Just wanted to let you know my experience with this particular card.
Got it delivered today to replace my 680 SLI set up. My reasoning to replacing such great cards was there was just too much power for what i needed. They didn't scale too well and best part of the time the gpu load wasn't exceeding 70%, occasionally ramped up to 80%.
I'm in the process of selling the two cards which will give me what i payed for the MSI 7970 and a lot of pennies to put away for a rainy day!
I always wanted to overclock but found my cards where poor overclockers, which was quite unlucky because they where both as poor as each other.
So i decided to try the red team for a change and heard great things about the MSI 7970 Lightning. I bought this card for £350, which i thought was fantastic, especially with the free game bundle! Which i might say, sleeping dogs is prity fun!
I've done a little bit of overclocking and got the core to 1250mhz and the memory to 1600mhz, which is a good starting point for me.
After battling the 120hz problem that comes with these cards the performance is fantastic!
There isn't a whole difference between the two cards, the temps are almost identical, although i find the ATI slightly hotter on load, only by a few degrees.
I find crysis 2 and battlefield 3 to give a few more frames, but im guessing this is down to the new drivers, which im sure Nvidia will combat.
Anyways ive digressed a lot just want to let you know my experience with this card, its great! Oh and the blue LED's all over it are awesome
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Got it delivered today to replace my 680 SLI set up. My reasoning to replacing such great cards was there was just too much power for what i needed. They didn't scale too well and best part of the time the gpu load wasn't exceeding 70%, occasionally ramped up to 80%.
I'm in the process of selling the two cards which will give me what i payed for the MSI 7970 and a lot of pennies to put away for a rainy day!
I always wanted to overclock but found my cards where poor overclockers, which was quite unlucky because they where both as poor as each other.
So i decided to try the red team for a change and heard great things about the MSI 7970 Lightning. I bought this card for £350, which i thought was fantastic, especially with the free game bundle! Which i might say, sleeping dogs is prity fun!
I've done a little bit of overclocking and got the core to 1250mhz and the memory to 1600mhz, which is a good starting point for me.
After battling the 120hz problem that comes with these cards the performance is fantastic!
There isn't a whole difference between the two cards, the temps are almost identical, although i find the ATI slightly hotter on load, only by a few degrees.
I find crysis 2 and battlefield 3 to give a few more frames, but im guessing this is down to the new drivers, which im sure Nvidia will combat.
Anyways ive digressed a lot just want to let you know my experience with this card, its great! Oh and the blue LED's all over it are awesome
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