Gets unlocked even further with Afterburner 2.2.3.The LN2 BIOS on the Lightning 680s is insane!
Maybe I can try flash my card with your BIOS? Will that breath more life into mine or kill mine? lol
Gets unlocked even further with Afterburner 2.2.3.The LN2 BIOS on the Lightning 680s is insane!
Maybe I can try flash my card with your BIOS? Will that breath more life into mine or kill mine? lol
I can't even believe how butter these MSI Lightning GTX 680s are. If I could compare PC gaming to a fine wine or smoke or whatever...it'd be the MSI Lightning GTX 680s on a 1080p 120hz screen playing BF3 MP. OC'd to 1250 MHz boost...they just rip through BF3 maxed out. Just in awe. Highly recommended. Could not be happier with them. Temps max out at 55C in BF3 with that OC!!!
The crazy thing was this morning I setup an RMA for both of them...heh. Turns out all of my problems were related to multi-monitor...upgraded to today's beta release and setup on just my 120hz and everything went away. I'm now back to two screens without issue. It was strange.
With all the problems associated with quad-SLI and gaming, definitely go 680 SLI for BF3 MP...and if you're really serious/nuts...go tri-SLI. But quad-SLI brings almost nothing to the table for BF3 that goes beyond what the tri-SLI brings. It almost performs worse than tri-SLI!
I envy you guys out there that can nab a couple binned 670s and go to town for less than $900 for the pair.![]()
I can't even believe how butter these MSI Lightning GTX 680s are. If I could compare PC gaming to a fine wine or smoke or whatever...it'd be the MSI Lightning GTX 680s on a 1080p 120hz screen playing BF3 MP. OC'd to 1250 MHz boost...they just rip through BF3 maxed out. Just in awe. Highly recommended. Could not be happier with them. Temps max out at 55C in BF3 with that OC!!!
The crazy thing was this morning I setup an RMA for both of them...heh. Turns out all of my problems were related to multi-monitor...upgraded to today's beta release and setup on just my 120hz and everything went away. I'm now back to two screens without issue. It was strange.
With all the problems associated with quad-SLI and gaming, definitely go 680 SLI for BF3 MP...and if you're really serious/nuts...go tri-SLI. But quad-SLI brings almost nothing to the table for BF3 that goes beyond what the tri-SLI brings. It almost performs worse than tri-SLI!
I envy you guys out there that can nab a couple binned 670s and go to town for less than $900 for the pair.![]()
What case are you using again? I know the MSI cards put heat back into the case...and you getting 55c seems pretty damn good...
Ha...not sure if that's possible, yet...I am sure they'll figure it out someday, though! The Lightning 680s have a BIOS switch so you can have the standard one or switch to the LN2 BIOS which removes the temperature throttling at 70C, allows for more juice to be tossed at the card, etc. - but it becomes extremely temperamental due to the lack of barriers/controls...when you tune it it is awesome but when you are trying to tweak you can really hard lock shit, lol.
They are pretty custom...so who knows if their BIOS would even be something you'd want to run on a reference 680...
http://event.msi.com/vga/lightning/gtx680.html
How is your Unigine Heaven 3.0 score with everything maxed out? This test is known to favor 7970 rather than 680, so I'm curious to see. You have both SLI and CrossFire at hand, right?
I really should re run this test..Have the 690 now, H100, and my CPU is clocked a bit higher...
How is your Unigine Heaven 3.0 score with everything maxed out? This test is known to favor 7970 rather than 680, so I'm curious to see. You have both SLI and CrossFire at hand, right?
Just one 7970 now. Sold the 2nd to fund the Lightning 680 upgrade. Was going to sell both - but the 7970 market is terrible so I just built an HTPC with it.
I'll run Unigine. What settings? I only use it for stress testing so I never do the bench part of it...
Well, here is with 3x 7970:
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Fun fact - you could probably buy three 1080p/120hz monitors for what I paid for this 1440p/60hz monitor (the cheapest I could find). And it's still got that nasty anti-glare coating. Oh well, I still think it was worth it. I just don't understand the whole multi-monitor thing.
Fun fact - you could probably buy three 1080p/120hz monitors for what I paid for this 1440p/60hz monitor (the cheapest I could find). And it's still got that nasty anti-glare coating. Oh well, I still think it was worth it. I just don't understand the whole multi-monitor thing.
You live in AZ and don't have a working AC? Crazy. And, don't know how well water cooling would work if you ambient temps are already high.My cards are way underclocked (1075/1475) compared to those guys at the overclock.net forum, I really have shit for cooling. In this Arizona summer heat it crashes as it is. I have to wait until winter to play Witcher 2 with ubersampling. :/
Maybe in the future I'll invest in a water cooling system, or better yet, fix the air conditioning in my house (but that is another story...).
You live in AZ and don't have a working AC? Crazy. And, don't know how well water cooling would work if you ambient temps are already high.
Yeah, it sucks. I'm not wearing a shirt right now.
Anyway, I managed to clock it a little higher to 1125/1500, but not running in 3x mode.
1x:
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2x: (barely made it through this, started glitching like crazy in the last 10-15 seconds)
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Stupid PC is overheating before I even turn it on, I hate summer.
Buy 4 Gigabyte GTX 670's and take their coolers off to put on the eVGAs craptastic cooler.
temps on the cards are hilarious btw; with 22c water the cards have core temperatures of 32 and 29 (!!!) during Heaven 3.0 ... power% fluctuates between 60% and 68%
Edit3: Just noticed my result is invalid. Hmm..
P11157 - EVGA GTX 670 FTW - 1006/3104/stock - 3570k @ 4.2GHz - RAM @ 1600MHz - ASUS Maximus Gene V - ochobit - Air - link
Not bad for my first try, I guess. The clocks I got from 3dmark, should I get another program to verify? EDIT: Looking at the other profiles, I guess mine are wrong. Will edit to fix. Edit2: Fixed
Edit3: Just noticed my result is invalid. Hmm..
Run it without MVP on so the scores are actually comparable.P11157 - EVGA GTX 670 FTW - 1006/3104/stock - 3570k @ 4.2GHz - RAM @ 1600MHz - ASUS Maximus Gene V - ochobit - Air - link
Not bad for my first try, I guess. The clocks I got from 3dmark, should I get another program to verify? EDIT: Looking at the other profiles, I guess mine are wrong. Will edit to fix. Edit2: Fixed
Edit3: Just noticed my result is invalid. Hmm..
P9035 - GTX670 - 705/3004/stock - 3570K @ 4.0GHz - 8GB @ 1600MHz - ASRock Z77 Extreme 4 - hongesagatame - Air - Link
Graphics drivers are Nvidias latest.
Quick run with the "new" cards and my EVBots (1.25v). Still have a lot of tweaking to do.
P25264 - 4x EVGA GTX 680 Classified - 131%-50-400 - i7 3960X @ 4.8Ghz 1.48v - 16GB Mushkin Redline 993997 @ 2133 - Asus Rampage IV Extreme - H100 - Link
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If you don't mind (don't answer if you wish) but what in the name of hell do you do for a living?
Nice score, what case is that?
NZXT Switch 810.
Updated my score (post above) - #2 only to k|ngp|n (who runs his cards on LN2) on modsrigs.com.![]()
Psssht, LN2 is nothing. I have heard that excuse before and I dismiss it! Push those cards!
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