MSI Lightning Xtreme... limited release ?

[_DOM_]

Originally Posted by MoreBloodWin

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814127589

It seems this was a limited release card or just flies off the shelves as fast as it comes in. Well, I don't have the funds for it yet but when I do I doubt I'll be able to find it for sale anywhere like NewEgg. That said, I was wondering what you guys feel would be a good replacement for it as either an equal in what it can do or something that's slightly better.

Ty.

Edit: Right now I have a wishlist in mind, just trying to go over a few things on it before I start buying which still wouldn't be for some time.

I have one of those cards, but if your looking to buy new 670 would be my choice unless you wanted a 580 extreme its going to have to be used I like the way mine looks with the less but I don't even use it anymore :/

[Witchdoctor]

Here is a nice card with a none reference board and dual fan like the Lightning has. Mr. Scott makes a great point, lightnings are pointed at the sub ambient crowd and other than running very quit offers very little more to the gamers than other vendors.

This card runs at 680 core speeds out of the box and is whisper quite, just did a build for a friend using this card

at stock clocks and 2600K at a conservative 4.3 it does a P9487 in 11

Crushed Battlefield on Ultra Settings and gives you 4 monitor support and stereoscopic 3D ..........

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814162109

Check out the holes in the PCB under the power train FTW

Galaxy has set the bar with this card IMO

[leekirlew]

hey wtf lol i had my 670 @ 1130/3250MHZ yesterday on a 3770k @ 4.4k and i only hit 8925 ..... something aint right here lol

[Mr.Scott]

Originally Posted by leekirlew

hey wtf lol i had my 670 @ 1130/3250MHZ yesterday on a 3770k @ 4.4k and i only hit 8925 ..... something aint right here lol

You ain't a bencher.

[leekirlew]

Originally Posted by Mr.Scott

You ain't a bencher.

aye lol, but thats on a slower chip (marginally) running at a slower speed with a stock card ....

[_DOM_]

Originally Posted by leekirlew

aye lol, but thats on a slower chip (marginally) running at a slower speed with a stock card ....

did you set the driver settings to performance ?

[leekirlew]

Originally Posted by _DOM_

did you set the driver settings to performance ?

i set everything to default

[Mr.Scott]

Originally Posted by leekirlew

i set everything to default

That's why your score is lower.

[hostage67]

Just purchased a card myself. I was looking at the 680 but due to basically no availability I went with the 670 SC 4gb. So far it has been working great other than some minor driver issues which I expect will be sorted out in the next driver. I had no problem finding the 670 in stock at newegg and it runs great.

I'm currently running BF3 at 5760x1080 with Ultra settings and getting 30-40fps. Now I just need to add another card so I can break 60fps .

[AruisDante]

Originally Posted by leekirlew

i set everything to default

Originally Posted by Mr.Scott

That's why your score is lower.

Bingo. There are a bunch of settings you can mess with that will sacrifice visual quality for performance. Back in the early days of 3Dmark NVidia and ATI actually used to specifically tune the drivers for benchmarks by making ridiculous sacrifices in visual quality when they detected that a bench was being run. Since then they got called out and stopped doing that by default, but it's still possible to change some settings to eek out a bit more performance.

[leekirlew]

ah right, "cheating" springs to mind lol, i would have thought this stuff was run at default, cause who wants to run a game that looks like **** =p

[Witchdoctor]

No cheating here ........ bench set to performance

nVCP

[leekirlew]

oh right, gonna give it another try then now, see how it goes =)

Additional Comment:

meh something aint right, getting up to 1150 on the core and 6400 memory with i7 @ 4.4 ghz and im only getting 8970, meh nvm =p

[AruisDante]

Might want to try doing a clean driver install. That can sometimes help a lot with nVidia cards.

[leekirlew]

Originally Posted by AruisDante

Might want to try doing a clean driver install. That can sometimes help a lot with nVidia cards.

hmm ok will give it a go tomorrow thx

[Witchdoctor]

Reduce overhead ..............

[leekirlew]

Originally Posted by Witchdoctor

Reduce overhead ..............

been a few years, what is overhead ?

[DarkTower87]

I think he runs a minimal setup with only the essential windows services and programs running.

[Mr.Scott]

Originally Posted by DarkTower87

I think he runs a minimal setup with only the essential windows services and programs running.

Exactly what he meant.
WD is a pretty good vid card bencher. Without knowing what you're doing, you'll be hard pressed to match his score. I would imagine if he fully tweaked, those scores would be a couple thousand higher.