MSI Radeon HD 7970 Lightning OCed to 1800MHz core and 7700MHz memory

Posted on Wednesday, March 21 2012 @ 22:00 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck
TechPowerUp has details about a LN2 fuelled overclocking of MSI's Radeon HD 7970 Lightning that took the card's core to 1800MHz and the memory to 7700MHz!
This R7970 Lightning on 'roid-rage was stable enough to bag a 3DMark 11 (performance preset) score of P15035 points. The rest of the test-bed consisted of an Intel Core i7-3960X Extreme Edition six-core chip clocked at 5207 MHz, with 4 GB (4x 1 GB) DDR3 memory clocked at 2314 MHz, and MSI Big Bang XPower II motherboard, to seat it all. Perhaps this is an indication that AMD Radeon HD 7900 can work wonders on potent non-reference designs, such as MSI's R7970 Lightning.


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