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Guys would getting another MSI 970 be bottlenecked by my 1st gen i5 750 at 4.0Ghz?
Anyone?
I'd say it would be a bottleneck yeah.
I'd say yes.
My 4690k wouldn't cope with two 970s and that is newer tech.
We discussed this internally and the fan issue (fan2 @100%) is most likely caused by the sticker.
Many fans can withstand the removal of the sticker without any damage but a small amount of fans seem to get damaged.
Our production has already stopped using these stickers.
So we recommend all users that suffer from this issue to return the card to the point of purchase for warranty service.
Mal do you mean the Gigabyte G1 or the Asus Strix?
1: I believe you have to check the box for Rivatuner statistics server when you're installing AB
2: It's shown accurately, what GPU-Z says the core speed is doing is what it's boosting too.
3: regular OC 24/7, balls to the wall OC just when benching.
4: In afterburner settings, enable the custom fan curve by checking the box in the fan tab and set what you want (the default AB curve is 10% faster than stock).