NVIDIA GTX 970 OWNERS THREAD

Nocky24 · 30 Oct 2014 at 22:34

opethdisciple said:
Edit, withthe 670's in SLI I've alwasy had adaptive vsync on, which capped my frame rate to 60 as my monitor tears.

With the 970 I have left vysnc off. But surely this cant be the reason why the game feels so much more fluid?

Depends on the game, but vsync can create input and mouse lag so I'd imagine that's exactly why it feels more fluid now.

thefogo · 30 Oct 2014 at 22:39

Nocky24 said:
Depends on the game, but vsync can create input and mouse lag so I'd imagine that's exactly why it feels more fluid now.

Yeah vsync lag has always been horrible for me. It's better at 120hz but still not as good as playing un-synced.

Geekazoid · 30 Oct 2014 at 22:49

How much is it dropping by?

1539 to 1527

holds at 1527

p.s. I got my core voltage mV up to maximum +87 so I hit the hardware restricted voltages

Mal X · 30 Oct 2014 at 23:16

Amatsubu said:
Thanks mate, I'll see what I can fix up. Should have the Strix tomorrow, hope it won't sag badly enough to really require any countermeasures;p

hi
my 2nd Strix is arriving tomorrow as well, the fix is fairly easy though because our hardware store has loads of those brackets

the cards will look far better when they're level.

thefogo · 31 Oct 2014 at 07:23

Geekazoid said:
1539 to 1527

holds at 1527

p.s. I got my core voltage mV up to maximum +87 so I hit the hardware restricted voltages

Your card will throttle slightly when it hits 60C, is it that?

Geeman1979 · 31 Oct 2014 at 08:58

How's the 970's you bought? ^^^

thefogo · 31 Oct 2014 at 10:13

Geeman1979 said:
How's the 970's you bought? ^^^

I like them

They're much much quieter at idle than those short pcb ones I had, so I'm happy with that.

Unfortunately I only get 1475Mhz out of the cores, at 1500 I get some artifacts now and again.

Geeman1979 · 31 Oct 2014 at 10:16

thefogo said:
I like them
They're much much quieter at idle than those short pcb ones I had, so I'm happy with that.

Unfortunately I only get 1475Mhz out of the cores, at 1500 I get some artifacts now and again.

They're still rapid enough at that speed. I'd suggest putting your best card in the top slot. You've always got the option to flash the bios for a higher power limit to eek a bit more out of them.

Angel_Rex · 31 Oct 2014 at 10:29

Loving my gtx970

MSI gaming, no whine silent!

JamesM · 31 Oct 2014 at 10:34

Geekazoid said:
I set my core clock to 200+ and afterburner reads a higher boost clock and then after a while the same boost clock drops... why is this happening and what's up with this? (throttling?? but why?? power??)

GTX 970 MSI GAMING

latest drivers

Crack open GPUz and see what the PerfCap reason is.

It's either hitting the power limit or voltage limit.

old gamer · 31 Oct 2014 at 10:35

thefogo said:
I like them
They're much much quieter at idle than those short pcb ones I had, so I'm happy with that.

Unfortunately I only get 1475Mhz out of the cores, at 1500 I get some artifacts now and again.

i think you made a good choice for sli, i would be happy dumping the heat outside the case at the expense of a few fps

JamesM · 31 Oct 2014 at 10:45

I see 970 prices have dropped now there is stock everywhere

Mal X · 31 Oct 2014 at 11:07

i've just fitted Asus Strix SLI, it's an easy installation, i just had to enable SLI and readjust the screen size etc, i ran Heaven Benchmark :-

score = 3504
FPS = 139

TEMP = 68 and 71 degrees

so it's much more powerful than the 7990, the GPUs are still dead silent but i've had to increase the intake fan speeds.....even so, only one of the cards is a few degrees warmer, so i'm very pleased with it

now it's time to get those cards level, get rid of their sag

thefogo · 31 Oct 2014 at 11:37

Geeman1979 said:
They're still rapid enough at that speed. I'd suggest putting your best card in the top slot. You've always got the option to flash the bios for a higher power limit to eek a bit more out of them.

Yep they will do fine for 1080p

old gamer said:
i think you made a good choice for sli, i would be happy dumping the heat outside the case at the expense of a few fps

Yeah they run at roughly the same temperature and fan speed too which is nice.

old gamer · 31 Oct 2014 at 12:08

Fogo any coil whine with those reference msi cards

thefogo · 31 Oct 2014 at 12:58

Nope none at all, silent

Much better than my 780ti.

scubes · 31 Oct 2014 at 16:51

Isn't these voltage increases bad for the cards?.

Scottland · 31 Oct 2014 at 17:46

Palit Jetstream turned up today, only had a little play with it - but seems nice so far. Fans idle until temperatures breaches 60°C, and they're inaudible upto about 45%/1000rpm (about 70°C).

No issues so far, could probably do with some more ventilation though.

almighty15 · 31 Oct 2014 at 18:11

Scottland said:
Palit Jetstream turned up today, only had a little play with it - but seems nice so far. Fans idle until temperatures breaches 60°C, and they're inaudible upto about 45%/1000rpm (about 70°C).

No issues so far, could probably do with some more ventilation though.

The card has a low power limit just like my Palits do, I can supply you with a modified BIOS that will give you a higher power limit, should allow for higher clocks too.

Amatsubu · 31 Oct 2014 at 20:15

Just installed my Strix. So far, the card doesn't whine at all and doesn't even sag that much. ASIC quality is 77.3, I hope it's a decent clocker.

The card's bracket didn't align properly with the I/O cut-outs on my case even though the card seemed to be seated well. I had to use some pressure to position it correctly when screwing it in but there wasn't any creaking involved so I hope I didn't **** anything up. There's still a small gap between the bracket and the cut-outs on one side. Is this normal or something's not right? Everything's seems to be working fine, so the card is definitely in the slot.