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GTX 980 / 970 Discussion

Soldato
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VC said that "760 is pretty much backbone of 970" so maybe it's the 760 pcb but with a hamstrung Maxwell?

EK only has 980 listed on cooling config.

here is the Inno3D 970 PCB, note the Nvidia written on PCIe slot, this normally denotes reference design

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edit: 760 ref pcb

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I have it on good authority that a 670 EK CSQ block fits the inno3d 970 will confirm when stock lands as we have 3 670 blocks going cheap :)
 
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Best Kingpin over there is 2102

NVidia need to tweak the drivers a bit for Firestrike 3 way SLI with these new cards and then the graphics scores will be huge for that bench.

That will fall easily. I got 2000 without really trying, older 344.07 drivers and CPU at 4.60GHz, the new drivers alone are probably enough to take that down. :)
 
Soldato
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Ordered a Gigabyte 970 for tomorrow delivery yay!

Question for you, a clan buddy wants to order the same card, he's running a 3750k at stock and 16GB Corsair Vengeance 1600 RAM - would either of those cause a bottleneck at all?
 
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I am looking at the EVGA 980 and see they have an SC version too. Is this just a factory overclocked card and does it mean it will overclock better than the normal 980? Is the cheaper card exactly the same but without the factory OC?
 
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I am looking at the EVGA 980 and see they have an SC version too. Is this just a factory overclocked card and does it mean it will overclock better than the normal 980? Is the cheaper card exactly the same but without the factory OC?

I was wondering if they bin better ones for the SC if not I can see the no SC ones should clock the same /shrug
 
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