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NVIDIA GTX 970 OWNERS THREAD

It is very quiet, mine hits 72C on Furmark and pushes 65 on intensive games like GTA V and Witcher 3 (maxed out).
No custom fan curve set as not gone into doing that sort of stuff yet (not even got round to OCing my CPU)
 
Just managed to pick up an EVGA GTX 970 SSC ACX2.0+ edition brand new and sealed for £201 :D.

Will be doing a build for my sister for christmas. i5 3570k (with my old h110i GT), gtx 970, my old p8z77-v pro board with 8gb corsair vengeance, my old tx750 PSU, NZXT S340, 120gb SSD, 2TB HDD :).

Currently she has a laptop which is able to play battlefield 4 lowest settings at 720p at around 30-40fps so this will be a nice jump for her. What kind of performance can we expect? Im looking to get a 60hz 1080p screen. Rather have it come from the users rather than benchmarking websites.
 
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tyler_jrb said:
Just managed to pick up an EVGA GTX 970 SSC ACX2.0+ edition brand new and sealed for £201 :D.

Will be doing a build for my sister for christmas. i5 3570k (with my old h110i GT), gtx 970, my old p8z77-v pro board with 8gb corsair vengeance, my old tx750 PSU, NZXT S340, 120gb SSD, 2TB HDD :).

Currently she has a laptop which is able to play battlefield 4 lowest settings at 720p at around 30-40fps so this will be a nice jump for her. What kind of performance can we expect? Im looking to get a 60hz 1080p screen. Rather have it come from the users rather than benchmarking websites.
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There will be nothing she wont be able to play at 1080p/60fps or 1440p/30fps with High-Ultra settings.

Battlefield 4 specifically will do 1440p/60fps with good settings(what I play at, same rig 3570k/970).
 
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welshdragon said:
Loving my EVGA GTX 970 SSC version. Fans turn off under 60c, even on I can't hear them. Bought extra warranty too. Love it and so far love EVGA
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Nice, have you tried overclocking it yet? I would be interested in what you can achieve, also if the fan stays at 40% on the auto setting BIOS or lower under load once overclocked and boosting to around 1500MHz +

Reading the review below, once overclocked and boosting to 1,497MHz the temps only increased by 2°C and the fan only increased to 36 percent around 1,600 RPM, and they were still extremely quiet.

Link >> http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/graphics/2015/05/08/evga-geforce-gtx-970-ssc-acx-2-0-review/10
 
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so installed the gtx 970 left it running stock at the moment.
windows score dropped from 7.9 down to 6!!

yet heres some results!!
gtx 970
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7950overclocked

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gtx 970

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7950 overclocked

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so how far can these be overclocked?
 
jbh110tdi said:
so installed the gtx 970 left it running stock at the moment.
windows score dropped from 7.9 down to 6!!

yet heres some results!!
gtx 970
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7950overclocked

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gtx 970

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7950 overclocked

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so how far can these be overclocked?
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Ignore the Windows Score.

Overclocking is a complete lottery, it can be anywhere from 1350Mhz to 1600Mhz.

The best thing you can do is test it.

I did this one at 1604/1900 http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/8657942

Graphics Score: 13732, 24/7 i run it at 1500/1900
 
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Nelly said:
Nice, have you tried overclocking it yet? I would be interested in what you can achieve, also if the fan stays at 40% on the auto setting BIOS or lower under load once overclocked and boosting to around 1500MHz +

Reading the review below, once overclocked and boosting to 1,497MHz the temps only increased by 2°C and the fan only increased to 36 percent around 1,600 RPM, and they were still extremely quiet.

Link >> http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/graphics/2015/05/08/evga-geforce-gtx-970-ssc-acx-2-0-review/10
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Not yet. Going to leave it at stock for now and start pushing it when I need more. At the moment everything I play runs great.
 
Does just adding volts to these increase the clockrate?

I had it running +146Mhz resulting in 1500Mhz, i added 20mv (Just because i felt like it) and its now running at 1526Mhz with the same +146Mhz.

now....



Before....

 
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@humbug

Increasing volts can increase clockspeed via extra boost providing things don't get too warm.

If your card runs too warm because of the extra volts it will lower the boost and clockspeed.
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I wonder just how high the clock rate will go and what is safe, 1604 is as high as i have had it and thats without any added volts.

I was playing Crysis 3 campaign for 2 hours last night @ 1526/1900 +20mv and the highest temp it reached was 64c.

temps are good, no graphical errors, no glitches...nothing. it seems to have no end.
 
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I wonder just how high the clock rate will go and what is safe, 1604 is as high as i have had it and thats without any added volts.

I was playing Crysis 3 campaign for 2 hours last night @ 1526/1900 +20mv and the highest temp it reached was 64c.

temps are good, no graphical errors, no glitches...nothing. it seems to have no end.
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My 980 would go to 1650 with a custom BIOS, but there comes a point where the performance increase is minimal or even negative. 1500 is a decent overclock for 24/7 gaming. I wouldn't be going much above that unless I was benching.
 
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