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** MSI TOP PLAYER TOP CHOICE: BIG AMD PRICE DROP!! **

yea these lightnings really get to me, is a 1000W PSU enough for Crossfire ????... my 970 is brilliant but dead boring, but the MSI Lightning is 100% pure muscle, looks dead cool......... it's easily AMDs best card

even the old 7970 Lightning still looks brilliant,
 
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Mal X said:
yea these lightnings really get to me, is 1000W PSU enough for Crossfire ????... my 970 is brilliant, but the MSI Lightning in Crossfire is 100% cool.

even the old 7970 Lightning still looks brilliant, easily AMDs best card
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I've still got my 7970 Ltg, couldn't sell her, lovely looking card.
 
~Mike~ said:
I've still got my 7970 Ltg, couldn't sell her, lovely looking card.
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680 lightning was also gorgeous. 780 lightning lacked the chiselled look, reminded me more of a vogon ship than lightning.

Sold it anyway as 2nd hand nvidia always goes for a good price.
 
philo-sofa said:
For those thinking over the gosh-darnedly palletable choices we're being presented with Anandtech's benches are pretty tight:

R9 290X 'Uber' Mode vs GTX 970: http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/1059?vs=1355
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While they keep the same hardware rig for a year (2013, 2014 etc.) they don't go back and review cards with new drivers (so everything is generally on launch drivers), nor did they AFAIK review any aftermarket cooler Hawaii card. So this means their bench tool is pretty useless in most cases. For the 7970 it was even worse as Tahiti launch drivers were rather poor being a completely new architecture and all.
 
KompuKare said:
While they keep the same hardware rig for a year (2013, 2014 etc.) they don't go back and review cards with new drivers (so everything is generally on launch drivers), nor did they AFAIK review any aftermarket cooler Hawaii card. So this means their bench tool is pretty useless in most cases. For the 7970 it was even worse as Tahiti launch drivers were rather poor being a completely new architecture and all.
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the lightning has the advantage in older games, but in the rest it's about the same, the 970 has the advantage in size, heat, noise and power consumption, which we knew anyway, unfortunately it's a no brainer

but, the Lightning looks flipping miles better than any 970..... to be honest this card shouldn't be for sale on this website, because it's too tempting at that price
 
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Mal X said:
power draw please for Crossfire, i wont touch this card till i know
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A quality 1000W psu (think Superflower Plat) will be enough for two lightnings. You'd need silly core o'clock to need a stronger psu. You'll be fine.
 
Power draw at stock or overclocked? Because on the lightnings it can be massively higher with 2 overclocked to the limits.
 
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