OcUK GTX 970

[AntiQlimax]

Hi,

Please bare with me as this is my first post, Right lets get straight to the point. I am extremely happy with both of my cards i have purchased from yourselves but with all the fuss being made online about the mistakes Nvidia have made have left me concerned. I really do not wish to return my items to you as they are performing extremely well, a little hotter than other people have said there cards run but great none the less.

My concern with this is 12 months down the line and games are advancing and requiring more vram will i be gambling by keeping them and only getting say 12 months serious use for the £638 i paid? That to me is a bad investment.

I am really stuck with what to do because like i said im not seeing any problems now but thats not to say its not going to happen.

Any comments or advice to put my mined at ease would be greatly appreciated.

Jay Mc

 

[Legend]

What resolution are you at?

 

[varkanoid]

Hi,

Please bare with me as this is my first post, Right lets get straight to the point. I am extremely happy with both of my cards i have purchased from yourselves but...

Welcome to the forum. Just a note whilst OCUK employees do frequent these pages its mostly made up of general public/customers.

Post your PC specifications.

 

[Dave2150]

Hi,

Please bare with me as this is my first post, Right lets get straight to the point. I am extremely happy with both of my cards i have purchased from yourselves but with all the fuss being made online about the mistakes Nvidia have made have left me concerned. I really do not wish to return my items to you as they are performing extremely well, a little hotter than other people have said there cards run but great none the less.

My concern with this is 12 months down the line and games are advancing and requiring more vram will i be gambling by keeping them and only getting say 12 months serious use for the £638 i paid? That to me is a bad investment.

I am really stuck with what to do because like i said im not seeing any problems now but thats not to say its not going to happen.

Any comments or advice to put my mined at ease would be greatly appreciated.

Jay Mc

£638 is a lot of money for a product that is limited to 3.5GB imo.

Although it depends what resolution you play at, as the months go by more and more console games will arrive on the PC. When you bear in mind these consoles can use 6GB+ of VRAM - the PC requirements will also go up.

Just look at the recent games to be released- Shadows of Mordor etc, they all love extra VRAM.

If your able to get a refund and to wait for equally affordable 6GB or 8GB cards, then I'd highly recommend that.

Do be prepared for a lot of mixed opinions in this thread. There are many NVIDIA fans who will defend their company to the death - saying that you'll either never notice this 3.5GB problem or that you'll upgrade before you notice - though remember it's your money your risking, not theirs.

 

[dyonisis007]

£638 is a lot of money for a product that is limited to 3.5GB imo.

Although it depends what resolution you play at, as the months go by more and more console games will arrive on the PC. When you bear in mind these consoles can use 6GB+ of VRAM - the PC requirements will also go up.

Just look at the recent games to be released- Shadows of Mordor etc, they all love extra VRAM.

If your able to get a refund and to wait for equally affordable 6GB or 8GB cards, then I'd highly recommend that.

Do be prepared for a lot of mixed opinions in this thread. There are many NVIDIA fans who will defend their company to the death - saying that you'll either never notice this 3.5GB problem or that you'll upgrade before you notice - though remember it's your money your risking, not theirs.

I agree, I do however have 970 SLI @ 1440p and am more than happy.

I do unfortunately think the OP is a troll, and if not. Then if you can, and you feel you are having issues then fair play, get a pair of 8GB 290x's and have some money left over. I do hope your case has adequate cooling for xfire, and you don't mind the noise.

I'm not being obtuse, my friend has xfire 290x's, ref, and he hates them, with a passion. He likes silent gaming and in his case they reach 80+c and are always throttling, and he states they are so noisy all the time. He has asked for a weeks swap, I am going to try it, though my heavily OC 970's are silent with new coolers and never go above 60c with SLI!

I think I know what ill stick with, 3.5GB+512 or 4GB heaters that are a power drain, noisy and hard to deal with. But I have had SLI 580's before which were the same so who knows!

 

[Gibbo]

Hi there

Only you as a customer can make this decision, yes they are great cards indeed, something I am very proud of as I had them manufactured, the cards that is, the NVIDIA GPU I had nothing to do with.

OcUK's stance is if you are unhappy, simply return them, we offer a no hassle service.

 

[AntiQlimax]

I'm running them at 1080p atm, but was looking to 4k eventually.

Thank you for your response gibbo, I know you had a lot to do with the design to eliminate coil whine, whats your overall view on the matter and do you think this could be a potential problem for us 970 owners in 12 months time?

For the record I won't be going over to AMD sadly, I spent a lot of money getting away from them builds just sad I sold my Evga 770 sc to buy the 970's and feel a little let down.

 

[~>Dg<~]

lol 1080. no need to worry. 4k is nowhere near with gpus.

give it two or 3 years then people will be gaming at 4k properly or it will be bettered.

look now . at 4k in reality u need 4 cards. even then that produces too much heat , uses too much power and costs too much .

then you stick crysis 3 on and guess what you start to cry


its a marketing ploy.

just play games comfortably until the real tech is here. it isnt and wont be for two to 3 years yet.

 

[AntiQlimax]

Thank you for your responses, I see Dyonisis cards run at around 60'C in Sli but mine run at 80'C in Sli, I use Evga Precision to monitor my cards and target temp is 80, should I lower that too see better temps?

Apologise for noobish comments but this build has been my first one in 10 years because I started gaming on consoles.

 

[Gibbo]

Thank you for your responses, I see Dyonisis cards run at around 60'C in Sli but mine run at 80'C in Sli, I use Evga Precision to monitor my cards and target temp is 80, should I lower that too see better temps?

Apologise for noobish comments but this build has been my first one in 10 years because I started gaming on consoles.

The stock cards are designed to run at 80c, that's the default fan profile.