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Time to move away from the stress

Techen said:
My god there so small rofl, What blocks are they? Also lack of ram cooling no?
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EK Thermosphere universal blocks on Galax 970 EXOC's - overclock on the ram is the same with the waterblocks as it was with the hsf - 1965mhz.

No Ram cooling - 90% of 970's don't have ram cooling - even MSI's card only have partal coverage and nothingfot the chips on the back of the card - checkout EK's cooling config for pics:-

http://www.coolingconfigurator.com/...GeForce-GTX-970-4GB-GDDR5-(V316-001R)-PCB.jpg
 
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Well, if you want a stress free experience wait a while for some new drivers. The current ones crash every now and then on bltps
 
Lucky then :)

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Stas823 said:
Well, if you want a stress free experience wait a while for some new drivers. The current ones crash every now and then on bltps
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I had a 290x around 6-7 months ago with these same issues am having now. New mobo, cpus etc down the line nothings changed and am on the latest drivers. Sadly sick of waiting, Never have had any issues with Nivida.
 
arc@css said:
If you overclock the 970, I assume the difference between the two will remain the same as before, or does the 980 have more overall overclocking potential?
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I can't say to be honest bud as I don't have access to a 970 but going by what everyone is saying if you want the fastest then get a 980 and overclock it, If you want to save money get a 970 and overclock it :)

I'm only going off of benchmarks - http://www.anandtech.com/show/8568/the-geforce-gtx-970-review-feat-evga/4

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If you can wait a month or so then you might as well wait for the inevitable Titan 2 or 980 Ti*Milking Edition* to be released as then people will start selling off their 970's and 980's for cheap :)
 
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Both overclocked the 980 will obviously win.

An overclocked 970 will match a stock 980 and beat a 290 and possibly a 290x.

A 970 is basically worth two 670s

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18485414

Check out single GPUscores, expand the box and look for my 11415 score. Check out my GPU score to everything around me.

And then think about the fact the card wants to boost higher but is limited with volts :p

And it performed that score at around 63 degrees.
 
Dicehunter said:
If you can wait a month or so then you might as well wait for the inevitable Titan 2 or 980 Ti*Milking Edition* to be released as then people will start selling off their 970's and 980's for cheap :)
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I doubt 970 & 980's will become cheap. They just released. Even if a new titan releases it'll still be 28nm so I don't think Imho it'll be worth ditching the 900 series just yet. I was going to wait myself for Titan 2 or whatever they're gonna call it. But decided to get 2 980 waiting for Titan won't be worth it until we leave 28nm behind. The 900 series will hold it's own until 16nm comes.
 
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Doesn't Kaapstad have like 4 R9 290 or R9 290X cards himself - I think he finds them fine??

A blue screen sounds like some hardware problem - not a software problem,OP!

Something is probably going south - I would try and see if its some other part starting to die.

My current system starting BSODing and freezing on and off recently for example and my motherboard ended up dying last week.

I would be probably testing the cards too,just in case one has a fault,etc.

Ultimately why does the OP need to have three cards - I was under the impression after two cards scaling tends to be meh anyway. Wouldn't using their R295X2 just by itself make sense??

Simon Belmont said:
I doubt 970 & 980's will become cheap. They just released. Even if a new titan releases it'll still be 28nm so I don't think Imho it'll be worth ditching the 900 series just yet. I was going to wait myself for Titan 2 or whatever they're gonna call it. But decided to get 2 980 waiting for Titan won't be worth it until we leave 28nm behind. The 900 series will hold it's own until 16nm comes.
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Once the GTX780 was released,the GTX670 and GTX680 prices crashed and since 28NM is mature I expect the GTX980TI will appear sooner rather than later,ie,it won't be another a year and a bit wait like the GTX780.
 
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Simon Belmont said:
I doubt 970 & 980's will become cheap. They just released. Even if a new titan releases it'll still be 28nm so I don't think Imho it'll be worth ditching the 900 series just yet. I was going to wait myself for Titan 2 or whatever they're gonna call it. But decided to get 2 980 waiting for Titan won't be worth it until we leave 28nm behind. The 900 series will hold it's own until 16nm comes.
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*Snatches crystal ball*
 
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