The performance out of the box between the two will be very similar, so buy the one which suits you best aesthetically.
** OcUK & GALAX COLLABORATION: INFINITY BECOMES REALITY, THE BEST 970 ON THE MARKET!! **
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The performance out of the box between the two will be very similar, so buy the one which suits you best aesthetically.
Who do I need to contact to change my order from the HoF 970 to the infinity 970?
The landlines are closed
Sales via phone, webnote or CS forums. Be quick the Infinity cards just arrived and shall be booked in tomorrow.
I just put a CS in, will that suffice or should I try a webnote too?
Ive also blamed you for the short notice
Haha!
Drop a webnote too, were so busy at the moment they won't get booked in until later tomorrow and certainly won't be shipped until tomorrow or the day after.
Here is a link for you:
http://www.caseking.de/shop/catalog...inity-Black-Edition-4096-MB-GDDR5::30424.html
I just installed mine and I lurves it!
It looks awesome and so far is performing pretty nicely too. The temps are pretty much the same as what my 2 580's were getting in watercooling and im gaining a lot more power with less power consumption, cant fault it!
I was surprised not to see any OCUK tagging on the box however. I appreciate its a Galax card but theres a bit about being inspired by Mr. 8 Pack but nothing to do with OCUK on it. Woulda thought you would have put that on there.
Anyway, thanks OCUK for a fast delivery and what appears to be a great card!
Also its worth noting if anyone cares for it but the fans on the card are quieter than my 6 corsair fans (admittedly they are loud). This is however a very quiet card!
Currently idling at 25 degrees.
Now I just need to work out what to do with my 2 580s!
Any coil whine and what PSU?
We don't put OcUK logo on it as were also selling this card through Western and Eastern Europe via our group of companies which are know as Caseking.
It's certainly the stealth fighter of all cards, minimalist but premium looks with all black metal cooler and nickel plating.
It looks even better when inside a nice black case
Its the best looking non-watercooled card ive seen to be honest.
Glad you like my design.
I purchased one of these too, SLI'ing with the OcUK 970 reference?
We've being pushing Galax for 3yr across the whole range for a while, one can hope they might give in, if they do we shall make sure they back date it for our Infinity cards.
I really do hope that they increase it to 3yr as that'll show their confidence in their own products much more
That's how we think about it, but for them they don't realise that, that is where I have to try and convince them otherwise, being trying convince Sapphire of this for years.
The response is always the same, our products are of the highest quality and we are the no.1 most largest partner, we do not need to change our warranty term.
Once can hope they will give in eventually and realise that in the UK and Europe the consumer does see it as a vote of confidence. It is just trying to make them realise this.
You see Sapphire, Galax are not companies big on marketing, they are more engineering focused and building great product. But they completely fail at the marketing end and hence the 2yr warranty. Going to 3yr warranty will really cost them nothing but win them more market share in the end making them more money, but I've said it until I am blue in the face now for years, particular with Sapphire. One day they will give in!
Good to hear.
I just actually tried to make my Galax Infinity whine, and I succeeded, but my head needed to be against the card and with the fans all off, so complete silence.
I used these settings:
Try this.
Heaven 3.0 or 4.0
720P res
Tessalation/AA/AAAF all OFF or minimum
Absolute lowest settings. Will be 400-600fps region.
Also power the card via one rail.
This should cause any card to whine, doing this even made my Galax Infinity whine, though only audible with my head next to the card and the fans off. But literally after ten minutes all the whine was gone, card warm etc. Oh and don't do what I did which was to burn my ear on the heatpipe, lol!
So doing the above can help bed a card in and eliminate the whine for sure.
Then once done, power the card via two separate rails, benchmark at normal settings, 1080P, normal/high details and you should be whine free on most cards apart from the worse offenders.
So you can make them whine if you try hard enough but saying that the card is still running now on the above settings from a single rail and now the whine has completely diminished after like ten minutes of looping.
I shall re-test it in the morning when the card is cold to also see if inductors make more noise from cold, kind of just like an engine, always louder until upto operating temperature.
Antec is a great unit. Set it on Heaven as per my suggestion whilst you have dinner or are not on the PC, see if it calms down. If not we will swap it out for you no issue and cover you shipping cost or can have it collected for you.
Galax is our business partner, meet our demands or we drop you, yes that works really well. How's your business?
There are ways to conduct yourself in business and making demands or threats is not one of them. They know what I'd like for our customers and ideally for whole of Europe but the end decision is with them, giving them a threat would get nowhere!
For your information were selling more Galax than both Asus or Gigabyte, so whereas the warranty is important for many it's not a deal breaker.
ASIC quality tends to bear little on overclocking.
In my testing higher ASIC quality means it boost higher automatically, so a good ASIC card might boost by itself to say 1420MHz whereas a poorer ASIC quality might boost to around 1365MHz, which is still higher than the speeds we advertise.
I've had 65% cards overclock better than 80% cards.............
They are superb cars, 1580MHz was the second card I tested, first was around 1620MHz, very good clockers and Samsung memory guaranteed.
A lot of other cards are shipping with Hynix now, not sure if it's any worse on the overclocking front but Samsung has better efficiency.