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970's having performance issues using 4GB Vram - Nvidia investigating
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yep i evan double checked to see if sli was enabled
Caporegime
No, that doesn't sound right, unless you was in a massively demanding area. I love Tomb Raider and will run it tonight on a pair of Titans to see if I get the same tonight?
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Caporegime
I think now they have to state that it was under certain conditions. Its the same with broadband speeds. Take my case on bt adsl. They state upto 8mb, which I've never seen go over 5mb. But its within the 8mb they state so all is well as far as they're concerned.
if you could, the game looked and played well enough and if i was not looking at the fps i would not know
HI there
We have EVGA with us today and they are first to provide an update on the GTX970.
If you still feel you have to return your EVGA GTX970 then EVGA will 100% support any return of your product through OCUK.
EVGA do however encourage you to contact them directly before returning your card, as options to step up to GTX980 will be made available but only those in direct contact.
Please contact [email protected] if you have any concerns with your EVGA GTX970 product.
We have EVGA with us today and they are first to provide an update on the GTX970.
If you still feel you have to return your EVGA GTX970 then EVGA will 100% support any return of your product through OCUK.
EVGA do however encourage you to contact them directly before returning your card, as options to step up to GTX980 will be made available but only those in direct contact.
Please contact [email protected] if you have any concerns with your EVGA GTX970 product.
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This is exactly my point and why I would prefer to return my 970's. I absolutely hate being lied to. Not one description for any of the 970's on ocUK state that there is a performance drop when you make use of more than 3.5gb of vram. I'm just waiting to hear if I can return my cards for an exchange.
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Mate, I have three titans and have to turn down settings in most of the games that are being thrown around as a problem for the 970
I'm not entirely happy about that either, but looking at what other people get on similar and Amd hardware it looks more to be the games at blame
There is nothing else worth me buying, so i stick with what I have until something better comes along
For people with 970sli, they could switch to a single 980 but that wouldnt get them very far as the drop off in gpu grunt would be pretty big, or you can risk AMD but for a lot of people that isnt really a choice either
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Wish I'd gone with EVGA rather than Gigabyte now like I was originally planning. Top service!
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What about others like ASUS Gibbo?
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+2. Nicely put.
its hard on occasion not getting drawn in (not to the insults or the oneupmanship if you own AMD), but to the heavily fuelled concern that my new card based on new tech doesn't have the longevity I was told it would...
What's on my mind is, would this be anywhere near an issue if these latest games weren't tanking the VRAM, which seems a relatively new trend over the last 6 months or so, meaning the 970 would be out of its depth for some games at levels anyway even if it's full 4gb was "normal"?
It feels that is quite a quick time for a card not to be able to keep up with games. To my mind a £300 GPU that's mid-high range should be able to hold its own for over a year minimum. My 5850's at half the price were great for ages! That said, that's not the manufacturers fault, that is a sigh of the times/tech. And there's been enough complaint that games haven't moved on enough over the last few years.
I haven't got onto FC4 yet, but my 970 purchase was primarily was lining myself up for The Witcher 3 which I hope will be occupying my gaming like Skyrim ended up doing... ideally at 1440p and SLI if needed.
I just want a solution, and ideally one that doesn;t mean sending cards back, refunds etc.... which lets face it, as "exciting" as all this furore and scandal is.... could end up being and ache.
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could be explained by it gradually using more of the extra vram
but doesnt mean it is that
and ive still not completed that game!! so many games i never finish
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That's at least a result for evga users! Nice one ... Now for the rest
yes, but you're only turning down settings like Anisotropic filtering and Super Sampling........... you deffo dont turn down the textures or the sharpness settings... you know what i mean
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Good news. Lets hope MSI do the same
Quick question - Im assuming that if consumers decide to go direct to manufacturer for "upgrade replacements" the warrant is transferred to them and removed from OCUK?
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The answer to this problem is not turning down settings lol.
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