NVIDIA GTX 970 OWNERS THREAD

JamesM · 14 Oct 2014 at 12:45

Scramz said:
I think our 970's are nearly twins! You get nearly to same as me on all your benchmark scores you have posted here.

Epic GPUs

Still waiting for EK to pull their finger out and an unlocked bios though. doh

almighty15 · 14 Oct 2014 at 12:47

Got my EK blocks on the way for my 970's

should be here in the next few days

JamesM · 14 Oct 2014 at 12:52

Not the full cover blocks surely?

almighty15 · 14 Oct 2014 at 13:00

Yep, full cover

smonkie · 14 Oct 2014 at 13:37

I have a weird problem with my G1 970 OC. I can get to 1520 with stock voltage without artifacts or crashes in Heaven, Valley, 3dMark or Crysis 3 & Battlefield 4. But if I play Alien Isolation, I get a crash after -random- minutes playing. Everything is ok with the game if I reset to factory defaults.

Should I just give up playing Alien with OC? (it's not a very demanding game anyways). Could it be that there are games which don't like oc in any way?

Jinn · 14 Oct 2014 at 13:46

topgun06 said:
Oh bugger that! The G1 has gone up a tenner! I was so close to buying last night.

I was colse to buying today

Instead I ordered Galax. Finger crossed for no coil whine.

JamesM · 14 Oct 2014 at 13:51

smonkie said:
I have a weird problem with my G1 970 OC. I can get to 1520 with stock voltage without artifacts or crashes in Heaven, Valley, 3dMark or Crysis 3 & Battlefield 4. But if I play Alien Isolation, I get a crash after -random- minutes playing. Everything is ok with the game if I reset to factory defaults.

Should I just give up playing Alien with OC? (it's not a very demanding game anyways). Could it be that there are games which don't like oc in any way?

Everything is a bit 'new' with the 970 & 980 at the moment

Drivers and everything else need to mature a bit. I find it surprising that people are getting better clocks in benchmarks when the system/driver crashes in games.

I have the same issue, my highest Heaven clocks will crash in BF4 sometimes after a few mins or straight away.

The card is so quick I tend to run lower clocks 24/7 (+190 core and +500 memory) as that is quick enough.

Fanatic · 14 Oct 2014 at 14:04

Agreed, Heaven stable is certainly not game stable. I am running 1416MHz now and it's stable for games and keeps to max boost clocks. 1516MHz works in Heaven (and keeps max boost) but in games the driver can crash.

varkanoid · 14 Oct 2014 at 15:11

Fanatic said:
Agreed, Heaven stable is certainly not game stable. I am running 1416MHz now and it's stable for games and keeps to max boost clocks. 1516MHz works in Heaven (and keeps max boost) but in games the driver can crash.

Its strange as I have kind of the opposite. In Heaven I get flickering at about scene 16 and lock ups later and crashes in 3D Mark but stable in games.

ianbeany · 14 Oct 2014 at 15:51

I thought I was stable at +210 core. Played crysis 3, DR3 and Watchdogs all for more than an hour each and it was all good.

Then i tried Battlefield 4...

crash within a few mins...and still crashes even at +180

Hoping its just that one game

MOOGLEYS · 14 Oct 2014 at 15:56

I have +200 and +500 on my MSi Gaming. Which is 1550 on the core and 8000 on the memory and it sits at 65.c and runs BF4 and other games fine.

I'm glad I decided to keep this card rather than the 980 as it offers the same performance with less heat and noise.

JamesM · 14 Oct 2014 at 16:08

ianbeany said:
I thought I was stable at +210 core. Played crysis 3, DR3 and Watchdogs all for more than an hour each and it was all good.

Then i tried Battlefield 4...

crash within a few mins...and still crashes even at +180

Hoping its just that one game

Must be a bug

I'm stable at +190 and +600 memory (hell i've played with +700 memory)

Captain · 14 Oct 2014 at 16:10

I have currently got +245 core and +610 on memory with my 2 MSI 970's, anymore on the memory and it artifacts and crashes if i add more to the core.

D1craig · 14 Oct 2014 at 16:11

Any news on the EVGA ACX 2.0? Order one on Friday expecting to be able to spend my long weekend sorting it out. Thursday to Tuesday. Not heard anything yet and its getting close

craarc · 14 Oct 2014 at 17:21

well i had one running gigabyte g1 and was so pleased with it went for another what a diference they seem to scale so well compared to other cards ive had in the past cant fault them so far..

AshenEdge · 14 Oct 2014 at 17:54

JamesM said:
Not the full cover blocks surely?

almighty15 said:
Yep, full cover

+1!!!!

Spill the beans ooooh almighty! The rest of us peasants need answers!!!

Relentless81 · 14 Oct 2014 at 17:55

Relentless81 said:
Anyone else getting FPS drops in BF4?

Everything was fine in fact it was silky smooth but over the last couple of days I've noticed drops from 120 right down to 50ish which is noticeable when it occurs

Everything is stock clocked and VSYNC is off
1080P everything on Ultra and 2 x MSAA
AMD 8350 CPU

Nobody else had a similar issue please?

JamesM · 14 Oct 2014 at 18:00

AshenEdge said:
+1!!!!

Spill the beans ooooh almighty! The rest of us peasants need answers!!!

Reference cards can use the 670 blocks so I presume it's one of those?

almighty15 · 14 Oct 2014 at 18:17

JamesM said:
Reference cards can use the 670 blocks so I presume it's one of those?

Yep, if you head over to overcloc.net they have a thread on 970 compatible water blocks, you would be surprised how many blocks fit.

For example the EVGA GTX760 SCX blocks fits the EVGA GTX970 boards as they use the same PCB!!

AshenEdge · 14 Oct 2014 at 18:32

JamesM said:
Reference cards can use the 670 blocks so I presume it's one of those?

Oh I was hoping for some developments on the new blocks

I did read about a month delay so lets hope soon

almighty15 said:
Yep, if you head over to overcloc.net they have a thread on 970 compatible water blocks, you would be surprised how many blocks fit.

For example the EVGA GTX760 SCX blocks fits the EVGA GTX970 boards as they use the same PCB!!

I'll check it out, thanks