NVIDIA GTX 970 OWNERS THREAD

[stoke1863]

I don't think our cards are faulty as such, it is going to run at high 70s on furmark and valley.

As I mentioned on a couple of replies if you look at Precision X the temp limit is 79 so it's designed to work up to that temp - but the fan will need to be at 60+% - pretty loud.

So yes it's disappointing perhaps if you compare with what some others claim their brands can do. It's also disappointing at idle as the min is 1140rpm - clearly audible - no 0 rpm for us just like the EVGA ACX 1.0

If you have the space for an MSI for example whose fans are much larger in area I would return and swap.

Would love to swap for the MSI but ocuk are telling me I have to pay up to 25% stocking fee. So I'm stuck with it

 

[Admiral Huddy]

My Gigabyte reference 980 card arrived last Thursday..

Funded by selling a some parts i had floating around and the sale of my R9 290, i actually only paid £50 of myu own cash.. Happy days.

Very impressed. Runs notably quieter and cooler than the 290 which I could feel the excessive heat coming from my top fans. I can feel cool air now.

Managed to crank the Core and memory frequencies up a bit too for some improved benchmark scores and CoH2 is running lovely and seamless.

 

[JamesM]

This is the 970 club

Stop rubbing it in haha

 

[jwsg]

Would love to swap for the MSI but ocuk are telling me I have to pay up to 25% stocking fee. So I'm stuck with it

Likewise, so some options would be: a) sell it privately - many stores are out of stock at the moment or b) use Precision X to keep things within the limits of your current case cooling.
For instance reduce Power Target to 85%. I match this with a fan curve that is 37% up to 55 deg then 62% at 74deg then 100% at 90deg. Hopefully this keeps things in the low 70s at a tolerable fan volume.

 

[elrasho]

managed to get +225 on cpu and +225 on gpu in about 10 mins, valley run was successful. Can push it a little bit more.
Produces almost no heat id assume power drain isnt that great either.
Amazing card, rip 780

Another question
Is it worth flashing new/custom bios on msi 970?

You mean +225 on Core Clock and +225 on the memory?

 

[CivilDrone]

Yep. Sorry still dopy in the morning

 

[thefogo]

It sounds like the Inno3D is somehow worse than the reference blower cards. Pretty strange.

 

[elrasho]

You mean +225 on Core Clock and +225 on the memory?

Yep. Sorry still dopy in the morning

That's a really good OC. I've got mine with +170 on the core and +500 on the memory. Wonder if lowering the memory would allow me to I crease the core, and would that give me better performance?

 

[Simon Belmont]

It sounds like the Inno3D is somehow worse than the reference blower cards. Pretty strange.

where?

 

[thefogo]

where?

From the above posts.

 

[Kaapstad]

My Gigabyte reference 980 card arrived last Thursday..

Funded by selling a some parts i had floating around and the sale of my R9 290, i actually only paid £50 of myu own cash.. Happy days.

Very impressed. Runs notably quieter and cooler than the 290 which I could feel the excessive heat coming from my top fans. I can feel cool air now.

Managed to crank the Core and memory frequencies up a bit too for some improved benchmark scores and CoH2 is running lovely and seamless.

How about a Heaven 4 bench score, see if you can beat Gibbo's 2058 score.

 

[jwsg]

It sounds like the Inno3D is somehow worse than the reference blower cards. Pretty strange.

This is not correct and nothing's been said to suggest this

 

[ubersonic]

That intel stock cooler is a massive turn off.

That's what she said!

 

[ubersonic]

It sounds like the Inno3D is somehow worse than the reference blower cards. Pretty strange.

Compared to the Galax blowers the Inno3D are in a different league, silent at idle, not that nosier at load and very well built (plus free mouse mat and copy of 3Dmark )

 

[thefogo]

This is not correct and nothing's been said to suggest this

Don't you have the Inno3D? Or did I misunderstand.

The reference card runs at around 74-76C in Heaven, yet people here are saying the Inno3D hits 79C.

 

[thefogo]

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[PurE GaminG]

Guys quick question about the gtx 970 g1 on pre-order never bought anything on pre order before how does it work will they take the money straight away. Im just putting money in the bank right now than going home to order. I have direct debt set-up so i dont money going their .

so will the pre order deduct money straight away.

 

[McGraw]

I have the Zotac gaming edition and I know I've sacrificed overclock headroom, temp and noise for something that fits in my case easily and didn't cost a fortune.

What I'd like to know about is safe temps. I've been playing around with fan curves but the card wants to sit at 70c while gaming on the default profile.

Is this ok? I don't really want something that has to be bodged to stay problem free.

Cheers.

 

[almighty15]

70c is completely fine and normal.

 

[McGraw]

70c is completely fine and normal.

Ok thanks a lot.