wow, I apologize, as I had not read about that card yet. That card looks to be a madman! Just going by the first review I looked up, it seems like it runs a couple of degrees cooler and is a few db quieter than the Sapphire at factory clocks, but the Lightning looks like it was never intended to run a factory clocks... that thing is begging for a waterblock and some ungodly OC's. Again, I only saw the one review since you mentioned it, but on the factory air I saw that they hit 1180mhz on the core and I have seen the Sapphire swing anywhere between 1140-1200 depending on the website. But thank you for pointing it out! I'm going to do some more reading for sure!