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Bios according to GPUZ & what is showing on Techpowerup
Also downloaded amdvbflash.  The GPU bios looks correct.

 

i got it working. once watercooling got installed with pbo cranked it screams now. highest temp it hit was 73c and watched it hit 5.2 a few times while running cinebench single core. held at 4.7 in multi. so im happy now lol

Believe it man. It's true LOL
 
 

Believe it man. It's true LOL
 
 

What the HELL is linus chewing so vigorously?...?!

Believe it man. It's true LOL
 
 

Certainly not silly at all to watercool a GTX 970. Just not an ASUS card. As they have poor power delivery.
You can easily get GTX 980 performance out of a watercooled 970.
And when a GTX 1070 costs $620 au or $455 us. Its quite a jump in price. And if your only playing at 1080p.
Then really not a great room of improvement. Unless you have a 144hz panel. But at 1080p @ 60hz. No
 
That $330 card was the new price. & with $100 worth of cooler was still cheaper than a 980 at the time For same performance

Here's how you chose pascal cards. Out of all your options:
Throw away any blower style and single fan cards. Keep only dual / triple fans and hybrids. Throw away the ones you don't like the color scheme. For example, I don't like black and red, so the MSI Gaming ones would be immediately out for me. Keep only the ones you find aesthetically pleasing. Sort them by price. Pick the first one that shows up. Or pay a bit more if you REALLY like the looks of a more expensive card. Outside of that, not really much of a difference between them.

A lot of the youtubers had said that the extra power delivery will NOT help you to get a higher clock speed.
I have only seen 1 youtuber said it , which is jaz2cents. I watched one of his youtube video (I think it was the MSI 1080 gaming X  one).
He compared his FE card to the after market MSI card. Which showed that those 2 cards basically have the same overclock potential.
 
I have no idea whether what he is saying is truth though. 
The previous gen card (Maxwell and such) it was true that more power delivery will guarantee you more OC headroom. 
However in Pascal it seems not to be that way, probably because Pascal cards are shitty when it comes to OC. 
You just cannot squeeze more juice out of it.
 
Am I correct when it comes to all these?
Correct me if I am wrong. Not quite into this "OC game" though.

The problem is the architecture itself, not the number of connectors or number of phases.  ALL of the 1080 and 1070 are going to do ~2100 give or take some mhz, because of the way the architecture is. Power really isn't a limitation, it's temperature.  Giving them shit tons of power availability and voltage isn't going to help, because of how hot the internals of the GPU get, and how extremely sensitive to voltage the chip is.   Without subzero cooling or other methods of cooling that can get the GPU extremely cold, we just aren't going to see some random 3x 8 pin 22 phase card magically do 2400 mhz on water.
 
You have to remember that this chip has ~21% less surface area than the previous 980 ti / Titan X with roughly the same amount of transistors in it, it's extremely hard to dissipate all that heat effectively from inside the internals of the GPU.
 
 
 
Here is a lot of in depth detail about Pascal overclocking:
https://xdevs.com/guide/pascal_oc/

The so called "Crappy Coolermaster Stuff" as you put it is the reason.
It is more than likely no better than what Intel had under there in the 1st place.
You need to put Cool Laboratory's Liquid Ultra under there to see any difference.
Do a You Tube search & it will show you How! What! & Where!

Thanks for putting that up Loony979
That works out to to $1103 Canadian for the EVGA & MSI Cards. While the ASUS & Gigabyte are $1122 Canadian
 
So I wouldn't complain that much if I was Canadian. Plus you could prob buy it from an US shop & get it delivered cheaper.
Aussies will be looking at $100 US Minimum to get it delivered........
 
I honestly can't see the 1070 being under $650 over he in Aust

so for us Aussies as i see it now ,980 = say $750
...................................................1080 = say $1,300
not to mention the credit card 2% charge @ check out on PCCG.

The GTX 1080 is listed by nVidia at $699 US Dollars. Founders Edition
Going by the current exchange rate it should be around $970 Aust Dollars. And $830 Aust Dollars for board partners.
Anymore than $1000 Australian is not really a fair price. But it's always the same over here.
The GTX 970 listed at $449 Founders ( $622 Aust) or $379 board partners ( $525 Aust)
 
I can guarantee that it will be more than that cause of the Australia TAX

Congrats.  Good card

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False.  Elpida will generally overclock higher than Hynix.  You just have to keep it REALLY cool.  I had mine running 2200+.

CPU: Intel i5 4690k currently running at 4.8Ghz
Motherboard: ASUS Z97 Sabertooth Mark S
Memory: Geil Potenza 2x8gb modules 1866mhz    16gb in total
Boot Drive: Intel 730 series 256gb Main Drive
Storage: Seagate 3tb Hard Drive
Storage: Seagate 2tb Hard Drive
Video Card: Gigabyte G1 Gaming GTX 970.  1604mhz Core - 2000mhz Memory
Case: Fractal Design Define S Black Windowed Edition 
Power Supply: Seasonic G Series 650w semi modular
Cables: PCCG Sleeved Cable Extension Kit White - CableMod Cable Comb Kit Clear
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10
Monitor: LG 24MP55 IPS LED
Monitor: Thorn 42' Full HD LED TV
Keyboard: Tesoro Durandal Ultimate Cherry MX Red & Black
Mouse: Steel Series Rival Optical
Filter Top: DEMCIflex 3 vent top dust filter. Standard filters front & bottom  
Headphones: Sennheiser Momentum Over Ear
Sound:  Yamaha 5.1ch surround 100w per/ch
 
