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My graphics card, The MSI GTX 970 Twin Frozr edition has been collecting a bit of dust on the top. It doesent have a backplate, and therefore the PCB is completely exposed to the dust. I wish to remove the dust, but i am afraid to damage something in the process. I have tried blowing the dust away, with a hair dryer with cold air but without any change. Any tips? Thx. Please only answers based on knowledge/experience. Picture of the graphics card included in the spoiler.

Msi gtx 970 wont fit https://imgur.com/gallery/0cCrG0Q

I have an msi 970, bios modded it and overclocked it. I have tested multiple games with it, performance increase is pretty big. I pushed this card to the limits, every game I played was on max settings at 1440p. I'm not sure if there is anyone here that has done the same thing I have, but I found this interesting so i'll share it here. I left the videos uncut. The 970 once overclocked can still be a very good card considering every game I tried had above 40fps, apart for gta. I'll link videos once they're uploaded. First game I tried was; The Witcher 3. Everything is on ultra and hair-works is on. Getting around 40fps on average, it does spike to 50 which you can see in the video but it did not stutter and felt very smooth when playing. Second game I tried was; Far cry 5. Once again, fully maxed out apart from resolution scale? I don't know what that is all that I know is it just tanks my fps. I get 50-60fps on max. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqRvVRtn8-Y The last game I tried was; GTA5 Everything was maxed out except for msaa which I left on 4x. Once the card hit its max vram, fps started to drop. It wasn't throttling, it stayed at 1579mhz the whole time in the game. It really did make my 970 perform better is most games, I noticed an improvement. 1580mhz and 4110mem clock. Tdp increase, voltage mod, along with a slight l2c, xbar and sys overclock.

How can I stop my MSI GTX 970 from throttling? It doesn't even get hot. The max temperature it'll get is 56 c on air. I have it overclocked and last week it was at the same settings and nothing happened. Even in hotter situations.

I saw a discussion on this, but it did not meet my answer. I play games such as CS:GO, Battlefield 4 (and 1 in the future), World of Tanks, DayZ and Miscreated (maybe GTA in the future) I'd like to play these games with medium settings and I guess I could settle for average and at least have 70-100fps. Looking at the 2500K since its affordable on eBay, but I thought I'd ask if it would meet my standards? Thanks!

Hello Guys please welcome me with open arms. I am having a particular issue with my Used MSI GTX 970 I purchased online. A little Backstory, I Built my PC for my own Christmas Present in 2014. THE PSU i chosen at the time was a Corsair CX500m I know i know i should have gotten something with better construction and better quality. Anyways the PSU has performed lovely for 2 years now it's silent as a mouse even under load Still Silent. I sold my Previous GTX 970 Reference designed code named MY BABY. I sold it to purchase a stupid PS4 like a dummy. I sold my PS4 the first month which was last month and decided to purchased a Very Lightly used according to the post, MSI GTX 4GB GDDR5 GTX 970 overclocked. For the first 2 days the system performed lovely, Games Ran as smooth as butter such as Witcher 3, GTA V, so on and so fourth. I then Upgraded my windows 10 Installation to stupid 1511 which is where the problems started. I then started to try to diagnose the issue for 7 days 7 Misery filled days. I have been working on computers for years upon years but this issue had me stumped. I would launch a game and within seconds my monitor would Just shut off while everything else stayed on. I reseated everything as per usual. I then decided to check my Modular CX500M cables. I rearranged all cables and i was proud of myself for the clean up job lol. Thank you to Linus on youtube for making a video on management. I pulled out the 8 Pin connector that has 2 6+2 cables on the end. I didn't really enjoy the quality here. 3 covers on 3 Pins on the 8 Pin Connector that connects to the PSU were MELTED. It took me a minute to get the cable to unplug from the PSU i had to tug and tug. Now my Dillema 8 Pin connector that connects to PSU has 3 Pins that are melted well,,,, not the Pins per say but the plastic cover surrounding the pins are melted. Could this be the reason for the black screen issues? what is weird is I reinstalled my other baby which i will never ever sell. My Top Edition GTX 670 From Asus. The most stable card ever in terms of barely ever crashing. I reinstalled my 670 and everything ran as expected no lockouts, no black screen issues, I tested game after game. So is the cable the issue or Maybe even GPU Drivers? I tried installing various Drivers but from what i read, Nvidias drivers have been crap for some time.... Could this very well have been an issue? I am not the smartest person in the world but i find it odd my 670 works great while the 970 keeps crashing. When it didn't crash it performed lovely. Mini Update: After trials and tribulations I ordered a replacement cable. I ordered it off of ebay.com But i changed brands. I bought a cable for a EVGA PSU. Not sure if it will work at all or not. Also Managed to get my 970 to work. I won't touch a game as it will lock up literally right away. My 670 can play all day and night no issues. No Missing Pixels. No dark spots, No color changes on screen with the 970 gaming or not. Just shuts off.

