NVIDIA GTX 970 OWNERS THREAD

Pigeon_Killer · 20 Sep 2014 at 18:08

New card installed :cool:

Company of Heroes 2

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Tomb Raider

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Fanatic · 20 Sep 2014 at 18:09

almighty15 said:
So a complete and utter side grade then, that 780 isn't even running a high overclock.

My old 780 was BIOS modded and was running a constant 1.3Ghz with GPU boost disabled.

Pretty much, but I knew it would be. It uses less power than the GTX780, runs 10° cooler, and is quieter. The newer NVENC is better for streaming/recording, and will be even better once H.265 can be used.

I can probably overclock the card more as well. Didn't try anything over +200MHz on the core and still have the memory to overclock.

Of course the real reason is the free mouse pad.

ubersonic · 20 Sep 2014 at 18:12

Well I gave in, two 970's plus water blocks currently on route to my face

stooeh · 20 Sep 2014 at 18:15

There's 970 waterblocks already?

Digital X · 20 Sep 2014 at 18:18

970 arrived at dpd at 3. hoping for a delivery tomorrow or Monday. Would they do Sunday?

RavenXXX2 · 20 Sep 2014 at 18:29

Pigeon_Killer said:
New card installed

Company of Heroes 2

Tomb Raider

And the old card was?

Pigeon_Killer · 20 Sep 2014 at 18:31

RavenXXX2 said:
And the old card was?

GTX 460

Fire Strike's gone from 2468 to 9290.

RavenXXX2 · 20 Sep 2014 at 18:34

lol some upgrade right there.

vintage-x · 20 Sep 2014 at 18:34

Pigeon_Killer said:
GTX 460

Fire Strike's gone from 2468 to 9290.

What res you running at?

varkanoid · 20 Sep 2014 at 18:35

stooeh said:
There's 970 waterblocks already?

I think Gibbo or an OCUK bod said the 670 waterblocks fit it.

or I could be barking there is so many posts I cant find it now I think it was in the announcement thread.

Pigeon_Killer · 20 Sep 2014 at 18:35

vintage-x said:
What res you running at?

1080P

Don't upgrade until I feel I really need to so I'll probably keep this card and my monitor for a few years now.

Jono8 · 20 Sep 2014 at 18:37

Pigeon_Killer said:
GTX 460

Just a bit of an upgrade then

GamingSlug · 20 Sep 2014 at 18:37

varkanoid said:
I think Gibbo or an OCUK bod said the 670 waterblocks fit it.

or I could be barking there is so many posts I cant find it now I think it was in the announcement thread.

EK seems to agree http://www.coolingconfigurator.com/waterblock/3831109856482

sativa1874 · 20 Sep 2014 at 18:38

Gigabyte 970 G1 with +160 on the core and +500 on the memory

Ayahuasca · 20 Sep 2014 at 18:42

Testing DSR out in Diablo 3, 4k downsampling and it's working at 144hz, which I couldn't do before manually. Very, very nice.

Deehjay · 20 Sep 2014 at 18:45

Worth upgrading to a 970 from a 280X for gaming, of course? Feel like my CPU may bottleneck it a bit (?)

I game at 1080p, 60hz (soon to be 144hz)

Pigeon_Killer · 20 Sep 2014 at 18:45

Jono8 said:
Just a bit of an upgrade then

Hope so, done very well though considering I paid less than a ton for it 4 years ago. Almost as good value as my old Q6600.

RavenXXX2 · 20 Sep 2014 at 18:49

Deehjay said:
Worth upgrading to a 970 from a 280X for gaming, of course? Feel like my CPU may bottleneck it a bit (?)

I game at 1080p, 60hz (soon to be 144hz)

Well I would. And I would sell your CPU and pick up a used 2500k and overclock it, they go cheap, one in MM for £75.

Deehjay · 20 Sep 2014 at 18:51

RavenXXX2 said:
Well I would. And I would sell your CPU and pick up a used 2500k and overclock it, they go cheap, one in MM for £75.

Is it really worth expending that much money though for the performance increase that an overclocked K version would give me? I already have it overclocked to the max that a locked version allows (4.1ghz)

RavenXXX2 · 20 Sep 2014 at 18:59

Deehjay said:
Is it really worth expending that much money though for the performance increase that an overclocked K version would give me? I already have it overclocked to the max that a locked version allows (4.1ghz)

Didn't realize you could squeeze that extra out of a non K, probably best to stay put then.