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MSI GTX780 Lightning due 07/08/13

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Elpida memory shown in the picture :confused:

Personally I'm surprised MSI put so much effort into the card and drop in an engine with only 7 spark plugs :D

Your not telling me Nvidia could not be persuaded to sell MSI some warranty exempt TITAN cores, especially with AMD making noises with their soon to be released range.
 
^it's Singapore dollars retro, $1spd = 50p roughly.

Titan is nvidias baby much as the 690 is/was, they want it kept 'as is' by all partners, its a shame for the consumer, but let's face it, a stock lightning is likely to match/beat a stock titan, unless you need the 6gb memory, it's a no brainer to buy the lightning for ~£200 less.

The new stumbling block is the news amd are certain to release their high end hd9000 cards in around 6 weeks time.

I don't think elpida is going to be much of a problem, msi will have their reasons for picking it over hynix/Samsung.
 
pgi947 said:
^it's Singapore dollars retro, $1spd = 50p roughly.

Titan is nvidias baby much as the 690 is/was, they want it kept 'as is' by all partners, its a shame for the consumer, but let's face it, a stock lightning is likely to match/beat a stock titan, unless you need the 6gb memory, it's a no brainer to buy the lightning for ~£200 less.

The new stumbling block is the news amd are certain to release their high end hd9000 cards in around 6 weeks time.

I don't think elpida is going to be much of a problem, msi will have their reasons for picking it over hynix/Samsung.
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I think 780's need about 13% extra clock speed to match Titan, that's not much at stock speeds but a big ask for the pro overclockers.
I have an MSI 780 TF with Elpida and it's weak, I'm not an serious overclocker but for me it seems so temperature sensitive and just falls over taking the card with it unlike Samsung which gives plenty of warning.

Apparently some have been using this because Samsung is short supply, bet your life cheaper also ;) strange Asus managed to get some for their Direct CU 780's.
 
Jakus said:
I think 780's need about 13% extra clock speed to match Titan, that's not much at stock speeds but a big ask for the pro overclockers.
I have an MSI 780 TF with Elpida and it's weak, I'm not an serious overclocker but for me it seems so temperature sensitive and just falls over taking the card with it unlike Samsung which gives plenty of warning.

Apparently some have been using this because Samsung is short supply, bet your life cheaper also ;) strange Asus managed to get some for their Direct CU 780's.
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The main rumour I'd been hearing is that Samsung chips were being snapped up mostly by amd's board partners, which is where the suggestion of shortages came from, though neliz said earlier in the thread that both Samsung and hynix were all readily available. For all we know the elpida ic's being used could be highly binned parts, in which case it shouldn't be much of an issue, but as with everything, we won't know for sure until it's tested :)
 
pgi947 said:
The main rumour I'd been hearing is that Samsung chips were being snapped up mostly by amd's board partners, which is where the suggestion of shortages came from, though neliz said earlier in the thread that both Samsung and hynix were all readily available. For all we know the elpida ic's being used could be highly binned parts, in which case it shouldn't be much of an issue, but as with everything, we won't know for sure until it's tested :)
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Maybe, all I can say is they seem to use less power than Samsung so I assume they are different voltage, they certainly don't like the bioses for Samsung cards, I should look up the specs but there is little point as I can not change the memory voltage or timings :(
 
If this lightning is in the £500 range I might sell both of my 770 lightnings for this one. Depends also on how long the card is too? Don't know if it will fit in my corsair 540?
 
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