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MSI R6970 Lightning 2GB

Join the community - in the OCAU Forums! Date  29th March 2011 Author  DiGiTaL MoNkEY Editor  James "Agg" Rolfe Manufacturer  MSI Synthetic Benchmarks, Heat & Noise, Conclusions Synthetic Benchmarks: Benchmark: 3DMark Vantage and 3DMark 11 Score: GPU/Graphics Score Only - Higher is Better. Download Link: here. Benchmark: Unigine Heaven Benchmark Score: Average Frames per Second (FPS) - Higher is Better. Download Link: here. Noise and Temperature Results: Noise measurements were taken with a digital sound meter approximately 3cm away from the video card fan, reducing the ability of other components such as the CPU or PSU fans to interfere with the final results. Software used for stressing was 3DMark Vantage, looped until the sound level was stable and stopped rising. Temperature readings were taken at an ambient temperature of approximately 22 degrees Celsius, on a open test bench with the fan set to auto. Load and idle temperatures were monitored by MSI's Afterburner utility. Software used for stressing was 3DMark Vantage, looped until the temperature was stable and stopped rising. Conclusions: This HD 6970 Lightning is one of the most feature-rich and customised video card's we've had the pleasure of testing from MSI. From one end of the video card to another it's completely been customised and substantially improved from a reference Radeon HD 6970 design. The 18 phase power design rivals even some motherboard designs, and its cooling system makes sure that even on air it is capable of taking any voltages MSI's Afterburner software is able to provide. No matter how high we pushed the voltages and clocks the cards cooling was well taken care of with the five heatpipe TwinFrozr III solution. Not only did it keep temperatures under control, but it was substantially cooler and quieter at stock than AMD's already capable solution. And when overclocking the card we were able to achieve an impressive 1040 MHz on the core and a scorching 6300 MHz on the already fast memory, even without utilising the card's overclocker centric switches on the back of the card. So in the right hands and maybe some liquid nitrogen we could only imagine the performance this card could achieve, as it sure has the power delivery system in place to produce some even larger clocks. Feel free to comment on this review in this thread. << Back OCAU Main Page Select Page Page 1 - Page 2 - Page 3 -

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