970 users, what's next?

[BecomingEthereal]

With the "official" statement from Nivida out ( http://www.pcper.com/news/Graphics-Cards/NVIDIA-Responds-GTX-970-35GB-Memory-Issue )

970 users what do we do now?

Do we wait for more information on exact issues? Or do we return our cards for something else?

I personally don't know what to do. I myself have been running my 970 with a huge bottleneck (amd fx 6100) only using 50% of my 970's power and have had a great experience.

I also want to add my skepticalness of this whole issue the only part that I believe is the segmented VRAM slightly causing issues.

But I would jump ship to a 980 if I could. What do we the users think we should do?

[Altecice]

Nothing, Dont expect Nvidia to do a thing about it. It works as they expected it to work, they have your money so they will just 'improve' on it for the next series of cards.

[Interfectorem]

Doesn't affect me, so I just keep chugging along.

[dadasmithywinkle]

With the "official" statement from Nivida out ( http://www.pcper.com/news/Graphics-Cards/NVIDIA-Responds-GTX-970-35GB-Memory-Issue )

970 users what do we do now?

Do we wait for more information on exact issues? Or do we return our cards for something else?

I personally don't know what to do. I myself have been running my 970 with a huge bottleneck (amd fx 6100) only using 50% of my 970's power and have had a great experience.

But I would jump ship to a 980 if I could. What do we the users think we should do?

I'm running two of them with a 5820K and couldn't care less. My 780's had 3GB of VRAM and these still have more with this new relevation. They should advertise them as 3.5GB from here on out, but I'm not gonna get rid of them just because they have .5GB less VRAM readily available.

[Aniallation]

With the "official" statement from Nivida out ( http://www.pcper.com/news/Graphics-Cards/NVIDIA-Responds-GTX-970-35GB-Memory-Issue )

970 users what do we do now?

Nothing. They're not going to do anything about it. Nvidia and their vendors aren't going to spend the time to make BIOS updates for all the cards. Rather spend that time making the 1070 or whatever not have this issue. At least it's more then the last generation (3GB 770)

[Imakuni]

With the "official" statement from Nivida out ( http://www.pcper.com/news/Graphics-Cards/NVIDIA-Responds-GTX-970-35GB-Memory-Issue )

970 users what do we do now?

Do we wait for more information on exact issues? Or do we return our cards for something else?

I personally don't know what to do. I myself have been running my 970 with a huge bottleneck (amd fx 6100) only using 50% of my 970's power and have had a great experience.

But I would jump ship to a 980 if I could. What do we the users think we should do?

I think all of this mem issue is crap. No one noticed it until a few weeks ago, and if we recall, the card launched in September last year. This issue has been present ever since launch, yet people only realize it now, because somebody pointed. This assures me one thing: it's no big deal.

 

The card still performs as good as it did, before people knew about the bug.

[Razzaa]

I have no issues with my card at all. It is still performing flawlessly for me. I upgrade every time a new card comes out anyway so meh!!

[Geekazoid]

I've swapped out the GTX 970 in my planned build for a GTX 980, but once AMD releases their new R 300 series GPUs I might end up going with an AMD R9 380X/390X instead. I've been a faithful NVIDIA supporter for quite some time, but with this problem that they're having along with the fact that NVIDIA cards seem to be quite expensive, might just might make me change from team green to team red, unfortunately.

[Vacsol]

one person makes a benchmark which exaggerates the memory issue (which nobody even noticed until now) and everyone goes batshit insane. 

there won't be a recall because of minor stuttering in a small selection of titles.

[BecomingEthereal]

I was surprised to see the quick responses and not really anyone as angry as yesterday. As I said I have had a great experience with my card only using 50% of what it can use and after hearing what some of you say I see that it's not a big deal.

[JustCallMeVlad]

I think you all need to take a step back and realize it's not as big of a deal as people are making out of it.

[TheKDub]

I don't really care that there is that reduced amount, though it would have been nice if Nvidia advertised it as 3.5GB..

