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Just to let you guys now that EK is going to make blocks for MSI 970 
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NVIDIA GTX 970 OWNERS THREAD
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Soldato
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.
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.
Soldato
MSI is +87
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?
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?
Soldato
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.
I have noticed that I can clock higher on benchmarks compared to games.
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.
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 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.
People have said by adding more volts has not helped the OC's so i haven't bothered.
I normally use Arma and BF to test my CPU and GPU overclocks. Stress's them better.
i added 5 MA to a stable overclock and it crashed the card instantly, so it hates an increase in voltage.
Ugh that's so BS. I wonder why they had to lock the voltage
. Skyn3t will be my saviour if he gets the 970 bios flash to work.
The MSI is +87mv but it doesn't actually add that.
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.
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.
So you can hit 1580 then
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*
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
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