MSI 7970 Lightning

[Mean Machine]

I'm so fed up with this country, I can't even begin to explain it.

[|ron]

Lol, come to Italy not as a tourist, you'll love Sweden in a few months Oh, and you have Viking Metal also

'bout the Lightning, still not available here too, but already listed in a few shops at 600euros more or less

[Splave]

I am in love with this card lol! very hard to find in the USA better off just importing one

[sember]

What kind of max clocks others got on air? (More importantly, what then they can do with ln2 )

 

Just got mine card yestarday and on air it can do only 1200MHz on core with 1.175v. More vcore wont help.

Maybe this one does even more with LN2 then, first i try cold water and later this month ln2 hopefully!

[Splave]

1250 / 1800 on full speed fan for 03

[sember]

Other drivers didnt help at all. 1180/1800 max or 1200/1700. (12.3 and 12.4 drivers tested so far)

Hopefully it scales even more with temperature. On those runs max temp was around 70c.

 

Petris ref card did only 1200MHz on air and ~1650MHz on LN2 if i remember right

[Leeghoofd]

I'm so fed up with this country, I can't even begin to explain it.

Pretty sure there is one member here that heartly welcomes you to his "D" country

[M.Beier]

Pretty sure there is one member here that heartly welcomes you to his "D" country

 

Deutschland? Ja, klar!

Wilkommen bie Deutschland.

[l0ud_sil3nc3]

1250 / 1800 on full speed fan for 03

 

about what mine clocks to max on air, it is not as good as my reference Sapphire card which clocks to 1330/1875 on air and runs much cooler but I am sure the Lightning will be better under cold.

 

but man it is a pretty card, and so much quieter than the reference designed cooler.

 

what is the ASIC value on yours Splave?

[Splave]

havent checked and I dont hold much faith in terms of it

[shar00750]

Hello, I have now received 7970 Lightning. I tried the both BIOS and the maximum voltage I can it's 1.35 volts. I saw here that you can reach to 1.6 volts. Do I need to download different BIOS or there is some trick? I'm going to use dry ice.

[Moose83]

You need Afterburner Extreme

[suzuki]

where we can find it ? i am interested also in this tool .

[Moose83]

Ask Msi in your country

[suzuki]

I highly doubt they have headquarters over here )).

[milos87popovic]

Can we buy this somewhere online?

[Moose83]

No!!! You have to do NDA with MSI

[unityofsaints]

On 3/21/2012 at 1:20 PM, Leeghoofd said:

We asked the same at CeBIT Kenny... I think they have got loads of those in stock and just adapt them to the PCB and parts underneath it... I hope the pot mounting will go flawless...

I know this is an old post are folks able to mount pots o.k. on this thing? I'm a bit nervous to try it.

[Leeghoofd]

I drilled a big hole in my backplate (also needed that for the GTX280 Matrix cards anyway)