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NVIDIA GTX 970 OWNERS THREAD

i dont think the 8350 is the problem, the 970's would be better off with a higher res monitor to give them a bit of breathing space and allow them to stretch there legs
 
My issue is with the poster that implied a 4690K is a bottleneck to SLI...it isn't.

Even the most demanding, CPU intensive games out there, such as Project Cars will push my 970 to 99% usage whilst my CPU cores are sitting there at a relaxed 40-60% load.

A 4690K has more than enough legs for a dual card setup.
 
Cooper said:
Utter nonsense.

The idea that hyper threading, which is barely taken advantage of in any game out there, and even if it is, makes little more than 5% difference in benchmarks, will solve this problem is completely bogus.

He may well be CPU limited with his 8350, but you and him will not be CPU limited with a 4690K to any meaningful degree.
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Sorry but i've used both a 4690k (at 4.7GHz), a 4770k and an AMD 8320 overclocked to 4.8GHz with both two Nvidia cards and two AMD cards. Hell i've even run two 7990s on an overclocked 8320.

Every single time, at 1080p, frame rates would drop and fluctuate wildly on anything other than the 4770k which was also overclocked. Even that would often drop GPU usage at times. I'm not talking about just a CPU intensive game or a GPU intensive game, i'm talking about games that are heavy with both.

More often than not i'd notice better performance simply running a single card that two.

Have you run the following setups and can compare results?
 
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Any suggestions whether I should go for the Inno3D 970 or the MSI gaming Twin Frozr 970?

OC have the Inno3D for slightly cheaper.... but lots of people are happy with the MSI. I can't find as many reviews of the Inno3D but maybe I'm not looking in the right places!
 
I got the Inoo3D last week from OcUK when it was £239.99. All good so far. Quieter than the 7970 it replaced and running cooler. You get a free mouse pad, a hex key for removing the cooler I think, and a code for the full version of 3d Mark 11.
 
Smok3y said:
I got the Inoo3D last week from OcUK when it was £239.99. All good so far. Quieter than the 7970 it replaced and running cooler. You get a free mouse pad, a hex key for removing the cooler I think, and a code for the full version of 3d Mark 11.
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Sounds great.

You say its quiet.. do the fans turn off under idle? What max speed to the fans hit under load?
 
JamesM said:
Sorry but i've used both a 4690k (at 4.7GHz), a 4770k and an AMD 8320 overclocked to 4.8GHz with both two Nvidia cards and two AMD cards. Hell i've even run two 7990s on an overclocked 8320.

Every single time, at 1080p, frame rates would drop and fluctuate wildly on anything other than the 4770k which was also overclocked. Even that would often drop GPU usage at times. I'm not talking about just a CPU intensive game or a GPU intensive game, i'm talking about games that are heavy with both.

More often than not i'd notice better performance simply running a single card that two.

Have you run the following setups and can compare results?
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Agreed, been there and noticed the same. 3570k with sli 670's. And its not something an fps counter will show. All in how the game feels. Much more consistent higher gpu use, lower cpu use. My 3570k was running almost constant 98% use, 4.5ghz oc, switched to an i7 and even on a lower oc things were much smoother. Better card use, lower cpu use.
 
if i was in the market right now, i would go for a galaxy hof. i say that as someone who owns a (980) g1 :p.

the g1 is a nice card, don't get me wrong, but the 980 hof has a base clock of 1304 boosting to 1418. if (as we've speculated over on ocn) the mfr's really are binning chips for factory o/c's and not altering voltage tables etc in bios, that is a hell of a factory o/c. my g1 won't do that! yes it will run at max boost/voltage well in excess of 1418, but it isn't stable over the whole gamut of lower voltages/lower clocks that gpu boost 2 will throw at it.
 
okay few questions as wanting to oc card now

on g1 when does boost clocks click in ? are they activated as default.

whats best software to oc with ? also can you keep gpu clocks at same speed constant ? from looking in evga precision earlier it looked like the card was going up and down when not doing much. i would like constant just same clocks.

in gpuz my max clocks showing is different to msi afterburner.

gpuz is showing default clocks max 1177.0 when does boost kick in or can you turn it on ?

in bf4 just checked its 1391.8mhz.
 
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thefogo said:
Thought you were trying the fans out on the 295X2?
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I was, but just not impressed with the cooling solution for the 295x2. Shouldn't have to go about reducing voltages & swopping fans just to get the thing to work correctly.

Pity, because when the 295 is working, performance is great. Just constantly thinking in the back of my mind, it's only 2c or 3c away from throttling down.

Still going to give the new fans a go on the 295 beofre it goes back though, just to see what they do.
 
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Robzere31 said:
I was, but just not impressed with the cooling solution for the 295x2. Shouldn't have to go about reducing voltages & swopping fans just to get the thing to work correctly.

Pity, because when the 295 is working, performance is great. Just constantly thinking in the back of my mind, it's only 2c or 3c away from throttling down.

Still going to give the new fans a go on the 295 beofre it goes back though, just to see what they do.
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Might as well while they're there :)
 
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