#5149359

rl66

2015-08-28 16:46

temptation... a pair of those with waterblock... 🙂 nice review Hilbert

#5149380

Barry J

2015-08-28 17:25

Very nice review HH The lightning does cool well very nice card another very good MSI 980ti

#5149477

CrazY_Milojko

2015-08-28 20:29

Generic typo at the first page of the review, talking about Asus card... Nice review btw, GPU OC was expected, memory clock is much more than I've expected, nice 😀

#5149492

Netherwind

2015-08-28 21:15

Dat mem OC, is it for real? I didn't know anything past 8000MHz was possible but 8,6k? That's unreal.

#5149493

kingd

2015-08-28 21:16

Very good review 🙂 Would it be possible to please tell me the length of the card without it's cooler ?

#5149495

Noisiv

2015-08-28 21:25

Conclusion The Lightning rdition 😀 Is MSI PCB design that cool that there is no need for extra heatsinks for VRM, mem chips? All convection, no conduction save for GPU die....hmm not so sure this is the actual heatsink shot: http://www.guru3d.com/index.php?ct=articles&action=file&id=18087http://www.guru3d.com/index.php?ct=articles&action=file&id=18088

#5149509

Hilbert Hagedoorn

Administrator

2015-08-28 21:49

No if you peek at the exploding shot you'll notice another metal plate covering the VRM etc.

#5149515

Noisiv

2015-08-28 22:02

No if you peek at the exploding shot you'll notice another metal plate covering the VRM etc.

Oh that's right: http://www.guru3d.com/index.php?ct=articles&action=file&id=18086 And that is exactly what I'll be doing with my R9 290 + AC IV combo 🤓

#5149522

---TK---

2015-08-28 22:21

Damn all these custom cooler oc 980 ti are untouched in performance. Boost clock is about where it should be I guess, memory oc is freaking sick though.

#5149533

PhazeDelta1

2015-08-28 22:57

Damn all these custom cooler oc 980 ti are untouched in performance. Boost clock is about where it should be I guess, memory oc is freaking sick though.

Now imagine one of these with HBM on it.

#5149539

---TK---

2015-08-28 23:06

Pass that would make it a 4gb card.

#5149543

PhazeDelta1

2015-08-28 23:17

For now.

#5149546

eclap

2015-08-28 23:26

For now.

Forever mate 🙂

#5149553

Darksword

2015-08-28 23:41

Is this one of those special reviewer's sample cards that come with 122% power limit - but actual retail cards are only like 109% power limit? MSI pulled that crap on the 980Ti cards. Review samples had very high power limits, but retail cards did not.

#5149559

Spets

2015-08-28 23:51

Damn all these custom cooler oc 980 ti are untouched in performance. Boost clock is about where it should be I guess, memory oc is freaking sick though.

They leave everything in their price range far behind 😉 Great review HH.

#5149562

---TK---

2015-08-28 23:56

Is this one of those special reviewer's sample cards that come with 122% power limit - but actual retail cards are only like 109% power limit? MSI pulled that crap on the 980Ti cards. Review samples had very high power limits, but retail cards did not.

You can do it yourself, mod your power limit and make it what you want, I`m at 120%

#5149584

Anarion

2015-08-29 00:45

Is this one of those special reviewer's sample cards that come with 122% power limit - but actual retail cards are only like 109% power limit? MSI pulled that crap on the 980Ti cards. Review samples had very high power limits, but retail cards did not.

They meant the same thing. 122% = 109%, the difference was that one BIOS has lower starting limit. 109% Max version had higher default limit. You can't compare percentages without knowing what it actually means. In this case 100 % did not mean the same thing.

#5149614

Lucifer

2015-08-29 02:05

rather disappointing for its oc, great cooler though.

#5149622

---TK---

2015-08-29 02:31

Very few 980 ti go higher than low 1500`s on air, only the best of the best, impressive memory clock though.

#5149641

PhazeDelta1

2015-08-29 03:19

Forever mate 🙂

HBM can't go over 4GB? I wasn't aware of that. I think I need to do some reading. 😀