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What about teams? How many members are allowed? Is there possibility of creating team of 4 members for PRO OC CUP?

ES card? or retail? what's your ASIC quality in GPU-Z?

Holy! Matrix with 1750 MHz GPU!?

Thx I am curious who will break first 35K My cards are very bad... but I have good CPU, I still should squeeze about 30-50 MHz MORE from it...

Great score! Awesome card Can you check ASIC Quality of your Lightning please? What vgpu?

How about upcomming GPUs like Titan, will they be legit for Vantage teamcup? or only hardware which was available during the start of the competition

Great score

I am interested what card will be better for this one, 680 GTX or 7970 BTW Titan 780 will be allowed?

Great hardware

Very good CPU

Gold CPU my friend!

M5G or OC Formula

Good luck and happy birthday

Great CPU my friend

I updated guide a bit. My golden card liked to have hairdryer on GPU reactor, also on MEM and it was getting tired much faster than DCU2. I mean that my DCU2 is the easiest card for ln2 which I had (of course after mods), to control, bench. It doesn't have any strange behaviour and I still have screen up to 1710 MHz GPU Of course Lightnings are the most easy - overall, no modifications, only ABX and so on, and there are few golden Lightnings. If you have golden Lightning, you are lucky guy But I had one Golden, sold it (hadn't good CPU to bench) and after it I checked few more Lightnings and now I have 4x new 7970 Lightning which do 1500-1600 GPU (best one)... so I needed alternative :banana:

awesome

Good Pete You have the same time as I had on 6.9 GHz :D

Crazy card!!

Go go Boss

Nice Ronaldo

Crazy setup

Strong setup

Very strong results my friend

Hey This time I want to share my experience from the great card - ASUS HD7970 DirectCU II and how to prepare it on LN2. Remember, it voids warranty 1. We have to resolder choke and capacitor from the front of PCB and solder it to the back of PCB (of course we have to put capacitor with correct side, in other case it will blow up). For resoldering it's the best to have HOT AIR station. 2. I used 3D bios with unlocked (2 GHz). It has disabled software voltage control for GPUTweakIT and with forced 3D state. Download link . 3. Vmods: Connect PR188 soldering pads to enable VMEM and VPLL control VGPU: VMEM: VPLL 4. Remove metal frame around GPU (Picture taken from OCLab.ru, I had never removed metal frame), for sure it's the best way, but also the most risky) or use copper metal plate (0.5mm), cut it with scissors or buy EK-VGA Supreme HF HD7970 Cu Adapter (Picture taken from EK website) I personally always use copper metal plate cut by myself, both on my old Golden Lightning 1760/2020 and on this DCU2. Of course remember of giving thermal paste on both sides of copper plate. Use Gelid GC Extreme. 5. Software for overclocking - GPUTweakIT or ABX (only set clocks). Of course remember to give a bit of vaseline into PCIE slot and use DELTA FAN on PWM!!! 6. Results: OVP on GPU attacks: 1.84v OCP on GPU - haven't noticed VGPU: 1.65v VMEM: 1.82v VPLL: 1.15v Temp: -80*C to -95*C No CBB, CB -130*C, but more than -95*C is unstable 3DMark 11 Heaven DX11 3DMark 03 It's the easiest card on LN2, much easier to play than Lightnings (no GPU reactors, hairdryers), also more stable. Simply cool down the card, set voltage & clocks and bench And as you see it can compete with Lightnings :banana:

Good one