OcUK & GALAX COLLABORATION: INFINITY BECOMES REALITY, THE BEST 970 ON THE MARKET!!

Damiano · 3 Jan 2015 at 15:04

Gibbo, maybe you know how long this promotion "Free Delivery" will last ?

starkos · 4 Jan 2015 at 16:51

Hi, I received this card for Xmas and believe that I have some mild coil whine. This is my first gfx card so not sure what is normal/acceptable and I also think I'm quite sensitive to noises anyway.

Can anyone recommend a method to determine if the card actually is suffering from coil whine and whether it is sufficient enough to justify an exchange?

Many thanks

Darkman · 4 Jan 2015 at 17:13

You could try reading this thread before you post in it

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=27329387&postcount=123

Good luck!

starkos · 4 Jan 2015 at 17:20

Thanks Darkman. I have actually read and did as Gibbo described but wasn't sure if forcing the card to whine or whine in benchmark software in general was sufficient enough to request an exchange?

los · 9 Jan 2015 at 12:31

Whats with the name change back to KFA2?
If you have to force it to whine then is it really an issue?

ubersonic · 9 Jan 2015 at 12:38

los said:
Whats with the name change back to KFA2?

They probably realised GALAX sounded retarded (literally, like a retard attempting to pronounce Galaxy).

Quite happy to see it back as KFA2

Wizzfizz · 9 Jan 2015 at 12:42

Actually :

Gibbo said:
Long story!

Galaxy being sued due to using word Galax and Galaxy is trademarked in Germany (Europe) so they requested we revert back to KFA2 naming for now.

los · 9 Jan 2015 at 20:15

Oh right, makes a change people getting sued hey.
I prefer KFA2 as well

Dazzo · 10 Jan 2015 at 19:40

Argh I missed the free game!

Nelly · 10 Jan 2015 at 23:59

So Galaxy is trademarked in Germany, who by Samsung?

Galax isn't Galaxy, abit weird if you ask me.

CEUOTC · 11 Jan 2015 at 14:52

I feel so "Dirty".

After receiving some generous OcUK vouchers from my family over the festive season and in conjunction with down scaling my systems at home. l have gone and bought this little beastie..............

I am going to burn in hell!

mateusvbx · 11 Jan 2015 at 18:13

This seems like a good deal. where can I see the prices

CEUOTC · 11 Jan 2015 at 18:21

BeauCharles · 23 Jun 2018 at 09:24

I thought I'd come to the source with a funny situation of mine. I'm in California and a Newegg marketplace seller has what is advertised as a Galax GTX 970 Infinity 8pack Edition. They're supposedly new and the boxes I got were sealed (got two for SLI). The box has the Inifinity sticker and the backplate also has the Infinity logo, but the HSF is the usual gray color, not black as I understand this card is supposed to have. It also has the 1165 Mhz clock of the stock Galax card (not the 1178 Mhz of the Infinity 8pack). I'm thinking I got just a regular Galax GTX 970 EXOC with an Infinity sticker on the box and the Infinity backplate. Has anyone familiar with the card heard of such a thing? Here's some pics:

https://s33.postimg.cc/8v7ftkp9b/010.jpg
https://s33.postimg.cc/mc4ecjmr3/011.jpg
https://s33.postimg.cc/kx2tny3pb/014.jpg

Did I get scammed?

Gibbo · 23 Jun 2018 at 14:10

Exclusive product for OcUK and Caseking group designed by myself and only ever sold by OcUK and Caseking.

Quite possible Galaxy through some of their cards and used our coolers and packaging if they had some excess stock.

OcUK sold around 5000 units of this card about three years ago, pretty shocked you even found a new 970 still.

JediFragger · 23 Jun 2018 at 16:50

Gibbo said:
OcUK sold around 5000 units of this card about three years ago

I remember that, great seller!!!

BeauCharles · 23 Jun 2018 at 17:25

Gibbo said:
Exclusive product for OcUK and Caseking group designed by myself and only ever sold by OcUK and Caseking.

Quite possible Galaxy through some of their cards and used our coolers and packaging if they had some excess stock.

OcUK sold around 5000 units of this card about three years ago, pretty shocked you even found a new 970 still.

New "old" stock I guess. They really are new too - the round plastic seals on the boxes and tape on the anti-static bags have definitely never been pulled back. Kind of a bummer - I was hoping I got the genuine article! Here's the product page at Newegg in the US. I guess I can't really complain too much about a new GTX 970 EXOC for $179.99. The two of them in SLI score a bit higher than my GTX 1070 Ti in benchmarks. Thanks for confirming this for me!

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIADFR7CB8579&ignorebbr=1

Begbie · 23 Jun 2018 at 17:31

Is it even legal for them to resell like that?

BeauCharles · 23 Jun 2018 at 18:12

Begbie said:
Is it even legal for them to resell like that?

I might have bought a pair even if they were not marketed as Infinity 8pack, but it is disappointing.

subbytna · 23 Jun 2018 at 18:24

BeauCharles said:
New "old" stock I guess. They really are new too - the round plastic seals on the boxes and tape on the anti-static bags have definitely never been pulled back. Kind of a bummer - I was hoping I got the genuine article! Here's the product page at Newegg in the US. I guess I can't really complain too much about a new GTX 970 EXOC for $179.99. The two of them in SLI score a bit higher than my GTX 1070 Ti in benchmarks. Thanks for confirming this for me!

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIADFR7CB8579&ignorebbr=1

Sadly SLI is going the way of the dodo now. A single card solution would probably have been the better option. Not many games use SLI anymore so effectively you're stuck using one 970 for quite a few games.

** OcUK & GALAX COLLABORATION: INFINITY BECOMES REALITY, THE BEST 970 ON THE MARKET!! **

OcUK & GALAX COLLABORATION: INFINITY BECOMES REALITY, THE BEST 970 ON THE MARKET!!