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Have you bought an MSI GTX 970?

Bought one of the first batch of Gtx 970 with mouse mat and one of the second wave. Almost identical asic. Both seem spot on, no coil whine or fan troubles. Running +160 core +500mem 24/7.
 
Mr Badger said:
Looking at the posts in the "MSI GTX970 and Nvidia Drivers problem" thread perhaps we need a supplementary question here for people that consider their MSI 970 to be problem free: Are you using the latest Nvidia driver?
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You talking about the fan spinning up every 30 seconds for about 1 second? Mines does it on the latest drivers but it's completely inaudible and I doubt it's doing any damage. Non issue for me.
 
Heisenberg said:
You talking about the fan spinning up every 30 seconds for about 1 second? Mines does it on the latest drivers but it's completely inaudible and I doubt it's doing any damage. Non issue for me.
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Fans switching on and off 2,880 times a day. Equivalent of switching your PC on and off every day for nearly 8 years lol.
 
Nelly said:
Fans switching on and off 2,880 times a day. Equivalent of switching your PC on and off every day for nearly 8 years lol.
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Why would that cause anymore issues than the fan spinning constantly at say 30% like previous cards? In fact, surely the fan is doing less work. Do you get worked up when using the aircon in your car causing the cooling fan to click in more frequently? As I said, it's a complete non issue and one that will no doubt be fixed pretty sharpish.
 
Heisenberg said:
Why would that cause anymore issues than the fan spinning constantly at say 30% like previous cards? In fact, surely the fan is doing less work. Do you get worked up when using the aircon in your car causing the cooling fan to click in more frequently? As I said, it's a complete non issue and one that will no doubt be fixed pretty sharpish.
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Who knows, it might, it might not, but when I look at it like that just over one day it does worry me.

When you look at the Fan Control ratios within the actual BIOS for the other manufacturers they are all set virtually identical with the exception of MSI, they are totally dumb.

Not bothered anyway, fixed the BIOS myself.
 
Nelly said:
Who knows, it might, it might not, but when I look at it like that just over one day it does worry me.

When you look at the Fan Control ratios within the actual BIOS for the other manufacturers they are all set virtually identical with the exception of MSI, they are totally dumb.

Not bothered anyway, fixed the BIOS myself.
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Won't the strixx and the Msi have the same kind of fan properties due to them both being off until a certain temperature? I've not looked at BIOS's and I doubt I would even understand what I was looking at :D
 
Heisenberg said:
Won't the strixx and the Msi have the same kind of fan properties due to them both being off until a certain temperature? I've not looked at BIOS's and I doubt I would even understand what I was looking at :D
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Yeah they do, not taking the glory for finding the fix, it was this guy. A few people just used Maxwell II BIOS Tweaker 1.36 to ammend the Fan Control settings, have a look here.

It's easy to do, but abit of fathing about, just annoys me having to mess about, I want the card to be perfect soon as I've bought it like the other branded cards, I'm sure they will fix it within the next couple of days max. :)

rwcordell - MSI Forums said:
I may have found a problem with MSI's fan settings on these cards.
Is this the problem? I don't know. But it does not seem to be set correctly IMO.
As you can see below the fans with the OEM bios are never actually set to 0 rpm. When they are off they are actually being told to spin at 1% power at 23 rpm.





I have changed mine.

The fans no longer randomly spin with the new drivers. And I have not had any more problems with one fan not spinning up ( although its too early to declare victory on that problem ).

My fans now start up at 50c and even when overclocked to 1503MHZ I have not gone over 65c at 68% fan speed.

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Heisenberg said:
Why would that cause anymore issues than the fan spinning constantly at say 30% like previous cards? In fact, surely the fan is doing less work. Do you get worked up when using the aircon in your car causing the cooling fan to click in more frequently? As I said, it's a complete non issue and one that will no doubt be fixed pretty sharpish.
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generally with electronics etc i believe it's the switching on that puts the most stress on the components. i imagine that's true with fans too, but have no idea!
 
Had one since they came out. No issues and OC very well. Quiet and cool. Never had an issue with any of my other MSI cards either (460 Hawk, 580 twin frozr and 670 PE). Only anecdotal evidence, but there you go.

PS. Except for the fan polling issue that everyone gets after Nvidia drivers 344.16 (which I'm still running). And I'm sure this will either be fixed in the drivers, or via a BIOS update.
 
Mine updated through Live Update a couple of days ago, sorted the fan issue out. BIOS Version NV316MH.182

Mine is quiet, runs cool and OCs well :)
 
Stupid question, can I use msi live update to update my gpu without having an msi motherboard? I tried installing it the other day but it wouldn't load.
 
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