970's having performance issues using 4GB Vram - Nvidia investigating

Marine-RX179 · 30 Jan 2015 at 08:02

Locky said:
The way nvidia are editing posts on their forums and changing statements. Someone should save the posts from Rick on here unless they are already edited.

I haven't really been following the Nvidia forum...didn't a Nvidia rep already made posts and admitted the issue? Now they are taking that back?

Honestly hope Nvidia doesn't take the Asus CS approach...

Gregster · 30 Jan 2015 at 08:05

shankly1985 said:
TBH AMD CPUs do very well for the price, yeah sure if you running multi GPUs or into video editing/recording then Intel pays the extra..

But if it was just gaming alone and you had to pick between intel or AMD to get a better GPU or something then AMD will do just fine..

The difference in gaming isn't really that much..

Sorry but that's completely wrong and you should research before posting such statements, as there is already enough confused people in here.

The top end AMD CPU gets beaten by an i3 occasionally, so saying an AMD CPU will be fine and the difference in gaming isn't that much is so wrong. You can save the money to buy a better GPU but you will be bottlenecking your new shiny GPU that you put the extra cash to.

For a budget GPU, an AMD CPU will do just fine but for a decent GPU, Intel all the way or suffer a bottleneck.

RavenXXX2 · 30 Jan 2015 at 08:11

NinjaSeb said:
I bought an 970 Asus Strix from Overclockers. Will I be able to get a refund?

Gibbo is trying to get them to help with refunds, if they won't OCUK will sort it.

Gibbo said:
They best do, same goes for the others. Today I was very professional and diplomatic with them and asked nicely for support.

Tomorrow I want results that support OcUK to support our customers otherwise my toys are going to be out of the pram and all over the floor.

Hope they make he right decision otherwise OcUK shall sort something ourselves.

Locky · 30 Jan 2015 at 08:14

Marine-RX179 said:
I haven't really been following the Nvidia forum...didn't a Nvidia rep already made posts and admitted the issue? Now they are taking that back?

Honestly hope Nvidia doesn't take the Asus CS approach...

Yep, Nvidia have edited their posts to admitting fault and saying there's a driver to fix it - to there is nothing to see here and it's fine and we made it like that.

Locky · 30 Jan 2015 at 08:15

RavenXXX2 said:
Gibbo is trying to get them to help with refunds, if they won't OCUK will sort it.

I wonder if gibbo starts dropping brands who support them on this they might take note?

Bonjour · 30 Jan 2015 at 08:15

Any benchmarks above 1080p?

The Running Man · 30 Jan 2015 at 08:18

Locky said:
I wonder if gibbo starts dropping brands who support them on this they might take note?

They can't drop all the big brands, but they can choose to take less stock, less promotions etc

RavenXXX2 · 30 Jan 2015 at 08:19

Locky said:
I wonder if gibbo starts dropping brands who support them on this they might take note?

Doubt it, he won't drop brands that will pull in the cash for him.

carrot1401 · 30 Jan 2015 at 08:19

Locky said:
I wonder if gibbo starts dropping brands who support them on this they might take note?

Gibbo and co have already stated that they value brand loyalty too, and will consider this moving forward. I think they'll be stocking more EVGA cards in the future by the sounds of it!

Nocky24 · 30 Jan 2015 at 08:27

Locky said:
The way nvidia are editing posts on their forums and changing statements. Someone should save the posts from Rick on here unless they are already edited.

Rick has already gone back and edited them I believe..

ED209 · 30 Jan 2015 at 08:27

the ones that have not replied or decided are

MSI
ASUS
Gigabyte

there maybe more or less but there is far too many pages to go looking through! lol

Harlequin · 30 Jan 2015 at 08:28

Nocky24 said:
Rick has already gone back and edited them I believe..

admin`s will have access to original version

ED209 · 30 Jan 2015 at 08:28

Nocky24 said:
Rick has already gone back and edited them I believe..

why edit the comments for when people have quoted his original post? he cant edit them and the posts also state if they have been edited on here or not!

Locky · 30 Jan 2015 at 08:29

Nocky24 said:
Rick has already gone back and edited them I believe..

LOL!

Nvidia really are a bunch of crocks! Good job he was quoted lots of times and ocuk has access to the original posts

Nocky24 · 30 Jan 2015 at 08:30

ED209 said:
why edit the comments for when people have quoted his original post? he cant edit them and the posts also state if they have been edited on here or not!

True, not sure he knew that though? Haven't seen the edited posts myself but it was mentioned earlier in this thread that they'd been changed in such a way that Nvidia weren't seen to admit they'd 'messed up' as he called it.

RavenXXX2 · 30 Jan 2015 at 08:30

Rick@NVIDIA said:
Hi Guys,

I’m Rick, a Product Manager for NVIDIA based here in the UK. Although I read the Overclockers forums a lot and work with the guys here, this is my first post.

I want to just start by saying sorry, we messed up.
We posted the wrong GTX 970 spec and we did not fully explain the memory architecture, and I get why you guys are so annoyed.

However, I feel the GTX 970 is still an amazing card and one we are really proud of and I believe it is still the best card you can buy for the money.

If you’ve got any specific questions I’ll do my best to answer them.

Thanks
Rick

Does not look edited.

Nocky24 · 30 Jan 2015 at 08:31

RavenXXX2 said:
Does not look edited.

Someone's been throwing lies about then. Adding fuel to the fire eh!

Sencha · 30 Jan 2015 at 08:37

Neil King said:
Surprised nobody hasn't done one of those Hitler video's about this debacle.

There is....can't link because of swears

Locky · 30 Jan 2015 at 08:38

There is a Hitler reacts but I can't link it as it has swearing in it.

old gamer · 30 Jan 2015 at 08:45

so how does the refund work if you exchange for a lower priced item, is it a credit note or refund to bank account