Jenna Haze

Gimme gimme gimme current gen after midnight!! Yeah I like Abba AND WOT?! Don't you judge me.. Pick me. That's fine.. Plus aboot time we got colour change LEDs on cards.

But you probably won't be able to get one... Well maybe.. So I got an email about MSI's MOA Overclocking competition coming in the next few days. All regular stuff with money and hardware up for grabs. Then something caught my eye. A prize, "MSI 780ti lightning MOA edition." As a 780 lightning owner I was disappointed when green team were forced to reveal they had a more powerful card finished and ready for launch after amd released their 290x. I'm sure MSI weren't happy either. The lightning is ment to be the best of the best from MSI. It would have been nice to have had ti version soon after it's launch. Evga got a kingpin ti out after some time but MSI has held back. So now we know this card exists, the question becomes why it was never released? Maybe they had only just finished development but they had to know the 980 release date so why bother? Or are lightnings forever to be made for the second highest gaming card from now on? The ti was thought to be just next generation brought forward so are ti and 980 closer than we think in manufacturing differences? Are they prime for a 980 lightning? Just reading it's name gave me a lot of questions but in the end I'm a lightning fan.. And I just.. Just want.. Just show me the card... In sli... *frothing * If you want to see the competition details.. http://hwbot.org/competition/moa_ww_2014_nlb_2d/

Its a GS800 from corsair. Thought it was 850.. my bad. Thats a bronze 80+.

So I bought one of those wall socket things that tells you what wattage you're drawing from the wall. I wanted to know because I went SLI on some 780 lightnings with overclocks. Now here is the thing, I have an 850 watt corsair PSU. I ran Metro LL and was sitting just around 750 watts. Then I did a Prime95 and Furmark test together and saw it top out at 925 watts. Soooooo I know thats not a normal load but if my system is capable of needing that much power should I upgrade?? Or does it not matter all that much if I run over the PSUs rated power now and then?

Forum ID: Jenna Haze Build Title: Project RETROactive. $300 revival. Thread URL: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/56629-project-retroactive-300-revival/ Description: Spent $300 to make my old system into a hidden PC. Built into an old turntable/tapedeck combo stereo.

MSI got back to me in under an hour... on Facebook. I had to uninstall the devices in the device manager. Then search for hardware changes. Fixed and working fine. Fun times beating 94% of Firestrike Extreme results

just noticed in gpuz that when both are set to original bios, one has version 80.80.21.00.36 and the other has 80.80.21.00.73. could this be the problem. The original card could have an outdated bios?

bump it real good

No im not but if im not cranking the power past what the cooler can do, why does it matter if i want to use LN2 mode? Other than it being more stable..

Sooo all I can do is wait for some kind of angle with a magical software sollution... Where the hell is slick when you need him?! lol

On the normal bios the card will only run minimal power phases to save power while it idles. In LN2 mode all power phases are keep running at all times. You can see this on the card as it lights up phases in uses them. Its the same with their mobo with CPU power phases. For more stable overclocking, phase steeping is turned off to ensure the core (or CPU in the mobo case) can draw the power it needs straight away.

Again, it does.... I have it. Same clock speed. One crashes on start up of games, one doesn't.

I just got a second 780 lightning. I ran the first card switched to the second bios. LN2 mode. Before you freak it out it, I was having stability issues on the first bios. In LN2 mode the card uses all power phases all the time and this seems to have solved the stability issues i had when games started up. Now with the second card in, in LN2 mode. My PC wont pick up the second card. In fact it wont let me even start the nvidia control panel to turn SLI on. So I switched the second card back to normal bios. It picks up the second card and I can turn on SLI. But now i get the crashes on game start up like i had before. So why cant i have both cards on LN2 mode for SLI? SAVE ME! SAVE ME! SAVE ME! SAVE ME! I NEEEEEEEEEEEED MY HIGH OC I have a Mpower Z77 Mobo. 3770K.

Remote control? IR receiver?

Just looked at my new 315P and well.... Cant wait to kick the tires and light the fires!