GTX 970 Owners Club

[Gofspar]

Anyone else tired running triple monitor surround on a single 970, or is it just me?

I used to, now I have 2 monitors

[F L 4 T]

Hey all, i'm using 1.3 bios with this oc settings, is this fine or not really  ? 

[Gofspar]

Hey all, i'm using 1.3 bios with this oc settings, is this fine or not really  ? 

looks good, does gpu-z say 1.275v?

[Dabombinable]

Well this is surprising. My G1 Gaming has an additional stock offset of +50Mhz, which explains why setting the core clock in Afterburner above +100Mhz results in instabilities:

[xToFxREAPER]

Anyone else tired running triple monitor surround on a single 970, or is it just me?

i currently am, I already knew what to expect actually and the performance isnt great. i disabled nvidia surround actually and just use the other two for emails and such

[Gofspar]

i currently am, I already knew what to expect actually and the performance isnt great. i disabled nvidia surround actually and just use the other two for emails and such

Once you go SLI and under water you'll destroy any resolution.

[xToFxREAPER]

Once you go SLI and under water you'll destroy any resolution.

yeah thats the idea, at that point im buying an rog swift though

[F L 4 T]

I'll check it out tomorrow, almost 6am here in Portugal Anyway I tried it on GTA V and the game when he starts and loads up the game crashes. Reverted too stock BIOS all fine.

I was using a BIOS from another user with 2000 on memory and 1600 on boost with default GPU clock and I was having some blue stuff appearing while I was playing GTA.

[Lollausen]

i seem to have a problem somewhere. I have a gigabyte g1 gaming, and even with the 1.275 bios, i cant seem to get stable at +200 (1529boost) core and +450 on the memory (1978Mhz). i have my power limit cranked to 133% and as i said the 1.275v bios.

Any suggestions?

(could it be my psu? i have an aerocool x strike 1100w gold standard, dont know if thats good or bad in terms of ripple)

[FatPenguin]

I hope to one day join the elite group of the 3.5 gb users!

[Lollausen]

I'll check it out tomorrow, almost 6am here in Portugal Anyway I tried it on GTA V and the game when he starts and loads up the game crashes. Reverted too stock BIOS all fine.

I was using a BIOS from another user with 2000 on memory and 1600 on boost with default GPU clock and I was having some blue stuff appearing while I was playing GTA.

those are artifacts, meaning the OC is not stable. they can be blue, or green or red usually, or come in the form of screen flickers.

either you have reached the chip's OC limit, or you need to increase voltage or power limit. check your temperatures as well, those can be a dangerous limiting factor.

[Lollausen]

oops double post

[Gofspar]

i seem to have a problem somewhere. I have a gigabyte g1 gaming, and even with the 1.275 bios, i cant seem to get stable at +200 (1529boost) core and +450 on the memory (1978Mhz). i have my power limit cranked to 133% and as i said the 1.275v bios.

Any suggestions?

(could it be my psu? i have an aerocool x strike 1100w gold standard, dont know if thats good or bad in terms of ripple)

never heard of that PSU, seems like you lost the silicon lottery. get the most you possibly can with 1.3v.

[Lollausen]

thank you for the quick reply Gofspar.

 

 

theres something weird though... if i use say the 1.275 bios, and leave the clock offsets at 0 (stock clocks), just maxing out power limit to 133% and obviously the voltage fixed at 1.275, i get a way higher score than stock clocks and stock bios. 

however, with a stock bios i can actually OC the card's clocks to the same score i get with stock clocks on the 1.275 bios.

 

(stock clocks and stock bios=6200pts, stock clocks + 1.275vbios=8400pts, OC clocks + stock bios=8400pts) 

then however, if i use a custom bios, whether its 1.275v or 1.3v, as soon as i overclock by ANY amount, it shows artifacts in benchmarks.

 

Have i done something wrong?

Or is the higher voltage causing too much ripple to OC properly, hence the culprit being a low quality/high ripple PSU?

 

Im' confused, I'm not an OC expert but I'm not new to the game either, and something seems off.

 

PS: it seems weird that i would hit the chip's OC wall so early, since the g1 gamings' chips should be cherry picked on purpose for good OCs, which is why I'm leaning more to putting the blame on the PSU, which I've looked up and has contrasting reviews, some say good ripple levels, some say it crap.

 

EDIT: ive tried running the custom bios with stock voltage, and same situation. If i leave it at stock clocks, i still get a higher performance/pts than with stock bios, about 8400 points (2200 more than stock bios), but as soon as i oc, i get artifacts.
then again, if i keep the complete stock bios, i can OC to about +165MHz core and + 350MHz on the mem to achieve similar performance (about 8400).
It almost looks as thoug using the custom bios gets the card to OC itself somehow, but then artifacts as soon as i add to it. things get weirder and weirder. Again, I'm thinking ive got to an OC limit due to excessive ripple from the PSU, so i get similar max performace on OC stock bios as with custom bios no OC, b/c the "ripple limit" is the same, rather than being the chip's limitation. What i don't get though is why i get such high performance with the custom bios without touching anything, and why the custom bios gives so many artifacts as soon as i touch clocks instead
 

[F L 4 T]

Well, even with the 1.262v /w (stock voltage) bios and 1556mhz core and 2035mhz, my drivers crash, says that they stopped working...

