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Lovely looking card, anyone got some user shots?
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KFA2 HOF GTX 970 looks gorgeous! Anyone tried it?
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It's a great card, I absolutely love it. It's handled everything I've thrown at it with ease, @1440p too! It doesn't quite fit in with my MPower board, but once Broadwell is here I'm swapping it out for the Sabertooth Mark S that I've had since December.
It's nice and quiet, runs very cool and as far as I can tell there's no coil whine. The backplate is gorgeous too, I really like the way it looks and it keeps the card nice and straight too, which is always a bonus. £320 well spent I reckon.
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It's a great card, I absolutely love it. It's handled everything I've thrown at it with ease, @1440p too! It oesn't quite fit in with my MPower board, but once Broadwell is here I'm swapping it out for the Sabertooth Mark S that I've had since December.
It's nice and quiet, runs very cool and as far as I can tell there's no coil whine. The backplate is gorgeous too, I really like the way it looks and it keeps the card nice and straight too, which is always a bonus. £320 well spent I reckon.
WOW, that is beautiful!
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Sweet looking card.
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I believe it's also the highest clocked 970 too.
Thanks guys, glad you like it!
I think you may be right, I'm sure I've read it's the fastest out of the box, at least. Glad I haven't run into the 3.5gb issue, I'd like to run this card for a couple of years if possible. Just hope they keep making HOF variants in the future!
I think you may be right, I'm sure I've read it's the fastest out of the box, at least. Glad I haven't run into the 3.5gb issue, I'd like to run this card for a couple of years if possible. Just hope they keep making HOF variants in the future!
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Thanks guys, glad you like it!
I think you may be right, I'm sure I've read it's the fastest out of the box, at least. Glad I haven't run into the 3.5gb issue, I'd like to run this card for a couple of years if possible. Just hope they keep making HOF variants in the future!
If I was you, I'd stick with that card, see how future games impact on the 970, and if it works perfectly, get a 2nd!
See that's what I'm thinking anyway. I don't really play new games, haven't bought a game the same years it's been released in a long time. As such, all the games I have run brilliantly. The only game I'm remotely interested in this year so far is GTAV, so I'll have to wait and see how I get on.
I don't mind turning a couple of settings down to get the best performance anyway, so I think I'll be alright. I play with the FPS counter turned off, less to be distracted by. I've found that when it's on I care more about how well the game is running than I do what is happening in the game!
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See that's what I'm thinking anyway. I don't really play new games, haven't bought a game the same years it's been released in a long time. As such, all the games I have run brilliantly. The only game I'm remotely interested in this year so far is GTAV, so I'll have to wait and see how I get on.
I don't mind turning a couple of settings down to get the best performance anyway, so I think I'll be alright. I play with the FPS counter turned off, less to be distracted by. I've found that when it's on I care more about how well the game is running than I do what is happening in the game!
Yeah, I mean it's current an unknown entity. If I had to give a reason why so much vram is now needed, it's because of lazy PC porting. I mean games like Crysis 3 can run without hitting 3GBs if i remember correctly and then you get so-so looking titles like The Evil Within requiring 4gbs just to play it 0__0
I know what you mean. GTAIV is absolutely on the limit when maxed with an ENB and better textures. For a game that's what, 6 years old now? You'd think the 970 would destroy it. But since it was such a bad port at the time that never really got improved it suffers a bit. Crazy...
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Just got rid of my Asus Strix gtx 970 for coil whine and got this bad boy. I must say I love this card. It looks amazing, runs everything silky smooth and keeps cool under high load. battlefield 4 1080p ultra temps are around 50 where as the Asus card was around 70.
I just want to say also I have always bought my pc parts from a local company but after all the gtx 970 problems that gibbo and overclockers have sorted out I will now be using overclockers. There customer service is fantastic and even on the phones they are very helpful and funny too. The hof card had just gone up in price to 335 so I phoned overclockers and they dropped the price to the original price as I missed it by an hour. Top quality service and I will always tell people to use overclockers.
I just want to say also I have always bought my pc parts from a local company but after all the gtx 970 problems that gibbo and overclockers have sorted out I will now be using overclockers. There customer service is fantastic and even on the phones they are very helpful and funny too. The hof card had just gone up in price to 335 so I phoned overclockers and they dropped the price to the original price as I missed it by an hour. Top quality service and I will always tell people to use overclockers.
Nice one mate, glad you're enjoying your new card. It's a beauty! Glad you got it at a good price, same thing happened to me. Bought it on the first day of the weekly sale and the next day it had dropped by £10. Dropped them a message and they sorted it the same day. Top service, can't daily them whatsoever.
Welcome to the HOF club!
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It's a great card, I absolutely love it. It's handled everything I've thrown at it with ease, @1440p too! It doesn't quite fit in with my MPower board, but once Broadwell is here I'm swapping it out for the Sabertooth Mark S that I've had since December.
It's nice and quiet, runs very cool and as far as I can tell there's no coil whine. The backplate is gorgeous too, I really like the way it looks and it keeps the card nice and straight too, which is always a bonus. £320 well spent I reckon.
I was quite literally about to pick up a couple of these for sli 4k. With all the 4gb vram nonsense recently I've held off. The 980 hofs are unreasonably expensive as well. A right pain as the White pcb and shroud would be perfect for my rig (currently modding a thermaltake urban s71 with a gloss white finish).
Have you experimented with 4k? Or just at 1440p? Any micro stuttering ? Cheers
I've been playing mostly at 1440p, and it's been a blast. I have tried a couple of games at 4k using DSR, and they've been fine too.
Don't have an actual 4k monitor so I can't really comment I'm afraid. Not noticed any stutter at all though, regardless of resolution/DSR.
The 980s are insanely expensive, and it's such a shame because if I could afford it I'd have picked single 980 over single 970, but having said that my single 970 does absolutely everything I need it to with ease.
Been using them with 4k G-Sync and its fine.
Sent back 2 G1 970s and bought these
Not the tidiest looking setup but my watercooling failed so im back on air for the moment(which runs pretty cool anyway).
P.S just seen this is a 970 thread oops
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^ looks awesome regardless though if you ask me!
After an i7, a g-sync monitor is the next upgrade for me.
You wont be disappointed