MSI Radeon R9 290X LIGHTNING Launches

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Koniakki

2014-03-04 09:05

Hilbert did any piece of this magnificent hardware arrived in the lab? 😉

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Hilbert Hagedoorn

Administrator

2014-03-04 09:16

Hilbert did any piece of this magnificent hardware arrived in the lab? 😉

D00d, what does the first line of the news post read ?

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Ven0m

2014-03-04 09:26

D00d, what does the first line of the news post read ?

hahaha Yeah, forums... Read stuff, then optionally reply, right? Turns out it's not a kind of workflow that suits everyone. Anyway, I'm waiting for the review. It looks really interesting, but is it an overkill for an average user?

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CrazY_Milojko

2014-03-04 09:54

Hope that this piece of art is not going to be ruined by Elpida memory chips. Hilbert can you confirm this with GPU-Z before review comes out (if this thing is already in your hands)? I can't wait to see if MSI engineers are capable to squeeze some more OC juice from R9 290X. BTW, friend of mine has (had) early released MSI GTX 780 Lightning with Hynix chips, it's seems that they are not so common like MSI 780 Lightning with Elpida which was reviewed here on Guru3D (and all over the internet).

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Hilbert Hagedoorn

Administrator

2014-03-04 10:12

Hope that this piece of art is not going to be ruined by Elpida memory chips. Hilbert can you confirm this with GPU-Z before review comes out (if this thing is already in your hands)? I can't wait to see if MSI engineers are capable to squeeze some more OC juice from R9 290X. BTW, friend of mine has (had) early released MSI GTX 780 Lightning with Hynix chips, it's seems that they are not so common like MSI 780 Lightning with Elpida which was reviewed here on Guru3D (and all over the internet).

The sample should arrive today or tomorrow, and sure. I'll check that out for you.

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CrazY_Milojko

2014-03-04 10:24

Thanks Hilbert! I'm jealous like a dog at you 😉 I'm asking you one more favour and I'm done... Can you disassemble that 290X Lightning a little bit more than 780 Lightning reviewed here on Guru3D, I mean to remove cooler, backplate etc? I guess many of us here want to take a look closer on that custom PCB, VRMs and other candies on that beast, I just don't wan't to google around the internet to find that on some other sites/reviews. Does MSI allow you to disassemble Lightnings for more detailed review in the first place?

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slyphnier

2014-03-04 11:41

Hope that this piece of art is not going to be ruined by Elpida memory chips. Hilbert can you confirm this with GPU-Z before review comes out (if this thing is already in your hands)? I can't wait to see if MSI engineers are capable to squeeze some more OC juice from R9 290X. BTW, friend of mine has (had) early released MSI GTX 780 Lightning with Hynix chips, it's seems that they are not so common like MSI 780 Lightning with Elpida which was reviewed here on Guru3D (and all over the internet).

my gtx780 that with rev.b stepping come with hynix chip http://i.imgur.com/vTjnnTJ.gif i think its matter stock at msi

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CrazY_Milojko

2014-03-04 12:28

You lucky bastard, like friend of mine who also has one with Hynix chips 🙂

my gtx780 that with rev.b stepping come with hynix chip http://i.imgur.com/vTjnnTJ.gif i think its matter stock at msi

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cowie

2014-03-04 13:09

I think i need 1 more 290xxx card and this is it.

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ClexRex

2014-03-04 13:19

You lucky bastard, like friend of mine who also has one with Hynix chips 🙂

months back was at microcenter and they had some 780 lightnings aboiut 10 ins tock so I grabbed one as the price had finaly gone down...wernt through 2 of them both overclocked pathetically....its like they found the worst possible chip/memory and used the overpriced cooler....both cards could barely overclock even with custom bios past 1200mhz and +150 on mem without artifacts...yet my ref. 780 could do 1300mhz with +450 on the mem lol

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CrazY_Milojko

2014-03-04 13:37

months back was at microcenter and they had some 780 lightnings aboiut 10 ins tock so I grabbed one as the price had finaly gone down...wernt through 2 of them both overclocked pathetically....its like they found the worst possible chip/memory and used the overpriced cooler....both cards could barely overclock even with custom bios past 1200mhz and +150 on mem without artifacts...yet my ref. 780 could do 1300mhz with +450 on the mem lol

Friend of mine had 780 Lightning with Hynix chips capable for stabile GPU/mem OC @ 13xx/7xxx on air with LN2 BIOS, but his impatieince in OC has cost him at the end. He wanted to OC fast that card to the max (I told him not to do that: "...take it easy dude and OC that beast slowly with a lot of stability tests...") without much testing and right from the sky he bumped memory to 74xx and in MSI AB he raised memory voltage to 1.7V and after that articfacts starts to show, now even @ stock speeds/voltages, probably he fried some memory chips with 1.7V on that card. He learned the lesson hard way, next time he'll probably won't do OC that fast..

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ClexRex

2014-03-04 15:43

Friend of mine had 780 Lightning with Hynix chips capable for stabile GPU/mem OC @ 13xx/7xxx on air with LN2 BIOS, but his impatieince in OC has cost him at the end. He wanted to OC fast that card to the max (I told him not to do that: "...take it easy dude and OC that beast slowly with a lot of stability tests...") without much testing and right from the sky he bumped memory to 74xx and in MSI AB he raised memory voltage to 1.7V and after that articfacts starts to show, now even @ stock speeds/voltages, probably he fried some memory chips with 1.7V on that card. He learned the lesson hard way, next time he'll probably won't do OC that fast..

The card most of been fualty to begain with or something else was up...because those voltages would not kill the chip unless he was putting 1.7 thorugh the core clock which I doubt it... also I have taken many 780's well above those numbers and are still running fine today....

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ClexRex

2014-03-04 15:45

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The card most of been fualty to begain with or something else was up...because those voltages would not kill the chip unless he was putting 1.7 thorugh the core clock which I doubt it... also I have taken many 780's well above those numbers and are still running fine today....

The card are on custom pcb's with slightly better compents than ref/stock cards I have takin several lightnings very high and they have shown no issues or signs on degrade.

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CrazY_Milojko

2014-03-04 16:08

The card most of been fualty to begain with or something else was up...because those voltages would not kill the chip unless he was putting 1.7 thorugh the core clock which I doubt it... also I have taken many 780's well above those numbers and are still running fine today....

That card had run perfect for almost two months till one day when 1.7V has manualy bumped to mem chips on 74xx MHz via MSI AB. Every single thing has a limit, you know... 🙁

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