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7970 Lightning, worth the premium?

Hmmm someone at OcUK must hate me :p

Order Status: In our warehouse queue
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I genuinely thought orders would be processed in the order they were placed, like a first come first serve kind of thing?
 
masscrazy said:
Ah, so you bought it when? It was only put to 379.99 on Friday if im not mistaken... regardless, it seems that indeed you're better off waiting for rma.




Scratch that, order shipped! :D
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I bought it friday evening, picked it up from the store on the saturday and found out it was faulty on the saturday night time. Phoned up and returned it this monday, it was received today and hopefully I will get a replacement rather soon... I would be pretty ****ed off if I was at the end of the queue for receiving one.
 
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As everyone under the sun is likely to get the card before me, can someone do me a huuuge favour and tell me if that 'reactor core' on the back is big enough to intrude on the slot above?

I ask as my sound card is in the X1 slot above my first x16 slot.
 
pgi947 said:
As everyone under the sun is likely to get the card before me, can someone do me a huuuge favour and tell me if that 'reactor core' on the back is big enough to intrude on the slot above?

I ask as my sound card is in the X1 slot above my first x16 slot.
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sure :)
 
Its a DX, its not that long from what I remember - I'm probably looking for a reason to buy a fancy sound card I don't need :p

I miss having a GPU, the mrs is making me watch something about poo transplants?
 
pgi947 said:
As everyone under the sun is likely to get the card before me, can someone do me a huuuge favour and tell me if that 'reactor core' on the back is big enough to intrude on the slot above?

I ask as my sound card is in the X1 slot above my first x16 slot.
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You can remove the reactor core, it is only really useful when Overclocking to the extreme under LN2. Otherwise it isn't likely to add any benefit under normal circumstances. The casing pinches off and the small PCB is easily pulled away.

I read a comment from MSI over this a few days back I'll try dig it up for you.

"The GPU reactor is meant to be an add-on board that provides additional power to the GPU for extreme overclocking such as LN2. We could have just added it on the regular PCB, but as you may notice, the PCB is already overcrowded with the existing amount of power phases thrown on. So to answer your question: this was the best way to add additional power circuitry to the card, without making the card absurdly large (i.e. keeping it within a 2-slot design). Thus, the decision was made to have it as an add-on PCB for LN2 overclocking, and for regular usage (especially SLI configurations) the user can remove it to prevent the card from taking up 3 slots. I hope this answers your question on that. For regular overclocking on air, the GPU reactor is not needed to achieve maximum OC, but it most certainly does not hurt..." - MSI USA"
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DPD tracking never usually says anything until late night/early morning, presumably once its been through the sorting hub in B'ham.
 
Ahh usually when I check last thing at night (around 10pm) it still says tracking unavailable, but is all there in the morning :)

Saying that most of my orders get shipped out last thing, the few I've had shipped out before dinner have all had tracking available inside a few hours. Suppose it just depends on DPD updating the system - which is not always reliable, I've had orders in my hand before and the tracking has said its still in Birmingham :p
 
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