NVIDIA GTX 970 OWNERS THREAD

Geeman1979 · 17 Oct 2014 at 15:53

If it's also showing the same symptoms in bios, it's a gonna....

Legojon · 17 Oct 2014 at 16:12

MOOGLEYS said:
Can anyone confirm if they can use more than 3.5GB of Vram on their 970 on something like Mordor for me please. For some reason my card always seems to max at 3.5GB whereas my 980 would access all 4gb ?

I'm sure it's just a monitoring issue but just seems a bit weird to me.

Mine regularly maxes out on 4GB in... so far ... Mordor, Titanfall, Dead Rising 3, probably a couple of others I can't remember... most things tend to at 5760x1080.

MOOGLEYS · 17 Oct 2014 at 16:14

Legojon said:
Mine regularly maxes out on 4GB in... so far ... Mordor, Titanfall, Dead Rising 3, probably a couple of others I can't remember... most things tend to at 5760x1080.

Mine has just given up on me so maybe that was half the problem. Mine never went above 3.5GB Vram usage on anything.

shamus21 · 17 Oct 2014 at 16:37

That looks like bad memory , one of chips is knackered Moogleys

Legojon · 17 Oct 2014 at 17:44

Err, has the MSI bios been pulled? Live update 6 now says 25 is the latest version for me! Didn't want to update mid-week in case a disaster followed... tonight it seems to be gone!

Wizzfizz · 17 Oct 2014 at 18:01

My MSI seems to have developed a fault, every now and then only one of the fans spins, the other one you can see is trying, as it twitches. Until I gently poke it with my finger does it then start to spin.

Ayahuasca · 17 Oct 2014 at 18:05

That's the problem people are having which the BIOS update tried to fix. Isn't a problem for me as I run my fan at a constant speed but for those on auto it's a nightmare.

Wizzfizz · 17 Oct 2014 at 18:07

I take it that the BIOS didn't fix it then?

Looks like I'll be sending it back then, headache!

Ayahuasca · 17 Oct 2014 at 18:07

Seen people report the BIOS didn't change anything so I guess that's why they've pulled it.

Wizzfizz · 17 Oct 2014 at 18:51

Here is a clip of the problem, excuse to rubbish quality...

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ldnttu6a0sa7jl9/20141017165618.MTS?dl=0

Coolasmoo · 17 Oct 2014 at 19:21

Wizzfizz said:
Here is a clip of the problem, excuse to rubbish quality...

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ldnttu6a0sa7jl9/20141017165618.MTS?dl=0

https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=183618.250

xXxsephirothxXx · 17 Oct 2014 at 19:30

Going to be buying couple 970's next week

I cant wait

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Anyway MSI or gigabite G1? Gigabite clocking at or higher than the MSI cards? just wondering cus the gigabite can draw more power.

uncle_rufus · 17 Oct 2014 at 20:27

The fan issue is a bit worrying, but does it actually make any difference to the temps?

I haven't noticed anything odd with my MSI, but then again I haven't spent a lot of time looking at it, just been using it in various games and it seems to perform fine with temps not getting out of control...

Hmm, to check or not to check - as long as I never look my card is in a quantum state of both broken and okay...

adbee · 18 Oct 2014 at 11:31

I have just overclocked my sli Gigabyte g1 970s.

I have done 150mhz on the core, and 400mhz on the memory.

One of the cards is hitting 79c in the Heaven, is this too high?

old gamer · 18 Oct 2014 at 11:41

adbee said:
I have just overclocked my sli Gigabyte g1 970s.

I have done 150mhz on the core, and 400mhz on the memory.

One of the cards is hitting 79c in the Heaven, is this too high?

My guess is thats the top card, not something i would be to worried about

rob77 · 18 Oct 2014 at 11:50

I had a bug with my MSI last night where one of the fans was stuck at 100% speed after gaming. I had to shut the PC down and power back up to get it to go to 0% again in windows. I tried manually setting the fan speed with afterburner but it would not budge. I had already upgraded to the latest bios. Hoping it is just a one off and not something that is going to happen frequently.

Coolasmoo · 18 Oct 2014 at 13:00

rob77 said:
I had a bug with my MSI last night where one of the fans was stuck at 100% speed after gaming. I had to shut the PC down and power back up to get it to go to 0% again in windows. I tried manually setting the fan speed with afterburner but it would not budge. I had already upgraded to the latest bios. Hoping it is just a one off and not something that is going to happen frequently.

Im afraid it most likely will happen again.

I run a custom profile in afterburner to keep the fans spinning at 30%.

Cant hear them at this speed at idle.

almighty15 · 18 Oct 2014 at 13:13

Just had a drive OCUK to get my coil wine monster replaced and the new card is perfect!

Static Jak · 18 Oct 2014 at 15:43

New stock of MSI cards are currently "Overdue".
Hopefully they come into stock on Monday so I can get it before the end of the week.

Nocky24 · 18 Oct 2014 at 18:03

MOOGLEYS said:
Mine has just given up on me so maybe that was half the problem. Mine never went above 3.5GB Vram usage on anything.

I thought there was an issue with mine when you mentioned this as in SoM at 1440p maxed out (no HD pack) my 970s never went over around 3578mb, ever. If I bumped up the resolution to the max though it immediately utilises the full 4GB. Did you try this before it gave up on you?