GTX 970/980 owners thread

[tg2708]

Will be getting two of the 970's or one lol to replace my 770. Not really rushing since I'm not a person than cares too much about maxing every settings. But its a pretty good card at a great price point.

 

[tg2708]

I'm jelly. From what I heard, the gtx 980 really shines once overclocked. But, atlas, here I am, still stuck with my gtx 780 ti.

But why are you mad though? The 780 ti did not get any slower over night. No matter how people look at it their is always something better coming out each year. The 980 is the better card but so in everything else that any company tries to improve on from the previous year.

 

[hawtdawg]

I'm gonna order a couple of 980's here in a couple of weeks I think. I have dual 780's, but whatever, the internet needs people like me.

 

[tviceman]

Put my 780 up on eBay starting at $300 for a one day auction. Ibhave 11 people watching it so I hope it gets up to $330 or so (although not sure why anyone would pay that much at this point unless they want to SLI). I know the 970 is the best value bar none, but the 980 is calling my nsme, especially after seeing the guru 3D gigabyte G1 review. I am holding out for either that or the MSI 980 gaming.

 

[96Firebird]

Sold my 770 for $250, my EVGA 970 is scheduled to arrive Tuesday. Going to try to bench my 460, the 770, and the 970 to see how they all compare.

 

[dmoney1980]

Newegg has some 980's back in stock! I just ordered 2 of the stock blower EVGA 980 SC's. Do I really need 2 of them now? No, but I'm eyeballing the Acer 4k gsync monitor that is coming out next month. I figured that I'll step up to 4k in the near future, which will require the most gpu power possible.

Multi-GPU setups are a requirement for 4k these days, so my logic is that I'd need to get the 980's over the 970's for the the horsepower and the blower cooler. Two 970's might be ok for 4k, but once you move up to 3 it may be too much heat getting dumped inside the case.

 

[Fastx]

I might order a Gigabyte 970, looks to have the coolest GPU temps & VRMs temps from what I seen so far, highest out of the box clocks and read they are using binned chips.

Gigabyte load temps
http://www.techspot.com/review/885-nvidia-geforce-gtx-970-gtx-980/page7.html

Gigabyte FLIR load temps
http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/gigabyte_geforce_gtx_970_g1_gaming_review,9.html

MSI load temps
http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/msi_geforce_gtx_970_gaming_review,8.html

MSI FLIR load temps
http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/msi_geforce_gtx_970_gaming_review,9.html

 

[notty22]

I'm getting MSI gaming gtx 970 next week.
Have 2 rigs. 4670k WITH gtx 460 SLI
i5-750 o/c- gtx 660 will try to run heaven and valley on all and offer results.

 

[Kenmitch]

I might order a Gigabyte 970, looks to have the coolest GPU temps & VRMs temps from what I seen so far, highest out of the box clocks and read they are using binned chips.

Gigabyte load temps
http://www.techspot.com/review/885-nvidia-geforce-gtx-970-gtx-980/page7.html

Gigabyte FLIR load temps
http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/gigabyte_geforce_gtx_980_g1_gaming_review,9.html

MSI load temps
http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/msi_geforce_gtx_970_gaming_review,8.html

MSI FLIR load temps
http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/msi_geforce_gtx_970_gaming_review,9.html

I'm debating on the Gigabyte currently. Looks like a nice card.

As far as customer support if needed how is Gigabyte?

I'm not going to go for some crazy high overclocks so I'm also looking at the EVGA offerings.

 

[Fastx]

I'm debating on the Gigabyte currently. Looks like a nice card.

As far as customer support if needed how is Gigabyte?

I'm not going to go for some crazy high overclocks so I'm also looking at the EVGA offerings.

I am anal about GPU & VRM temps and I like the guaranteed 1328 clocks out of the box with those temps. Which is nice for gaming and then if you do oc your starting at those low temps with room to spare. Also I might want to go SLI (in the not to distance future) which this cooler/temps of course would be a plus

I never owned a Gigabyte product and do not one way or the other on their customer support.

I had it in my cart a couple times but backed off I just can't decide for sure. There are +/-'s for both cards for me going with a 970 or staying with the 290. One nice/big plus for staying with my 290 is I paid $356 for it new and think I would be able to get a used Tri X 290 for CF in the not to distance future for $200.00 or under (when/if AMD cuts mew card prices) for CF. Two Gigabytes 970's would be $740.00 and when I look at this, it screams to me stay with the 290 dummy.

 

[AdamK47]

Which one do you game on?

The BenQ. The contrast of AMVA is amazing.

 

[Elfear]

Two Gigabytes 970's would be $740.00 and when I look at this, it screams to me stay with the 290 dummy.

We must be listening to the same voice.

The 970's are very impressive, especially at their launch price but spending $200-250 for 5-10% more performance isn't worth it for me. Would be fun to play with new tech though.

 

[Fastx]

We must be listening to the same voice.

It's our EDCC at work.

 

[aigomorla]

^I'm curious if the 780 WB's will fit these.

nope...

im waiting on koolance atm to release new blocks for these.

eK has blocks already due to the partnership they have with eVGA on the hydro series...

but.... im not a fan of the eK block in the way it looks.
I'll wait on koolance.

EDIT:
it says Out of Stock on newegg, however when u click the link, it doesnt say out of stock.
Ended up placing an order on 2 980's.

All i need now is the waterblocks.

 

[krnmastersgt]

nope...

im waiting on koolance atm to release new blocks for these.

eK has blocks already due to the partnership they have with eVGA on the hydro series...

but.... im not a fan of the eK block in the way it looks.
I'll wait on koolance.

You sure about that? Because they used the same basic cooler design I looked at images of the pcb layout and they are very similar. There's 1 or 2 screw positions that don't exist on the 780 that the 980 has, but the overall layout style and the vast majority of the mounting positions are pretty much the same. Pretty sure you should be able to use a 780 full cover block on a 980 without too much issue.

 

[escrow4]

I have a Gigabyte Windforce 780 Ti GHz, and if I were to upgrade (I'm not) my first choice would be Gigabyte. Card is fairly quiet and hits around 73 celsius when its being hammered.

 

[Freddy1765]

I've all but decided on the Gigabyte 970, it looks sexy and seems to perform extremely well. Looking forward to some user experiences during next week.

 

[dmoney1980]

Any 980 owners here that can provide input on the software you are using to overclock the GPU / monitor temps / adjust fan curve profiles? I just noticed that EVGA released Precision X v. 16, which is supposedly rebuilt from the ground up. I used precision x years ago, but I've been mostly sticking with MSI's afterburner.

 

[AdamK47]

I use MSI Afterburner 4.0.

I'm going to use it to set temp and power levels. Probably going to keep the voltage, core, and memory at stock settings, which for an EVGA Superlocked is factory overclocked already. I go overkill, but I also love 100% stability.

 

[MTDEW]

We must be listening to the same voice.

The 970's are very impressive, especially at their launch price but spending $200-250 for 5-10% more performance isn't worth it for me. Would be fun to play with new tech though.

Same voice here, must be a poltergeist or something. :biggrin:

Athough I don't really care about power consumption that will save me a buck or two per month... (big whoop... we all just overclock it anyway)

But what I DO care about is features.
1: MFAA (2x MSAA performance with 4x MSAA quality)
2: DSR (downsampling is a pain on AMD hardware... and they also simply refuse to support custom resolutions in CCC no matter how much we ask for it)
3: Voxel Global Illumination (ie: dynamic global lighting being integrated into Unreal Engine 4)
4: Nvidia Inspector vs AMD themselves screwing up Radeon Pro development/support for us instead of supporting it.
These features are all hard to ignore!

Well poop!
And I really like my Tri-X...it's a GREAT GPU!
But those voices....they won't stop!
I think I'm ordering a GTX 970.

 

[dangerman1337]

Can any owners with the 980 or 970 who run at 1920x1080p tell how the most demanding games run on it? Like Crysis 3 or Metro The Last Light? I want to gauge how much would be required to run future games like the Witcher 3, AC Unity and others at 60 FPS with everything turned up except demanding AA settings which most benchmarking sites seem to insist on (*cough* TechPower *cough*). I think I will want to step up from a factory OC'd 7950 (MSI Twin Frozr one).

 

[aigomorla]

You sure about that? Because they used the same basic cooler design I looked at images of the pcb layout and they are very similar.

yup im fairly sure because even he 780GTX required 2 different blocks.
One for the original, and the other for the Ti... which then it was near exact the same card.

Also if it was a perfect match fit, im fairly sure eK would sell the same block with the added compatibility saying 780 / 980.
Instead the 980 has its own block.


Its like the 7800GT block.... the 8800GT was esentially the same card, yet there was slight difference in height of mosfets or a added mosfet which made the block invalid in mounting.

 

[AdamK47]

Am I the only one on here so far with them?

 

[hawtdawg]

The BenQ. The contrast of AMVA is amazing.

*compared to other LCD's. In reality, it's still garbage. As a plasma television owner, I'll never be happy with computer displays untill OLED or something else that doesn't produce dark grey as the color "black", comes to market.

 

[x3sphere]

Am I the only one on here so far with them?

I'm getting my 2 980s tomorrow. Can't wait!