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GTX 980ti Lightning Question!

ripper101
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So I just got a MSI GTX 980ti Lightning card and in the box it comes with an extra heat sink, does anyone know why?

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I believe its for use when you want to use LN2 for extreme OCing.

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1 minute ago, TeeTwo said:

Doesn't it say on it that its meant for LN2?

Yeah, what's that mean?

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Just now, ripper101 said:

Yeah, what's that mean?

Its meant to cool the VRM when you overclock the card with LN2.

Theory is when you know everything but nothing works. Practice is when everything works but you dont know why. In this computer, theory and practice are combined: Nothing works and i dont know why.

 

Atleast i can manage Some things, like my current OC personal best.

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Just now, TeeTwo said:

Its meant to cool the VRM when you overclock the card with LN2.

What is LN2!!! :D

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23 minutes ago, ripper101 said:

What is LN2!!! :D

If you don't know what ln2 is then why did you buy a gpu designed for ln2 overclocking. 

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2 hours ago, alexyy said:

If you don't know what ln2 is then why did you buy a gpu designed for ln2 overclocking. 

mind your own business.

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16 minutes ago, ripper101 said:

mind your own business.

Perfectly valid question. You spent extra on an extreme overclocking card and you quite clearly are not doing extreme overclocking :P 

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10 minutes ago, harrynowl said:

Perfectly valid question. You spent extra on an extreme overclocking card and you quite clearly are not doing extreme overclocking :P 

i didn't spend any money on it, actually MSI sent it to me after sending me a bad 980ti for an RMA unit

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