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NVIDIA GTX 970 OWNERS THREAD

JamesM said:
It's the voltage. As soon as you start ramping up the voltage temps will increase.

Plus with water and a back plate i'll be cooling the memory chips directly too.
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I understand that the heat will rise with the volts, but there is currently so much headroom to raise the heat that I think you will hit a stability issue before a heat issue. Cards can only take so much volts before it just doesn't want to accept anymore.

My old 290x was underwater and had a big overclock. It has the 2nd highest 290x 3Dmark 11 GFX score on these forums. I stuck a custom bios on it and put the volts up and couldn't get the card stable. It hit its overall max.

I guess we will soon see :)
 
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Just a heads up buys, I have 2 of the Aplit cards with the blower cooler in SLI and because I'm running mATX they're literally sandwiched together.

Temps on the cards are good with them hovering around the 72-77c mark wen overclocked.

They are noisy when run together, but not that noisy.

I expect that anyone running them in an ATX motherboard with at least a slot between them should have lower temps and noise levels.
 
Gibbo said:
Testing the AIR BOSS COOLER, OMG easily the best yet and in normal auto fan it is so so quiet, amazed Inno3D have the best cooling solution, I AM IMPRESSED! :)
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The question is are they worth £30 more than the MSI or £20 more than the gigabyte.
Also do they have dual bios's ? and what do they look like when running.
i need to order two today so cant decide, £320 is quote a lot above the normal 970's and not much over £100 of a 980.
 
almighty15 said:
Just a heads up buys, I have 2 of the Aplit cards with the blower cooler in SLI and because I'm running mATX they're literally sandwiched together.

Temps on the cards are good with them hovering around the 72-77c mark wen overclocked.

They are noisy when run together, but not that noisy.

I expect that anyone running them in an ATX motherboard with at least a slot between them should have lower temps and noise levels.
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I have a mATX board also and thinking do I go SLI or wait for a gtx 990 dual gpu? What case do you have?
 
970 g1 decision

got myself a gtx 970 gigabyte g1, to summarise it has a lot of coil whine imo but i'm not sure whether it over clocks well because if it does that might be a reason to deal with the coil whine?

Haven't run heaven for hours but no visual artifiacts and okay temps at 1580mhz core, any higher really and there is prominent artifacts.

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Do all the 970s have this bad coil whine or is it worth just keeping it.

ps: asic is 76.8% if that makes any difference.
 
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Still pondering over which card and I'm not very clued up on the tech!

Based on previous cards and their bios', is there likely to be a custom bios for the Gigabyte G1 that will give 0dB under a certain temperature, like the MSI and ASUS?

Also does customised firmware mean void warranty?

Thanks
 
Grassy said:
got myself a gtx 970 gigabyte g1, to summarise it has a lot of coil whine imo but i'm not sure whether it over clocks well because if it does that might be a reason to deal with the coil whine?
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Do all the 970s have this bad coil whine

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no they dont, some are dead silent ;)..............:D
 
chockimon said:
Has anyone managed to fit the Gigabyte GTX 970 G1 into a Zalman Z11 Plus case? I would love to buy one, but I don't think it will fit or it's going to be a very tight squeeze.

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According to Guru3d, the card is exactly 297mm, not 312mm as reported by most websites. Is this true?

http://www.guru3d.com/index.php?ct=articles&action=file&id=12834
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I've got 2 of the msi 790s in my zalman z11 and I think they are the same size as the g1, they are a squeeze but not too bad
 
Hamster said:
Still pondering over which card and I'm not very clued up on the tech!

Based on previous cards and their bios', is there likely to be a custom bios for the Gigabyte G1 that will give 0dB under a certain temperature, like the MSI and ASUS?

Also does customised firmware mean void warranty?
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Could someone with good knowledge of graphics cards please hazard a guess?

Thanks :)
 
It's definitely possible to write a custom bios that allows the fans to turn off at a certain temperatures. I doubt that gigabyte will release one but I am certain that a 3rd party will do it (like skyn3t).

Also as long as you can flash the original bios back onto the card then the warranty will remain. I returned a rubbish 780 lightning that I flashed Skyn3t's bios onto and reflashed the stock bios back on before return.
 
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