Tech3D - Technology News And Reviews » Graphics http://www.tech3d.net Tech3D is your trusted source for tech reviews, tech news, how-to's and free downloads Tue, 20 Mar 2012 22:16:44 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 MSI Radeon HD 7970 Lightning Overclocked to 1800MHz Core, 7.70GHz Memory http://www.tech3d.net/2012/03/20/msi-radeon-hd-7970-lightning-overclocked-to-1800mhz-core-7-70ghz-memory/ http://www.tech3d.net/2012/03/20/msi-radeon-hd-7970-lightning-overclocked-to-1800mhz-core-7-70ghz-memory/#comments Tue, 20 Mar 2012 22:07:37 +0000 ar31an http://www.tech3d.net/?p=3826
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HD 7970 Lightning

MSI Europe showed a nice screenshot of Elmor’s latest overclocking feat and overclocking experience with MSI’s recently announced HD 7970 Lightning card.

MSI’s Radeon HD 7970 Lightning overclocked up to 1800MHz for the GPU. Apparently all it took was some LN2 and Swedish overclocker Elmor, which proved his OC skills at various overclocking events.

The card was normally chilled by LN2 and stable core clock ended up at 1800MHz with 1700mV of voltage. Memory ended up at impressive 1925MHz (7.7GHz effective). Elmor used MSI’s Big Bang XPower II X79 motherboard and Intel Core i7 3960X Sandy Bridge-E CPU overclocked to 5207.8MHz. The 3DMark 11 score ended at 15035 marks in Performance mode.

MSI has definitely made dream graphics card for any overclocker and that custom PCB is surely doing a nice job.

HD 7970 Lightning

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Asus Mars II graphics card listed in EU

For the past few years Asus has played a major role in the uber-high-end market thanks to its ROG series products, including graphics cards named after defunct gods.

The Mars II dual GTX 580 card picks up where the original Mars GTX 295 left off a few years back. It is based on two GF110 cores, clocked at a whopping 772MHz. The reference GTX 590 runs at 607MHz, but it still manages to consume up to 365W of power. There are no power consumption figures for the Mars II, but we can safely assume they are rather high. The Mars II packs 3GB of memory clocked at 1002MHz, about 150MHz higher than reference. The beast supports 4-way SLI, but this is basically a useless feature since it is a triple-slot design.

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There is also another issue. At €1260 to €1399, one can hardly describe the Mars II as a bargain. In fact, you can put together a pretty decent gaming rig for that sort of cash, without having Standard and Poor’s downgrade your credit rating.

Overclocked GTX 590 boards usually retail for about €600-€650, but they are a tad slower, so it would make a bit more sense just to get two “normal” cards instead.


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