[Official] MSI GTX 680 Lightning Owners Club - Page 56

No, but it's been a couple of days since the last wave of rants about not having it, so you might stick around and wait for that.

lmao

Monitor clocks with afterburner, not gpu-z. Clocks on the 680 vary depending on graphics load, and BIOS1 is 1176 boost, while BIOS2 is 1202 boost. If you have +100 it is 1276 or 1302 depending on which BIOS you're using.

OK, i really hope it all will fit, cuz i've already had a big problem with the H100, the second fan didn't fit between the mosfet heatsink and i have to RMA the H100.

Seems you have the combo i need, the Noctua and the Lightning, if you want please make a quick picture with the Noctua and the gpu reactor, i really want to see how much space is between them...

I need this because i have the risk to buy the Noctua and could be useless. Who knows when in my country they will ship the Lightning card, and i will buy the Noctua these days, and the Lightning in a couple of weeks, and when i will have them both i don't want to tell myself, "ohh, i bought the Noctua for nothing, cuz the gpu reactor cap doesn't fit".

I trust you it will fit all together, but i need a pic.
Edited by CalinTM - 7/18/12 at 8:19am

I'm simply correcting your misinformation. I'm not taking it in that direction,but consider you posted this in the lightning owners club. This thread is dedicated to lightning fanboys and users so a statement like that will get an appropriate response, realize what thread you're posting in and then the answer becomes obvious. You came to this thread to declare another card the king of all cards so what kind of response do you expect? Especially when you're wrong. What you posted was misleading and your statement regarding throttling is absolutely false. Another post from EVGA forum: http://www.evga.com/forums/tm.aspx?m=1676756

1270mhz overclock, with maximum manual fan temps 65-68, ouch. Note that 55% is the maximum setting for the classified, the fan runs at 3000rpm at this setting. Also note that the classified does have thermal Kepler throttle unlike the lightning which does not.

I'm not saying the classified is bad but certainly the overclocks achieved are not amazing - this is all while the card costs a LOT more and has a much worse cooler. I can pretty much guarantee that TF4 with maximum manual fan @ 1270mhz would be around 50C.

Again, I emphasize, i'm not saying its a bad card. Clearly your statement that it is the king of all cards may be a bit flawed, in my eyes it doesn't appear to be - by far most overclocks are maxing out in the high 1200s (which is the same or worse than lightning) while being more expensive and having a worse cooler. Feel free to PM Andrew, the OC at 1400 was not stable and could not produce a benchmark result. So it was not a valid OC - but you can easily see from the EVGA forum that most OC's are ranging from 1255-1333. Decent OC's but not mind blowing. I would put lightning and classified on even ground, but classified certainly isn't performing as the "king of all cards" as you suggested.
Edited by xoleras - 7/18/12 at 8:38am

Are you using the MSI Z77A-GD65 in your sig?

Here's a pic of that mobo, but with the HR-02 and Lightning with Reactor in place. So if the HR-02 is an option for you, it will work.

as you can see the macho fits, which is 140mm wide, just like the d14
Edited by EM2J - 7/18/12 at 8:35am

You could probably make it work, however there's really no advantage to GPU reactor unless you're on real LN2. I'd personally just remove it, thats me though

But its gotz blue lights in its!

The PCI-E slot spacing is kinda different on this mobo, there's no need to take the Reactors off unless you just want to. They came on the cards, so I left them on there.

Yes i am using the GD65. All the specs are true. Ok, that's great news.