Got my 970 SC card installed. Slight coil whine under load, but I can only hear it if I am listening for it. Card runs great, max temp. after a run of the Heaven benchmark was 62°C. Max boost was 1342MHz, held for the entire time. I'll play some games later on with it, and finish up my comparison between my 460, 770 SC, and this 970 SC.
Eymar, what was your stock max boost clock?
Edit - GPU-Z says I have Samsung memory, wonder how it'll overclock... :hmm:
Got my 970 SC card installed. Slight coil whine under load, but I can only hear it if I am listening for it. Card runs great, max temp. after a run of the Heaven benchmark was 62°C. Max boost was 1342MHz, held for the entire time. I'll play some games later on with it, and finish up my comparison between my 460, 770 SC, and this 970 SC.
Eymar, what was your stock max boost clock?
The MSI's seem to be the only 970 with ideal contact area between the heatsink and GPU.
lol wow. SLI gives you the graphics power to use DSR yet DSR is not compatible with SLI? brilliant!Well nVidia has confirmed that DSR does not currently work in SLI.
Well nVidia has confirmed that DSR does not currently work in SLI.
Just fired-up my card. Seems to be much more sensitive to memory overclocks vs. core so far. Get some minor artifacting > ~7850mhz on memory. Rock-solid at 7780 (can maybe tweak this a bit higher, but need more time).
1501 core seems to be the sweet-spot with the voltage/power options upped. Much higher and the card is throttling, but right around 1500mhz will keep a nice, stable core speed and stay under 72C. I think I have some more headroom, but I would like to keep the fan relatively quiet and the temps lower as well. Seeing about 45% more performance on Valley (vs old 670)...will try some games out tomorrow, but very happy with the purchase so far.
I do like the blower-style cooler...my CPU temps are noticeably better with the heat exhausting out of the case from the GPU vs. re-circulating. Very happy so far.
Nice how that information was omitted and left for initial buyers to discover.
That is really something lol.lol wow. SLI gives you the graphics power to use DSR yet DSR is not compatible with SLI? brilliant!
Need to try Crysis or Battlefield. Heaven didn't heat the card up for me. I was mid 60's in heaven and 73C in Crysis 2 with a bit of a core bump.
Yes running a 2500k@stock is def a bottleneck....You do realize that 2500k can do 4.8ghz on air very easily?Hmm, I played some BF4 last night and still didn't get above 62°C... Maybe my 2500K is holding it back, even though it is running full boost the whole time. I'll try Crysis 3 tonight if I have time and see if I can really push the card.
Also Bit-Tech had the MSI one as the best overclocker out of the three so it is no concidence that the heatsink design probably contributes.Got two MSI Gaming 970's on the way. :biggrin: I'm glad I went them them after all. The MSI's seem to be the only 970 with ideal contact area between the heatsink and GPU.
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Comparison review: http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/graphics/2014/09/19/nvidia-geforce-gtx-970-review/1
Does anyone know how the voltage adjustments works for 970/980s using MSI Afterburner?
I know with my Titans if I set the voltage to +37mV it automatically allowed the GPU to boost a few extra speed bins with slightly higher voltage even if the core speed was set to +0.
This seems to be the same with my 980s. MSI Afterburner goes all they way to 80+mV, but I don't think it actually goes that high. Is there an automatic cutoff with this adjustment? I set it to +50mV and I can see the core clock automatically boost to a few more speed bins (+~20MHz).
As with NVIDIAs Kepler cards, NVIDIAs Maxwell cards are subject to NVIDIAs stringent power and voltage limitations. Overvolting is limited to NVIDIAs built in overvoltage function, which isnt so much a voltage control as it is the ability to unlock 1-2 more boost bins and their associated voltages. Meanwhile TDP controls are limited to whatever value NVIDIA believes is safe for that model card, which can vary depending on its GPU and its power delivery design
Guys which 970 is the most silent? It will go in my htpc that will feed a 4k tv but till waterblocks come out i dont need too much noise.
Hmm, I played some BF4 last night and still didn't get above 62°C... Maybe my 2500K is holding it back,
A i7 could really open up your max and average fps, i went from a 2500 non k to a 3770 and got a moderate fps boost in BF4. Feels smoother too as my 2500 was hitting 95% usage on all 4 cores which is insane.