[givingtnt]

Nothing. They're not going to do anything about it. Nvidia and their vendors aren't going to spend the time to make BIOS updates for all the cards. Rather spend that time making the 1070 or whatever not have this issue. At least it's more then the last generation (3GB 770)

you crazzy ? ofc they will make a bios update. its called troubleshooting. they have jobs specificly desinged to fix those problems

[Spewky]

So from my understanding (as I'm new to all of this stuff), the GPU is only using 3.5GB of it's somewhat potential 4GB... Is it really that big of a deal? 

 

I'm planning to order my parts for my build in the next couple of weeks and I was planning to get the Gigabyte G1 Gaming 970 Windforce thing but then I heard about all of this... Will it really effect my gameplay as I don't see myself using extreme quality as I doubt I'll even have a monitor good enough for that on my budget...

 

So yeah, is it still worth me getting it or is it really just not worth it anymore... 

[aeterna789]

Its no big deal for me. For someone who upgraded from 2GB, 3.5gb is not a bad increase in memory specially for the price of a 970.

[maizenblue]

Frankly, if you are a 970 owner there is nothing you can do. As someone else said Nvidia already has your money.

 

You will basically have to live with the card as is and hope you don't run into this problem much in upcoming games, and probably opt for a whole new card in the future rather than SLI another 970. As for people who already bought 2 970s, I guess your SOL. You could try to sell the 970 if it does wind up being an issue in games you care about at resolutions you want to play at, but now that Nvidias dirty secret is out of the bag the resale value of your 970 just went down considerably.

 

Lesson learned. Don't trust Nvidia and support AMD whenever possible.

[BecomingEthereal]

Lesson learned. Don't trust Nvidia and support AMD whenever possible.

I've actually and sadly had worse experiences with amd cards and processors. I wont be supporting them probably ever.

[Guest]

I don't really care that there is that reduced amount, though it would have been nice if Nvidia advertised it as 3.5GB..

It wouldn't make any sense for them to advertise it as 3.5 gb, because the card does really have 4gb vram on a 256-bit bus, and it is possible for the card to utilize it. It just can't access this 4gb vram as efficiently as the gtx 980 because of the reduced sm count.

[BecomingEthereal]

It wouldn't make any sense for them to advertise it as 3.5 gb, because the card does really have 4gb vram on a 256-bit bus, and it is possible for the card to utilize it. It just can't access this 4gb vram as efficiently as the gtx 980 because of the reduced sm count.

What I think they should do is put fine print somewhere about this. I think it's also more likely.

[JustCallMeVlad]

Lesson learned. Don't trust Nvidia and support AMD whenever possible.

No thanks

[pitprok]

Anyone who has serious problems ?
Im between a GTX 970 and r9 290 (with FX 9590) and i cant choose after seeing this (im going to keep it for a long time, planning to sli/crossfire in the future)

[Briggsy]

Anyone who has serious problems ?

Im between a GTX 970 and r9 290 (with FX 9590) and i cant choose after seeing this (im going to keep it for a long time, planning to sli/crossfire in the future)

 

As game textures and overall assets get larger and larger over the next 2 years, memory bandwidth is going to become an issue. the 290, like most AMD graphic cards, will probably be relevant for longer. 

[pitprok]

As game textures and overall assets get larger and larger over the next 2 years, memory bandwidth is going to become an issue. the 290, like most AMD graphic cards, will probably be relevant for longer. 

I see you have a ripjaws 2400 mhz ram, is it worth it since your proccessor only supports 1600 ?

I cant decide between ripjaws 2400mhz 11-13-13-31-2N and ripjaws 2133 9-11-11-31-2N

[Briggsy]

I see you have a ripjaws 2400 mhz ram, is it worth it since your proccessor only supports 1600 ?

I cant decide between ripjaws 2400mhz 11-13-13-31-2N and ripjaws 2133 9-11-11-31-2N

 

technically its the motherboard that supports it in XMP mode, but I only have the ripjaws X 2400 because it is priced like 1600 Ram, and is also double sided Hynix memory. There's sometimes a chance the integrated memory controller of a cpu won't handle 2400Mhz, but I was fine. In benchmarks I consistently get better performance with the 2400 then at 1600, so I figure for the same price why not.

[GrimNeo]

I heard Samsung is making a 6GB and 8GB variants of the 970 and 980 so I am waiting for those. I am waiting for the 980 ti if that ever comes out.