NVIDIA GTX 970 OWNERS THREAD

thefogo · 30 Sep 2014 at 19:58

Wizzfizz said:
Idling at 28 @ 30% is impressive, mine is currently at 42 at the same level.. Only the back fan is spinning though, I take it yours is the same?

You have two monitors? 42 is pretty hot. My 780ti idles at 26.

Captain · 30 Sep 2014 at 19:59

Wizzfizz said:
Idling at 28 @ 30% is impressive, mine is currently at 42 at the same level.. Only the back fan is spinning though, I take it yours is the same?

Oops no it's not, that's the bottom card

Top card @ idle 30% fan is 37

Ayahuasca · 30 Sep 2014 at 20:00

Biffa said:
No real money to be made mining if you are starting now. Period.

5.6Mh/s is around 50p a day profit after electricity if you are very lucky and have the cheapest electricity in the world.

Work out how long it will take to mine back the cost of your card.

Is that 24/7 what about without the cost of electricity?

Wizzfizz · 30 Sep 2014 at 20:01

ahh both fans are spinning just couldn't see it properly

What's your bottom card at?

thefogo said:
You have two monitors? 42 is pretty hot. My 780ti idles at 26.

Nope. The fans on this 970 don't start spinning until they hit a certain temp (I think its 50 degrees).

But yeah, even at 30% fan profile, it hovers around 40 degrees.

jwsg · 30 Sep 2014 at 20:02

I started with a Zotac 970 (the 20cm long base model) to replace a similar Zotac 660ti in a SUGO mini-itx case. Even though the minimum fan speed is 28% I could still hear them over the case fan (which I couldn't on the 660ti at idle) and as it's a living room PC this is not good. Under load the fans were getting pretty audible.

I changed it for an Inno3D (which I think has 90mm fans) but found the minimum fan speed on this one to be 37% (which equates to 1140rpm) so I still can't get the fans to be silent at idle (although I would judge the Inno3D to be the better of the two overall)

So my question is, when do we expect is to be possible to edit the Maxwell BIOS to change fan parameters, or will it be possible to re-flash with a BIOS from a card that supports zero rpm at idle?

almighty15 · 30 Sep 2014 at 20:06

My card is maxed, damn 108% TDP limit

It's boosting from 1440Mhz to 1480Mhz depending on the game.

Anyway to flash the cards yet? Need a better BIOS on this card as with more power budget 1500Mhz+ should be quite easy.

So far it's WAY behind my 290 in the couple of games that I have tried.

Captain · 30 Sep 2014 at 20:07

Wizzfizz said:
ahh both fans are spinning just couldn't see it properly

What's your bottom card at?

Nope. The fans on this 970 don't start spinning until they hit a certain temp (I think its 50 degrees).

But yeah, even at 30% fan profile, it hovers around 40 degrees.

Bottom card is idle @ 25

JamesM · 30 Sep 2014 at 20:07

almighty15 said:
My card is maxed, damn 108% TDP limit

It's boosting from 1440Mhz to 1480Mhz depending on the game.

Anyway to flash the cards yet? Need a better BIOS on this card as with more power budget 1500Mhz+ should be quite easy.

So far it's WAY behind my 290 in the couple of games that I have tried.

What make do you have?

Ayahuasca · 30 Sep 2014 at 20:08

almighty15 said:
My card is maxed, damn 108% TDP limit

It's boosting from 1440Mhz to 1480Mhz depending on the game.

Anyway to flash the cards yet? Need a better BIOS on this card as with more power budget 1500Mhz+ should be quite easy.

So far it's WAY behind my 290 in the couple of games that I have tried.

No surprise as your 290 is one of the rare ones that will hold 1250mhz stable in games. The 970 you bought probably wasn't the best choice for overclocking either.

Captain · 30 Sep 2014 at 20:09

almighty15 said:
My card is maxed, damn 108% TDP limit

It's boosting from 1440Mhz to 1480Mhz depending on the game.

Anyway to flash the cards yet? Need a better BIOS on this card as with more power budget 1500Mhz+ should be quite easy.

So far it's WAY behind my 290 in the couple of games that I have tried.

I have noticed some slow down too, in Firestrike with 2 290's i got a gpu score of 23k, with two 970's i got under 18k.

almighty15 · 30 Sep 2014 at 20:13

Ayahuasca said:
No surprise as your 290 is one of the rare ones that will hold 1250mhz stable in games. The 970 you bought probably wasn't the best choice for overclocking either.

It'll be OK once it has a water block and a modified BIOS on it.

Had it for DSR which works like a charm!

In Crysis Warhead my 290 is actually faster with 4xMSAA enabled then the 970 is without it!

stoke1863 · 30 Sep 2014 at 20:15

My inno3d came today with a free mousemat and full copy of 3dmark. Will install later

jwsg · 30 Sep 2014 at 21:18

As I mentioned above, the only irritation is the 37% min fan speed - at idle I can always hear them over my mini-itx case / cpu fans

krooton · 30 Sep 2014 at 21:39

Installed my Inno3D, at 37% I can't hear it over my TJ08 case fans and H80, I can only start to tell it from 50% fan speed up, so it will never be an issue when gaming.

thefogo · 30 Sep 2014 at 21:46

jwsg said:
As I mentioned above, the only irritation is the 37% min fan speed - at idle I can always hear them over my mini-itx case / cpu fans

I was looking at getting that one but I think I'll steer clear now. I hate cards that are loud at idle

stoke1863 · 30 Sep 2014 at 22:13

krooton said:
Installed my Inno3D, at 37% I can't hear it over my TJ08 case fans and H80, I can only start to tell it from 50% fan speed up, so it will never be an issue when gaming.

What ASIC you got? My inno3d is only 65%

ubersonic · 30 Sep 2014 at 22:15

jwsg said:
As I mentioned above, the only irritation is the 37% min fan speed - at idle I can always hear them over my mini-itx case / cpu fans

Was that with afterburner running? (its fan curve is ~10% higher than stock), I have two Inno3D cards and they were running 29-30% at idle, they were dead silent and they were the only moving parts at idle.

krooton · 30 Sep 2014 at 22:21

stoke1863 said:
What ASIC you got? My inno3d is only 65%

70.9%, but I'm more concerned that at stock it is hitting 76ºC and ramping up the fans playing Bioshock Infinite

That can't be right, as my MSI 290X didn't run as hot!

stoke1863 · 30 Sep 2014 at 22:39

krooton said:
70.9%, but I'm more concerned that at stock it is hitting 76ºC and ramping up the fans playing Bioshock Infinite

That can't be right, as my MSI 290X didn't run as hot!

gibbo said that pretty much all the GTX 970's will hit 80c on defualt fan curves

jwsg · 30 Sep 2014 at 22:41

Don't be put off the Inno3D - for an 8in sized card I think it beats the Zotac.

My case is mini-itx with two Noctua fans I spin at only around 700rpm when it's idle. I couldn't hear the 660ti above them when using Precision X to drop the fans to 30% - and being a living room PC under the TV it spends a lot of time at idle.

With the 37% limit I can hear them so it's going to take a BIOS update, or edit, to try to sort it for my set up. Maybe 1140rpm is the min speed and so the 37% is there for a reason rather than being a lazy default, but 0 rpm seems to work with other brands at the moment.

When pushing the card in gaming the fans noise is quite tolerable so it's a good card. My ASIC is 80%