temps are in the 60s or just over 70. and yeah I know about all that but that is not the issue at all. there was a 980 review I saw and they were showing the same thing with occasional little drops here and there even with power limit raised.What are your temps like? You may want to look at max power and temp settings.
temps are in the 60s or just over 70. and yeah I know about all that but that is not the issue at all. there was a 980 review I saw and they were showing the same thing with occasional little drops here and there even with power limit raised.
these oc cards are already boosting much higher so they will usually have a lower value to raise it to for the slider. my speeds fluctuate even when I am not close to exceeding TDP.You seem to be TDP limited, 110% max is just way to low for these cards.
Had a little time to install, do a fast overclock and a valley run. MSI Gaming 970 @ 1500/8000. Held the clock throughout the run.
Can't hear it at all. The only thing I don't like is that the fans totally stop at under 60C. Normally this would be a good thing, but it takes a long time for the card to cool down after use.
The fans don't come on until the temperature rises to some threshold. What power/performance mode it is in doesn't seem to have an effect. At the least, MSI's Twin Frozr model, and Palit's Jetstream, also have that same behavior.Is Asus the only 970 card that can turn off its fans when in idle mode (desktop 2D)?
The fans don't come on until the temperature rises to some threshold. What power/performance mode it is in doesn't seem to have an effect. At the least, MSI's Twin Frozr model, and Palit's Jetstream, also have that same behavior.
MSI is calling it Zero Frozr.Do they all have the same threshold and/or can you change it manually? Asus seems to be the only one advertising "0dB fan technology lets you enjoy light games in complete silence". I would hate getting a card that has a minimum fan speed requirement even when GPU performs simple 2D tasks and there are relatively low case/room temps.
Do they all have the same threshold and/or can you change it manually? Asus seems to be the only one advertising "0dB fan technology lets you enjoy light games in complete silence". I would hate getting a card that has a minimum fan speed requirement even when GPU performs simple 2D tasks and there are relatively low case/room temps.
Part of the problem is that there are components on the board that need cooling that passive cooling may not provide for. I'm sure being able to reach a point where this was feasible took no small amount of testing, and was probably either specified as viable somehow in the reference design (if not with the reference cooler), or something that needed the low low-load power use and self-throttling of the new chip to handle.I think its a fantastic feature to turn off fans completely. We should have had that for years. I would put the threshold at 90c lol. As i can see from the AT review of the evga 970 its unfortunate not for that brand at least.
Part of the problem is that there are components on the board that need cooling that passive cooling may not provide for. I'm sure being able to reach a point where this was feasible took no small amount of testing, and was probably either specified as viable somehow in the reference design (if not with the reference cooler), or something that needed the low low-load power use and self-throttling of the new chip to handle.
Asus and MSI have both been working on making quieter and quieter cards for years, with varied success (they have BOM limits, after all). It seems like if it were just a matter of total power use, they'd have done it sooner, done it with Radeons as well, and one of them would have done it before another.
I think its a fantastic feature to turn off fans completely. We should have had that for years. I would put the threshold at 90c lol. As i can see from the AT review of the evga 970 its unfortunate not for that brand at least.
Its a shame that FTW GTX 970 got the same PCB as the vanilla model. According to the pictures it appears to be the same 4+2 phase design. No backplate, VRM cooling, or VRAM cooling. Wow.