NVIDIA GTX 970 OWNERS THREAD

[3t3P]

screw it, just pulled the trigger on a brace of MSI's

does that Asus Strix really have only one 8 pin connector?!

Might get a watercooling back plate at some point just for aesthetics, gonna miss my power editions they look SO frikkin cool

 

[Drizmod]

Well Ive ordered the Gigabyte now. This is my first Nvidia card since nvidia fx 5200 personal cinema!

 

[JamesM]

Great write-up explaining how/why Power Target is the main limiting factor on 970 clock speed.



Need moar powar

Excellent post.

Bring on custom BIOS' and water cooling!

screw it, just pulled the trigger on a brace of MSI's

does that Asus Strix really have only one 8 pin connector?!

Might get a watercooling back plate at some point just for aesthetics, gonna miss my power editions they look SO frikkin cool

Yep ASUS has one 8 pin connector.

 

[frostdragon]

Iam proud to join the GX 970 owners club

I have the MSI gaming gtx 970 which can be found here:0

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-259-MS

Iam going to review this card and then also I will do temperature differences between STOCK Paste and then ofcourse IC Diamond.

Be very interested in those results

cheers

Frost Dragon

 

[e36Adz]

MSI 970 ordered!

 

[Mal X]

screw it, just pulled the trigger on a brace of MSI's

does that Asus Strix really have only one 8 pin connector?!

Might get a watercooling back plate at some point just for aesthetics, gonna miss my power editions they look SO frikkin cool

Asus Strix only as one 8 pin, the other 8 pin on the PSU will be for SLI..........it looks great from the back, it doesn't need a backplate....it just looks cool and nasty !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

in fact, the PC looks way better with the side panel off, it looks great being able to stare inside, that GPU looks so good... i'll give the card a good thrashing this afternoon, overclock it as high as it'll go

 

[Frenzy]

omg omg omg omg omg

There is an NVFLASH!

http://www.overclock.net/t/1513920/official-nvidia-gtx-980-owners-club/1310#post_22935461

 

[JamesM]

Fantastic!

 

[ubersonic]

Aww hell yeah, as soon as I got home I'm gonna mod a BIOS then flash the twins hardcore style!

 

[JamesM]

Aww hell yeah, as soon as I got home I'm gonna mod a BIOS then flash the twins hardcore style!

already got my bios sitting and waiting

 

[Captain]

What BIOS you guys putting on?

 

[Frenzy]

That's what I would like to know, I've never flashed an nvidia BIOS. Where are you getting it from?

 

[JamesM]

Just edited the stock MSI bios.

Used the newest version of GPUz to save the bios. Then KeplerBiosTweaker to open it up and adjust the maximum TDP from 110% (220) to 125% (250)

I'm not going to bother changing voltages or min clock speeds yet. Just want to see how far it can go with just a bump in the power limit

 

[anikilator1980]

Hi

I'm thinking of buying one of these MSI 970 cards and i've seen some people have problems with the fans.

You can read more here: https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=183618.0

Any of you with the MSI had this problems? Looks like it is because of a sticker and when you try to remove it, you can damage the fan...

 

[Captain]

Just edited the stock MSI bios.

Used the newest version of GPUz to save the bios. Then KeplerBiosTweaker to open it up and adjust the maximum TDP from 110% (220) to 125% (250)

I'm not going to bother changing voltages or min clock speeds yet. Just want to see how far it can go with just a bump in the power limit

when i try and save the BIOS file, i get a blue screen and my pc restarts ever had that? No OC on the cards atm either

 

[ubersonic]

Just edited the stock MSI bios.

Used the newest version of GPUz to save the bios. Then KeplerBiosTweaker to open it up and adjust the maximum TDP from 110% (220) to 125% (250)

I'm not going to bother changing voltages or min clock speeds yet. Just want to see how far it can go with just a bump in the power limit

Out of interest does it tell you in the editor what wattage the % relates too in the TDP? Was planning to set mine to 200w but don't know what wattage 100% is to begin with.

 

[Ayahuasca]

Just edited the stock MSI bios.

Used the newest version of GPUz to save the bios. Then KeplerBiosTweaker to open it up and adjust the maximum TDP from 110% (220) to 125% (250)

I'm not going to bother changing voltages or min clock speeds yet. Just want to see how far it can go with just a bump in the power limit

Judging by the table posted earlier, you should be able to get 1600mhz stable with 125% power, is that the max?

 

[JamesM]

when i try and save the BIOS file, i get a blue screen and my pc restarts ever had that? No OC on the cards atm either

Nope not had that myself.

I do know that there was an issue with GPUz not saving the 970/980 bios's and it needs to disable the video driver to save it. It will then re enable it.

Use this version instead

http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/gpu-z-test-build-bios-saving-on-maxwell.205635/

 

[Balb0wa]

when i try and save the BIOS file, i get a blue screen and my pc restarts ever had that? No OC on the cards atm either

yes same here! lol

 

[JamesM]

Judging by the table posted earlier, you should be able to get 1600mhz stable with 125% power, is that the max?

Max can be what you want. 300W if you wanted to but obviously if your going to go too far you may damage something.

So sticking with 250 max at the moment