GTX 970 Owners Club

[Ekst4zy]

2 hours ago, GamerMan said:

I have that combo on my 970 now! And I was able to get it stable for now. Gonna run more tests to see if I can clock higher

What did you do to make it stable? 

[Vellinious]

A lot of times, just lowering the temps on the core can make a clock stable that hadn't been before.  Maxwell likes to stay chilly.

[masterkickass7]

having the same issues on my 980

[SirWendall]

1 hour ago, Ekst4zy said:

What did you do to make it stable? 

Just play around with the clocks and use FireStrike (Normal)

[SteveGrabowski0]

2 hours ago, Vellinious said:

A lot of times, just lowering the temps on the core can make a clock stable that hadn't been before.  Maxwell likes to stay chilly.

I wish that was the case on mine. I don't get anything extra on my 970 from keeping my core in the high 50s vs the mid 70s

[Vellinious]

Anything higher than 55c on Maxwell is usually not going to yield you higher clocks.  To get any better, you'll need to drop below 55c consistently.  35c or lower is better.

[Purplehazeffc]

1656 Mhz is the highest I got my card to, stable on Firestrike & Valley. Full EK waterblock & backplate.

 

I was running it 1605 Mhz & 8000 mhz. All day everyday. To get the most out of these, they really need to be under water

 

 

[Vellinious]

14 hours ago, Purplehazeffc said:

1656 Mhz is the highest I got my card to, stable on Firestrike & Valley. Full EK waterblock & backplate.

 

I was running it 1605 Mhz & 8000 mhz. All day everyday. To get the most out of these, they really need to be under water

 

 

What kind of graphics scores were you seeing in FS?

[Purplehazeffc]

8 hours ago, Vellinious said:

What kind of graphics scores were you seeing in FS?

By memory just a little behind what you were getting. I think because of you higher memory overclock.
The highest memory I got mine stable to was 2054 Mhz with Samsung

My ASIC quality was 67%

 

 

[Vellinious]

2 hours ago, Purplehazeffc said:

By memory just a little behind what you were getting. I think because of you higher memory overclock.
The highest memory I got mine stable to was 2054 Mhz with Samsung

My ASIC quality was 67%

 

 

Custom bios and really cool, I'd bet.  Good clocks, and good score!

[Purplehazeffc]

10 hours ago, Vellinious said:

Custom bios and really cool, I'd bet.  Good clocks, and good score!

That was on Gofspar's 1.275v bios. There was no gains at all on the 1.3v bios

I think the temp peaked around 54-55c. Was also in a fully closed Define S case with a 360x25mm & 240x45mm rads

If I took off the side cover, peak temps were around the 50-51c.

 

Cheers for the score. While the core overclocked pretty well, unfortunately the memory did not

[Bananasplit_00]

1 minute ago, Purplehazeffc said:

That was on Gofspar's 1.275v bios. There was no gains at all on the 1.3v bios

I think the temp peaked around 54-55c. Was also in a fully closed Define S case with a 360x25mm & 240x45mm rads

If I took off the side cover, peak temps were around the 50-51c.

 

Cheers for the score. While the core overclocked pretty well, unfortunately the memory did not

sounds more and more to me that my problem with 60C isnt just me, and that its Maxwell that cant handle the heat lol because at 59+ C the card just flips its shit and i cant keep it under that with the G1 cooler on it  

[Emzijs]

Can somebody tell me where I could get new/refurbished GTX970 right now? I missed EVGA sale so maybe I can get somewhere it below 200 euro/pounds.

[Aytex]

2 minutes ago, Emzijs said:

Can somebody tell me where I could get new/refurbished GTX970 right now? I missed EVGA sale so maybe I can get somewhere it below 200 euro/pounds.

http://www.evga.com/Products/productlist.aspx?type=8&family=GeForce+900+Series+Family&chipset=GTX+970

?? they always have these

[Emzijs]

14 minutes ago, Aytex said:

http://www.evga.com/Products/productlist.aspx?type=8&family=GeForce+900+Series+Family&chipset=GTX+970

?? they always have these

It's not cheap. 239 dollars for GTX970. I can get RX470 for that price. Sure, I am not sure about which one is faster but either way it's not cheap.

