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NVIDIA GTX 970 OWNERS THREAD

On the current and last set of drivers my 970 SLI performs worse in BF4 than a single 290p with Mantle. Is DX just broke in that game?
 
BF4 is semi broken for me.

Since they had a battlelog down period the game runs awful.

Random CPU spikes, etc.
 
Quick question guys, my brother is after a new graphic card and the majority of 970s fall into his price range but would like one as cheap as possible :)

If after your experiences what 970 would you recommend he get?
I have the msi and told him not to get that, so he undecided on the gigabyte G1, galax ex oc or the ocuk ref 970...
But open to any other suggestions i can pass on
 
shatpank81 said:
Quick question guys, my brother is after a new graphic card and the majority of 970s fall into his price range but would like one as cheap as possible :)

If after your experiences what 970 would you recommend he get?
I have the msi and told him not to get that, so he undecided on the gigabyte G1, galax ex oc or the ocuk ref 970...
But open to any other suggestions i can pass on
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All the above are good cards, so it's down to preference, which for me would either be the Gigabyte G1 or the Ocuk Reference.
 
When it comes to SLI, I'm having trouble deciding which way to go. I have an H440 case and a Gigabyte Z97X-UD3H-BK mbd, so there is a slot gap but given these cards are 4-5cm thick, the non-reference designs are still going to be VERY close together, and in a case that isn't the best for air cooling. I've swapped out the stock fans for x3 Akasa Vipers though, so that should help. Is reference still the best way to go for SLI? The OCUK seems a solid card.
 
Legend said:
When it comes to SLI, I'm having trouble deciding which way to go. I have an H440 case and a Gigabyte Z97X-UD3H-BK mbd, so there is a slot gap but given these cards are 4-5cm thick, the non-reference designs are still going to be VERY close together, and in a case that isn't the best for air cooling. I've swapped out the stock fans for x3 Akasa Vipers though, so that should help. Is reference still the best way to go for SLI? The OCUK seems a solid card.
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The Reference cards are the best option if you're concerned about temps, as they'll expel most of the heat out the back of your case.
 
Geeman1979 said:
The Reference cards are the best option if you're concerned about temps, as they'll expel most of the heat out the back of your case.
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Temps are a concern of course, but what difference does that make? Most of the non-reference designs seem to run up to 20 degrees cooler anyway.
 
Once you put two non reference cards close together, the top one will run quite a lot hotter, (have this issue myself, 74 vs 55c on mine). Also the H440 isn't an ideal case fir cooling due to virtually zero front air intake.
 
Legend said:
Temps are a concern of course, but what difference does that make? Most of the non-reference designs seem to run up to 20 degrees cooler anyway.
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Because the custom cooled cards will dump most of their heat into your case, which in turn will heat up all your other components, including your Graphics cards.
 
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Geeman1979 said:
Because the custom cooled cards will dump most of their heat into your case, which in turn will heat up all your other components, including your Graphics cards.
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setter said:
Once you put two non reference cards close together, the top one will run quite a lot hotter, (have this issue myself, 74 vs 55c on mine). Also the H440 isn't an ideal case fir cooling due to virtually zero front air intake.
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Yes, I'm heavily leaning towards reference because of this. I think I just needed to be told again lol. ;)
 
I run a pair of reference cooled Titans and you'd be surprised how much heat they can dump out of the rear at full tilt. I wouldn't like that kind of heat trapped inside the case.
 
The other day I had a problem with BF4 running in slow motion. Now I have the save problem with Dragon Age: Origins. I even tried Heaven and that runs in slow motion too. BF4 won't even load. What the heck is going on with these cards?
 
thefogo said:
The other day I had a problem with BF4 running in slow motion. Now I have the save problem with Dragon Age: Origins. I even tried Heaven and that runs in slow motion too. BF4 won't even load. What the heck is going on with these cards?
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It's obviously not down to your cards. Sounds like your problems lies elsewhere. Have you tried running your system at stock. Nothing overclocked, no ram timings messed with. When was the last time you did fresh install of your Operating system?
 
Geeman1979 said:
Obviously it's down to the cards is it. Sounds like your problems lies elsewhere. Have you tried running your system at stock. Nothing overclocked, no ram timings messed with. When was the last time you did fresh install of your Operating system?
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I am running everything stock.
I reinstalled Windows 7 a few months ago.

I had no problems with my 780 Ti just 2 weeks ago.
 
thefogo said:
I am running everything stock.
I reinstalled Windows 7 a few months ago.

I had no problems with my 780 Ti just 2 weeks ago.
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Pfft! you quoted before I got chance to edit :(

All I can suggest is running DDU & removing all trace of installed drivers and start again fresh. Never heard of the kind of problems you're suffering from.
 
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