

Geeman1979 said:

Cards arrived?

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Yep, all working ok too. Lovely cards!

Sadly neither appears to be much faster than my best reference 290X despite both clocking higher with voltage, however I've not had a whole lot of time to experiment with them. I guess this just reinforces how solid a reference 290X pcb/card is.

I've put one in my girlfriends all amd machine and it's sitting happily at +150mv 1200/1500 on auto fan with temps below 80c.

The other one will live under my desk with my 4x290X 4GB reference cards and will come out for the odd torture test/benchmark.

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Pics

For 24/7 clocks that's plenty. What's the max you can push the memory to without problems?

AMDMatt said:

Yep, all working ok too. Lovely cards!

Sadly neither appears to be much faster than my best reference 290X despite both clocking higher with voltage, however I've not had a whole lot of time to experiment with them. I guess this just reinforces how solid a reference 290X pcb/card is.

I've put one in my girlfriends all amd machine and it's sitting happily at +150mv 1200/1500 on auto fan with temps below 80c.

The other one will live under my desk with my 4x290X 4GB reference cards and will come out for the odd torture test/benchmark.

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Pics

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How many bloody cards do you have now? You must have went through at least 15 plus by this point.

Geeman1979 said:

For 24/7 clocks that's plenty. What's the max you can push the memory to without problems?

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Not entirely sure yet, but it seems to be around 1600-1650. At 1200/1500 (+125mv core +25mv mem) both the lightnings were scoring 100 points less graphics score in Firestrike than my 290X Hynix reference card at +125v.

I did get both cards up to 1300 core though, one of them with very few artifacts but scores were not as high as they should have been. For example i was 8 fps off my best Thief benchmark score with my ref 290X.

EDIT

Which bios did you use and did you use the extra 6 pin? I used LN2 and the 6 pin for testing.

Persevere with them, they don't sound like bad cards you've got there.

Geeman1979 said:

Persevere with them, they don't sound like bad cards you've got there.

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^ Check my edit please.

Yeah will do, i will have to tweak a bit i think to get the best from them.

AMDMatt said:

^ Check my edit please.

Yeah will do, i will have to tweak a bit i think to get the best from them.

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The LN2 Bios. I run the card with both 8pin & 6pin powered for every day usage. Can't be doing with the Led's flashing with just the 2, 8pins connected.

Geeman1979 said:

The LN2 Bios. I run the card with both 8pin & 6pin powered for every day usage. Can't be doing with the Led's flashing with just the 2, 8pins connected.

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Agreed.

AMDMatt said:

Yep, all working ok too. Lovely cards!

Sadly neither appears to be much faster than my best reference 290X despite both clocking higher with voltage, however I've not had a whole lot of time to experiment with them. I guess this just reinforces how solid a reference 290X pcb/card is.

I've put one in my girlfriends all amd machine and it's sitting happily at +150mv 1200/1500 on auto fan with temps below 80c.

The other one will live under my desk with my 4x290X 4GB reference cards and will come out for the odd torture test/benchmark.

EDIT

Pics

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Nice.

What's the rest of you're spec mat?

up2nogooduk said:

Nice.

What's the rest of you're spec mat?

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5960X
16GB DDR4 3200Mhz
4x290X 8GB

FX8370E
8GB DDR3 2400Mhz
1x290X MSI Lightning

FX7600P
8GB DDR3 1600Mhz

I have a few spare gpu's/cpu's/apu's/motherboards/power supplies laying about too. (I'm nowhere near Kaaps level of hardware collecting though i must add)

lol at Matt buying Lightining's again.

Matt just send me your spare Lightining.