I managed to smash through an artifact-riddled vantage run @ 1250, but any more than 1.3v and Id get wild stuff happening even on desktop, and 3d would crash immediately.

Once again, every reference 5870 I have owned was better than this high dollar pos.

Sorry to hear that Dent MSI sure did a number on this one :thumbdown:

Screw that bro. Time to wait on the SOC giga or go fermi.

RMA is approved at the egg, if they have fermi in stock when I get my money back, Im going green!

You were always happy flying the Rom flag Winger. This Klingon red shit is hard to handle sometimes. They sure did screw with you.

Testing the limits of my Lightning under cold with Vmem mod.

While I'm not happy with some of the limits, I can't say I'm too displeased so far. Since my CPU is still under SS for now, I only played with 3D03 - Trolls and Nature pretty much give me an idea.

1) Cold Bug -120 :thumbdown:
2) GPU 1360 max clock to complete Trolls. Does at 1.51v. Can't clock higher with 1.55v, but that's as much as I wanted to push it this early on.
3) Mem 1300 max clock to complete Nature, though hit or miss. 1290 max for consistency.
4) 1.72v absolute max Vmem. Can see pixels fall out predictably while in 2D at 1.72v. I kept at 1.67v for rock stability.

I'm gonna bench it like this for a while before doing OCP and VDDCI mods. Baby steps. Killed too much expensive hardware lately to risk losing out on some quality benches before jumping to suicidal stuff.

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Good testing patch. Wish she bumped up higher for yah.