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

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Just exchanged my 970. Took it back to the shop after raising RMA yesterday, they refunded back to my card and I took my pick, Msi 290X Gamer Edition. Thanks OcUK for top, no hassle customer service.
 
Smok3y said:
Just exchanged my 970. Took it back to the shop after raising RMA yesterday, they refunded back to my card and I took my pick, Msi 290X Gamer Edition. Thanks OcUK for top, no hassle customer service.
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Let us know in the 290x owners thread how you find the MSI 290X Gamer Edition in comparison to the 970. I'm really interested to see how it compares.
 
Smok3y said:
Just exchanged my 970. Took it back to the shop after raising RMA yesterday, they refunded back to my card and I took my pick, Msi 290X Gamer Edition. Thanks OcUK for top, no hassle customer service.
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Glad you got great service, I've done a lot of browsing of other forums seems other uk etailors are point blank refusing RMAs. :(
Only the rainforest seem to be the other trying to help.
 
sprite1275 said:
Let us know how you find it compared to the 970
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I'd be interested in seeing these results also. I'm still on the fence over this situation and atm, I can't really justify replacing my 970 for what is basically an older tech card that runs hotter and needs more power and could possibly be louder as well, and I'm certainly not going to get a 980. As it stands, I'm probably going to keep the 970 'cos I've had zero issues anyway.
I'd be more interested in seeing how the 8gb 290x fairs against a 970 at 1080 and 1440.
 
once I get my RMA through for my card I will be waiting for the next release of AMD cards to see what they are like as I don't have the extra money to get a 980 as looking at £150 minimum for a 980

by then I will have my free delivery so will make it slightly cheaper getting my parts from OCUK :)
 
Gibbo said:
I don't see it happening and why:

1. The cards performance and all the awards it won still stands. It's the same fantastic product everyone was raving about and recommending.
2. NVIDIA won't change the price so the new price will remain and they are still flying off the shelf.
3. It's still vastly cheaper than a 980 and is close in performance, less than 10% on average yet a 980 cost 50% more.
4. There will not be an influx in B-grade as OcUK has negotiated good support with it's partners to return the returned cards for brand new replacement or credits, OcUK only needs to cover customers shipping and it's own shipping cost and it's own brand cards. So any B-grade due to this will be small numbers and b-grade deductions will be inline with other B-grade items. If Gigabyte do decide not to look after OcUK then OcUK will foot the bill by making a loss on them in b-grade by selling them for around £230ish which would be typically b-grade price and the OcUK 970 will be around £250 in b-grade.
5. Other etailors still have their head in the sand and are refusing RMAs, only OcUK and Caseking have taken action of their own backs and put the customer first as we believe customer is king.


So the new price won't change and as such second hand prices also won't change, the card only becomes worth less if they cost less to buy new and the new price won't be changing.
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Hiya Gibbo, I'm working with Damien to sort out an affordable custom build for a 1080p gaming rig, it'll be my first desktop in years.

Is it still possible that I will be able to nab a B-grade Strix/OCUK 970 then? If so, will it come with the manufacturer's warranty?

Thx!
 
Smok3y said:
Just exchanged my 970. Took it back to the shop after raising RMA yesterday, they refunded back to my card and I took my pick, Msi 290X Gamer Edition. Thanks OcUK for top, no hassle customer service.
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Glad to hear you are happy with the service we provide, we are here to help :)

Bailey
 
SuperG said:
Hiya Gibbo, I'm working with Damien to sort out an affordable custom build for a 1080p gaming rig, it'll be my first desktop in years.

Is it still possible that I will be able to nab a B-grade Strix/OCUK 970 then? If so, will it come with the manufacturer's warranty?

Thx!
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If you read my post your see there won't be any b grade Asus.
 
Steampunk said:
So how come that's exactly what's happened? If the 970 is operating "as intended" how could Nvidia not know this would happen and deal with it in advance? Seems a shocking oversight for such a PR-savvy company.
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IT WAS A MISTAKE!!! Jeez why does everyone have such a hard time getting their head around this concept. They made a mistake with the marketing details, nothing more complicated or sinister than that.

The notion that this was a deliberate coverup is lunacy. I suppose these are the same people who believe we never landed on the moon and that the CIA killed JFK :rolleyes:
 
Bailey said:
Glad to hear you are happy with the service we provide, we are here to help :)

Bailey
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You lot are really getting good things talked about you. Your doing a great job there. I'm sure in the long run your profit will blow away any kind of losses your taking at the moment with all the customers you will gain from this.
 
pieman109 said:
I'd be interested in seeing these results also. I'm still on the fence over this situation and atm, I can't really justify replacing my 970 for what is basically an older tech card that runs hotter and needs more power and could possibly be louder as well, and I'm certainly not going to get a 980. As it stands, I'm probably going to keep the 970 'cos I've had zero issues anyway.
I'd be more interested in seeing how the 8gb 290x fairs against a 970 at 1080 and 1440.
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That's pretty much how I feel at the moment. I am asking myself to care about something that a few days ago I did not know anything about and the games that I play run as well as I would have thought they should.

Since having a 1440p monitor and a 970 GTX I do often see the memory maxed out but I do not know if any performance hits (or FPS inconsistencies) that I see is due to the now noted issue, the 256bit bus or the fact that the GPU load is often maxed out as well or a combination of all three or none at all :eek:
With the Direct X 12 support, not sure how much that will matter, and all the other qualities of the GTX 970 I still find it difficult to find an affordable replacement of equal value.

Still an 8GB 290x appraisal against that of the 970GTX at 1440p would be worth seeing.
 
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