NVIDIA GTX 970 OWNERS THREAD

daresso · 8 Apr 2015 at 11:40

hey guys,
what's the highest clock you've seen personally on your cards?

JamesM · 8 Apr 2015 at 11:46

Think I saw 1600 core and 8300 memory or somewhere there abouts on my MSI Gaming

Pighardia · 14 Apr 2015 at 17:07

Hi all. I just received my new 970, the KFA2 one here - https://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-010-GX

It is my first ever nvidia GPU! :eek:

I am very happy with the performance of it. It is eating up GTA V, but I am totally unfamiliar with what to expect in terms of temperatures and fan speeds. Could someone kindly advise, or point me in the direction of a discussion that could help me work out what fan-profile to set up? Currently it sits at default 30% when idle with a temp of 30c, and after an hour of GTA just now it peaked at 66c with a fan speed of 80%, which was a tiny bit loud(still not bad though!). I would like to minimise noise if possible.

cheers

Geeman1979 · 14 Apr 2015 at 17:09

Install Afterburner and set up a custom fan profile.

http://www.guru3d.com/files-details/msi-afterburner-beta-download.html

Andy7 · 18 Apr 2015 at 19:11

Just Pulled The Trigger

Just bought this:

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-010-GX&groupid=701&catid=1914&subcat=1010

I was looking for a good upgrade from a GTX 670. I run at 1920x1080 and use a 2600k @ 4.6

Looking forward to getting it

Tonester0011 · 18 Apr 2015 at 19:12

Nice little card, mine clocked to 1550mhz iirc. Ran fairly quiet @stock on normal fan profile and without whine

Andy7 · 18 Apr 2015 at 19:16

Tonester0011 said:
Nice little card, mine clocked to 1550mhz iirc. Ran fairly quiet @stock on normal fan profile and without whine

I was concerned about the coil whine issue myself. Having read the reviews of the card and the no coil whine guarantee I just had to get it. Free game too

Mal X · 18 Apr 2015 at 19:43

no coil whine on the 970, it is dead silent :cool:

the 970 is the best card i've ever had

SpeckleD · 18 Apr 2015 at 19:45

It always amazes me how coil whine seems to be acceptable when buying cards these days

Andy7 · 18 Apr 2015 at 19:56

SpeckleD said:
It always amazes me how coil whine seems to be acceptable when buying cards these days

I was not going to accept coil whine and that is why I went for this card.

It comes with a coil whine guarantee and that was why I bought it.

Mal X · 18 Apr 2015 at 20:00

yea.....with the TX it's fan noise, but luckily it's not an annoying rattling sound.

SpeckleD · 18 Apr 2015 at 20:01

I was speaking in general terms, how they manufacture cards and still expect buyers to put up with it.

straxusii · 18 Apr 2015 at 20:01

SpeckleD said:
It always amazes me how coil whine seems to be acceptable when buying cards these days

I recommend being deaf as a post, I am and I have never had a card with coil whine in 19 years of buying GPUs

Andy7 · 18 Apr 2015 at 20:02

SpeckleD said:
I was speaking in general terms, how they manufacture cards and still expect buyers to put up with it.

I see what you mean and agree with you.

mark43 · 18 Apr 2015 at 20:17

Its not a term I'd actually heard of until recently, I had to do a search and watch a video to realise what it was. I think it would drive me mad, noisy fans I can cope with but I don't see how coil whine is acceptable. Luckily I'm getting old so should loose my ability to hear that frequency soon.

Gripen90 · 19 Apr 2015 at 03:16

africanos23 said:
More hassle then needed going for 3-4 cards. Two are always the sweet spot and you should probably be looking at something higher end (GTX980) for 4K.

Both the GTX970 and R9-290X are fine and trade blows on most resolutions but I don't think either cut it well for 4K unless dropping AA and settings to low-med. ( OP said some 2160p. ) So I think he just wants to try it out.

I am playing in 4K with 2x MSI GTX 970 Gaming cards and they do just as fine as the 2x Asus GTX 980 Strix I've been reviewing/testing. Not really any hughe performance difference.

John7up · 30 Apr 2015 at 20:17

I've just changed from Asus GTX 760 mini to GTX 970 mini from gigabyte, but have a really tight and hot enclosure.. don't know if it's got the same performance as its full size counterpart.
can't even play wow 4k with it... got a curved 4k LG 55UC970V

opethdisciple · 30 Apr 2015 at 20:28

John7up said:
I've just changed from Asus GTX 760 mini to GTX 970 mini from gigabyte, but have a really tight and hot enclosure.. don't know if it's got the same performance as its full size counterpart.
can't even play wow 4k with it... got a curved 4k LG 55UC970V

It will be pretty much the same as a full sized 970.

Sycho · 30 Apr 2015 at 21:22

John7up said:
I've just changed from Asus GTX 760 mini to GTX 970 mini from gigabyte, but have a really tight and hot enclosure.. don't know if it's got the same performance as its full size counterpart.
can't even play wow 4k with it... got a curved 4k LG 55UC970V

WoW Engine is so badly optimised....try proper games with it like GTA 5/Dying Light/AC Unity/Far Cry 4 if you want to see it's true power.

I remember using my SLI 680's in WoW yet it still ran horrible completely maxed due to the shadows completely eating up my FPS....turn them off totally.

Bradmax57 · 17 May 2015 at 17:49

So I came back to a gtx970, an Asus strix version to be exact, and what a stinker I got

Asic of 63% and its barely boosting to spec of 1253mhz, coupled to the fact its hitting 85+ degrees and the fans are very loud trying to keep it all under control, it even crashed on futuremark benchmark with nothing overclocked, same system has had a 290x running no problem so its obviously just a dud