MSI GTX780 Lightning due 07/08/13

oweneades · 10 Jul 2013 at 08:01

pgi947 said:
....Just don't tell her....that will be my plan anyhow.

"Oh these, just replacements, last ones broke blah blah blah"

My wife is a gamer and knows exactly what is in my PC (not sure if that is a good thing or a bad thing.... :confused:

)

No telling her won't work

pgi947 · 10 Jul 2013 at 10:12

Buy one for her then gradually steal it

oweneades · 10 Jul 2013 at 10:16

pgi947 said:
Buy one for her then gradually steal it

Not that is an idea!

Now to convince her that she needs a GTX780.... Could be tricky.

"Sorry hun, your system is only managing 60FPS in Dead Island on that 60Hz monitor, you clearly need a overclocked GTX780 to maintain over 200FPS. You will notice the difference, honest!"

imginy · 10 Jul 2013 at 10:51

I would love one of theses I just need to see how much spare cash I have and how good the 9970 is compared.

pgi947 · 22 Jul 2013 at 07:47

The ocn thread on this card makes some good reading...

Card will come stock with the usual +38mv control, though tools and work arounds are highly expected to give unlimited volts.

Chips are binned for cold perf.

8 Pack has seen one at computex.

First mass production line is currently being tested ready for launch.

Rumoured retail price of £645.99.

Excited

RetrogamerX · 22 Jul 2013 at 08:04

pgi947 said:
The ocn thread on this card makes some good reading...

Card will come stock with the usual +38mv control, though tools and work arounds are highly expected to give unlimited volts.

Chips are binned for cold perf.

8 Pack has seen one at computex.

First mass production line is currently being tested ready for launch.

Rumoured retail price of £645.99.

Excited

They should've waited for the 800 series to release a newer lightning.

pgi947 · 22 Jul 2013 at 09:04

They release them for the top line every gen, 770 only got a lightning as the r&d was already done and pcb's ready from the 680.

It also should be faster then a titan

Kingpin managed 1400mhz, on air, with a 780 classified at 1.35v, similar results are expected of the lightning. Once under water without temp targets to worry about and soft mod voltage to say 1.45-1.5v, should be benching in the region of 1500mhz!!

whyscotty · 22 Jul 2013 at 09:06

@ Pgi

I take it your decision is made?

pgi947 · 22 Jul 2013 at 10:01

Yes

Well, providing the rumored pricing isn't totally out and the thing costs a grand

RetrogamerX · 22 Jul 2013 at 10:45

I'll wait for 800 series to upgrade again. I won't upgrade again until I upgrade my cpu. I see no point to it tbh

illuz · 22 Jul 2013 at 11:25

I thought you and Boomstick would be first to upgrade the GPUs

pgi947 · 22 Jul 2013 at 11:33

RetrogamerX said:
I'll wait for 800 series to upgrade again. I won't upgrade again until I upgrade my cpu. I see no point to it tbh

Upgrade to a 4930k then

RetrogamerX · 22 Jul 2013 at 12:02

pgi947 said:
Upgrade to a 4930k then

I will, but not until next year at the earliest.

pgi947 · 24 Jul 2013 at 07:47

Confirmed that msi are in touch with ek about blocks, which probably means ek have all the pcb vitals to get measured up

Hopefully won't have a 5 month wait between card release and block release this time :rolleyes:

Tonester0011 · 24 Jul 2013 at 17:53

Cannot wait

Not had a GPU upgrade since Jan 2012!

RetrogamerX · 24 Jul 2013 at 18:18

Tonester0011 said:
Not had a GPU upgrade since Jan 2012!

Thats around the time you joined the forums

whyscotty · 24 Jul 2013 at 18:25

Tonester0011 said:
Cannot wait
Not had a GPU upgrade since Jan 2012!

No, but you have had a few 7970's

pgi947 · 24 Jul 2013 at 18:34

I'm in the same boat tbh, had 6 or 7 7970's and a 670 starting from early last year.

whyscotty · 24 Jul 2013 at 18:37

R we still looking at first week in August for release?

RetrogamerX · 24 Jul 2013 at 18:37

The upgrade bug is getting too expensive for me. I'll stick with my 770 lightnings for some time to come. Or unless I get one of the new next gen consoles then I'll put up one of them for sale?