The GTX 960 Owners Thread

Kaapstad · 2 Jun 2015 at 07:29

EVGA GeForce GTX 960 SuperSC Graphics Card Review @tech Gage placed in OP.

http://techgage.com/article/evga-geforce-gtx-960-supersc-graphics-card-review/

Bensons · 5 Jun 2015 at 14:55

Here is mine. GTX 960 4GB EVGA.

Kaapstad · 5 Jun 2015 at 16:39

Bensons said:
Here is mine. GTX 960 4GB EVGA.

Welcome and on TROH.

GTX 960 Owners roll of honour.

Make EVGA SSC 4gb, Link Bensons
Make Asus, Link JamesM
Make EVGA SSC, Link ChrisAE
Make EVGA SC, Link Telecaster
Make Gigabyte Mini-ITX, Link rIcK
Make Gigabyte Mini-ITX, Link Boomstick777
Make EVGA SSC, Link Kaapstad

To get on the roll of honour just post a pic of you 960s with your forum name in front.

Shampoo · 5 Jun 2015 at 17:13

That's a nice looking card. Do you only need the 8-pin for overclocking?

Bensons · 6 Jun 2015 at 08:30

Shampoo said:
That's a nice looking card. Do you only need the 8-pin for overclocking?

Yes, I think it takes the extra power through that to overclock.

Kaapstad · 17 Jun 2015 at 10:21

Asus Strix review @i2Hard

http://i2hard.ru/reviews/obzor-i-test-videokarty-asus-strix-geforce-gtx-960-strix-gtx960-dc2oc.html

RanxZy · 17 Jun 2015 at 10:45

subbytna said:
Mildly surprised anyone bought one of these cards. What are they like playing games at 1080?

I think these definitely sell. I wouldn't be surprised if these sell more than the Titan X. Just owners get much less of a e peen bulge showing these cards off. I was very tempted to get a 4G MSI 960 Gaming, very efficient cards.

Boomstick777 · 3 Jul 2015 at 14:01

Back on the 960 while waiting for Fury X RMA to complete.

Never fails to impress me this lil card. It can run BF4 on Ultra @ 1080P and maintain 60FPS. Max temp is around 60C, IDLE temp 25C. The 960's should get more love lol. Witcher 3 and Medium pre and high settings (Hairworks Off). Runs around 45 / 50 FPS and feels smooth. Very impressed tbh.

Quick 3DMark 11 run on latest Nvidia Drivers:

5820K @ 4.5Ghz.
GTX 960 @ 1500mhz.

http://www.3dmark.com/3dm11/10009541

Kaapstad · 3 Jul 2015 at 16:51

Boomstick777 said:
Back on the 960 while waiting for Fury X RMA to complete.

Never fails to impress me this lil card. It can run BF4 on Ultra @ 1080P and maintain 60FPS. Max temp is around 60C, IDLE temp 25C. The 960's should get more love lol. Witcher 3 and Medium pre and high settings (Hairworks Off). Runs around 45 / 50 FPS and feels smooth. Very impressed tbh.

Quick 3DMark 11 run on latest Nvidia Drivers:

5820K @ 4.5Ghz.
GTX 960 @ 1500mhz.

http://www.3dmark.com/3dm11/10009541

They can run Grid Autosport maxed out @2160p pretty good too.

FoxEye · 3 Jul 2015 at 19:09

Kaapstad said:
More reviews placed in the OP.

http://thepcenthusiast.com/asus-strix-gtx-960-directcu-ii-oc-2gb-review/

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/Gigabyte/GTX_960_OC/

It's a strange card.

Beaten by the 760 and the 670 in a fair few of those games, but in others it pushes ahead. The margins of defeat or victory aren't always small, so it either gets spanked or it spanks.

I still think it's a disappointing card to be beaten in *anything* by a 760/670 tho. Plus you could never really get a warm glow as the owner of a 2GB 128 bit card in 2015

Kaapstad · 3 Jul 2015 at 20:36

FoxEye said:
It's a strange card.

Beaten by the 760 and the 670 in a fair few of those games, but in others it pushes ahead. The margins of defeat or victory aren't always small, so it either gets spanked or it spanks.

I still think it's a disappointing card to be beaten in *anything* by a 760/670 tho. Plus you could never really get a warm glow as the owner of a 2GB 128 bit card in 2015

It is what it is and does it's job.

It will never blow your socks off but it won't disappoint either.

arc@css · 3 Jul 2015 at 20:38

The first card to use H.265, I think?

Divine Pain · 4 Jul 2015 at 00:18

Boomstick777 said:
Back on the 960 while waiting for Fury X RMA to complete...[/url]

Why the RMA?

FoxEye · 4 Jul 2015 at 09:17

Kaapstad said:
It is what it is and does it's job.

It will never blow your socks off but it won't disappoint either.

Even if you "upgraded" from a 760 or 670? Then found your new card was a lot slower in 50% of games?

There's such a gulf between this and the 970, that it really should have been called the 950. And another card at the 960 price point that performed a fair chunk better.

nV are currently making $$$ hand over fist, with super low end cards like this for mid-range prices.

CAT-THE-FIFTH · 8 Jul 2015 at 11:28

OcUK have a whole lot of B-Grade KFA2 GTX960 cards for £119.99 now(after some prompting from me too) and I took the plunge and got one as a stop-gap upgrade from my GTX660. If I have the time I will do some comparisons when I get the card and have some time.

CAT-THE-FIFTH · 9 Jul 2015 at 11:14

Got the card - the packaging has been opened,but the box was mint and the card looks new!!

I want to do a few quick benchmarks. Is FRAPs still a reasonably good way of doing it??

CAT-THE-FIFTH · 9 Jul 2015 at 16:09

I did a few benchmarks now. However,the card killed itself during a session of PS2! I will need to RMA it now.

The system is as follows:
Xeon E3 1230 V2
16GB DDR3
B75 mini-ITX motherboard

I will be updating this post with more benchmarks during the day.

Kaapstad · 9 Jul 2015 at 16:19

CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
I did a few benchmarks now. However,the card killed itself during a session of PS2! I will need to RMA it now.

The system is as follows:
Xeon E3 1230 V2
16GB DDR3
B75 mini-ITX motherboard

I will be updating this post with more benchmarks during the day.

What is PS2 ?

CAT-THE-FIFTH · 9 Jul 2015 at 17:35

Kaapstad said:
What is PS2 ?

Planetside 2.

Awesome game and incredibly taxing on hardware.

The card was a good 40% to 50% faster than a GTX660.

Looks like I am back to a GTX660 for now!!

Bane · 9 Jul 2015 at 20:16

CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
OcUK have a whole lot of B-Grade KFA2 GTX960 cards for £119.99 now(after some prompting from me too) and I took the plunge and got one as a stop-gap upgrade from my GTX660. If I have the time I will do some comparisons when I get the card and have some time.

Was this the shorter model card?
http://galax.net/KFA2/960oc.html