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Back in January of 2015, I bought an ASUS GTX 970 Strix to replace my somewhat aging 2GB GTX 770. I wanted better gaming performance and I needed more VRAM. I ran it in my main PC for a shorter amount of time than I expected when I made the snap decision to get two Gigabyte GTX 960 Gaming G1 4GBs as a side/upgrade. They provided better performance, though SLI's fate is pretty well-known. The card has been through everything from being dropped onto my HTC One M8, shattering it, to me losing the cooler shroud's hardware and having to resort to a set of 80mm fans to zip tie onto the bare heatsink. As a result, it looked like a hooptie.

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My friend got an MSI Twin Frozr IV GTX 770 as a partial trade for selling his old GPU, and he was kind enough to send the card to me. However, we both didn't know that the card artifacted and was unstable under load. I tried cleaning the card and repasting it, but it didn't do anything. I baked the card (knowing full well that baking GPUs isn't a proper solution) and it gave up the ghost. However, I still had the GTX 970 with the ghetto cooler and the GTX 770's cooler worked just fine, so I tried combining the two.

 

Without further ado, I present to you the ASUS Strix DirectCU II Twin Frozr IV GTX 970 4GB. Shockingly, it dropped temps by nearly 20C and it fits like a damn glove.

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  1. PlayStation 2

    PlayStation 2

    One of my dream projects was taking that special edition MSI GTX 970 that was green and getting the fans and shit to fit on the R9 390 they made. Always loved that fucking card.

  2. TheSLSAMG

    TheSLSAMG

    The 100ME was a pretty cool card, I wonder what the free gift was though. 

  3. Tech_Dreamer

    Tech_Dreamer

    So i am confusion. lots of question. ? is it just the plastic shroud over the old heat spreader fins or the complete new gpu shroud with the grills placed over to the old board, if that's the case isn't the design different , as in lots of missing contacts to spread heat? or does it fit perfectly

  4. TheSLSAMG

    TheSLSAMG

    @Tech_Dreamer

    The whole GTX 770 cooler was transferred over. The heatsink itself fit the GTX 970 Strix's board pretty perfectly. The GTX 970 doesn't have a midplate cooling the VRAM, and the GTX 970's VRMs are cooled by a dedicated heatsink that clears the GTX 770's heatsink perfectly. The design is different, as the GTX 970's heatsink doesn't fit the GTX 770, but that's because of a line of capacitors on the GTX 770.

  5. Tech_Dreamer

    Tech_Dreamer

    nice, that makes sense & also lucky fit.

  6. Tech_Dreamer

    Tech_Dreamer

    @TheSLSAMG    Fancy an elaborate topic post on this sub thread?

     

    https://linustechtips.com/main/forum/14-case-modding-and-other-mods/

  7. Nup

    Nup

    That was a fun story. Props to you and enjoy the cool temps. 

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