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

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Gregster said:
I will be sticking with nVidia. Much ado about nothing has been made over this and from various sites testing, there is nothing there that would have been scrambling for the RMA request.
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It's not about nothing though is it?. Nvidia made some serious mistakes with this release. I know you are a Nvidia fan but I don't think your daft enough to believe this whole thread is about nothing. At the very least Nvidia have betrayed there customers trust and left a bad taste in a lot of gtx970 owners mouths. Is the card bad not at all but is it what people thought they were purchasing?.
 
Wow, this whole fiasco leaves a terrible taste in your mouth.

nVidia deserve every card thrown back in their faces.

I honestly feel like just switching to the red team. Maybe take this opportunity to wait for the 380X and grab a couple of those.
Ramgate and refusing to support freesync really seals the deal for me. Not happy with supporting such a despicable company. As OCUK so rightly put it, the customer is king.
 
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Gregster said:
I will be sticking with nVidia. Much ado about nothing has been made over this and from various sites testing, there is nothing there that would have been scrambling for the RMA request.
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I admire your loyalty Greg, would you stay with Nvidia if AMD launched the 390x and it stomped all over anything Nvidia could bring out and then they followed up with with a 490x and that also blew the Nvidia cards of that time out of the water?

What I'm trying to understand is at what point does brand loyalty end when the current market leader becomes the underdog?

This is hypothetical of course, but hypothetically speaking if AMD next 2 generations of cards beat Nvidia offerings and come in at a cheaper price to boot and don't suffer under horrendous stock cooler that sounds like a Hoover, are you still brand loyal to Nvidia?
 
Had my first chance to try and replicate this issue tonight to see how it would affect me when I upgrade. Only tried Skyrim and Battlefield 4. Only in BF could I exceed the 3.5GB threshold by enabling 2xDSR (from 1920x1200 to stupidxstupid) on Ultra settings. I agree with some in that it seems to have been blown out of proportion and perhaps is worrying people (like myself) when Gibbo was right in what he said, the 970 runs out of steam before this even comes into play.

Have to do more tests across more games tomorrow but I feel better about adding a second 970 when the time comes for 1440p goodness. I'm also not afraid to drop some settings (bye bye AA, never cared for you much anyway) in games that cause problems.
 
colinmcr said:
I had chat via Customer Service forum with Bailey OcUK and he kinda put my mind at ease about the situation. TBH I've not had much issue or noticed it on my Sli 970 setup.
So I'm in two minds as what to do, yes upgrading to 980's would be nice but the cost ! Or switch over to the 290x.
My cards have the early EVGA ACX 1.0 cooler which was rapidly replaced by the 2.0 but that's not seemed to have affected any clocks I've done and certainly not a reason to RMA.
The only reason I seem to have for RMA is upgrade path option.

I have till end of Feb to decide anyway...
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same here
 
That step up that EVGA do is so good, wish other vendors would offer similar, I know Gigabyte have something with motherboards, but it would be nice to see other vendors do a step up upgrade program
 
Perfect_Chaos said:
Having to choose between Freesync and Gsync is completely stupid as well because it means you are stuck with one brand of GPU, they both should be standard in all monitors.
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I think eventually all monitors will support Freesync since it doesn't require the monitor to have any dedicated circuitry like G-sync. Nvidia can include Freesync support in their cards but are too stubborn.

Here's some info :

http://www.trustedreviews.com/opinions/why-your-next-monitor-should-have-amd-freesync
 
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Gregster said:
I will be sticking with nVidia. Much ado about nothing has been made over this and from various sites testing, there is nothing there that would have been scrambling for the RMA request.
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it is strange what's happened, but this instant switch to AMD is quite amusing.... it's like a bunch of Vultures descending on a rotting Corpse :D
 
I recall buying gear from ocuk back in ~2003. My post count doubled with this Nvidia scandal. Still a bit short of a hundred though. Took me a few years to get 40 :D I do read a lot of posts though.
 
Gregster said:
I will be sticking with nVidia. Much ado about nothing has been made over this and from various sites testing, there is nothing there that would have been scrambling for the RMA request.
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Funniest part of this thread, a lot of the outrage has come from AMD owners.
I wont be sending my 970 back, works as i expected. Quiet, cool and packs a punch.
 
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