** NVIDIA GTX 970 REFERENCE EXCLUSIVELY AVAILABLE FROM OcUK IN EUROPE!! **
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hi ,
Mine came today as expected it's of lush quality
if its making any noise i can't here it over other stuff in my rig even when bench-marking, it totally destroyed my old card in 3D mark. i could definitely hear my old card over everything else, this blends in nicely.
i play at 1080p
frame rates doubled in wow
125fps + in bio shock infinite
pic of it under uv lighting.
The led visualizer not to fussed about it i may paint the letters with uv blue pen & catch the edge of the circuit board to match my theme, would that be ok wouldn't void my warranty ?
Mine came today as expected it's of lush quality
if its making any noise i can't here it over other stuff in my rig even when bench-marking, it totally destroyed my old card in 3D mark. i could definitely hear my old card over everything else, this blends in nicely.i play at 1080p
frame rates doubled in wow
125fps + in bio shock infinite
pic of it under uv lighting.
The led visualizer not to fussed about it i may paint the letters with uv blue pen & catch the edge of the circuit board to match my theme, would that be ok wouldn't void my warranty ?
I'd argue the reason kitguru give for people choosing reference design cards - just nvidia lovers, really? Did they really not think it could be because they exhaust out of the back of the box so are a better option for sli on air? Not such a small segment of users then...
Our company group has sold over 1000 now they are proving more popular in Germany than the UK.
If you think it's fast, overclock it as these cards yield like an extra 20% performance from overclocking.
nice one will get on the case sharpish
Good point i have not had a nividia card since 07, been with amd all those years also for people such as me with poor frontal air flow i have 4 hard drives up front , fan controller, dvd drive, and a dual bay res so the 140 fan i have is struggling to get any air thru. for me the reference design is ideal, all the hot air getting kicked out of the back.
also reference designs make it easier to get full cover water blocks if the end user wants to another good bonus.
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Don't speak German but I got the gist of it, looking forward to ordering mine in January.
Some great shots of the card there too.
hi ,
Mine came today as expected it's of lush quality
i play at 1080p
frame rates doubled in wow
125fps + in bio shock infinite
pic of it under uv lighting.
The led visualizer not to fussed about it i may paint the letters with uv blue pen & catch the edge of the circuit board to match my theme, would that be ok wouldn't void my warranty ?
Was wondering how that looked lit up, is the light controllable at all?
Jump to around 2.26 in the unboxing video, shirley that's not a blue PCB !?!
The guy in the Ireland was powering it with a 330W PSU, due to his Alienware PC having that, could swear that's what he said, watch the videos in full but a 600W PSU should cope.
........... Run mine with an overclock on a 500w EVGA PSU in a Hadron case with 4770K, 3x SSD, ODD, ... etc. with 620w you'll be fine.
Water cooled mine with a xspc 980 water block , was gonna do this in new year but couldn't wait
for anyone interested Temps after playing Farcry 4 on ultra 1080p for one hour Gpu load never dropped below 98%, d5 pump on a custom low setting all fans on lowest possible setting 1 x 240mm rad and 1 x 120mm rad ,room temp 20c
never went above 54c so that a 20-25 degree drop in my particular set up
for anyone interested Temps after playing Farcry 4 on ultra 1080p for one hour Gpu load never dropped below 98%, d5 pump on a custom low setting all fans on lowest possible setting 1 x 240mm rad and 1 x 120mm rad ,room temp 20c
never went above 54c so that a 20-25 degree drop in my particular set up
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Then you should be able to share with us, if the PCB is in fact, blue?Water cooled mine with a xspc 980 water block , was gonna do this in new year but couldn't wait
Yes these have a similar technology to help reduce it and if you get whine with a quality PSU we will replace it no issue.