GTX 970 Owners Club

[Purplehazeffc]

It looks like the Elpida memory is better than the Samsung & we all know better than the Hynix.

Best out of my Samsung is 2106.  Hopefully I can try in winter when its cooler. Now even at night it's 25c overnight.

[tomaatvk]

I will probably have to leave this group soon, ordered my 980 ti today. This one http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=5710#kf

 

Will sell my 970 for just under €300.

 

Looking forward to another overclocking adventure.

[arniks8]

 

 

Need help guys, I've tried changing drivers and BIOS's. BTW I don't have that driver that has memory clock issues.

[tomaatvk]

Got my 980 ti today, gonna use what I learned from my 970 to edit the hell out of the ln2 bios from my gigabyte windforce extreme card (runs under 50°C under full load at full fan speed so dies gunn' be gut).

Directly edited the vcore to 1.325v instead of 1.275 (the card should take it).

[tomaatvk]

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

[Doughnutnator]

It seems that the memory chips are very sensible to temperature.

 

I just changed my crappy 2 120mm intake fans for some "fancy" high airflow 140mm ones. The difference is not that big, 2-4 ºC.

But I can get higher clocks. 1581 core and 4000 on memory with 1.212V.

 

Got a pretty "meh" score, considering my CPU http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/10731709?

 

But thank you very much for all the help guys, specially @Gofspar

[DarkSmith2]

10 hours ago, tomaatvk said:

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

This is the maxwell owner's club ^.^

[Gofspar]

11 hours ago, tomaatvk said:

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

what do you want for the card, will get a proper treatment under dry ice.

[Dabombinable]

Just an FYI to those having problems overclocking their GTX 970. Use the tool supplied by the vendor of your graphics card (or try them all if the vendor of your card doesn't make one). The voltage might not be set correctly resulting in unstable overclocks and bad overclocking overall. _{I look so foolish after finding that out.}

[arniks8]

8 hours ago, DarkSmith2 said:

This is the maxwell owner's club ^.^

980 Ti is a maxwell card.

[DarkSmith2]

42 minutes ago, arniks8 said:

980 Ti is a maxwell card.

yepp, thats why i posted this, to tell him that his post is allright.

[Lio]

 

 @Gofspar Can you make my Custom Bios for my GTX 970?

[firestronk]

Managed to overclock my evga 970 SSC by over 80mhz on both the memory and core clock. I could probs push it to 100mhz, but i'm to lazy

[K41]

Some problems here.

1.275 bios flashed.TDP all the way to 140 in afterburner with 1565/2000.

 

When I run firestrike the gpu downclock itself sometimes and gpuz perfcap reason says green in those moments, same in The Witcher 3 and Dying Light.

 

Any ideas? This is getting me crazy.

[Monarch]

20 minutes ago, K41 said:

Some problems here.

1.275 bios flashed.TDP all the way to 140 in afterburner with 1565/2000.

 

When I run firestrike the gpu downclock itself sometimes and gpuz perfcap reason says green in those moments, same in The Witcher 3 and Dying Light.

 

Any ideas? This is getting me crazy.

 

That means power limit. Probably cause the power limit is still limited to 250W. If you look at the power table in that bios, there are multiple sets of settings. The first set still says 250W def and max. I have both of those set to 310W, and then in the lower set that controls settings you'll see in programs like afterburner, def is 310W as well, while the max is 320W. I have no issues with such a config, so I suggest trying that.

[Monarch]

On 2/11/2016 at 10:21 AM, Dabombinable said:

Just an FYI to those having problems overclocking their GTX 970. Use the tool supplied by the vendor of your graphics card (or try them all if the vendor of your card doesn't make one). The voltage might not be set correctly resulting in unstable overclocks and bad overclocking overall. _{I look so foolish after finding that out.}

Why? They all do the same things, except some have an extra option to set minimum voltage. 

[K41]

18 minutes ago, Monarch said:

 

That means power limit. Probably cause the power limit is still limited to 250W. If you look at the power table in that bios, there are multiple sets of settings. The first set still says 250W def and max. I have both of those set to 310W, and then in the lower set that controls settings you'll see in programs like afterburner, def is 310W as well, while the max is 320W. I have no issues with such a config, so I suggest trying that.

Same. Perfcap reason still green sometimes and the gpu is downclocking.

Should I increase it? Maybe 350-360?

 

Thanks for your help sir

[Monarch]

5 minutes ago, K41 said:

Same. Perfcap reason still green sometimes and the gpu is downclocking.

 

Thanks for your help sir

Can you upload the bios so i can take a look? It should have worked.

[Guest]

Liquid cooled evga sc card, am I in?

[K41]

4 minutes ago, Monarch said:

Can you upload the bios so i can take a look? It should have worked.

Sure, here it is.

 

http://www.mediafire.com/download/f203j8qhed80c08/msi1.275v2.rom

[Monarch]

5 minutes ago, K41 said:

Sure, here it is.

 

http://www.mediafire.com/download/f203j8qhed80c08/msi1.275v2.rom

I think I see where the issue is. The default voltage is still 250W, while the max power limit is set to 350W. I think Nvidia cards don't like anything over 100% power limit. So set the default power limit to 310W. It works for me.

[K41]

22 minutes ago, Monarch said:

I think I see where the issue is. The default voltage is still 250W, while the max power limit is set to 350W. I think Nvidia cards don't like anything over 100% power limit. So set the default power limit to 310W. It works for me.

http://www.mediafire.com/download/4pcdytjdppu7dc2/msi1.275v3.rom

 

Something like this?

 

I have tried and the issue persist. Maybe setting max voltage to 320 instead of 350?

[Monarch]

17 minutes ago, K41 said:

http://www.mediafire.com/download/4pcdytjdppu7dc2/msi1.275v3.rom

 

Something like this?

 

I have tried and the issue persist. Maybe setting max voltage to 320 instead of 350?

Yeah that's how mine is set up, but I have the G1 Gigabyte card. What percentage does the GPU power reach when it throttles? Does it hit 100%?

[K41]

Yep, goes to 105% at max.

[Monarch]

6 minutes ago, K41 said:

Yep, goes to 105% at max.

Well then your issue seems to be that you need more power on default, so set a higher wattage than 310W. But I think it would be too much unless you have water cooling.