If you're going to watercool I'd go for whichever one has blocks for it 1st.
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NVIDIA GTX 970 OWNERS THREAD
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Not sure Ashen, ubersonic has blocks on route, so he's your best bet to ask 
If I've missed anyone off the owners list today please tell me and I'll get you added.
That's normal rob77, if you go to the sensors tab on GPU-Z and set it to read the max reading for core, run a game then check it, it will report the full boost clock.
Just played an hour of BF4 at 1500/2000 everything maxed 1080p, no artifacts, no stutters or hitches. Lowest FPS I saw was 91, really impressed.
MSI, the red and black goes with my motherboard.
Not sure on the new windforce cooler, the one on my 780 was loud whereas this MSI is barely audible even at 100%
Not sure on the new windforce cooler, the one on my 780 was loud whereas this MSI is barely audible even at 100%
No throttling occured during that hour of play earlier, stayed at 1506mhz consistently. The card never even broke 70c at 100% fan speed.
Nearly everyone, most will do at least 1450mhz without changing voltage.
Yeah, if you need help overclocking just ask in here and people will give you advice
The voltage is on a slider as well and only increases by +87mv which is not enough to damage your card unless it's already defective. It's when you start playing with custom bios and higher voltages you're more likely to brick it.
The voltage is on a slider as well and only increases by +87mv which is not enough to damage your card unless it's already defective. It's when you start playing with custom bios and higher voltages you're more likely to brick it.
Will be a nice boost in performance yes. Are you struggling in any games or just have the urge?
Your 670 will struggle with Witcher 3, but saying that a 970 might struggle too. Depends on optimisation and how taxing it is for it's stunning visuals.
That EVGA card only allows +37mv and clocks changing between 1430 and 1410 is hardly throttling. The hour I played on BF4 with my MSI the GPU clock stayed at 1506 MHz consistently. I'm going to see if 1600mhz is game stable as its bench stable. Will report back if it throttles.
I'd return it if mine had coil whine.
Most of them with the higher stock boost clocks allow +87mv, the two Pelinox has linked, the MSI, and I imagine a couple of the others do as well.
Someone has found voltage tables up to 1.312v which is promising if an unlocked bios appears. I'd imagine you'll see 1800mhz+ clocks at that voltage under water.
Someone has found voltage tables up to 1.312v which is promising if an unlocked bios appears. I'd imagine you'll see 1800mhz+ clocks at that voltage under water.
Don't look at the boost value on the 1st tab of GPU-Z as that's wrong, I'd put the power limit at 110% and leave the voltage stock for now. Run a full screen game and check the 2nd tab on GPU-Z (Sensors) and see what it boosts too. That way you can tell how much you need to add on the slider in afterburner.
+235 will be making it boost close to 1600mhz.
Memory clock you times by 4, so you need 2000mhz for 8000mhz effective.
Yeah that sounds right.
Furmark lol, I stopped using that PoS software a few years ago, it serves no purpose in finding your cards max overclock for games and benches. Didn't both sides code their drivers to throttle it anyway as it was damaging GPU's. If my card isn't throttling in games and benchmarks like 3dmark, that's all that matters to me.
I've been gaming most of the day at 1600/2000 clocks and haven't suffered any crashes or artifacts or anything. Card temp ranged from 55c-68c depending on the game. Seriously impressed and don't have any buyers remorse at all as at these clocks it's a fair bit faster than my 780 was.
+125% is the 980's I think. The highest I've seen on 970's is the Gigabyte at 112% if you use their own software for overclocking.