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NVIDIA GTX 970 OWNERS THREAD

Telecaster said:
My Zotac Amp Extreme Core Edition is a fantastic card, really happy with it and build quality is awesome. Boosts at 1442mhz out of the box and is virtually silent with it's five heat pipe cooler. My first Zotac card and I'm impressed.

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Nice looking card.
 
lol

Cheers chaps, well impressed with it, even though it was the dearer end of 970s available I was after something cool and quiet, the performance is just a bonus. Pity OC don't stock it!
 
Amatsubu said:
I'm still happy with my Strix 970 but I wouldn't mind it running a wee bit cooler when under max load and OC'd. I kinda regret I couldn't get the MSI 100ME Edition as they weren't on the market at the time. It's lighter, smaller and probably runs a bit cooler/overclockes better. Well, no point in switching now I guess:p
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The 100 mill is easy the best 970, looks the dogs ******** also
 
Just got me one of these as a temporary solution for Word, Excel and web surfing:

mururoa said:
http://www.asus.com/Graphics_Cards/GTX970DC2OC4GD5BLACK/

- 10-phase VRM, the beefiest among its peers by a margin

- GTX 980 pcb (the one used in GTX 980 Strix)

- Vastly improved cooler vs. Strix (5 direct contact heatpipes vs. 3 on Strix)

- 8+6 pin PCI-E (vs. single 8 pin on Strix)
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Some initial notes:

- Samsung memory

- The card boosts to well over 1300 MHz straight out of the box

- 1500/8000 is literally as easy as upping the power limit to 120 and then sliding a couple more sliders

- Max. temps 67' after GTA V

- The fan curve is reaaally conservative, it doesn't seem to go above 39% no matter what. This translates to 900 rpm or thereabouts

Not bad, would buy again.
 
Finally bit the bullet and bought a MSI Gaming Twin Frozr as an upgrade to my trusty GTX480.

Benchmark wise it's quite a boost :)

Unigine Heaven Benchmark 4.0

Platform:
Windows 8.1 64bit
Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4690K CPU @ 3.50GHz (3505MHz) x4
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 9.18.13.4752 (1536MB) x1

Render:
Direct3D11
Mode:
1920x1080 8xAA fullscreen
Preset
Custom
Quality
Ultra
Tessellation:
Extreme


FPS:
22.1
Score:
556
Min FPS:
6.7
Max FPS:
44.7


Platform:
Windows 8.1 64bit
Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4690K CPU @ 3.50GHz (3499MHz) x4
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 9.18.13.5286 (4095MB) x1


Settings

Render:
Direct3D11
Mode:
1920x1080 8xAA fullscreen
Preset
Custom
Quality
Ultra
Tessellation:
Extreme

FPS:
55.4
Score:
1394
Min FPS:
31.5
Max FPS:
117.2
 
dbilsborough said:
yes, and it was partly your review that swung it, cheers :D

Was going to go EVGA as usual, but did some more research when I watched your vid.
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Ahhh great to hear that thanks. I try to be as honest and fair as I can be and I couldn't pick a single fault with it. Silent, fast and coped extremely well at 1080P. I am not a professional reviewer but I try to cover the things I look for when I am interested in buying.
 
Just checked and my 480GTX cost £107 2 years 8 months ago as it was a refurb (although it looked pretty much brand new). Superb value for money as it still plays most games at a decent framerate at 1080p, you just need to turn off some of the eye candy.

Edit:

Tried a quick overclock - +140 core +501 memory

FPS:
62.1
Score:
1564
Min FPS:
28.3
Max FPS:
129.3

Max temp was 67

With Core 1503.7 and mem 8036 +200 core +519 memory

FPS:
63.7
Score:
1606
Min FPS:
28.9
Max FPS:
134.6

As far as it would go with standard volts

All in all, not too shabby
 
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Ayahuasca said:
I'm not sure any of the 970's are cherry picked.

Maybe the KFA2 Hall of Fame Edition, but I'm quite certain the G1's aren't cherry picked. There's usually a substantial price increase for cherry picked cards.
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They are cherry picked in the g1, results in higher tdp but better oc, see linus review. They call it gauntlet sorting. The evga 970s are cherry picked to make up the ftw etc
 
KFA2 GeForce GTX 970 OC Silent "Infin8 Black Edition" here.

Can anyone explain the boost feature of these cards to me?

For example: When I run valley benchmark the benchmark itself says boost 1519mhz, but afterburner reports maximum clock of 1380mhz.

I've had the blackscreen ("tdr" ?) issue with this card once with witcher 3.

I turned up the case fans after that crash which dropped gpu temp from mid 70s to mid 60s and it hasn't crashed since. But it shouldn't have anyway, should it?

I haven't tried to overclocking beyond the factory setting. Read about that asic thing and had a look with gpu-z and the card is only 68.6% asic quality which is bad apparently?
 
Didn't know about the ASIC feature, just checked and my Zotac and it says 75.4% whatever that means.

I've no idea how to overclock this 970 from it's stock 1442mhz boost, moving the core clock slider in AB does nothing.
 
Getting awful stuttering in BF4 at 4K :(

Like, the game completely freezing for half a second at a time.

Constantly reporting 40-65 FPS but it feels unplayably bad.
 
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