NVIDIA GTX 970 OWNERS THREAD

JoseClimaco · 2 Oct 2014 at 12:05

Just to let you guys now that EK is going to make blocks for MSI 970

ubersonic · 2 Oct 2014 at 12:08

Mal X said:
i'm not being funny or anything, but you do realise that the 970 doesn't need water !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It does if you want it to run in silence, I can't stand noise

wellibob · 2 Oct 2014 at 12:17

My Msi turned up. For a laugh I set 1580 on core. Works perfectly and temp hitting 61 degree. OMFG. What a card.

JamesM · 2 Oct 2014 at 12:38

wellibob said:
My Msi turned up. For a laugh I set 1580 on core. Works perfectly and temp hitting 61 degree. OMFG. What a card.

Welcome to the awesome club

Mal X · 2 Oct 2014 at 13:04

ubersonic said:
It does if you want it to run in silence, I can't stand noise

the trouble with a pc on air is it'll always make a noise, especially if you have to fit roof fans, my Cooler Master Silenco was totally useless without all its mods, but still has problems because its internal volume is too low.

Kipz · 2 Oct 2014 at 13:19

wellibob said:
My Msi turned up. For a laugh I set 1580 on core. Works perfectly and temp hitting 61 degree. OMFG. What a card.

Lucky bugger lol.

Does the MSI card have +78 volts? Aparently my Asus card has a max of +38?

I need me some unlocked Bios. Fingers crossed in the coming weeks.

JamesM · 2 Oct 2014 at 13:22

MSI is +87

wellibob · 2 Oct 2014 at 13:28

JamesM said:
MSI is +87

what he said

Scramz · 2 Oct 2014 at 13:37

I am running heaven on 1600/2050 with no artifacts on stock volts.

Do you think I should leave it at this for gaming providing it is fully stable on the games I play or is there any reason to drop the Mhz slightly for card health reasons?

JamesM · 2 Oct 2014 at 13:37

As long as the temps stay ok then I wouldn't have an issue with that.

I have noticed that I can clock higher on benchmarks compared to games.

Ayahuasca · 2 Oct 2014 at 13:42

Leave heaven looping for a while when you can or just play some games for a lengthy period. Certain games will work fine others will probably crash at those clocks. Diablo 3 seems to hate an overclock, can play for 2 hours and it will be fine, then go on the next day and get a driver reset within half an hour. Games like BF4, ARMA 3 and Planetside 2 don't crash at all.

To be honest Diablo 3 doesn't even need an overclock so I may just switch to stock clocks while playing that, could also be the fact of new drivers on a new card but I'd have to check if other people have had crashes on 9 series cards. Max bench stable and max game stable can sometimes be a fair distance apart.

Scramz · 2 Oct 2014 at 13:44

I noticed that too, I was slightly higher for benching so I drop very slightly to the speeds above. I will keep an eye on temps then drop if needed.

People have said by adding more volts has not helped the OC's so i haven't bothered.

Scramz · 2 Oct 2014 at 13:46

Ayahuasca said:
Leave heaven looping for a while when you can or just play some games for a lengthy period. Certain games will work fine others will probably crash at those clocks. Diablo 3 seems to hate an overclock, can play for 2 hours and it will be fine, then go on the next day and get a driver reset within half an hour. Games like BF4, ARMA 3 and Planetside 2 don't crash at all.

To be honest Diablo 3 doesn't even need an overclock so I may just switch to stock clocks while playing that, could also be the fact of new drivers on a new card but I'd have to check if other people have had crashes on 9 series cards. Max bench stable and max game stable can sometimes be a fair distance apart.

I normally use Arma and BF to test my CPU and GPU overclocks. Stress's them better.

Mal X · 2 Oct 2014 at 14:01

Scramz said:
I noticed that too, I was slightly higher for benching so I drop very slightly to the speeds above. I will keep an eye on temps then drop if needed.

People have said by adding more volts has not helped the OC's so i haven't bothered.

i added 5 MA to a stable overclock and it crashed the card instantly, so it hates an increase in voltage.

Kipz · 2 Oct 2014 at 14:21

JamesM said:
MSI is +87

Ugh that's so BS. I wonder why they had to lock the voltage

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Skyn3t will be my saviour if he gets the 970 bios flash to work.

Ayahuasca · 2 Oct 2014 at 14:31

The MSI is +87mv but it doesn't actually add that.

Kipz · 2 Oct 2014 at 15:03

Either way I have a water block on this thing and want to push it. I can only hit 1500. I think boost is something like 1580 ish.

Ayahuasca · 2 Oct 2014 at 15:05

So you can hit 1580 then

that's nothing to moan about if it's stable in gaming.

I think there's a few of us who want to push for more but even if we can't that's a lot of performance for the money, above a stock 980.

Kipz · 2 Oct 2014 at 15:06

Ayahuasca said:
So you can hit 1580 then that's nothing to moan about if it's stable in gaming.

I think there's a few of us who want to push for more but even if we can't that's a lot of performance for the money, above a stock 980.

I suppose. Its just there seems to be a huge amount of headroom and I want access to it *Grump* :mad:

Rob43 · 2 Oct 2014 at 15:13

Just installed my msi 970. Tried running heaven bench 4.0 just to test it out.

Using afterburner to monitor temps,the card is shooting away up to 90C + pretty much straight away. This is all at stock,not touched any sliders at all

Using GPU-Z to monitor temps,its going to 64C with the fan at around 45% .Surely the AB temps are reading wrong here

Any ideas folks

Rob