[RomDominance]

Always hope for the best for all my brochachos....its always a crap shoot. I am glad my wingman is bringin the 580's to the party this weekend.

Great news: Dentlord will be doing the Tuslan convention with me this weekend! We plan to go thru at least 150 liters and see how much damage we can do. This is the convention that OC did with me last year. I will stream most, if not all of it, so you guys can check it out if you want. I will make a separate thread with livestream links on friday.

[Splave]

I cant afford this shit at all lol returning the lightning though so its like swapping it out

[Dentlord]

Originally Posted by Splave

I cant afford this shit at all lol returning the lightning though so its like swapping it out

How will MSI ever learn if you keep buying their shit??!!??

Probably gonna pick up a GB as well for this weekend, unless EGG will ship here to AZ for me.

[Splave]

well I figure they are the ones that always run the contests and I had 3 shit evga 480s

[Dentlord]

Originally Posted by Splave

well I figure they are the ones that always run the contests and I had 3 shit evga 480s

Yeah that last bit has me worried, Bren was livid when I told him I went against his advice and bought EVGA.

I think they just got a bad batch of Fermi chips when 480 dropped, there were a LOT of bad to mediocre ones out there from all brands.

[Chuchnit]

So how pissed are you guys going to be when the mods to bypass the 300w limit is under NDA and only the cool kids get to play?

Originally Posted by Wizzard

In order to stay within the 300 W power limit, NVIDIA has added a power draw limitation system to their card. When either Furmark or OCCT are detected running by the driver, three sensors measure the inrush current and voltage on all 12 V lines (PCI-E slot, 6-pin, 8-pin) to calculate power. As soon as the power draw exceeds a predefined limit, the card will automatically clock down and restore clocks as soon as the overcurrent situation has gone away. NVIDIA emphasizes this is to avoid damage to cards or motherboards from these stress testing applications and claims that in normal games and applications such an overload will not happen.

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/N...GTX_580/3.html

[Splave]

I think we will be able to get it from someone from MSI or a friend

[Splave]

http://hwbot.org/community/submission/1076085_

30.2k all on air rofl

[GFDuke]

Originally Posted by Splave

http://hwbot.org/community/submission/1076085_

30.2k all on air rofl

Here's a 480 at those gpu clocks and a 980 5.8ghz. Didn't even reack 27K lol. http://hwbot.org/community/submissio...80_26768_marksThe dude in the link Splave posted had his 980 at 4.4GHZ. Talk about pwnage.

I was thinking about not going MSI. You all know why.....But Splave has a good point. Why EVGA dosn't do these contests is a mystery to me. How is the MSI RMA process? Anyone have any experiences with them?

[Splave]

^ yup I figure grab a company that does contests

was hoping for ASUS but no dice yet