Soldato
OCUK can't do anything until Nvidia react, they might not even do that.
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Dont understand how you can even begin to hold OCUK responsible for what is clearly a failing on the manufacturer / marketing or whatevers side, OCUK merely sell the products, they are provided the product and marketing material and thats it, their job is to sell to the consumer.
If the fault lies with the product itself and its a known issue or a design fault / misinformation from the manufacturers etc then this cannot be a fault of OCUK.
Just be glad OCUK have the excellent RMA policy they have tbh.
OCUK can't do anything until Nvidia react, they might not even do that.
I bet the latter, nothing will come of this.
A nice analogy is this.
you buy a car with a v6 engine. Except the engine can only ever run as a V5 or a v1 and never as a v6 and when it runs as a v1 it gets lumpy and as a v5 never delivers the numbers it should as a v6?
To recap then...
In real world terms, people wont notice anything different with the 970. But some people will still moan as its not using the the 4gb vram at full speed and demand refunds as they are that way inclined.
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Just had another email from OCUK customer services.
They're basically washing there hands of anything to do with this until Nvidia say something on the matter.
I said about the ROP count being wrong which was mis-information and the guy said the 970 has a 256bit bus so it's not mis-information.... like lol?
What kind monkeys do OCUK hire for technical RMA returns?
In real world terms you will if you have a 4K monitor (talking SLI here so don't tell me Im playing at 20fps)
For those with 1440p and 1080p you will feel it when Witcher 3 comes out so don't say I didn't warn you.
To recap then...
In real world terms, people wont notice anything different with the 970. But some people will still moan as its not using the the 4gb vram at full speed and demand refunds as they are that way inclined.
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In real world terms you will if you have a 4K monitor (talking SLI here so don't tell me Im playing at 20fps)
For those with 1440p and 1080p you will feel it when Witcher 3 comes out so don't say I didn't warn you.
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It's the complete opposite of AMD, who not only didn't complain about third parties making dual 7970 cards but after seeing how popular they were decided to launch their own.
I feel like I bought a car with 4 wheel drive but the full power "4 wheel drive" only works on 3 wheels and the 4 wheel will only be used when the other 3 are in trouble and will only rotate once in a while to get out of the mud.... Imagine car manufacturers doing a marketing stunt like that !
All those quirks with Vram usage I had I thought was driver issues to be fixed - no ! Man I feel like nVidia laid a turd on my head.
Anyhow I am parting with ALL my GTX 970's goodbye to 5 970's and hello to 3 980's. My 970 SLi rig gets a single 980 and my 3 way SLi 970 will be 980 SLI.