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ok so went for 1.3 last night, turns out the extra voltage only got me an 10mhz on the core, did a looped run of fire strike ultra and started getting artifacting at 1600mhz, about 30 seconds later had a display driver crash. Strange thing is that every time I had a display driver crash gpu-z shows that immediately before crashing I reach power limit (PWR) at about 140% (even though I have it set in the bios to 176%) maybe you 6-pins can only give so much, I had them set to 125W each, 

 

anyway I backed off to 1.281 and stuck at 1573mhz core for both cards, (with a single card however I had a stable run at 1630mhz)

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Well....is it me or do manufacturers have utterly no clue when it comes to applying thermal paste? My jaw dropped when I saw just how much was used on my G1 Gaming, it makes HP, Asus and Toshiba look good.

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Well....is it me or do manufacturers have utterly no clue when it comes to applying thermal paste? My jaw dropped when I saw just how much was used on my G1 Gaming, it makes HP, Asus and Toshiba look good.

My G1 almost didn't have TIM on die. Applying mx-2 made no difference.

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My G1 almost didn't have TIM on die. Applying mx-2 made no difference.

Really? They're all over the place.

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Zotac 970 Amp Edition Owner here! not yet overclocked because i reach 70deg even in stock!

70°c isn't bad, my G1 gets to 73°c stock and 76°c with OC, but I have little to none airflow in my case.

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Really? They're all over the place.

Well there was TIM that was next to die, but there wasn't practically anything on die and cooler.

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Is...alive!!!!
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7 hours game stable at this overclock. Changing the TIM for AC5 and cleaning the dust off the cooler worked. (And I should turn the settings back up and see if I can use 1.5GB+ vRAM)

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Is...alive!!!!

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7 hours game stable at this overclock. Changing the TIM for AC5 and cleaning the dust off the cooler worked.

Nice!

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Nice!

Especially when I thought the card was faulty/dead etc. I love it again-but Gigabyte can still feck off with their poor support and really bad RMA process.

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Especially when I thought the card was faulty/dead etc. I love it again-but Gigabyte can still feck off with their poor support and really bad RMA process.

Why weren't you RMA'ing to shop where you bought it, but directly to Gigabyte?

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i hate my msi 4g card (hynix urgh) it hits 1554mhz on stock voltage stable but wont go any higher with a custom bios even at 1.3v with a 125% power limit and +87mv.

 

bit of a con if you ask me how theres two memory manufacturers yet one of them cant oc higher, might send it back and try get a samsung g1 970.

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i hate my msi 4g card (hynix urgh) it hits 1554mhz on stock voltage stable but wont go any higher with a custom bios even at 1.3v with a 125% power limit and +87mv.

bit of a con if you ask me how theres two memory manufacturers yet one of them cant oc higher, might send it back and try get a samsung g1 970.

Memory only affects memory overclocking. I have By mix, but I can clock core to 1600Mhz, but only +300Mhz on memory.

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Memory only affects memory overclocking. I have By mix, but I can clock core to 1600Mhz, but only +300Mhz on memory.

not from what i have seen, it seems to be mainly the samsung cards that can get to 1600mhz stable and mainly g1 cards.

 

i just find it weird how my card wont oc more even with no restrictions

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not from what i have seen, it seems to be mainly the samsung cards that can get to 1600mhz stable and mainly g1 cards.

i just find it weird how my card wont oc more even with no restrictions

That's just silicon lottery, but G1 OC's better because it's built better for overclocking.

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That's just silicon lottery, but G1 OC's better because it's built better for overclocking.

And thats why I went for the G1 in the 1st place.  Gauntlet is meant to give a better GPU for better OC.

But Gigabyte also use Samsung & Hynix memory..    Lucky I got Samsung :)

 

 

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Alright due to popular demand I want to do a custom bios for the MSI cards, anyone wana do some testing or already have a bios made that I can take a look at?

 

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Why weren't you RMA'ing to shop where you bought it, but directly to Gigabyte?

Bought online from Amazon.

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Bought online from Amazon.

I thought Amazon had good costumer service.

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I thought Amazon had good costumer service.

Long story short, going through Gigabyte is a lot cheaper-and the 970 wasn't DOA.

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I thought Amazon had good costumer service.

if you buy it with prime you can sent it back 30days without giving them a reason, they won't even test it, they just sell it to 3rd vendors which then will sell them as B-Product. (atleast in germany)

So i quess if you are aiming for Samsung you can do this once or twice before they denie to take it back.

 

But ofc still sillicon lottory

 

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My Hynix memory overclocks to +500-+600 quite easily. My GPU seems to only really like 1470mhz range.

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I ordered my G1 from Newegg June 10th and still got Samsung memory! I even got it for $318 w/ Arkham Knight free! Best deal yet!

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My Hynix memory overclocks to +500-+600 quite easily. My GPU seems to only really like 1470mhz range.

Have you used 1.3v bios for OC'ing core?

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Have you used 1.3v bios for OC'ing core?

Nope. The Hynix memory can actually do +600 which is 8200mhz effective memory. I am still in the testing phase I did get the GPU core up to the mid 1500's but that was it. I don't have the 1.3v bios. The card is less than a month old. Is that the bios that goes from +10% power to +25% power in the OCing utilities? 

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I swear Gigabyte is f***ing with me, I can run +150MHz 24 hours stable stable as long as the voltage is left alone, and as soon as I increase it-boom, driver crash:

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@Gofspar

Would this bios "1.262v /w (stock voltage) nospin fan mode, TDP increase and anti throttle boost tables" work with Samsung memory?

 

Edit: BTW, I know I'm going to get a driver crash when 'VOp' is being recorded.

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