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Does this performance seem correct for my new MSI 7970 lightning?

pgi947 said:
Poor clocking Lightnings or just people that don't know what they are doing with them? Granted on air they aren't going to be smashing any records, but then again for overclocking, these cards aren't aimed at air cooling. From what I've seen the average core speed on a watercooled Lightning is 1320 - 1360mhz, at that point you hit a voltage barrier, I have seen the odd one drop out under 1250mhz, but those were on air.

I'm not saying your wrong, or what you have read is wrong but from what I have seen you are, on average, more likely to get a good overclock from a Lightning 7970, only time will really tell if the BE is merely a vBIOS update or not, I'm not at all convinced by the claims these 'GHZ' cards have better yields or whatever to give clock headroom.

I couldn't agree more about the DVI ports however, if it truly is a 'revised' card then surely MSI would have sorted something out in that area.

1350/1950 for now, any more on the memory I get memory correction kicking in, as soon as I find what dark dirty method I need to raise the voltage I will be aiming for 1400/1950 @1.4v for some bench runs.
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Hmm, perhaps. It just seems strange the Lightning 680s can hit over 1300s a lot (on air from what I hear). Yeah, different architecture, I know, but the AMD's are supposed to be pretty good for OCing.
 
Tephnos said:
Source?

I hear different.
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If they were different do you not think AMD would be shouting from the rooftops about it?

All software picks up the actual GPU being the same.

I hear on the internet that the Monster Raving Looney Party might win the election. Doesn't make it true. :p

Tephnos said:
Hmm, perhaps. It just seems strange the Lightning 680s can hit over 1300s a lot (on air from what I hear). Yeah, different architecture, I know, but the AMD's are supposed to be pretty good for OCing.
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My 680's hit 1310 each if I really want to push it and one's a reference and the other is a Windforce. Silicon lottery and all that.
 
I'd still like a source anyway :p

Yeah, the 680s hit thathigh pretty well. The Lightnings never really did, apart from one or two lucky people. :/
 
Tephnos said:
I'd still like a source anyway :p

Yeah, the 680s hit thathigh pretty well. The Lightnings never really did, apart from one or two lucky people. :/
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There was a massive discussion on here when they were released. Can't remember any key words to search for it though.

They are the same GPU. I don't need to prove it - it's just how it is. I don't really mind if you don't believe me without a source :).
 
castingflame said:
This is the card I bought from OCsUK last week. https://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=gx-152-ms

i am confused. is this not the latest card then?


if i change the anti-aliasing from "extreme" to "high" then i get the full 60fps.
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msi will be releasing a new radeon hd 7970 lightning boost edition graphics card soon.

http://www.msi.com/product/vga/r7970-lightning-be.html

Reported that the new card will use the new improved Tahiti XT2 GPU that AMD is using now for the new 1Ghz cards

http://www.guru3d.com/news_story/msi_radeon_hd_7970_lightning_boost_edition_graphics_card.html

More details on the spec of the 1Ghz cards

http://videocardz.com/ati/radeon-7000/radeon-7970-ghz
 
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LtMatt said:
To play Sleeping Dogs on Extreme you need a single 7970 overclocked to 1200 on the core. This will net you extremely smooth fps.





In the benchmark you can see my minimum fps is 37, well in game it will never drop below 40-45 and that's worst case scenario.

Your scores do seem low though, so id advise you to use the same driver and caps file as me.

12.9 Beta Driver + 12.9 caps, both of which can be downloaded at the following link.

http://www2.ati.com/drivers/beta/amd_catalyst_12.9_beta_dotnet4.exe

http://www2.ati.com/drivers/hotfix/catalyst_application_profiles/amd_catalyst_12.9_cap1.exe
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Thanks for your advice and taking the time.


I am thinking about getting the V8 water kit but would need a VGA block.
Is there a full cover water block available for this card? What would be the best recommendation to water cool this or is it even worth it?
 
Simon D said:
MSI will be releasing a new Radeon HD 7970 Lightning Boost Edition Graphics Card soon.

http://www.guru3d.com/news_story/msi_radeon_hd_7970_lightning_boost_edition_graphics_card.html
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Delish!

First user to post the bios here wins an all expenses paid dinner date with tommy.

I've been trying loads of different bios recently on my 7970. Gotta love a dual bios switch.

So far ive tried the default msi bios 925/1375, made no difference to my clock speeds.

Tried the reference Ghz edition bios. The normal method didn't work so i had to force flash it in dos.

It worked and my card was running at 1000?/1500. Vcore lowered to 1093, however i couldnt overclock my core or memory as much as with my stock bios.

Next i tried the msi lighting bios, that didn't work at all.

In the end im back on both of my stock bios though. I hope to do some more bios swinging soon though. :p
 
It will and it helps in extreme a scenarios.

Wouldn't think a lightning bios would work on a ref card given all the extra vrms etc...should think the be bios will work on the 'old' lightning however. I hope MSI have stopped being so tight with voltage on the be bios however.
 
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