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MSI GTX780TI Lightning!

Haha, what a **** tease!!

Goes on about how tasty the card is then the last line tells us it'll never be sold!

Wouldn't mind seeing how the 290x Lightning turns out as well.
 
pgi947 said:
Only 12 getting made!!! If anything, this tells us new nvidia cards are around the corner.
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Nope.
NVIDIA won't allow them to make it.

As MSI put so much hard work in, they are sending what they have to the worlds top overclockers in a hope it will put MSI at the top of the leaderboards.

A real shame as I was looking at the ones which arrived at OcUK for 8 Pack, its an absolute master piece.

Nothing new from NVIDIA to replace 780ti for a while, the first Maxwell's in March/April will be 750Ti, mid-range stuff, high-end is probably much later this year.
 
Why won't nvidia allow it? They've allowed the classy and kpe classy? Both have big out of the box volts and power targets...
 
Gibbo said:
Nope.
NVIDIA won't allow them to make it.

As MSI put so much hard work in, they are sending what they have to the worlds top overclockers in a hope it will put MSI at the top of the leaderboards.

A real shame as I was looking at the ones which arrived at OcUK for 8 Pack, its an absolute master piece.

Nothing new from NVIDIA to replace 780ti for a while, the first Maxwell's in March/April will be 750Ti, mid-range stuff, high-end is probably much later this year.
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What about the GTX 790/Titan BE Gibbo?
 
EVGA only does nvidia and took long enough to wrangle a bios that nvidia agreed to i'd say anyone else is out of luck making a similar gpu
 
pgi947 said:
Why won't nvidia allow it? They've allowed the classy and kpe classy? Both have big out of the box volts and power targets...
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Vince has a workaround on his card and god only knows how its been allowed. Classy does not at all and no it does not have big power targets.

Pigi NVIDIA do not support overclocking or overclockers!! Titan is awful without external VRM you put 1.35 in most instances its bang and boom!!! AMD stock VRM 1.55 no problem!! This tells you what Nvidia is about low return rates and low power states!!
 
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It's no secret NV are some what water tight in the lower area with voltage regs but to not grant MSI the option of releasing a Lightening is a bit of a shocker. But EVGA got the go ahead for the usual uprated voltage controllers, 1.4v etc? (Even though evebot supplies have been low for a suspicious amount of time).

I'd be tempted by three 290X Lightnings, though. On water...mmmmhmm. Powah.
 
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MjFrosty said:
It's no secret NV are some what water tight in the lower area with voltage regs but to not grant MSI the option of releasing a Lightening is a bit of a shocker. But EVGA got the go ahead for the usual uprated voltage controllers, 1.4v etc? (Even though evebot supplies have been low for a suspicious amount of time).

I'd be tempted by three 290X Lightnings, though. On water...mmmmhmm. Powah.
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NV made EVGA discontinue EVbot.
 
MjFrosty said:
It's no secret NV are some what water tight in the lower area with voltage regs but to not grant MSI the option of releasing a Lightening is a bit of a shocker. But EVGA got the go ahead for the usual uprated voltage controllers, 1.4v etc? (Even though evebot supplies have been low for a suspicious amount of time).

I'd be tempted by three 290X Lightnings, though. On water...mmmmhmm. Powah.
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The 'Green light program' can do one!
 
Nvidia started this on the 680, even forced EVGA to remove EV-Bot. So i'm a little surprised Nvidia are letting EVGA run 1.4v

Allowing high volts on GPU's inevitably results in higher returns, just because a GPU has 1.4v volts or whatever available does not mean it can handle it.
There are idiots out there with no electronic sympathy who unbox their new GPU, stick it in the case and the first thing they do is load up MSI AB, move all the sliders all the way to the right and then fire up Furmark, 10 minutes in after paying no attention to artifacting, flickering and horrendous coil whine something on the PCB or the GPU its self goes *Pop* and thats the end of its short life.

If you can't move the sliders far enough to the right to kill it, Nvidia save money and look better in the RMA rankings.

Its perfectly understandable why they do it, but it does take something away from the GPU if your an experienced enthusiast wanting to play.
 
Nvidia don't support overclocking community but are happy to take credit for world records set using cards bearing their name. Shame shame shame!
 
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