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NVIDIA GTX 970 OWNERS THREAD

Robert_G said:
The back of my case where the card sits is getting very hot for some reason, it's nearly too hot to touch. GPU temps are normally in the high 60's/low 70's when I'm gaming, so I can't see why it heats up so much.
My 660 operated at around the same temps and that never pumped this much heat out and the cards only have a 5 watt difference.
It actually makes any cables plugged into it go limp, they get that hot. Can't be doing them any good.
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VRM?
 
Amatsubu said:
Trust me, I really want to buy this card and I'll probably do but I'm just cautious. As I said, I don't care about the GPU sagging if it's purely an aesthetic issue but if it's going to damage my Z97-Pro and/or the card itself, then I will have to put up with horrible Asus RMA trying to explain that their highly regarded GPU broke the PCIe slot on their equally highly regarded motherboard;p
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depending on your case design, you might be able to suspended the far-end from something else inside the case. might not look very pretty.

or you can get a horizontal case!

http://www.mountainmods.com/u2-ufo-horizon-black-powder-coat-original-top-p-350.html :D
 
jp7152 said:
You could use DSR to use more vram. Maybe watchdogs would use it all?
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I can up the resolution scale to 4k on Shadow of Mordor and it'll start to use it.

It still doesn't explain why it doesn't willingly use all the 4GB at lower resolutions like other 4GB cards. I've got Watchdogs so I might give that a go and see what happens.
 
Amatsubu said:
Trust me, I really want to buy this card and I'll probably do but I'm just cautious. As I said, I don't care about the GPU sagging if it's purely an aesthetic issue but if it's going to damage my Z97-Pro and/or the card itself, then I will have to put up with horrible Asus RMA trying to explain that their highly regarded GPU broke the PCIe slot on their equally highly regarded motherboard;p
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easy to fix. :-
http://www.catchesandlatches.co.uk/l-shaped-brackets-chair-brackets-32-x-32-x-16mm-zinc-plated

but choose one that's quite small, simply attach that to your mobo mounting plate with sealent and adjust it so it just touches the underside of the card.

you'll need to do this with the PC on its end so that the GPU is straight, leave it overnight, you wont notice this tiny bracket and you can deffo spray it white too.

this will look great and solve the problem straight away :cool::cool:
 
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after much huffing and puffing i've just ordered another Asus Strix for SLI,
this should last me all of next year..

it was either the 970 or the MSI Lightning 290X Crossfire, but common sense prevails...deffo the right decision
 
My 970s arrived :)
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One of my cards doesn't seem to be getting picked up :confused:
Had to mess around in Device Manager to get my second card working. Not sure why.
Seems okay now though.
 
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colinmcr said:
Looks like Kitguru think we are gonna see 8GB 970's

http://www.kitguru.net/components/g...0-with-8gb-of-memory-in-november-of-december/
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Gibbo said:
Press announcement!

I spoke to NVIDIA yesterday, they are saying there will be no 8GB cards and that GDDR5 is in shortage and that they can't handle 4GB 980 and 970 demand, so no 8GB's.

But that was yesterday, so I will ask again tomorrow.

But my pricing is my own promotions and it is just Inno3D, other cards will be the same, plus if NVIDIA do this the price will be very high for the priviledge and Etailors will mark up massively as 8GB cards will be even more short than 4GB versions were.

You have to remember for every one 8GB 980, NVIDIA can sell two 4GB 980's and they focus on GPU sales, not memory sales, this is why 6GB 780 was never available so well. ;)
If it comes and I hope it does they will be very expensive! :)
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Mal X said:
easy to fix. :-
http://www.catchesandlatches.co.uk/l-shaped-brackets-chair-brackets-32-x-32-x-16mm-zinc-plated

but choose one that's quite small, simply attach that to your mobo mounting plate with sealent and adjust it so it just touches the underside of the card.

you'll need to do this with the PC on its end so that the GPU is straight, leave it overnight, you wont notice this tiny bracket and you can deffo spray it white too.

this will look great and solve the problem straight away :cool::cool:
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Thanks mate, I'll see what I can fix up. Should have the Strix tomorrow, hope it won't sag badly enough to really require any countermeasures;p
 
I set my core clock to 200+ and afterburner reads a higher boost clock and then after a while the same boost clock drops... why is this happening and what's up with this? (throttling?? but why?? power??)

GTX 970 MSI GAMING

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Geekazoid said:
I set my core clock to 200+ and afterburner reads a higher boost clock and then after a while the same boost clock drops... why is this happening and what's up with this? (throttling?? but why?? power??)

GTX 970 MSI GAMING

latest drivers
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How much is it dropping by?
 
:p

Installed my G1 970 today, upgrading from two 670's.

Big upgrade, if BF4 is anything to go by.

The game felt at the beginning like it was all speed up!! :eek:

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Edit, withthe 670's in SLI I've alwasy had adaptive vsync on, which capped my frame rate to 60 as my monitor tears.

With the 970 I have left vysnc off. But surely this cant be the reason why the game feels so much more fluid?
 
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