** NVIDIA GTX 970 REFERENCE EXCLUSIVELY AVAILABLE FROM OcUK IN EUROPE!! **
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Hope you enjoy it and anyone who does have issues with these we will swap out no hassle for the simple fact we've advertised them as such.
Unless of course they are trying to power them off a Tesco value junk PSU then they need to visit our PSU section and sub section Superflower.
Superflower 1000w Plat, only the best
Nearly forgot to order an extra 6pin pcie!
That really is fantastic.
Superflower 1000w Plat, only the best
Nearly forgot to order an extra 6pin pcie!
That really is fantastic.
Your Superflower will have all the 6-pin connectors you need, they have enough for like 3-4 VGA in SLI.
Weighing conflicting requirements against each other - the blower is good for compact systems but I am also looking for extremely low noise and the Titan cooler has a reputation for being the quietest blower, I assume it would be even more so on a 970.Why? If the 980 cooler is good enough for a 980, trust me it is more than good enough for a 970 and is performing as such.
The 980 cooler may be good, but under load maybe not be good enough (I can wear ear phones when gaming but that doesn't help anyone else in the house!) I think a Prolimatech MK-26 or Arctic Xtreme cooler would be quieter, although I'm not sure if they will improve much on some of the giant coolers already used on some of the cards.
£320 is painfully expensive for the 'wrong' choice of product. If it had the vapour chamber Titan cooler I might've been willing to chance it but for now I will wait and see more feedback.
I know yeah, I mean another Bitfenix braided white cable
Don't forget also that you get a choice of a free game, so you could make ~£20 from that
The vapour chamber is because it needs to shift 100W+ more of heat! I doubt there will be a quieter 970 than this.
Remember MSI 970 and Asus Strix are quieter than this at idle as their fans do not even spin. But in actual gaming usage I can see this being the quietest card, especially in a small enclosure for sure.
In a compact or low-airflow case, definitely. In a larger case with high airflow from large quiet fans, an open heatsink with a larger surface area is going to be able to run cooler and quieter. It's not a fair comparison, and the NVTTM radial fan is already pretty quiet, but I don't think it could claim to be the quietest.Remember MSI 970 and Asus Strix are quieter than this at idle as their fans do not even spin. But in actual gaming usage I can see this being the quietest card, especially in a small enclosure for sure.
What constiutes a compact and low airflow case though exactly? I have an H440 on order, which isn't the BEST at cooling, but it's far from the worst either. Plus I plan to add some new high static pressure fans up front to help. I was always keen on getting something like the HOF or a ZOTAC Extreme card, but is my case that bad that it needs a reference card? I know for SLI it would be the best move, but for a single card set-up, I'm really not sure.
How long is a piece of string?
If you've got 2/3 120mm fans as intakes, and another 2/3 as exhaust, then you can rely on them to move a significant volume of air through the case, with the GPU fan(s) just making sure some of that flows through the heatsink. Here, a blower is not taking any advantage of this existing airflow.
In a small case, where you may only have one or maybe two fans as intakes, then the GPU has to rely on its own fan to exhaust any air. With an open card, this just dumps hot air into the case where it dwells and gets recirculated through the heatsink, so the card heats up until it reaches equilibrium. With the blower, it pulls in air that is at worst mildly warm (e.g. if you intake fan does double-duty and pulls air through a radiator for the CPU) and exhausts it directly out of the case. There is no existing airflow to take advantage of, so the blower comes out on top.
Well, in my H440 I will have x3 intakes at the front, x1 140mm exhaust at the back, and a further x2 120's at the top attached to 240 AIO (Nepton 240M)... although I'm unsure if this should be intake or exhaust. It's not a terrible case for airflow by any means, but there are better ones of course. The space below the card is where the SSD's sit on top of the PSU shroud, so there's ZERO ventilation there, unless you count the unused PCI slots at the back.
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look forward to seing some reviews now these have landed, might get 2 for sli.
The h440 is fine with my giga G1 mid 50's when gaming and 65-70 after a few bench runs of heaven etc, stock case fans with aio in top as intake.
What constiutes a compact and low airflow case though exactly? I have an H440 on order, which isn't the BEST at cooling, but it's far from the worst either. Plus I plan to add some new high static pressure fans up front to help. I was always keen on getting something like the HOF or a ZOTAC Extreme card, but is my case that bad that it needs a reference card? I know for SLI it would be the best move, but for a single card set-up, I'm really not sure.
The h440 is fine with my giga G1 mid 50's when gaming and 65-70 after a few bench runs of heaven etc, stock case fans with aio in top as intake.
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Hi! On overclockers it says you only have 9 cards left in stock. Is this true, because if it is, I will need to order one quickly!
We have loads of them, our goodsin are booking in 100 at a time as they are busy, so do not worry.
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I want to build a computer by christmas, do you think they will still be available by then?
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Why do people buy reference cards? Is it because they want a smaller cooler to make SLI more viable?
They are normally always built to the highest standards and highest quality, the cooler is without a doubt the highest quality best put together cooler on the market.
Huge NVIDIA fans and want the NVIDIA style and the visualizer.
Then from a performance aspect because they are using a small enclosure or running 2 or 3 cards in SLI right next to each other at which point the reference cooler offers by far the best performance.