What have you changed the allen keys to as I find them a bit of a pain too ?
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NVIDIA GTX 970 OWNERS THREAD
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What have you changed the allen keys to as I find them a bit of a pain too ?
Send it back mine going back tomorrow with the same problem terrible coil whine & that on a brand new PSU, thought mine might have been a one off but i guess not. :/
^ Same here, I'm on my second Infinity card and the coil whine is as bad as previous cards that I've had in the past. The actually frequency that comes from the whine can be heard over 6ft away, not good at all. This is with using a Superflower 1000w Plat PSU.
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Just took delivery of a Galax 970 to replace a pair of crossfired ATI 6850s. A very noticeable boost to performance - games which struggled to run at 1920x1080 are now running smoothly on a triple screen array at 5960x1080 (100 pixel bezel compensation between each screen). It's the first nVidia card I've ever had, because I've always been a bit brand-loyal to ATI, but this is making a good first impression.
One minor thing which really impressed me: the nVidia Surround thing, they've actually thought through how windows work when not playing games. I can easily maximise a window in one screen and it'll fill only that screen. With the ATI equivalent, Eyefinity, it would fill all three screens, so you had to manually set the size of a window to fill a single screen. It was a pain in the arse, so I'm very glad to see nVidia have actually done it properly.
One small point: it did not come with an SLI bridge. Not a huge concern, since it's a single card, but I'm still curious. I've always had ATI cards in the past, and they've always come with a crossfire bridge. But this new card did not. Is that normal for nVidia cards? If so, where do you actually get SLI bridges from?
One minor thing which really impressed me: the nVidia Surround thing, they've actually thought through how windows work when not playing games. I can easily maximise a window in one screen and it'll fill only that screen. With the ATI equivalent, Eyefinity, it would fill all three screens, so you had to manually set the size of a window to fill a single screen. It was a pain in the arse, so I'm very glad to see nVidia have actually done it properly.
One small point: it did not come with an SLI bridge. Not a huge concern, since it's a single card, but I'm still curious. I've always had ATI cards in the past, and they've always come with a crossfire bridge. But this new card did not. Is that normal for nVidia cards? If so, where do you actually get SLI bridges from?
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If the motherboard is SLI compatible, it'll come with a SLI bridge.
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I didnt get an SLI bridge with my mobo. And it supports SLI.
I've been a longtime AMD user too and always thought eyefinity was pretty good until I switched to a 970. NVidia surround is just so much better. I now never have to turn it off whereas with eyefinity I always had to faff around with it if playing a game on a single screen or doing anything else.
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How does surround work with dual monitors? It's not something I had ever thought of using as I assumed it was really meant for triple screen setups, but maybe I'm missing out? Does it automatically revert to single monitor if the game settings are set at 1920*1080?
I'm not at home right now, so can't have an play around with it.
I'm not at home right now, so can't have an play around with it.
To be honest, I wouldn't recommend it with an even number of monitors because your bezels will be right in the centre of your field of view, and I can't imagine that being anything other than supremely irritating.
Which motherboard do you have ?
Reason why the SLI bridge comes with your motherboard is because the slots between PCIE differ so better for motherboard manufacturers to provide SLI bridge rather than come with GPU.
I got another PC with 2x MSI GTX 970 Gaming 4G in SLi. I moderately overclocked them to 1300MHz core and 1903MHz memory and 110% power target. They both boost to a max of 1502MHz on the GPU core and stay there even during prolonged gaming sessions. The both stay around 65~66°c at auto fanspeed control.
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Well I swapped my r9 295x2 for to msi 970s. Got them installed with out any issues.
My system is as follows
I7 4770 k clocked at 4.5 gig and its cooled by the corsair hi100 cooler which is mounted on the top of my phantom case. The motherboard is a ASIs maximums 6 hero.
I used afterburner and heaven to see what they ran like before trying to over clock them . I did 3 bench marks and gpu 1 was staying stable at 71 degree at 97% usage whilst gpu 2 was stable at 63 degrees 97% stable . Gpu 1 is mounted above gpu2 with both the fans pointing down. Are those temps ok ? And is there any way I can drop gpu 1s down a bit?
My system is as follows
I7 4770 k clocked at 4.5 gig and its cooled by the corsair hi100 cooler which is mounted on the top of my phantom case. The motherboard is a ASIs maximums 6 hero.
I used afterburner and heaven to see what they ran like before trying to over clock them . I did 3 bench marks and gpu 1 was staying stable at 71 degree at 97% usage whilst gpu 2 was stable at 63 degrees 97% stable . Gpu 1 is mounted above gpu2 with both the fans pointing down. Are those temps ok ? And is there any way I can drop gpu 1s down a bit?
, but I'll post some nicer shots when the decent camera returns.)
