MSI GTX 680 Lightning

Space Monkey · 10 Jul 2012 at 23:24

All being well, I'll be ordering this card tomorrow

Nickolp1974 · 10 Jul 2012 at 23:33

Space Monkey said:
All being well, I'll be ordering this card tomorrow

Is this another change??

Space Monkey · 10 Jul 2012 at 23:36

Nickolp1974 said:
Is this another change??

My 7970 Lightning was faulty (I think) so it got returned, but really liked the new Lightning card, so going for this

OptimaLnrg · 11 Jul 2012 at 01:41

Nickolp1974 said:
Some food for thought.
My 7970 lightning has ASIC of 67.5%, max oc of 1207(not great for these, average about 1300 from what i have read) needs 1280mv for this.
Idle temps 32c, bf3 load 61
Heaven 1080 AA x 4, tess normal 2238,

So pretty similar.

Hoping for better under water.

I just need voltage control, and then water to cool the extra heat

Broken Hope said:
Take anything you read about Afterburner 2.3.3 and what voltage you'll be able to use with truck load of salt, the guy writing Afterburner doesn't even have a card yet so has no way of programming voltage adjustment.

http://forums.guru3d.com/showpost.php?p=4355746&postcount=9

http://forums.guru3d.com/showpost.php?p=4357961&postcount=12

http://forums.guru3d.com/showpost.php?p=4360550&postcount=16

Looks like 2.3.3 could be pushed back to August if he doesn't get the card in time.

I've been refreshing that thread every so often, lol. I've got time to wait. Don't wanna be pushing too many volts through them on air while in SLI on a z68, lol.

Space Monkey said:
All being well, I'll be ordering this card tomorrow

It's lovelaay!

Space Monkey · 11 Jul 2012 at 17:37

All ordered, be here tomorrow, yay

Nickolp1974 · 11 Jul 2012 at 22:14

Space Monkey said:
All ordered, be here tomorrow, yay

I wonder if its gonna be a keeper???????

Space Monkey · 11 Jul 2012 at 22:16

Nickolp1974 said:
I wonder if its gonna be a keeper???????

It better be, I've got nowhere to go if this doesn't work out! Fingers crossed eh!

Nickolp1974 · 11 Jul 2012 at 22:22

Space Monkey said:
It better be, I've got nowhere to go if this doesn't work out! Fingers crossed eh!

Not for now but couple of months, we might be hearing about its bigger brother!

Space Monkey · 11 Jul 2012 at 22:23

Nickolp1974 said:
Not for now but couple of months, we might be hearing about its bigger brother!

Don't tempt me, lol

andybird123 · 12 Jul 2012 at 09:21

Nickolp1974 said:
Not for now but couple of months, we might be hearing about its bigger brother!

by couple you mean 8-12 months

Gregster · 12 Jul 2012 at 13:29

I am desperate to see one of these under water and the volts @ 1.3ish. I am curious to know if these were released almost at full potential or with headroom for MUCH higher clocks.

Nickolp1974 · 12 Jul 2012 at 21:53

andybird123 said:
by couple you mean 8-12 months

I did say hearing and not getting, anyways nobody knows.

OptimaLnrg · 12 Jul 2012 at 22:40

gregster said:
I am desperate to see one of these under water and the volts @ 1.3ish. I am curious to know if these were released almost at full potential or with headroom for MUCH higher clocks.

tbh I don't think the clocks will be much higher. My standard volts ocs are lower than a few reference. I'm hoping (probably in vain) that that is because the card is designed with more voltage in mind, LOL.

If I can't get full cover blocks though I'm gonna be a sad puppy.

Gregster · 13 Jul 2012 at 08:58

OptimaLnrg said:
tbh I don't think the clocks will be much higher. My standard volts ocs are lower than a few reference. I'm hoping (probably in vain) that that is because the card is designed with more voltage in mind, LOL.

If I can't get full cover blocks though I'm gonna be a sad puppy.

I know very little about watercooling (to the point of nothing if I am honest). These AquaGraFX GTX 680 Water Blocks seem good to me and the guy who left feedback on here highly rated it....I would imagine with his temps and your card, you could push more on volts (quite a bit more) and memory.

I would love to see you smash up them AMD cards on the heaven thread here

(I am a NVIDIA fan)

psychodil · 13 Jul 2012 at 09:23

Don't think the 7970's will be threatened TBH, the top 7970 is 11% ahead of the top 680 on the benchmark thread, its a big gap to be made up. Would be good to see these cards finally stretch their legs though, I wish afterburner 2.2.3 would hurry up :cool:

Space Monkey · 19 Jul 2012 at 01:32

@ OptimaLnrg,

In Afterburner 2.2.2, do you see your core clock & memory clock shown as the listed specs or do you see +0 & +0, because I swear all the previous cards I've had have shown the current clock level & you slide it to whatever MHZ you want, but now all I see is +1,+2 etc etc....?

Is my card faulty or is yours the same?

OptimaLnrg · 19 Jul 2012 at 01:35

That's the way it is with the 600 series, you're setting a frequency offset.

For example, +65 = it will boost by 65 more mhz

Space Monkey · 19 Jul 2012 at 01:36

OptimaLnrg said:
That's the way it is with the 600 series, you're setting a frequency offset.

For example, +65 = it will boost by 65 more mhz

Ah so its meant to be like this and yours is the same?

OptimaLnrg · 19 Jul 2012 at 01:39

yes mate. afaik it's because of the dynamic nature of gpu boost, you can't set a forced frequency, so you use an offset.

Space Monkey · 19 Jul 2012 at 01:41

OptimaLnrg said:
yes mate. afaik it's because of the dynamic nature of gpu boost, you can't set a forced frequency, so you use an offset.

Excellent, thanks mate, its been a long day and I thought I'd got another dud! Appreciate the quick responses too