Watching this video at first i thought this card was a fake. But it looks like at some point msi did release some of these. I have a 780ti lightning MOA edition and some of the story is the same. Never released to public, only handed out to overclockers, etc. Allegedly there were only a...
I have a few cards, but no fancy displays and definitely not in pristine condition. Most of these have some sort of vmod and are covered in lube. Heatsinks are somewhere in a box.
I'd be shocked if this was anywhere near $400. $600-700 is what i'm thinking this thing will run. Looks good on paper thought and the supposed soldered ihs would be a nice touch.
I've always done advanced rma with my rog boards. Never have to wait and it's only like $20. Almost the price it costs to ship it to them and then include prepaid return label. Luckily I've always gotten good boards back. Advanced rma with intel too.
Worst case scenario, it's bad and he wants a refund and you agree to it; he shouldn't have a problem waiting 3 weeks for you to gather the money that you held on to for so long but had to spend.
I frequent several forums, looking for stuff to buy. On a few of those forums I have maybe one or two posts. I know that sellers don't like selling to people with few posts, so I make sure to include my heatware with my PM to try and make the seller comfortable and hopefully get a reply.
For a cheap solution for the 285's, I'd buy the heatkiller blocks from PPC. They are only $80 and fit rev1 gtx 285's. Shipping is a little high, but not too much. If you buy the entire set up from them, I'm sure you can email them and he'd probably give you a 10% off code. Also keep in mind...
Overclocking an i5 is similar in fashion to the athlon II that you had bad luck with.
You have asked several times about the memory speed. The memory speed is tied direclty with the bclk or FSB as people still call it. Your memory runs off a multiplier and depending on the bclk the memory...