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What do you know about the GTX 780ti Classified Kingpin edition
Is it just the Classified with his name on it.
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MSI 290X LIGHTNING!
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@8 Pack
What do you know about the GTX 780ti Classified Kingpin edition
Is it just the Classified with his name on it.
Would they be worth getting compared to a normal Classified for use on Air or Water.
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Probably need some liquid helium matt to keep temps in check
Go all the way and use liquid hydrogen, that should be a blast.
For the love of god PLEASE PLEASE tell me you reminded them that single link DVI is a dumb idea!!!!
lol yeah... why did they even do that again?
Thankfully my 1440p screen can use displayport on my 7970 lightening. I had a brief panic when i got the screen as i couldnt use DVI, and the displayport was fullsize with no minidp adapter.
Found a full to minidp adapter in the MSI lightening box though.
I really don't understand why they do it.
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Is this card actually going to go above 375W on its own (75W from mobo, 150Wx2 from the 2x 8 pins), or is there some advantage to be gained from spreading the card's power requirements over the three connectors and the motherboard? I know you benchers are probably very excited by this, but i'm just wondering if they genuinely think the card will pull 375-450W, because the 480 was known to pull silly amounts of power and that didnt need the third connector.
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a quick google tells me they did use 2x8 pins and 1x6 pin on the 480 lightning, but not for normal GTX480s and the power use wasnt much different, with a 320W maximum: http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/MSI/N480GTX_GTX_480_Lightning/1.html
i guess there is some advantage to doing this then
*edit*
a quick google tells me they did use 2x8 pins and 1x6 pin on the 480 lightning, but not for normal GTX480s and the power use wasnt much different, with a 320W maximum: http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/MSI/N480GTX_GTX_480_Lightning/1.html
i guess there is some advantage to doing this then
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Yeah I know, hence me saying above 375W. the 'normal' connectors (motherboard + 2x 8 pin) added up to the 375W, and i was wondering why they were putting another 6 pin on there to allow them to use more power
i hadnt read the article in the OP though because i'd read about it on another site. i didnt realise they talked about the 480 there
Afaik it was to make it an 'eyefinity-6' capable card, 4 x MDP and 2 x DVI SL would allow you to run 6 x 1920x1080@60Hz monitors.
Which to be fair, for a bench edition card, no one needs.
Like 8 pack said
The Samsung memory was in short supply and even some the evga 780 classy were using Elpida memory
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A quick google says the EVGA 480 superclocked+ used 8 + 6, and the 580 classy used 8 + 8 + 6. I guess 8 + 6 + 6 isn't quite as uncommon as i thought.
Possibly you are thinking of the 590 (I havent checked, but it would make sense for a dual GPU card to use 3x8 pins since it has pretty much twice as much stuff to power)
Was maybe the 580 classy I was thinking of then if its 8+8+6
I don't think the elpida situation was helped by the hynix fires either, woth shortages on both elpida became the only real solution, that or no cards I would imagine.
I don't think the elpida situation was helped by the hynix fires either, woth shortages on both elpida became the only real solution, that or no cards I would imagine.