So first off I posted this on tomshardware but thought id copy and paste it here as maybe someone on the forum might have an answer. I had an issue with freezing and getting no signal on my tv with HDMI cableI got a msi gtx 970 graphic cardI got a core i5 4690Msi z97 gaming 5 mobo2 sticks of 8gb kingston hyper x ram I have an evga 600w bronze power supplyI have run a burnin test at 25% 100% and both passed so I am now running a prime95 test.PS I had tried everything else it just crashes when playing a game and display just cuts out and says no signal my keyboard freezes when it does this.After running prime95 did 19 tests in 18 min and found 0 errors on blendSo could the crashing be a driver issue or windows? I have reinstalled windows 10 using a install media a few times and not sure what else to do. I ran a memtest86 and had passed twice. Internet search 2: looking at the comments here I am not alone on the issue :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akS23GmGpkA update 2: at first I thought it might of been an update issue with one of the windows 10 updates but after uninstalling the one update I still have the same issue. Also my cpu and gpu temp never go above 40c with regular use when I game it goes to 55c I am truly running out of ideas as ive reinstalled windows multiple times hopeing it would fix it. update3: just happened twice in the past 30 minutes on regular use just browsing the web. Ps. currently running another burnin test on my gpu

Hello all, Watched LTT for years but first time posting on the forums. Please forgive my ignorance if I've posted this in the wrong place etc. I'd like to fit my, now excess, Corsair H75 onto my MSI GTX 970 (Twin Frozr, if that's relevant) using the Kraken G10 bracket. Since I'm upgrading my CPU cooler anyway and the bracket is only £20 I went ahead and ordered it anyway but I have some concerns. Firstly I'm concerned that the bracket won't provide sufficient cooling to the onboard memory for the card. I know it comes with a small-ish fan to blow cool air onto the memory but I suspect I might need to purchase an additional heatsink in order to make this actually do anything? My second concern is that the MSI card has some fairly beefy heat transfer pipes that make me wonder if they've significantly altered the thermal layout compared to the reference NVIDIA card with which the G10 is supported. Hopefully some others have tread this path before me and can share their experiences with fitting a G10 onto the MSI 970. -T

A GTX 970 and I5 4690k costs way to much money for me. Should I get a I5 4460 and MSI GTX 970 or I5 4690k and MSI GTX 970? I'm going to play games like Skyrim with ENB's and other graphical mods. Planetside 2, War Thunder, CS:GO, ARMA 2 & 3 and maybe also Battlefield 4 and Hardline in the future.

So I got a new modular power supply today and it only includes one PCIE power cable but it has 2 8(6+2) pin connectors on it. will it be safe to power an MSI GTX 970 off of only those or should I order a new cable?

