The card in question the 7 80 t i lightning edition from M s.

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Now, if you Google the 7 80 Lightning, you're bound to find a few results because the standard 7 80 lightning edition did, in fact released to the public.

And it was a fantastic card, the tea I edition of the car.

However, well, as I said that never made it to the public market.

And the few that were produced sort of disappeared into the wilderness, never to be seen again.

So where did I have all people find one.

Did I use some sort of magical YouTube a connection like I did with my suit's rogue miles to Jewel 5 80 card.

I took a look at about a year ago. 00:01:0.010 --> 00:01:4.400 Well, actually, no I found this one of all places on eBay. 00:01:4.610 --> 00:01:14.600 I was just looking for graphics cards, as I normally do, searching by newly listed and about four or five places down was this, Card said in the description.

Here we have a pretty rare GPU, and at this point, I knew I had tohave it.

Listed at £150.

I thought that was a pretty good deal, even for a standard 7 80 t i these days.

So to find this edition of the car for the same Christ, wasn't it of a ball game?

It gets a bit better because I offered a slightly lower price of £110 plus £10 postage into my surprise within the hour the cellar accepted.

I don't know how why he did, but I'm just happy that he did.

Because I've been waiting on this card with bated breath for literally 48 hours straight, have hardly had any sleep.

But without further ado, let's talk about the card itself a little bit more, so I posted my fine to read it in hopes of some more information on the community over there were very helpful it seems theseventy a t t i lightning was on display at Computex 2014 on the launch of this beast was the go ahead is normal.

However, in video had other ideas and didn't want m s.

I releasing it with an increased voltage of specifications.

According to an article on Tweak Town M s, I then chose to give away the 12 samples they had made to over Clockers instead of mass producing a card that wouldn't give uses.

The lightning experience they had come to know and expect these over Clockers with a modified BIOS installed, could push this thing to ridiculous levels using Ln to or liquid nitrogen calling solution.

As a result, I'm pretty confident in saying that off the 12 samples that were given away, probably not all of them are still kicking around today.

Who knows?

This may even be the last, but let's take an in depth look at this thing. 00:02:59.560 --> 00:03:4.950 Clean it up and then see if it actually boots up in our system or blows up our system. 00:03:5.290 --> 00:03:17.990 The Tri Fan caller looks no different from the one found on the standard 7 80 lightning, and it is one of the nicest color conflicts I've seen, in my opinion, even the connectors of this card a gold, which is a nice touch around the back.

And you may have noticed this weird cap that stops the card sitting flat.

This protects the GPU reactor, emphasized GPU.

Reactor was a little detachable bold that was connected to the rear of the PCB on was supposed to help with over clocking stability.

This one is missing, which is odd, but the cold will still work fine without it providing.

It works at all, of course.

So before the moment of truth, let's take it apart and clean it up, giving it a new dosage of thermal paste to ensure temperature.

State called.

You never know if this thing has seen a life of abuse.

The old paste may be completely drying, almost non existent.

It comes apart pretty easily, just like any GPU. 00:03:58.950 --> 00:04:3.760 The first thing to do was to remove the back plate and then undo the remaining screws. 00:04:3.930 --> 00:04:10.250 It's a little more nerve racking with a card like this, though, I'll admit, and I was happy to see the old paste wasn't actually old.

It'll it may have even been replaced before the seller sent it out to me.

Nonetheless, I cleaned off the old stuff, removing as much paste as I could from the chip itself and took this opportunity to confirm that it was indeed a g k 1 10 4 to 5 B one chip in the back of my head.

I'm still expecting this thing to somehow be a fake.

Maybe it is.

And I've missed something obvious.

But as far as I can tell, it's legit.

After replacing the paste and putting the car back together, I took a few deep breaths and prepare to fire it up.

There are no official documents stating the P S U requirements that I could find the M s.

I recommend a 600 what ps you for a standard 7 80 lightning.

So I thought my 650 walk 50 to AMP.

Course there T X power supply would suffice. 00:04:56.940 --> 00:05:5.110 I also confirmed that this little bi or switch was set to stock instead of Ln to, as I won't be extremely over clocking it today. 00:05:5.270 --> 00:05:6.090 But more on that. 00:05:6.090 --> 00:05:16.530 A little later are slaughtered the card into the rise and 5 1600 test system and powered it on on when the card lit up like the last Vegas Strip are relaxed a little.

This was the next screen I saw.

I was told the card crashed when the drivers were installed, so I let Device Manager do its thing.

But I was stoked to see no loss of signal.

I then opened up M s.

I afterburner to see if we were running it sensible temperatures after the pace change, and we were with this discovery.

I didn't want to push it too hard.

So I jumped into a couple of games to test the stability.

If nothing else, as my place session approached 20 minutes, the lightning logo on the car turned red to indicate a high load, though the card remained pretty cool.

Even without an extreme over clock.

This thing will still do okay in modern and demanding games. 00:05:57.800 --> 00:06:2.090 And thanks to the hefty calling solution, it stays pretty quiet as well. 00:06:2.420 --> 00:06:14.370 Even when I crank things way up that he is where I started experiencing issues, I was only able to bench these two games because any title I opened up afterwards crashed or froze.

Now, this may be a BIOS issue, but it only crushed under load.

So it might just be that my 650 what power supply isn't quite enough.

Regardless, I decided to turn off the system for today until I can get a hold of a beefy a ps you over the weekend.

I'm not entirely confident that this is the issue.

And considering this GP use assumed past life, it may just be on its last legs.

But I'd hate to see what may be the last of a product break because of me.

It would be like running over the last dodo in your car accidentally or killing the last seat, her toe win the world, and you just feel terrible about it.

So I'm gonna take my time to try and make a longer, more in depth benchmarking segment happen.

I've already contacted M S I themselves who have been in contact with their beforehand for a couple of projects, and I've also tried to get in touch with the E Bay seller to get a bit of back story to this specific 7 80 So stay tuned.

Watch this space because hopefully I'll be benchmarking the 7 80 t i lightning very, very soon.

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