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

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Got my return finally approved... had to argue quite a bit and they still wrote it off as doing me a "special favour" because I'd spent £5k with them over the last 6 months... so I'm sorted over in foreign lands... only others at my etailer might have ongoing issues :(

Just waiting on EVGA ACX2 SC 980s to come in stock :)
 
jwilliamson47 said:
Woo replacements for 970 sli arrived. These cards are so damn sexy!
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They are nice cards
 
crinkleshoes said:
Got my return finally approved... had to argue quite a bit and they still wrote it off as doing me a "special favour" because I'd spent £5k with them over the last 6 months... so I'm sorted over in foreign lands... only others at my etailer might have ongoing issues :(

Just waiting on EVGA ACX2 SC 980s to come in stock :)
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They are in stock! :)
 
Neil79 said:
Good luck, most of those who went crossfire after coming from a 970 GTX sent them back. Crossfire is horrific, I know I used to be a crossfire gamer :eek:
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But you dont know what it is like on the 290, they are worlds apart, i know i had 3x7950 in CF and i would like to see that list of most.
 
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breadturbo said:
result!

Asus were fobbing me off trying to return my strix's, had to mention trading standards and false advertising and they instantly gave me a return number to take to my localr etailer for full refund, \o/
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I'm in the same boat where Asus keep telling me to take it to the retailer and all the retailer says is I have to deal with Asus. It's doing my head in.
 
So I read the whole of http://www.anandtech.com/show/8935/geforce-gtx-970-correcting-the-specs-exploring-memory-allocation

My conclusion is the 970GTX really is a 3.5GB card with 512MB of L3 Cache.
The 512MB segment is only marginally faster than PCI-E memory, so whatever clever things the driver can do to deal with the issue, it is only be marginally better to have the 512MB on card instead of nothing at all.

So... I'm tempted to return my card under false advertising regulations... but I don't really see there is an alternative card in the market. Same make/model 980GTX is £180 more (Which is way more difference than its performance justifies). 960 GTX would pretty much guarantees I'll have to run 1080p.

I don't fancy any of the comparable AMD solutions at the moment due to even higher heat output in a pretty small case (see sig) which gets plenty warm/noisy under max load + I quite like the full passive/silent idle of the Strix. (Even a mechanical laptop drive is more noisy than any other component in my system at idle...)

So basically I could return and run my display off the Intel GPU (and forsake the at best a handful of gaming hours I may do a week) until an alternative card comes to market, or accept lower re-sale + false advertising...

Thoughts?
 
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