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Boom! Goes my MSI 7970 3gb OC Lightning Edition!

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Well it was running fine until early this afternoon, rebooted after a windows update and the card decided to just die on me. Smelt burning, no lights on the card, no fan spinning, the on board graphics work fine.

RMA it goes!

So given the choice, the retailer doesn't have the same card in stock, should i pay extra and get a equivalent 680 or stick with the 7970 and get another version?
 
Thanks to the mods for moving the thread.

I've been thinking about sticking with the 7970, but even with the 12.11 drivers i experienced a lot of driver restarts and system lock ups.

Over the 2 years i SLI'd GTX 460's overclocked i never experienced this.

So i'm a little disheartened by it.
 
Try the other camp if your not happy DSR it. Personally I went from 7970's to 670's and saw as 100% upgrade no driver issues and just felt smoother even with three cards I have not had to mess with the drivers.

So try it see how it goes :)
 
Go for a 680 and don't look back, great cards and plenty of potential in overclocking.. you never know you might get one that can clock to 1300mhz!
 
Welcome to the club of ****** 7970 Lightnings that randomly just stopped doing anything!!

Just so you know, RMA is pretty painless (ship it to OcUK, they ship it to Holland) but lengthy, my card has now been away two and a half weeks, no updates from MSI though OcUK have been brilliant so far.
 
It's really not looking good for MSI based 7900 cards is it? You've got lightnings that go bang, and 7950 Twin Frozrs that go "whoosh" (overheating and excessively loud).

Get another 7970, you'll get mo' performance anyway (or if you can 2 7950s :p)
 
Did you have it overclocked and overvolted by any chance? I know these cards are meant for the enthusiasts but these are the risks you take when trying to get every drop of performance from your hardwre.
 
This if you get it on offer, or this if you don't.

I think those two cards are pretty much the best cards for the price and performance in that range of 7970's (the MSI because it's on offer, but the HIS when the MSI isn't at that price).

How come you went for the MSI Lightning anyway?

Edit: Probably this for a 680.
 
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'Wes said:
How come you went for the MSI Lightning anyway?
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Basically i've always wondered about MSI, i've always stuck with Asus, Corsair and the "usual" brands.

So with this build i decided to spread my wings a bit. Got a MSI board instead of Asus, Mushkin memory instead of Corsair, ATI MSI GFX after being Nvidia for 8+ years.

No particular reason other then curiosity. :D
 
LateX'Dog said:
Basically i've always wondered about MSI, i've always stuck with Asus, Corsair and the "usual" brands.

So with this build i decided to spread my wings a bit. Got a MSI board instead of Asus, Mushkin memory instead of Corsair, ATI MSI GFX after being Nvidia for 8+ years.

No particular reason other then curiosity. :D
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I meant the Lightning over other GPU's in that 7970 list, but it does seem MSI are dropping the ball lately. I was going to purchase the MSI 660 OC for my new build, but i'm not so sure now, i'll probably go with KFA2 instead.
 
I don't think it's down to overclocking/over volting, something on these cards must be super sensitive when handling is my guess, I've heard of around 10 lightning so far do this, just spontaneously die.

It is worrying, but you do have the 3 year warranty to fall back on.
 
I have known 1 x 7970 ref to just die after couple days no OC, and 2 x 7950 Asus Direct CU II V1's.

Not good hearing that the lightnings have been having problems... I really am beginning to regret purchasing this card.
 
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