GTX 680 Lightning Spotted

[Don Karnage]

Not mine

http://www.overclock.net/t/1265807/tt-msi-geforce-gtx-680-lightning-spotted/430#post_17569263

 

[YBS1]

Tracking is showing mine for tomorrow. Yeah!

 

[utahraptor]

I get mine tomorrow as well.

 

[tornadog]

Not mine

Don, I am surprised...make it yours!

 

[guskline]

Don already has a GTX 690!

 

[tornadog]

Don already has a GTX 690!

He needs to own every card that comes out some point in time.

 

[utahraptor]

Hey oh!

I can't wait to get home from work to try it out.

The box is HUGE and so is the card!

 

[guskline]

utahraptor: WOW that's a big box! Keep us informed of how well the card performs.

 

[mple]

Why couldn't this card come out a month ago!

 

[utahraptor]

I am borrowing an air duster can from work to blow out my computer tonight and I will remove the ATI 5870 and replace it with this beast. I am very curious/excited to see what an Intel i5 750 (overclocked to 3.2 GHZ / 4 threads | 3.6 GHZ / 1 thread) can do with it! I plan to buy a 3770K system as soon as the motherboard I want is released, but I want to see what my current system benches to. I plan to reformat the whole thing tonight as well as it really needs it.

 

[utahraptor]

Ok, here is an out of the box test run to see if it was stable and I hooked everything up correctly.

http://3dmark.com/3dm11/3755849

More testing and pictures coming later. I want to reformat the PC soon before I get too serious.

Here is one quick test before dinner and yard work... I launched Diablo 3 and turned off vertical sync. Just standing in town the clock holds at 1202 MHz without me adjusting anything or doing any overclocking.

 

[lavaheadache]

cpu is definately holding back that score

 

[YBS1]

GPU porn incoming....

 

[YBS1]

Weeeeeeeee!!!

The king of all video cards looks kinda puny next to these modern beasts.

I left one 480 in as a dedicated PhysX card...might be a bit overkill on that front. lol
Also, I had a hell of a time getting it to fit in the case (Antec LanBoy Air) I'm currently using, buyer beware if you're considering it.

 

[Don Karnage]

Less pictures more numbers

 

[YBS1]

Oh...you probably wouldn't be too impressed with my numbers. I'm still on a lowly Xeon W3520. It does clock ok though.

 

[lavaheadache]

I want that 9700 pro!!!!!!

 

[DrBoss]

I can dig it,
would appreciate if you benched Unigine at these settings:

tp compare lightning to power edition

 

[Don Karnage]

We all bench at 8X AA and 16X AF

 

[DrBoss]

We all bench at 8X AA and 16X AF

perhaps i will re-bench at those settings

 

[Don Karnage]

do you... thats a

cool
story
bro

Really dude?

 

[YBS1]

That's defaults as installed, I haven't installed Afterburner yet or flipped the bios switch. I may need an updated Heaven version, it's detecting the 480 as the GPU.

 

[YBS1]

Same as above except with everything as high as it will go. I don't think the fans have even ramped up on this thing yet...it is quiet.

 

[DrBoss]

looks promising,
keep us posted on OC scaling

 

[blackened23]

lol @ those dudes at the EVGA forum Don. "but the classified sold out so much quicker" LOL I bet the lightning would sell out pretty fast if newegg had only put 2 cards up for sale...