MSI Gaming LE Cards

[JFischer00]

What is the point of MSI Gaming LE cards? They're cheaper than "regular" MSI Gaming cards and the only difference seems to be slightly lower clock speeds. Am I missing something or is that it?

[Morgan MLGman]

Theoretically they should overclock worse. Just worse quality chips IIRC. "Theoretically".

[mikat]

less luck in the silicon lottery?

[JFischer00]

Just now, mikat said:

less luck in the silicon lottery?

 

1 minute ago, Morgan MLGman said:

Theoretically they should overclock worse. Just worse quality chips IIRC. "Theoretically".

So I'm not missing anything? It's just the GPU version of say, an i5-4590 v.s. an i5-4690? (haha Google wanted to correct that to 4690k)

[Morgan MLGman]

3 minutes ago, JFischer00 said:

 

So I'm not missing anything? It's just the GPU version of say, an i5-4590 v.s. an i5-4690? (haha Google wanted to correct that to 4690k)

Well, depends. If you want to have a better chance of getting good overclocks, get the regular version. If you don't overclock, get the LE one

[mikat]

1 minute ago, JFischer00 said:

 

So I'm not missing anything? It's just the GPU version of say, an i5-4590 v.s. an i5-4690? (haha Google wanted to correct that to 4690k)

no, not missing anything if you're not planning on running high overclocks

and that is not a good comparison.

silicon lottery explained: (sort of)

 

 

 

[JFischer00]

Just now, mikat said:

no, not missing anything if you're not planning on running high overclocks

and that is not a good comparison.

silicon lottery explained: (sort of)

 

 

 

 

1 minute ago, Morgan MLGman said:

Well, depends. If you want to have a better chance of getting good overclocks, get the regular version. If you don't overclock, get the LE one

Ok, well I'll probably go with the LE version to save some money.

[Bacon8tor]

2 minutes ago, JFischer00 said:

 

Ok, well I'll probably go with the LE version to save some money.

I bought a MSI R9 380 4GB LE, and I was able to clock mine up to what the OC version was and have no issues , I tried to go past it a little but new to overclocking and stopped before I messed something up. Ill try again at some point now that I got a new system. 

[Vellinious]

3 hours ago, JFischer00 said:

What is the point of MSI Gaming LE cards? They're cheaper than "regular" MSI Gaming cards and the only difference seems to be slightly lower clock speeds. Am I missing something or is that it?

If you're not planning on overclocking, there won't be much difference at all.  If you plan on overclocking, stay away from them, as they're power limited and voltage locked.