GTX 970 Owners Thread

353.62 driver version has been really good to me. 355.82 is pretty good as well. Anything after that has been relatively unkind to Firestrike, though.

 

http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/9246241

 

Looks like i'll be joining you people next week OWYEAH!

Ordered a Gainward GTX 970 Phantom and it has been shipped, should be here next Tuesday!

I actually sold my 780 for 220 euro within 10min of placing my ad, and i have the money too already, and now to get that sweet mini ITX Z77 board!

 

I don't have the sexiest model, but it overclocked easily to 1500mhz, it's not going over 74c yet.

My ambient temp is around 15 though, so it might get pretty hot when it's 20-25c ambient temp.

 

mine idles at 25-30C
during games and benchmarks 48-62C

 

Yeah that's why i said this isn't the best model, it's quiet bad.

I've set my fan speed to 90% and the card is still pretty silent wich is impressive.

It's now 34c idle so it's not that bad actually.

1500mhz is good enough for me, if i need the extra power i'll do a slight higher overclock.

 

one positive for the gainward 970 is the fans are really easy to clean.

but yeah, as far as size and efficiency go, it's one of the cheapest 970's for a reason.

 

But it still does the job, and still an awesome card.

 

i have done the same thing ,sold my gtx 780 and buy 970gtx g1 ,oc it to 1500 stable at bench but crashs with shadow of mordor and fallout4 ,im not impressed with the this card i feel that 780 is more stronger..... but i just done this move for the driver support

 

I feel the same way, but some games do run twice as good then my 780 like Witcher 3 wich runs smoothly at 60fps at ultra.

I didnt had any crashes with Shadow of Mordor, i actually tried that game too.
It even ran decent at 4K downsampled at around 40fps lol.

I've set my voltage to +11 anything lower i get driver stopped responding.

 

you need to get a custom bios that disables voltage and clock fluctuation for overclocking maxwell with constant stability.

few pages back I gave a link where you can request someone to mod your cards bios. my card would crash in games without a modded bios, at the same clocks and voltages. but as soon as I disabled boost 2.0 tech, it's stable in everything.

780 is even with the 970 in older tech/games, but in newer stuff the gap is pretty big. u4 engine, titles with tesellation, etc. you can get up to a 20+fps gap between a 780 and 970.

 

Yeah warning for tyhose purchasing the g1 gaming card (970 version) and want to water cool it. There are two totally differing cards same model but only a SLIGHTLY differing serial number..... please double check as the blocksd wont fir if you get the wrong box for athe card

 

Hello guys, i just bought an EVGA SSC 3975 KR and my core clock (default) is 1405mhz, my stable OC right now is 1523mhz core clock, and voltages are 1.206 (stock) 1.231 (max oc)

I want to know if i can get more voltage modding my bios (so i can OC more).

Update: I managed to mod my original bios and now i got 1581mhz core clock stable, i tried 1600mhz and didnt crash but i got artifacts.

Thanks!.

 

Well mate if you have artefacts throttle back fella. Sometimes a BIOS update or volt mod wont do a damn thing if the silicon wont actually get you there

 

Yes, running a custom bios will allow you to run more voltage through the card. I would imagine, at those clocks though, you're likely to benefit more from the increased power limits. I'd bet you're probably either already hitting a power limit perf cap, or very close to it....unless you already raised them.

The Maxwell architecture LOVES to run as cool as possible, so keep that in mind as you're designing your custom fan curve as well.

 

I can't stand this model from Gainward, i'm trading it in for a Gigabyte one with 3 fans (sadly has no backplate, the others aren't in stock).

It's 20 euro more then this one so i hope it's worth it.

Meantime i'll have to settle with onboard wich suuuucks but i have to work anyway during the day and have alot of crap to watch on Netflix etc so i can live without a GPU for few days.

 

I'm getting the Gigabyte GTX970 G1 Gaming instead, i found reviews that were extremely positive about that card, it's 40 euro's more but hell it seems worth it.

JayzTwoCents did a review and had it OC'd to 1542 i think on the core and temps at load didn't go above 62c! and he had his sidepanel open wich i don't think helps with lower temps?

 

don't compare with jayz cos the gpu is not same with the retail one.

 

What do you mean?

 

Gigabyte send him a review sample. Probably cherry picked to look good.

MSI also send him an R9 390 that hited 1200Mhz in his review. I rarely saw retail one that can do that.