WATER COOLING
 
CPU Block: EK-Supremacy EVO
VGA Block: EK-FC970 GTX WF3 - Nickel
Thermal Paste: Gelid GC Extreme
VGA Back: EK-FC970 GTX WF3 Black Backplate
Pump:  EK-DCP 4.0 PWM
Reservoir: EK-RES X3 150
Coolant: EK-Ekooant Pastel White concentrate 
Radiator: EK Coolstream PE-360mm
Radiator: Alphacool NexXxoS XT-45 Full Copper 240mm
Tubing: Mayhems Ultra Clear 10mm (3/8) ID x 16mm (5/8) OD 
Fittings: Alphacool 10mm (3/8) Compression G1/4 Deep Black. 
Fans Rad: Noctua NF-F12 120mm 2000rpm PWM IndustrialPPC. 6 in total
 
Next will be to go full Hardline tubing. Not sure if going to use PTEG or go Mayhems Glass
 

Hi,
 
So I decided to put my build here as well. Been completed for a while now, but always looking for things to upgrade. 
Hardware
Case: Cooler Master Cosmos II
MoBo: Maxiumus VII Formula
RAM: Corsair Vengeance Pro Series 16Gb 2400MHz
CPU: Intel Core i5-4670K 3.4 GHZ
GPU: 2 x Gigabyte GTX 970 GAMING-4GD
PSU: Corsair HXi Series HX1000i
SSD: Samsung 850 Pro Series 256GB
HDD: several, total 5TB (got most of them for free from university)
 
Water cooling (some parts)
2 x EK-FC970
EK-Supremacy EVO RED Edition
EK-RES X3 250 Reservoir
EK D5 Vario
EK 240 and 360 Radiator
 
I am considering placing another 240 radiator, but this is just to keep busy.. really want to do something on my pc, so far I can still hold myself back  
 
Just an overview





 
Here is my full setup, monitors are Asus VG278HE on the EZM Deluxe Triple Monitor Mount Stand.


 
Hope you guys enjoyed it, sorry for the back quality (taken from my phone), any feedback, comments are welcome
 
Cheers!

CPU: Intel i5 4690k currently running at 4.8Ghz
Motherboard: ASUS Z97 Sabertooth Mark S
Memory: Geil Potenza 2x8gb modules 1866mhz    16gb in total
Boot Drive: Intel 730 series 256gb Main Drive
Storage: Seagate 3tb Hard Drive
Storage: Seagate 2tb Hard Drive
Video Card: Gigabyte G1 Gaming GTX 970.  1604mhz Core - 2000mhz Memory
Case: Fractal Design Define S Black Windowed Edition 
Power Supply: Seasonic G Series 650w semi modular
Cables: PCCG Sleeved Cable Extension Kit White - CableMod Cable Comb Kit Clear
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10
Monitor: LG 24MP55 IPS LED
Monitor: Thorn 42' Full HD LED TV
Keyboard: Tesoro Durandal Ultimate Cherry MX Red & Black
Mouse: Steel Series Rival Optical
Filter Top: DEMCIflex 3 vent top dust filter. Standard filters front & bottom  
Headphones: Sennheiser Momentum Over Ear
Sound:  Yamaha 5.1ch surround 100w per/ch
 
WATER COOLING
 
CPU Block: EK-Supremacy EVO
VGA Block: EK-FC970 GTX WF3 - Nickel
Thermal Paste: Gelid GC Extreme
VGA Back: EK-FC970 GTX WF3 Black Backplate
Pump:  EK-DCP 4.0 PWM
Reservoir: EK-RES X3 150
Coolant: EK-Ekooant Pastel White concentrate 
Radiator: EK Coolstream PE-360mm
Radiator: Alphacool NexXxoS XT-45 Full Copper 240mm
Tubing: Mayhems Ultra Clear 10mm (3/8) ID x 16mm (5/8) OD 
Fittings: Alphacool 10mm (3/8) Compression G1/4 Deep Black. 
Fans Rad: Noctua NF-F12 120mm 2000rpm PWM IndustrialPPC. 6 in total
 
Next will be to go full Hardline tubing. Not sure if going to use PTEG or go Mayhems Glass
 

ok my ShadowPlay is of ,as it's not on to begin with ,and never known about it b4 haha ,umm some people talking about turning settings down to get great scores
in Extreme HD ,ill try that. Tho what is or should the settings be ? as all i do is DL the program then set it to Extreme HD and then bench it.
AM i missing something here ?
2552 was the score.

The service was introduced back in Windows 7, and you need this service, and should not be disabled.
If you disable it, some software will no longer work. It is used by a software that you are installed or the OS.
 
I would wait leave the computer idle and let it do its thing. If after several hours of idle, it isn't done, then you probably installed a software that uses the service and stuck in a infinite loop repeating the same action over and over again. At 36% it is probably using an entire core by itself on your system.
So my vote is a software you installed that has a bug under Windows 10, and stuck validating its license over and over and over again in a loop with on pause.
 

The slow speed is due to congestion!, this is not NBNs fault but the ISPs.

There are simply too many people trying to access the internet and the ISP has not purchased enough bandwidth to sustain everyone.
 
Most of the complaints from the speech given the by labour mp was complaints during PEAK times.
 
However I am on of the few who has the real NBN haha

I'm on the NBN & have been since Nov 2014 with iiNet.
I'm on their 100/40 plan with 250gb for $89.95 per month.
I think the roll out has change since it has first done, with ongoing connections not as good.
But even though Australia is still well behind most of the world in speeds vs cost.
This is my speed just taken at 7.35pm  So with iiNet I am getting what I pay for.
And also FTTH of course. One of the early connections
 

I am aware that this is not 970 content but thanks to what I've learned from you guys I did grab the worldrecord for highest fire strike score in the catagory of 3770k+single 980 ti. http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/10722885