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
Nice clocks btw!!!
Vantage = "omgz physx bias/unfit for testing ATI"
Not my arguments :)The screenshot is the only content I got. Maybe those pics will be out very soon.
vantage and 11 are good for newer cardsthe new ver of vantage doesnt let you use physx on nvidia ;)
LN2 is a very niche market sure but it does show off the pure muscle of CPU/GPU/tested hardware
Also it is for setting world records. good luck getting close to that score on your "24/7 clocks"
So go back to playing your video games because LN2 is only getting more popular.
i think 1ghz would be the norm in next generation gpus
I believe myself and Delta6326 were just station our own opinion. I didn't think we asked you to come up with some silly ass response....
~movin along~
Oh hey about the AMD HD8970
If you don't like ocing turn off the screen ;)
I wonder what the power consumption was like....1.7V is pretty killer!
1.70 X ? = W?
If you actually run GPU-Z you should be able to notice this yourself. There's a question mark next to the Bus Interface, click that and you can start a small furmark app which puts the card under load, it should switch to its normal speed at that point in time.
Just saying WR aren't that crazy hard to get, when it comes to computers, all you need is money and resources, heck most of the top OC people get there stuff handed to them so they don't have to spend load of money are parts.
but theres been more of this its on ln2 bs not 24/7
its like how many brain cells have you killed to even consider posting in a thread that is about ocing on ln2 :shadedshu
i should be ocing on ln2 soon i hope.. finaly going to have reg 8hr work day today :rockout: but dont think there going to be giving me my 2days off this weekend :mad:
it would be nice to have someone other then my kids here when benching but i know no one that does this let alone oc in my town :ohwell: