I have fan control disabled in MSI-AB to let the Strix work on its own, but just did a quick test for it to go on at 50c and stressed it a little. Fan came on at 50c and gradually went up to 53% at 63c then slowly went down to zero when temps dipped below 50c. So I guess you can.
Got two new Zotac 970s installed this weekend in SLI. Official owner now They are running nicely too.
Got two new Zotac 970s installed this weekend in SLI. Official owner now They are running nicely too.
Nice! Congrats :awe: :thumbsup:.
What resolution are you playing?
The short 8'' ones going for $330 on Newegg?
Yah, but only paid $298 each shipped.
Hows the load temp on them?Reviews look extremely sketchy but my experience with Zotac has been good.They always seem to be in stock unlike the Strixx and right in my price range.
Nice price on the cards you paid.:thumbsup:
Okay downloaded the Asus GPU tweak tool and Furmark 1.15.
Initially started Furmark at 1080p with 2xAA and let it crank up to max GU usage. Temps rose on both cards. First card hit 81C and the second card was at 87C max temps.
I noticed even with these temps the fan speed was only at 55%. So I cranked the fan speed up to 100%, which barely made any noticeable noise difference to me but a big difference to the temps. Card 1 dropped and hovered at 67/68C while card 2 dropped to 79/80C.
The second card is going to run hotter since it's getting the downwash from the first one so that isn't a surprise. Still that is acceptable temps for the OC is has.
At idle they both run at 35C though.
I don't even use Furmark anymore since around 2-3 years.
Not bad considering your pretty much torturing those things with Furmark.Typical usage would be lower due to sli scaling then your power and temps would be a bit lower.Do like the Furmark numbers cause it gives a worst possible scenario.
Stock overclock or did you apply one of your own? Thanks for posting.:thumbsup:
Those temps were for the stock OC. I went ahead and switched out to Firestorm, which is the Zotac overclocking tool, after trying out the Asus and MSI ones. I like the Zotac one best. I applied a more aggressive fan scaling pattern with the tool and OC'd my cards a bit. I got about 250 Mhz more on the core and 100 Mhz on the memory. I didn't try pushing the mem because I was reading that it doesn't really increase performance much from testing in games. I then ran furmark at full blast for a couple of hours and the temps basically went up only 1-2C each for the cards with the fans on 100%. So I was sitting at about 82C for the second card and 71C for the first card with the extra overclock and a bit more voltage to the cards. That puts my OC on the cards at 1466 core and 7210 mem.
Looks like my setup is going to be good for a few more years again. i7 2600K OC'd to 4.5Ghz, 32GB of ram, and a couple of OC'd GTX 970s seem to be still killing it in terms of top performance. Considering I put my computer together back in April 2011. About to be 4 years later and it's still top performance. Definitely getting my money's worth on this build.
Looks like my setup is going to be good for a few more years again. i7 2600K OC'd to 4.5Ghz, 32GB of ram, and a couple of OC'd GTX 970s seem to be still killing it in terms of top performance. Considering I put my computer together back in April 2011. About to be 4 years later and it's still top performance. Definitely getting my money's worth on this build.
With my eVGA 970 coming, whats the best way to "test" for coil whine? Just find some crazy benchmark and listen with the side off the case? I guess I'm not 100% on what separates coil whine from the usual graphics card noise. I'm still kicking myself for going with the eVGA over cheaper solutions with potentially better cooling. Oh well, it should still be good.
Don't go listening for coil whine, if you have it you'll know.
Don't go listening for coil whine, if you have it you'll know.