I agree if not just for the top of the line cooling personally I would buy the Noctua just for the silence aloneDeffo needs an NH-D14 - the intel coolers are way too loud. Ive got a box full of them kicking about here
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yassarikhan786
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Those green led fans do look the danglies, nice job.
lcpldongworth
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nice rig whats up with the cables
nice rig whats up with the cables
did you only read the first page? Theres nothing wrong with his cabling on the previous page
True, they still need work though.
Guys i did a ghetto mod, theres just no turning off those BLUE LEDs unless you run stock clocks again, so i think this might only be a temp fix as i don't like the look of a black square piece of tape thats blatantly obvious, on my board
Picked these up on Thursday...
One is being RMA'd though, it detects in Afterburner and other programs as a 'Power Edition' which doesn't exist in the 680 range, plus it runs at lower clock speeds than advertised, so only running a single GTX 680 Lightning at the moment until i get a new one returned.
One is being RMA'd though, it detects in Afterburner and other programs as a 'Power Edition' which doesn't exist in the 680 range, plus it runs at lower clock speeds than advertised, so only running a single GTX 680 Lightning at the moment until i get a new one returned.
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Ironsoldier
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One awesome pc you have there.
Couldn't agree more
yassarikhan786
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Picked these up on Thursday...
One is being RMA'd though, it detects in Afterburner and other programs as a 'Power Edition' which doesn't exist in the 680 range, plus it runs at lower clock speeds than advertised, so only running a single GTX 680 Lightning at the moment until i get a new one returned.
I'm not jealous at all
Hehe i was really excited and even more excited when i looked at them both installed inside the case, really sucks one of them didn't work properly, hopefully on monday or tuesday i get a new one replaced under warranty.
Heres one installed
I had to remove the side fan shroud on the case as the panel wouldn't close due to the width of the 680's, and once the second one is back i will have to remove the sound card, will probably buy a USB DAC
Here they are dwarfing my GTX 580 Super Overclock
Oh and i can't edit my first post anymore
Heres one installed
I had to remove the side fan shroud on the case as the panel wouldn't close due to the width of the 680's, and once the second one is back i will have to remove the sound card, will probably buy a USB DAC
Here they are dwarfing my GTX 580 Super Overclock
Oh and i can't edit my first post anymore
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FTR.4500MHz
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I just got thunderstruck !!!
Delicious cards you got there !
Delicious cards you got there !
yassarikhan786
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Wow, I didn't realize they were that much bigger than the Gigabyte 580
Its not the best you could do,
but they can handle a lot........
But i think there is something underneath it...
lcpldongworth
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will you be water cooling this rig??
seumasbeathan
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Yeah I want to see it watercooled 
The carpet shouldn't be too much of a problem as those cards have back plates. I can also say im surprised of the size against the 580 wind force, their HUGE! and i always thought that was big lol
Nice cards anyway mate
Yeah the lightnings are on back plates, however I shouldn't have put them on the carpet anyway.
I had to remove the shroud for the side panel fan as the case wouldn't close due to the width of the Lightnings.
I don't plan on water cooling, I just don't need it, good case cooling plus cards that don't run hot at all and a good CPU cooler, I just don't need the hassle and extra expense of a loop. I don't feel comfortable with it anyway as I've never used water cooling
