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NVIDIA GTX 970 OWNERS THREAD

almighty15 said:
It's noticible... Obviously it's going back as it wasn't put in the description that it has coil whine.

So it was miss sold and miss advertised.
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Best of luck. Thankfully I had no issues with the returns and refunds etc with the 27" monitors I had bought, the first return being made on a Saturday night for a collection and replacement first thing Monday AM.!. It took three before I got a keeper. Thankfully all done and dusted in less than a week with full refunds etc.
When you are buying hardware it can sometimes be a lottery, that is when you need to find a good etailer to work with you.
 
Vimes said:
Best of luck. Thankfully I had no issues with the returns and refunds etc with the 27" monitors I had bought, the first return being made on a Saturday night for a collection and replacement first thing Monday AM.!. It took three before I got a keeper. Thankfully all done and dusted in less than a week with full refunds etc.
When you are buying hardware it can sometimes be a lottery, that is when you need to find a good etailer to work with you.
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I've had such problem with other e-tailers when it came to returning cards with coil whine, Scan are especially good for it.

Would think OCUK would be even better.
 
I have coil wine too but it's not a big problem for me as my case is under my desk and I game with a headset on. I believe we get it due to the combination of PSU and GPU we have, I'm going to upgrade my PSU soon so hopefully the coil wine will dissappear then.
 
elrasho said:
I have coil wine too but it's not a big problem for me as my case is under my desk and I game with a headset on. I believe we get it due to the combination of PSU and GPU we have, I'm going to upgrade my PSU soon so hopefully the coil wine will dissappear then.
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Coil Whine to GPU's is what dead pixels is to Monitors.

True only time I had it really bad was with my GTX 770 and it turned out the PSU was producing the coil whine.

From experience it points to a poor quality PSU as much as the GPU.
 
my new g1 gaming arrived ... first hour: 1533\8316 heaven stable

62ºc max , i am now trying to reach the memory freq limit

edt: cpu-z is showing only 32 ROPS and pixel filt. 41.4Gpixel/s

this is a bug ?



1533*\8414
 
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As someone has mentioned it looks like voltage is upsetting my G1.

Can get +120 stock volts but any further & I need to add juice which causes instability in games. Either that or my card simply wasn't cut out for OCing.

Can the above be sorted by a driver release or is this purely hardware dependent?

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I got my 970s last week to replace my 680s and have been gaming smoothly since - apart from Fifa 15.

It seems to hitch every 15-20 seconds or so. It will be at a solid 120/60 and suddenly drop 20 frames and the screen will freeze for about half a second (audio not affected). I usually have it running unlocked to 120FPS and I had the issue then. So I tried locking it down with FIFA's in game v-sync and the problem persists.

I've tried putting all the settings down to minimum @ 720 (usually have it at 1080). I've tried removing my custom fan profile and taking off my OC. I've reset my pc and checked for driver updates and disabled sli, but the problem remains.

Has anybody had a similar experience with Fifa on these cards? All of my other games have run perfect (shadow of mordor, titanfall, bioshock infinite) and Heaven benchmark runs fine.
 
almighty15 said:
So just had an email from OCUK customer services saying that coil whine is not covered for returns as the card 'still works'
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Point this out to OcUK CS:

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=26946163&postcount=179

Gibbo said:
spoffle said:
But we've been told nothing has changed for 99% of users. As Martini has suggested, if I bought a GPU that had bad coil whine (which isn't technically a fault as it doesn't hinder the graphics card's ability to carry out its function) I'd want to be sending that right back for either a full refund for replacement.
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We'd except it back.

Hence why nothing has changed for 99% of users. :)
We'd simply return the product to manufacturer for a refund and if they refused we'd question our future with them and b-grade the product.

This is why with many of our partners such as XFX we have special warranty terms as they except all items we return to them for any reason to give our customers greater range of cover and improved support. :)
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mattius1989 said:
I got my 970s last week to replace my 680s and have been gaming smoothly since - apart from Fifa 15.

It seems to hitch every 15-20 seconds or so. It will be at a solid 120/60 and suddenly drop 20 frames and the screen will freeze for about half a second (audio not affected). I usually have it running unlocked to 120FPS and I had the issue then. So I tried locking it down with FIFA's in game v-sync and the problem persists.

I've tried putting all the settings down to minimum @ 720 (usually have it at 1080). I've tried removing my custom fan profile and taking off my OC. I've reset my pc and checked for driver updates and disabled sli, but the problem remains.

Has anybody had a similar experience with Fifa on these cards? All of my other games have run perfect (shadow of mordor, titanfall, bioshock infinite) and Heaven benchmark runs fine.
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I believe I've fixed it - I enabled maximum performance mode in NVCP. No recurrence so far.
 
Just installed my 2nd MSI GTX 970, and was wondering if my 2600k is struggling.

In Heaven/Valley, both cards will max at 99% usage, but when i play Battlefield 4, both will run 50-60% usage.:confused:
 
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