NVIDIA GTX 970 OWNERS THREAD

Dirk Diggler · 16 Dec 2014 at 05:14

I posted this in the MoBo thread, but it hasn't had any activity for months so I thought I'd post in here too...

My MoBo is Gigabyte Z87-OC. I just ordered my 2nd Gigabyte 970 G1 Gaming and have just realised how long the cards are and am wondering.... will the 2nd card clash with the lower MoBo heatsink? It will be in the 3rd PCI slot from the top.

Does anyone have a SLI setup in this MoBo where the 2nd card clears that heatsink?

I'm not at home so I can't check, and the card will arrive before me!

I have time to cancel the order if need be...

** Edit **

Order shipped so I'll find out soon enough... :eek:

roozor · 16 Dec 2014 at 12:45

Any of you guys benched on valley hd extreme recently? I'm getting 2680 points but aiming to break 2700. I'm on +172 core (1513mhz boost) 7600mhz mem, no volts, power limit 125.

Seen a guy getting 2900+ points on his 970!

Jarrastafari · 16 Dec 2014 at 13:19

Awahwah said:
Try a little Overclock...

Will do but I am worried cause when I OC'd my 7950 Ice-Q I must have broke it cause it would only be stable at base clocks after a month of mild OC

Swagger187 · 16 Dec 2014 at 13:31

970 turned up yesterday.
Dead happy with it. Get an average of 86 fps on max settings on BF4 64 player server, with the minimum not dipping below 70. Chuffed

Flying_Hellfish · 16 Dec 2014 at 15:58

Inno3D card is RMA with OcUK now.

I now have one x MSI 970. Able to bench nicely +200, +450 on 3DMark but it flickers, so no good for games. It's the RAM that hold is back, have to pare back to +175 +350. Still decent though.

It's MUCH better noise and temp wise than the Inno3D one as well. Shame the blocks cost a whole bunch more!

JustCallMeVlad · 16 Dec 2014 at 16:59

Anyone rocking the 970 HOF? How good are the overclocks compared to the rest of the 970 cards?

eyetrip · 16 Dec 2014 at 18:30

Anyone have a galax ex oc bios that fixes sli voltage bug, looking like nvidia not in a rush to fix that.

If you can get it to go over 1.121v even better

almighty15 · 16 Dec 2014 at 18:59

Thinking of dumping my 970's and going back to AMD.

****ed off with DSR breaking SLI in pretty much every game I play.

And DSR being the big reason why I moved back to Nvidia.

RevBillyG · 16 Dec 2014 at 21:31

Gigabyte G1 Gaming delivered and installed. Awesome card so far and 0 coil whine

Was a little wary of going back to Nvidia but I'm glad I did now. For information, my last Nvidia card was a geforce 4 ti4200. So, quite a few years ago

ICEx21 · 17 Dec 2014 at 08:16

RevBillyG said:
Gigabyte G1 Gaming delivered and installed. Awesome card so far and 0 coil whine

Was a little wary of going back to Nvidia but I'm glad I did now. For information, my last Nvidia card was a geforce 4 ti4200. So, quite a few years ago

What card did you move from?

Awahwah · 17 Dec 2014 at 09:37

almighty15 said:
Thinking of dumping my 970's and going back to AMD.

****ed off with DSR breaking SLI in pretty much every game I play.

And DSR being the big reason why I moved back to Nvidia.

If you do sell up, make sure you put the Cards in MM. I'm thinking about going the SLi route.

joe pineapples · 17 Dec 2014 at 09:49

Just got my Galax Infinity and ran a few tests. Do they look ok for stock? (i5 @4.4)

Fire strike
Score 9581 with NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970(1x) and Intel Core i5-3570K Processor
Graphics Score
11755
Physics Score
8361
Combined Score
4420
('better than 89% of all results')

Sky Dive
Score 24435 with NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970(1x) and Intel Core i5-3570K Processor
Graphics Score
38818
Physics Score
9043
Combined Score
19935
('better than 87% of all results')

Furmark 1920x1200 2xAA 5mins, peak temp hit 63deg

Flying_Hellfish · 17 Dec 2014 at 13:39

Must say RMA for the Inno3D was an absolute breeze - well done OcUK! Card arrived yesterday morning, checked in yesterday afternoon and refunded this lunchtime. Brilliant.

Fruitbooter · 17 Dec 2014 at 14:18

Been having a quick play with my 970 SLI

This is still with a 4770k running on stock clocks, not sure how much more i'm going to try and overclock them yet.

Overall im pleased with my cards, running on a ROG Swift im getting excellent gameplay in Farcry 4 and Crysis 3 maintaining 60-70 AFPS on Ultra with 2XMSAA

Dirk Diggler · 17 Dec 2014 at 15:20

2nd Gigabyte G1 has arrived, and SLI running sweet. No coil whine to report as yet.

Temperatures on air also look promising.

:cool:

setter · 17 Dec 2014 at 15:23

Excellent temps String, particularly for a pair of non ref cards.

Dirk Diggler · 17 Dec 2014 at 15:27

setter said:
Excellent temps String, particularly for a pair of non ref cards.

Yea, it's because I'm getting x8 on the 3rd slot down, giving me a nice gap.

setter · 17 Dec 2014 at 15:36

Will certainly help, will the cards be going under water cooling too?

Dirk Diggler · 17 Dec 2014 at 15:45

I'm not sure, Setter. If the cards perform OK on air I might save myself the £250 for blocks and back plates. I'm tinkering with the idea of taking out my 240 rad on top and putting 2*AF120's there instead, just to improve the air flow even more. It'll leave me with a 360 rad on the front for my CPU only, which is obviously plenty.

setter · 17 Dec 2014 at 15:50

If you can maintain temps like that over a period of gaming, i can certainly understand where your coming from. £250.00 for wc parts is indeed a lot of cash. And the wf coolers are pretty quiet. AF fans are quite good, use them as top and rear exhaust fans myself.