GTX 970 Owners Thread

Ok guys, whats the best 970's right now. They have been out a while, so who is really happy? ... I'm getting ready to get 1 just wanted some direction to go and stuff to look at. I usually go EVGA, but if there is something better I'll consider.

 

The Gigabyte G1 Gaming, the EVGA FTW+, and the MSI Gaming ones are the only ones I'd look at currently.

 

seconded.

Decent indeed.

 

Evga ftw cards

 

K thx, had some ideas you guys pretty much told me same, just wanted to back up my thoughts.

 

With that order.

 

is i5 4460 Bottleneck for my 970 or it is ok?

 

http://www.avamods.com/public/pc/970_11653_3dmark-result.png


My best Fire Strike score: 11653


i7 2600k @ 4.6ghz
evga GTX 970 FTW+

driver: 353.12


core: +145
mem: +500

evga precision reports boosted clocks as:

core: 1562
mem: 4001

 

Hello GTX 970 proud owners! I just upgraded from an EVGA GTX 760 SC to a Galax GTX 970 Exoc Black. All I can say for now is wow... Just "Wow!"

 

Processor is fine.

Congrats and welcome

 

Nice one...Another Filipino...Overclock that 970..Share us your result..

 

You will see most of your GPU with cpu overclocking up to 4.4 , anything more of this values doesn't worth the heat and the benefits are more "cosmetic" (to games) and very little boost.

 

Hello friends.

I recently got my first Nvidia card and joined the group with a EVGA GTX970 SSC ACX 2.0.

The card is amazing, but there is something that is bothering me a little bit, though I think I'm probably just being paranoid about it.
Its the dBi fan profile thing...

I live in a hot place, so idle temps with fans at 0º are usualy around 45º to 50º. I know the fans only start spinning at bout 65º, its how the card is built so well this isn't supposed to be a problem, but still these idle temps kinda bothers me.

Doesn't it decreases the lifespan of the card? Or this is all good and its just my head still thinking with "old cards" mentality and just not used to the new technology yet.

 

Even using your card at 80c should not degrade the lifespan of the card really.. if its idling at 45 or 50 you shouldn't worry even a bit.

 

No problem at all. Idle temps of older cards (pre-2010) were very commonly around 60c or higher. My nephew still has an 8800gts 640mb card I gave to him a few years ago, it idles at 64c. Most common thing to fail on a card are the fans. So smart design decision on keeping them off below 65c.

 

I see.
Thank you both for the quick replies.
I guess i'm a bit paranoid with temps.

 

@IcE & Odellot
Thanks! I'm pretty much contented with its performance so no overclocking for now.

 

I was tired of all the 580 sli bug so i just got a gigabyte 970 and the upgrade was better then i expected

 

I have had mine for about 2 weeks now. It's like night and day compared to my GTX 460.

 

What's wrong with the new drivers? I just bought a 970 to replace my 7950