** NVIDIA GTX 970 REFERENCE EXCLUSIVELY AVAILABLE FROM OcUK IN EUROPE!! **

Although I understand the slightly high price, it is starting to make me look more closely at the OCUK 980. It's 28% more expensive, for supposedly 20% better performance. Tempting.
 
edzieba said:
Gibbo. Hey, hey, Gibbo.
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Customs release our cards yet?
Or are HMRC still busy seeing if they run in quad-SLI?
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No idea, customers/HMRC play along the rules of you will get them when we ship them which will be when we decide. Right now we are in a blank on this shipment as our girl who sorted the shipping is in Taiwan and ill. So they could turn up today or tomorrow, can't get anything more accurate.
 
Morning

They have landed.

I've grabbed one to test and photograph.

So far I can confirm the following:

Genuine 970 cooler confirmed and visualizer is lit up, can't confirm control as I am using an 8 Pack PC so no fancy software installed but as it is lit up I would assume it will work.

Even better news the BGA Board is a 980 board as requested!!!! :)

Coil whine report, of course I have only tested one but my example with fan at minimum and my head against the card I can't hear a thing!!! :)

Now I am trying some overclocking, now bear in mind I never purchased these as an overclocking card so anything here is a bonus. But I am testing the memory at present which I instructed must only be Samsung, it is Samsung and so far I am upto 8200MHz artefact free and climbing. :eek:

I shall do some core clocking once I have found the memory limit. :)


Cooler performance, well a 980 with everything on automatic will reach 80c in Heaven after a few loops whilst remaining pretty much silent.

970 in the same testing environment is reaching 77c so marginally cooler, no doubt because the 970 core emits less heat so the cooler is less stressed.

Very happy! :)

I've also updated the product description, looking excellent so far! :)
 
edzieba said:
Oh no! The cards are so nice, Gibbo has decided to keep them all for himself!
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Well I am already not allowing our trade sales to sell them, they are soley for our end user customers and SLI system builds.

Now upto 8400MHz on the memory artefact free, I am either very lucky and picked a gem of the palit or because of all the higher-end components it is assisting in the memory clock.

Also for those who wish to know with fan at 100% it is a whoosh sound just like 980 cooler and now temperature is struggling to exceed 50c, plus the card is boosting by itself to 1300MHz with 100% fan speed. :)


P.S. Seeing the odd artefact at 8400MHz memory speed, 8300MHz and below is artefact free.
 
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