Got my new MSI GTX970 today what do I need to know...

Been away from Nvidia since the GTX480.

Just got the new card and its a beauty.

Installed 344.75 and then 347.09 just got released lol will install those in a minute.

Firstly, I did use DDU in safe mode to uninstall AMD drivers/software and shutdown. Installed new GPU and installed drivers no issues.

Only installed Display Driver, HDMI Audio, and PhysX (not the 3d or experience ****).

Just noticed though that my new card likes to boost from 2d clocks (135/324) to around stock clocks (1114/3506) INSTANTLY when I open Google Chrome...?

I have gpu acceleration turned off in advanced settings and I have checked in the chrome:flags page to see if GPU compositing is still an option but I can't find it anywhere...

Is there anyway to disable the GPU from doing this or is this just how Nvidia works things with Chrome?

Also

Can I disable the Nvidia background processes and if so which ones?

With AMD I disabled CCC.exe and MOM.exe and also External Events service. Which ones are safe to disable for Nvidia cards?

Thanks!

 

Never mind about the Google Chrome issue, this was because I had "Prefer Maximum Performance" enabled in Nvidia control panel global settings.

Turning this to Adaptive and the clocks stay roughly the same 2d clock speeds 135/324

All I need to know now is what Nvidia processes are best to disable in task manager from running in the background or is there no need to?

 

it's pretty much plain sailing, don't worry about breaking anything testing various presets out.
also don't worry about instaling new drivers, just install over previous. (clean install)
it's easy city basically.
dsr i use to watch vids and for older /low fidelity games. (trials fusion for ex. in 4k looks not too shabby).

 

Do post your maximum overclock.

Also high resolution pictures of the card installed with the LED lit if I may ask.

 

If you ever happen to get a 144Hz monitor, you'll notice that 3D clocks will always be enabled in desktop. Setting to 120Hz in windows fixed that.

And welcome to the club Now let it sweat in ACU or FC4

Also don't forget to post OC and pics here
http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=393069

 

GZ on the new card.

 

I've got a 144hz monitor set at 144hz and my gfx card idles fine?

 

Nice! Enjoy the cards! I have a hard time keeping them warm, I used Heaven overnight and it didnt work out well as a heater

As for disabling stuff, its entirely up to you.. I use to just only install the drivers and physx, now I don't mind using experience as I use it sometimes to preset my games and/or set DSR settings for some games.

 

OMG another red came to green, never seen any card do that to people. those 970 980 are magic!!!

U might wanna try Maxwell bios editor 2 or how it called, after u fiddle with the clocks. u can remove boost if u find that annoying.

 

Congrats on the new cards.. now get benching! (or playing

 

same boat here. ive been using AMD for the past 10 years or so until the 970. im green now for what it's worth lol

but i think i got on the wrong time? drivers seem to suck atm with nvidia. there seems to be a lot more complaints than satisfied customers over the nvidia forums regarding the 970/980.

 

Driver far from suck, but quality reduce a tiny bit. last releases while working smoother on nvidia, performance is way lower than should be.

But hey u know, every once in a while nvidia is sleeping and then waking up, no worries

 

You only hear complaints - people who are happy are busy playing games.

 

Yep. Flawless experience with my 970 so far.

 

Ditto

 

i've been reading up on 970s /980s over the last couple weeks as i was expecting to make a purchase in around three weeks time.
witcher 3 got delayed so screw it, no point, i'll have a window of opportunity in april so i'll go for something then.
i'd have gone nice 970 no doubt (prolly the white hof or the top down cooled uber card from inno3d), the 970 asus directcu mini releases tomorrow, looks very promising for sure, i was contemplating one.

 

Do you use DP 1.4a or DVI?

 

GPU is running nicely. Not seen any need to overclock yet as I will be getting another on the 27th for SLI.

The card is meant to be clocked out the box at:

Core Boost: 1279MHz

When in fact its boosting to:

Core Boost: 1357MHz (as shown in MSI AB RTSS OSD).

Very happy with that. Card is 78% ASCI quality according to lastest version of GPU-Z.

Not seen any need to disable anything in the background, if I disable ANY of the 3 processes running I loose the Nvidia Control Panel link when right clicking on desktop.

With a decent fan profile in RTSS.

50% idle (barely audible)

70% when GPU reaches 60C

and 100% when GPU reaches 80C

With this setup the GPU idles around 27-30C and full load after 3 hours in FC4 it levels out at 62C

Very happy with that.

Only little gripe is boy I wish that MSI light on the side of the card was RED!!!

High Res Pics as requested

Spoiler

 

^^ Congrats! Looks like a sweet card

Can't you get a small strip of red transparent plastic to stick over the LEDs ?

Something like from a pair of cheap red/cyan 3D glasses ?

 

Not a bad idea... wouldn't that eventually peal off due to heat though?