Quote Originally Posted by CryptiK View Post
What's so bad about the refurbs are they substandard or just not a perfect new card to you psychologically? What are they worth? By the look/specs of the VRM it should handle over 1.25v whats the cause of that limitation do you know?
My thoughts it was just a limitation of the smbus and many variables of the BIOS trying to interact with non OEM hardware. And nothing really is wrong with the refurbs honestly I just don't wish to get one I would rather just spend the money on a Lightning. I was hoping to see a Lightning Xtreme variant by now but I guess not. I have a 4GB Galaxy 680 right now and I really love the extra VRAM. I want to go to 1440p just because I can keep the pixel density but up the size, which that's all the difference in resolution is anyway, 1600 being the least dense. I have an Acer 23.5 3D that I really find lackluster in image quality so I'm really looking to upgrade. I tried selling it with the 3D kit for a while but nothing came of it so oh well. I do a lot of photo editing and media viewing so I love having rich colors and crisp images. I wasn't thinking about any of that when I got this monitor.