[maartendc]

On 12/12/2016 at 10:51 PM, GamerMan said:

I have a kracken g10 on it. I'm just on the normal clocks now but at one point it was 120+Mhz with 18+ on the volts

No offence, but isn't it kind of crazy to watercool a GTX 970? Isn't putting $100 in coolers on a $330 card silly?

 

I assume you want to achieve higher overclocks that way, but you could sell your GTX 970 on Ebay and put that extra money towards getting a 1070 or a 980ti or something, giving you much better performance?

[SirWendall]

3 hours ago, maartendc said:

No offence, but isn't it kind of crazy to watercool a GTX 970? Isn't putting $100 in coolers on a $330 card silly?

 

I assume you want to achieve higher overclocks that way, but you could sell your GTX 970 on Ebay and put that extra money towards getting a 1070 or a 980ti or something, giving you much better performance?

Well either way I was gonna buy a kracken. Silly? No. I plan on upgrading but I'm saving and don't want to settle for a 1070 when I could just get a 1080

[Ekst4zy]

3 hours ago, maartendc said:

No offence, but isn't it kind of crazy to watercool a GTX 970? Isn't putting $100 in coolers on a $330 card silly?

 

I assume you want to achieve higher overclocks that way, but you could sell your GTX 970 on Ebay and put that extra money towards getting a 1070 or a 980ti or something, giving you much better performance?

No, not really. Do you think that I will throw away my g10 and h55? I will use it with a next card as well. I paid 65 usd for g10 used and new h55. I got my 970 for 120 USD. Tell me now that I can get a 1070 for 185... I can't even get a 1060 3gb. 

[Purplehazeffc]

5 hours ago, maartendc said:

No offence, but isn't it kind of crazy to watercool a GTX 970? Isn't putting $100 in coolers on a $330 card silly?

 

I assume you want to achieve higher overclocks that way, but you could sell your GTX 970 on Ebay and put that extra money towards getting a 1070 or a 980ti or something, giving you much better performance?

Certainly not silly at all to watercool a GTX 970. Just not an ASUS card. As they have poor power delivery.

You can easily get GTX 980 performance out of a watercooled 970.
And when a GTX 1070 costs $620 au or $455 us. Its quite a jump in price. And if your only playing at 1080p.
Then really not a great room of improvement. Unless you have a 144hz panel. But at 1080p @ 60hz. No

 

That $330 card was the new price. & with $100 worth of cooler was still cheaper than a 980 at the time For same performance

[SirWendall]

So I think I finally stabilized my OC so far. I was able to get +130 on the core and +82 on the memory. I can't tell if it flickers when I try to push it higher in Firestrike. The lighting effects make it look like it's flickering (Graphics Test #1 in FS) but I don't think it actually is.

[Purplehazeffc]

2 hours ago, GamerMan said:

So I think I finally stabilized my OC so far. I was able to get +130 on the core and +82 on the memory. I can't tell if it flickers when I try to push it higher in Firestrike. The lighting effects make it look like it's flickering (Graphics Test #1 in FS) but I don't think it actually is.

What brand of Memory have you got on the EVGA card??   I was getting +600 with Samsung memory.

Though it does sound like you have Hynix memory on yours

[Bananasplit_00]

5 minutes ago, Purplehazeffc said:

What brand of Memory have you got on the EVGA card??   I was getting +600 with Samsung memory.

Though it does sound like you have Hynix memory on yours

i cant get +500 on my sammy memory, well i can but it reaches 60C and then throws me lots of artifacting  

[SirWendall]

8 hours ago, Purplehazeffc said:

What brand of Memory have you got on the EVGA card??   I was getting +600 with Samsung memory.

Though it does sound like you have Hynix memory on yours

I have the 970SSC from EVGA

[Purplehazeffc]

8 hours ago, Bananasplit_00 said:

i cant get +500 on my sammy memory, well i can but it reaches 60C and then throws me lots of artifacting  

Possibly could be due to cooling for sure. The cooler they run, the better

 

17 minutes ago, GamerMan said:

I have the 970SSC from EVGA

In GPU-Z there is Memory type. As you can see mine above says GDDR5 (Samsung) What does yours say GamerMan ??

[SirWendall]

2 hours ago, Purplehazeffc said:

Possibly could be due to cooling for sure. The cooler they run, the better

 

In GPU-Z there is Memory type. As you can see mine above says GDDR5 (Samsung) What does yours say GamerMan ??

Mine is Samsung as well though