Hello World, I bought a Straight power 600W CM. I got the PSU New in box. So nothings wrong there! Except when I build in into my pc I got an annoying coil whine at the start up. I thought well it is new so it'll go away. And it did.. For a while. But then later on it started buzzing and making this sparky sound when is was booting after power loss. (there were no actual sparks don't worry!) With this I mean that I had unplugged my pc from the wall outlets. But when the pc is running normally it's mostly quiet. But sometimes this coil whine also happens during normal computer use. But it'll also go away. Just a couple days ago it came back! My pc has not been unplugged from the wall, so no power loss and it just made this really annoying coilwhine. I searched everywhere on the internet but no other straight power users had this problem. I got in contact with my supplier and they and I got a chance to send it back so they could check it. Which they did! I explained my problem very clearly but After a couple days of stress testing is they couldn't here a single tone out of it! So they send it back to me. What could be wrong here? This is the first pc I've build but I did it with the help of a friend who has build a lot of them and I only choose high quality parts which other friends of mine suggested who are also very much at home in the homebrewn computer world. I'm using my computer for gaming. Here are my pc specs: Intel Core i7 4790K (processor) ASUS Maximus VII Ranger (motherboard) Corsair Vengeance 16GB DDR3-1600 CL10 LP kit (RAM) MSI GeForce GTX 970 Gaming 4GB (Graphics card) Samsung 850 Pro 256GB (SSD) Western Digital Blue 1TB (64MB) (HDD) Western Digital Blue 1TB (64MB) (HDD) Cooler Master Hyper 412S (CPU FAN) Be Quiet Straight Power 10 600W CM (PSU) I know my pc only needs 371 watts but I don't thing getting a 600 or 650W PSU is a bad thing right? I Also got in contact with Be Quiet and they told be this: What I can make from this is that I should try to disable C1E and EIST in the bios? Seeing as I already tried the PSU in another PC (when I send it back to the store for testing). I don't quiet understand the 12v rail thingy. I haven't overclocked my pc nor have any intend to. Sorry for being such a newbie. I hope someone can be of some assist! Thank you very much!

Hi all, I am building my first pc, I plan to OC my CPU and I am worried that the motherboard will end up bottlenecking the system, what do you recommend? Thanks in advance! Power Supply: Antec 500W 80+ High Performance Power Supply Processor: Intel Core i5-4690K (3.9GHz, 6M Cache, 4x Cores) CPU Heatsink & CPU Fan: Noctua NH-U12S Ultra Quiet Performance CPU Cooler Motherboard: MSI H81 Chipset SATA3 6.0Gb/s USB 3.0 MB Memory: 8GB DDR3 1600Mhz High Performance Gaming RAM Graphics Card: MSI GTX 970 Gaming 4GB 256bit Overclocked Card Sound Card: Integrated 7.1 Channel HD Audio - Included Primary Hard Drive: 128GB SSD Upto 500MB/s+ Speed Solid State Drive - Included Main Optical Drive: 24x Dual Layer DVD +/- Writer - Included Network Adapter: Integrated Gigabit Network - Included

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Hard opc dit great review of this MSI GTX 970 card so this is my Quick thought's MSI GeForce GTX 970 GAMING video card in my case absolut beast overclocker 3D mark and Unigine Valley Benchmark i can run core glock 1655mhz But it's not so stable in long run so 1544mhz is my card top stable glock speed I test differend game in 1544mhz speed and Cysis 3 5h no crash or any problem MSI GeForce GTX 970 GAMING Twin force V cooler is absolut best Case close i don't hear anything played Crysis 3 ym games max temperature is 61c fans speed 65% Fan speed lower then 60% it's silent but over 65% you start hearing noise and 100% you hear fans are 100% Twin force V cooler fans at 100% is like noctua fans you hear them but noise is ok noise not annoy high pitch noise as some fans are I had GTX 780 so many think there is no reason to change to GTX 970 But i am air cooler guy and i love silent PC MSI GTX 780 fans are good as this new msi twin force V But main difference is core temperature and GTX 900 series eat less wattage so it's less heat output and finally fans spin slow speed SO NO MOOR