They will be fine if you can accept that they aren't as fine as what you thought you paid for before knowing about the deception.
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970's having performance issues using 4GB Vram - Nvidia investigating
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They will be fine if you can accept that they aren't as fine as what you thought you paid for before knowing about the deception.
970s for £100 ill take 2 haha
Used market is going to be flooded with them soon. This has dropped owners really in the doo doo. Keeping them could be expensive if the plan was to sell later as they could become the tainted hot turd of a card to sell on. Looks like the sli option is pretty much dead and a mess too.
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970s for £100 ill take 2 haha
Good for you man, it must feel good to be able to buy something fully knowing what you are actually purchasing.
The answer to this problem is not turning down settings lol.
Whilst this issue is by design Nvidia saw it as a big enough issue to try to hide and lie about it.
Lie? I hear you say and I say yes, they lied. Through their teeth.
Anyone who tries to tell me that not one gpu engineer has the pride in their work or the curiosity to at least read one review or preview which discusses their work in detail I would frankly call them a deluded fool.
Lie? I hear you say and I say yes, they lied. Through their teeth.
Anyone who tries to tell me that not one gpu engineer has the pride in their work or the curiosity to at least read one review or preview which discusses their work in detail I would frankly call them a deluded fool.
You guys are crazy. Looking forward to nabbing a B grade 970.
Good when you know what you are buying isn't it?
The memory isn't being taken up by the os, it's being actively avoided by the drivers until there is nowhere else it can go.
It's a hardware limitation, software ain't fixing it.
It isn't (wasn't) though. Nothing against you guys, I feel for you with this. Damn man, talk about a shed load of work getting dropped on your lap for no reward.
Dude...
Really? Man that's a stretch.
Nvidia are not going to admit liability until they have to. They will carry on with plausible denial as long as it gets lapped up.
The incorrect rop count was even in the products bios for a start.
Bloody hell what a mess Nvidia have created.
It's a tough one as it's all subjective. Who many people have turned settings down thinking they were just avoiding normal performance issues when it was this issue causing the problem?
We'll never know I guess but this issue only got found because the card was displaying inexplicable issues for some users.
I wouldn't waste your breath.
LOL
I have little sympathy being forthright for people who buy cut down cards and then complain when they find out it's arguably more cut down than they first thought it was when they originally bought the cut down card.
Yes manufacturers always lie about specs and this unique situation happens every other day.
This whole thing has been engineered from start to finish so they think they could get off on technicalities if caught.
Swindlers, how come none of the OEMs saw the error either?
Update the first post with gibbo's updated reply how this is being handled by ocuk. If you start a thread atleast have the decency to keep it up to date.
Gibbo is free to make a thread, I'm avoiding the advertising of refunds as it's not OcUKs place to do it even though they are amazing in offering.
If people want information they can find it.
That only works if nVidia gimped the cards in purpose - they didn't. They tried to make the extra 500mb available instead of sticking with 3.5gb. This works well for single cards, but it's obviously screwed up sli. We were (some of us) hopeful that nVidia could fix this in drivers but if they are really sitting tight and not going to fix it then they deserve all the returned cards they get.
I'll still stick with my single card though. no whine, near silent, perfectly suited to the 2560x1080 that i game at. There is no reason at all for me to return this card but SLi users (and other single card users if they were intending to go SLi with nVidia sitting with their thumbs up their arses) certainly have every right to do so
Your purchase justification complex has no bounds mate. Wow.
Nvidia took the easiest design route, they knew that the market wouldn't like it so tried to hide it and only made sure reviewers actually discussed specs so they could pretend that they never advertised it if the fan got splattered.
Well I've been reading this thread for days. And I'll be keeping my cards.
Hate the fact that I feel like I've been misled, But they are still great cards.
And god this thread is one big mess with the baiting and trolling.
It was always going to be.
Thanks for letting us know.
Still doesn't mean you own what you thought you had paid for.
Yes, take the lies quietly like a good little consumerist and
Turn those settings down.
If anyone calls you sad for accepting that, then quietly accept that too.
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