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NVIDIA GTX 970 OWNERS THREAD

normski_ said:
They are all quiet - only got the EVGA to 4,000 plus using Precision, didn't mess about with the other two. The EVGA doesn't even hit 50 percent when stressed.
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In fact it do not exceed 42% in sli while stressed, temp 75 max on auto profile. But I would not call them quiet. Before bios flash, fans were @31 even on idle and I was irritated by the noise. I quess owning MSI 780s with Twin Frozr for a year spoiled me. However I find EVGA cooling much more efficient then MSI. I could spin both MSI to 100% and temp would not go under 78 in sli, top card was really straggling, I could feel the heat from the heatpipe from 30 cm. Evga 970s at 50-60% keep themselves at 60C. They are too loud though, I prefer to keep them at 42% max. Next upgrade I have to find myself a compromise;)
 
My Zotac Gaming Edition has a power limit of 106% in afterburner and I have got it to 1515mhz and 7800mhz so far but it's always at its power limit and peaks at 2696 in Valley at 8x Ultra.

Should I be happy enough with this?
 
So riddle me this:

Would SLI 970s, undervloted/clocked with a temp limit set to 70-75º still give great performance?

I'm conscious that having them running full pelt sans water in my TJ08 might be pushing it :D
 
whatever is going on, on default auto it's 68 and 71 degrees max so it's perfect..... because it would still be ok at 80 degrees.

i notice slight coil wine now but only in Heaven, because it's dead quiet in ``the evil within``.... which tells me that the cards are probably running cooler whilst gaming.. not sure.
 
setter said:
On that cooler you should be grand with auto fan if running at stock. On the wf cooled 780's which are hotter, either of mine will hit 70c on auto, but with a custom 1-1 fan ratio,( ie 50% at 50c) neither will break 65c at stock speed or oc'd.
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62c after a hr of gaming on auto ;) need to get over clocking now :D
 
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I have got two G1's. I think they are fairly loud.

Especially when the other 970's have semi- passive cooling. The G1's 30% fan all the time is quite annoying.
 
Any word in when the Gigabyte Mini-ITX variant will be shipping? It's holding up my order; usually I wouldn't care too much about this but when the ETA of last Friday came and went, the ETA got changed to 'Overdue' which has made me a tad bit miffed to be honest.
 
~>Dg<~ said:
62c after a hr of gaming on auto ;) need to get over clocking now :D
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Pretty good that mate. In single card config the wf cooler is one of the best you can get. Problems only start when you pair them up. Never puts me off though as this is my 3rd wf sli pairing.:D
 
adbee said:
I have got two G1's. I think they are fairly loud.

Especially when the other 970's have semi- passive cooling. The G1's 30% fan all the time is quite annoying.
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What the temps like on the top one ? Looking to go SLI with my G1 :) Would like a bios update to drop turn the fans off like the msi but cant see us getting one :(
 
Scramz said:
JamesM, did unlocking the bios improve you heaven scores under water cooling?

I am just wondering if my theory on water cooling making no difference due to the cooling head room come true? lol
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Not sure as i'm not under water yet :p

Still running on air although when benching I have a fan blowing over the rear memory chips and the back or the VRMs.

Has it improved clocking? Not really. The whole thing is a bit strange really.

Card apparently pulls 1.325v according to the multi meter but anything above 1620 core and it comes up with a driver error. Also with the newer Maxwell Tweaker max volts is something like 1.6v according to the editor but don't know how accurate that is and whether it works. I won't be touching anything like that though.

To be fair the card is epic anyway so pushing it higher is just for e-fame.

Power limit wise however the card never throttles now, ever. Even when gaming in the high 1500s and memory at 8000 it stays perfectly stable. I've defaulted to using my own custom no-limits bios at the moment and it seems perfectly stable and still downclocks when idle.
 
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Just ordered 2x gigabyte G1 970s to replace my 5 day old 295x2
Just not happy with the cooling on the 295x2, despite messing about for 4 days with it.

My first Nvidia cards for many years.
 
Tried finding my max oc on these two 970s. Not great.
I've tried 4 now and not one has hit 1500Mhz lol

My luck as always I suppose.
 
The sensible thing would have been keeping my 290 crossfire setup from months ago. These are almost identical performance and cost more :o
Oh well.
 
The fact that the free game you get is Far Cry 4 makes GTX970 so much better value now. You could get £25-30 selling the code, or save yourself £40-50 not having to buy the game yourself. Almost makes me wish I'd waited :).
 
thefogo said:
Nah I'm going to stick with these two :p
I only play at 1080p anyway so 2 970s is silly performance even at stock.

That Gigabyte is a nice price :) Though I'm not entirely sure it would fit in my case.
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its not that big a card :p

it was same as my 7950 boost in length.
 
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