 

Any solution ?

[Gofspar]

then you have hit your gpus limit.

[F L 4 T]

So, my gpu sucks ? 

 

I've already turned down the clocks alot and it keeps crashing...

I'll let an image so maybe you can help me. 

Do I need too up the power limit ? And is it normal that the GPU clock goes up when I up the memory clock ?

[Gofspar]

max out the power limit and show me what the vddc says in GPU-Z.

[arniks8]

thank you for the quick reply Gofspar.

theres something weird though... if i use say the 1.275 bios, and leave the clock offsets at 0 (stock clocks), just maxing out power limit to 133% and obviously the voltage fixed at 1.275, i get a way higher score than stock clocks and stock bios.

however, with a stock bios i can actually OC the card's clocks to the same score i get with stock clocks on the 1.275 bios.

(stock clocks and stock bios=6200pts, stock clocks + 1.275vbios=8400pts, OC clocks + stock bios=8400pts)

then however, if i use a custom bios, whether its 1.275v or 1.3v, as soon as i overclock by ANY amount, it shows artifacts in benchmarks.

Have i done something wrong?

Or is the higher voltage causing too much ripple to OC properly, hence the culprit being a low quality/high ripple PSU?

Im' confused, I'm not an OC expert but I'm not new to the game either, and something seems off.

PS: it seems weird that i would hit the chip's OC wall so early, since the g1 gamings' chips should be cherry picked on purpose for good OCs, which is why I'm leaning more to putting the blame on the PSU, which I've looked up and has contrasting reviews, some say good ripple levels, some say it crap.

EDIT: ive tried running the custom bios with stock voltage, and same situation. If i leave it at stock clocks, i still get a higher performance/pts than with stock bios, about 8400 points (2200 more than stock bios), but as soon as i oc, i get artifacts.

then again, if i keep the complete stock bios, i can OC to about +165MHz core and + 350MHz on the mem to achieve similar performance (about 8400).

It almost looks as thoug using the custom bios gets the card to OC itself somehow, but then artifacts as soon as i add to it. things get weirder and weirder. Again, I'm thinking ive got to an OC limit due to excessive ripple from the PSU, so i get similar max performace on OC stock bios as with custom bios no OC, b/c the "ripple limit" is the same, rather than being the chip's limitation. What i don't get though is why i get such high performance with the custom bios without touching anything, and why the custom bios gives so many artifacts as soon as i touch clocks instead

Check boost clock set in bios. My first edited bios boosted itself to 1700Mhz .

[Lollausen]

 

this is using the modded bios with stock voltages, no clock offsets
 

despite GPU-Z saying the boost clock is at 1329MHz, it bumps up 1404MHz during testing, I've checked on the sensors and with PrecisionX OSD.

 

[Tim Drake]

 

WoW, thank you very much Gofspar. I dont know exactly how you have done this my MBT wont accept this voltage numbers and i dont know the reason. So i have 1 question left, it doesnt matter if my card has hynix ram when i want to use this am i right?

 

 

 

yes on max settings without doing anything on my card im getting 200-250fps, but as i read there is a natural fps limiter to 250fps which can be set off. by typing fps_max 0 in your console.

 

300fps*

[rjfaber91]

I'm about to join the Owners Club, as I'll be purchasing a 970 in two-odd months from now (provided finances go as expected). I was looking to buy the ASUS STRIX, but since MSI, Gigabyte and EVGA all also offer 970s within a very small margin over the price of a STRIX, I thought I might as well ask you guys which one you'd advice me to buy. I like the 0dB feature on the STRIX, and I've had good experiences with ASUS cards in the past, but looking through this thread, the thing doesn't seem to be universally favoured. I'm not the kind of person to be instantly worried by a few negative reviews, but I do wonder whether any of the other brands' cards might not offer an altogether better experience...

 

*EDIT: More specifically, these are the cards that are, at my prefered online retailer, roughly equally priced, and up for consideration:

- ASUS STRIX GTX970-DC2OC-4GD5 (€381.90)

- MSI GTX 970 Gaming 4G (€378.90)

- GigaByte GV-N970 G1 Gaming-4GD (€389.90)

- EVGA GTX 970 Superclocked ACX 2.0 (€389.90)

[arniks8]

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this is using the modded bios with stock voltages, no clock offsets

despite GPU-Z saying the boost clock is at 1329MHz, it bumps up 1404MHz during testing, I've checked on the sensors and with PrecisionX OSD.

GPU isn't boosting in picture.

[WhatComesAround]

PSHHH, 980, im guessing i'm allowed in the 3.5/4 club too in addition to the 4/4 club.

[Lollausen]

GPU isn't boosting in picture.

sorry about that, it's b/c i dont have anything running, but if i look up max clock value after a benchmark its at 1404MHz (confirmed by precision X osd as well), even though gpuz's main page says boost clock is at 1329MHz.

The picture was just to provide more info to anyone looking in