Cheers Gibbo, think I'll wait for the refund to be on the safe side, then decide between this (if its still available) the msi or the Gigabyte G1 as I now have the case for it
If a card can hit atleast 1500mhz on the core I'll be pleased
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Cheers Gibbo, think I'll wait for the refund to be on the safe side, then decide between this (if its still available) the msi or the Gigabyte G1 as I now have the case for it
If a card can hit atleast 1500mhz on the core I'll be pleased
Cheers Gibbo, think I'll wait for the refund to be on the safe side, then decide between this (if its still available) the msi or the Gigabyte G1 as I now have the case for it
If a card can hit atleast 1500mhz on the core I'll be pleased
All three of those cards stand a good chance of 1500Mhz.
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Great stuff. Its so hard to resist all these great offers.
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What are the power requirements as in 12V rail amps? My psu does 38A (2x19A).
That sounds very low as it is two separate rails of 19A each, could be a struggle and if it does run but whines the PSU could be the culprit for sure.
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Actually I just had a look at it in my case and the PSU is specced differently to how it's described online. It's actually triple rail (16A + 25A + 17A). Does that make a difference?
Am I missing something with these non-reference designs, because you managed to get 1500mhz out of the OCUK 970 reference card you tried. Is there something else these cards offer other than the higher 'out-the-box' speeds?
A better chance of getting to 1600Mhz really to be honest.
You have to remember as well the OcUK reference 970 is a 980 PCB, so facts are its better than most of that custom stuff anyway. We just do not market the OcUK 970 Reference as an overclocking product as that was not our intentions.
A better chance of getting to 1600Mhz really to be honest.
You have to remember as well the OcUK reference 970 is a 980 PCB, so facts are its better than most of that custom stuff anyway.
So taking that in to account and the fact I would like to go SLI in the near future, the reference is definitely the way to go then?
For SLI I always recommend reference, better cooling particular if your case is not huge with great airflow.
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That 970 with the custom cooler is a very nice price.
In my short palit test of an overclocked 1500mhz going from an 280X OC it didn't make me go wow this thing crushes my old card
But then I did have a faulty fan hehThe only game I was able to test was Skyrim and a few benchmark runs, sure it was quicker, but it wasn't incredible like. But again mine was faulty and I'm saving up for a better GTX 970
I have EX OC and it is quite. No coil whine.
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The 970's a lot faster and that's without taking overclocking into consideration, which the 970's do well with the added benefit of an extra 1GB of Vram over the 280X, so it's not just all about power consumption as you put it.
http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/1355?vs=1041