Tuesday, March 20th 2012
MSI Radeon HD 7970 Lightning Overclocked to 1800 MHz Core, 7.70 GHz Memory
If you thought MSI made too much song and dance about the product design of its R7970 Lightning, particularly the GPU Reactor module, think again. When augmented with liquid nitrogen cooling, the card has the electrical muscle required to sustain 1.7V, and facilitate a staggering 1800 MHz core clock speed, with 1925 MHz memory (7.70 GHz GDDR5 effective), churning out a gargantuan memory bandwidth of close to 370 GB/s, all thanks to the genius of Swedish proverclocker Elmor.
This R7970 Lightning on 'roid-rage was stable enough to bag a 3DMark 11 (performance preset) score of P15035 points. The rest of the test-bed consisted of an Intel Core i7-3960X Extreme Edition six-core chip clocked at 5207 MHz, with 4 GB (4x 1 GB) DDR3 memory clocked at 2314 MHz, and MSI Big Bang XPower II motherboard, to seat it all. Perhaps this is an indication that AMD Radeon HD 7900 can work wonders on potent non-reference designs, such as MSI's R7970 Lightning.
This R7970 Lightning on 'roid-rage was stable enough to bag a 3DMark 11 (performance preset) score of P15035 points. The rest of the test-bed consisted of an Intel Core i7-3960X Extreme Edition six-core chip clocked at 5207 MHz, with 4 GB (4x 1 GB) DDR3 memory clocked at 2314 MHz, and MSI Big Bang XPower II motherboard, to seat it all. Perhaps this is an indication that AMD Radeon HD 7900 can work wonders on potent non-reference designs, such as MSI's R7970 Lightning.
74 Comments on MSI Radeon HD 7970 Lightning Overclocked to 1800 MHz Core, 7.70 GHz Memory
Vantage also now, by default, has PhysX disabled, so thats a non issue at most places.
Thank god those arent your arguments. :roll:
EDIT: DOM, PM me your whereabouts in TX. I know a few people scattered around the state you can go cold with. :)
I tried to look for a hwbot submission but do not see it/the rig.
i cant see the prices staying this high for long either what with exhorbatant new gpu's(price wise )on the horizon the markets in for a rattle imho
I mean c'mon look at those speed's! :twitch: We're talking almost 2GHz core speed and almost 8GHz mem speed with over 370GHz of bandwith!! That is simply INSANE!! Good job MSI and good job elmor? :rockout:
His response wasn't silly at all. You see a 1.8ghz GPU clock and you come in here and complain about it not being done on cooling that isn't used 24/7... I mean if that wasn't obvious by the thread title. Do you open up a Guinness book and just dismiss it all because 99% (a lot greater percent actually) can't achieve those goals? Just makes no sense, and if you have the right to state a silly opinion, anyone else has the right to respond to it with some logic.
Now I'm off to try and run WR clocks on air cooling and complain when thats not possible.It's pretty well known what these cards can do. With only using software even the reference air cooler can support max voltage (1.3v), between 1200 - 1300mhz is a great OC, some find stability between 1300 - 1375 for benching. If your looking for 24/7 clocks, they won't be found in the new sections, just check people System Details under their name, see what clocks they got (I got mine listed for my new build with 7970). Average people without sponsors are where you are going to find 24/7 clocks. If there was a new posts made for everytime one of us hit 1300mhz, it would be pretty silly (this isn't directed at you), so I don't see why people complain about a post like this, do they want news posts about all of us non-professional overclockers getting good clocks?
F1 racing cars are so awesome for every day use, grocery shopping. taking the kids to school but i supposed a drag racer may be better for taking the kids to school :p
Personally, i Don't care either way. I'll run LN2 from time to time, but when I want to know what I should be looking for for clocks, HWBOT is where I go.
Get where I'm headed here?
I mean, the posts complaining about those voicing their opinion about the marketing are jstu useless as those doing the original complaining. It's very much too-sided here, with no grey in between.
Personally, I wanna see this stuff...seems liek 28nm is allowing for higher clocks than 40nm...which is nice to see.
Its not a bad thing at all. There are some great people here. its just not this place's
'thing'. Im good enough, smart enough, and dog gone it, people like me - Stuart Smalley :roll:
On another note, when did TPU get invested with fuckbag trolls?
I was hoping for at least 1,3 ghz stable on air.
But the ppl that use them for ocing and reg ppl see it and wanna buy them its marketing ;)
Makes it look like it was designed only for LN2 and upwards.
The lightning HD6970 wasn't the best HD6970 aswell..
But the GTX580 lightning was a whole different story when i was able to achieve 980 core with this thing.