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On it like a coiled spring, good work colleague!
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970's having performance issues using 4GB Vram - Nvidia investigating
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On it like a coiled spring, good work colleague!
ive been gaming at 1440p on my ROG swift for 6 months using my 3GB 780 SLI and everthing ran perfectly fine and im sure it would have run fine through out 2015 as well if i still had them
now all of a sudden 4gb isnt enough for above 1080p
dont know where all this memory histeria has come from TBH
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I wish this thread would go away it's just boring at this stage. Good job from Gibbo and his crew once again though!
if people havent seen this image its from gigabyte showing 3.5gb usage
look at the 970
its fine
its not the vram . its just the card grunt and even then its still close to the 980 gtx.
keep realistic settings and youll play everything fine.
look at the 970
its fine
its not the vram . its just the card grunt and even then its still close to the 980 gtx.
keep realistic settings and youll play everything fine.
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Soldato
Just been told that me 1440 will be delivered between 15.00 and 16.00 today, great service there from ocuk.
so, if I can get it set up in time, I'll see what a single 970 runs like at that res, I'll check Vram usage using gpu-z in games like Crysis 2 and Crysis 3, COH tales of valor, I'll also run Heaven and Valley. I reckon I'll have to turn down a few settings but curious to know how "far" I have to do this. If the performance is appallingly bad, I'll replace the 970 for an 8gb 290x, but I will say I'm quite happy with the 970's performance so far but I did buy this card originally to have the full 4gb of Vram to run at 1440 right from the start.
so, if I can get it set up in time, I'll see what a single 970 runs like at that res, I'll check Vram usage using gpu-z in games like Crysis 2 and Crysis 3, COH tales of valor, I'll also run Heaven and Valley. I reckon I'll have to turn down a few settings but curious to know how "far" I have to do this. If the performance is appallingly bad, I'll replace the 970 for an 8gb 290x, but I will say I'm quite happy with the 970's performance so far but I did buy this card originally to have the full 4gb of Vram to run at 1440 right from the start.
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Drop a post in CS and Bailey will look into and sort, but you will be refunded what you paid, so a mistake, they will resolve it for you.
I have done already mate
It's sorted now.
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if people havent seen this image its from gigabyte showing 3.5gb usage
look at the 970
its fine
its not the vram . its just the card grunt and even then its still close to the 980 gtx.
keep realistic settings and youll play everything fine.
It's not the card grunt everyone is worried about, it's the massive frame drops and stuttering. .
lol. Could be that nvidia card owners have iPhone's? I have to admit, I do have an ipad air, but never owned an iphone and I do not see myself getting one in the foreseeable future either, love my note 3 too much
The good thing that came out of all of this is OcUKs customer service shined. Since the Germans bought them they have steadily been improving. I will likely use them more because of it. Customer service is everything.
Yeah but the thng is, nVidia lied to us with their specs. I bought a 970 because of the specs and price. I wanted to buy a 980 straight away but at the end decided to go for a Asus 970...
Soldato
What if you contacted the original buyer and ask them to request a "step up" on your behalf? Thinking out loud, no idea what OCuk stance is on doing this.
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if people havent seen this image its from gigabyte showing 3.5gb usage
look at the 970
its fine
its not the vram . its just the card grunt and even then its still close to the 980 gtx.
keep realistic settings and youll play everything fine.
Yeah.
Damage control.
Soldato
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Never understood that. If you're buying a card based on 'specs' alone, why in gods name would you get a 970 or 980, the 290(X) cards have better specs. However, they perform for the most part worse.
You buy a card for the performance, and features. Specs are irrelevant without a performance graph.
Contact the guy you got it from to sort for you, but we can only deal with the customer we have the contract with I believe.
Understood, thanks.
Soldato
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While this is true performance figure's can't portray what's going on on the screen. 7970cf had the performance advantage over gtx680 sli yet sli was giving a better experience up until AMD started there frame pacing drivers.
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Well... while the competition have improved, my experience with them is that they are not up-to-par... even if headline review FPS figures are close enough for the price/performance ratio.
AMD drivers/software are still not up to scratch for my liking and so I do currently have brand favouritism for Nvidia.
When AMD catch up... then they can have my money, sure.
Currently I think the only viable cards on the market are the 970 & 980.
I am frustrated with what they've done, leaving the memory config for marketing/sales gimmicks, in essence.
But they still offer a better product in the 980 and associated software.
3GB/192bit or 3.5GB/224bit 970 would have sold like hot-cakes still... is frustrating they released a twitchy card over the other options.
if people havent seen this image its from gigabyte showing 3.5gb usage
look at the 970
its fine
its not the vram . its just the card grunt and even then its still close to the 980 gtx.
keep realistic settings and youll play everything fine.
It would be nice if people would stop posting the crap, it only shows you don't even know what the issue is...
The frame rate hit isn't that great, it's the stuttering that's maddening.
As vram usage increases over the coming months/years... the stuttering will only worsen.
^^ Exactly...
Same here... if the specs/configuration had been available at the time of purchase, I would have given them more money straight away... lol... might sound silly to some, but this kind of problem is really frustrating to me.
You buy a card based on performance specifications that rarely show things like the hitching caused here... if the specs where as originally published, this hitching would not occur... so it is a valid argument.
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