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I just bought a 970 with a reference cooler from overclockers.co.uk and I checked its ASIC rating.... It has an ASIC rating of 66% :'(

The good news is that it is ticking and I may be able to send it back and get another one.

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So you took it out of the packaging, plugged it in, powered on, checked the ASIC rating, said to yourself "nope", made this post and now going to RMA it?

no he had a very loud ticking noise on his gtx 970

 

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Ticking? i don't know many electronic parts that are ticking.

 

How about you OC it and then see how it OCs?

 

 

Also, post this in GD, OT or even better a status update.

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Taking a page out of @zappian book

 

 

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Ticking? i don't know many electronic parts that are ticking.

How about you OC it and then see how it OCs?

Also, post this in GD, OT or even better a status update.

I think the ticking is a kind of coil whine. I'm not sure why it is happening tbh.

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Ticking? i don't know many electronic parts that are ticking.

How about you OC it and then see how it OCs?

Also, post this in GD, OT or even better a status update.

I posted this on my phone, I didn't even know you could post status'. :)

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Also ASIC rating is not a good indicator for overclocking (it is actually quite bad at it.)

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Also ASIC rating is not a good indicator for overclocking (it is actually quite bad at it.)

I will check the real world overclocking results tomorrow.

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The ASIC rating doesn't really mean  anything.

 

I've yet to see a Maxwell card that couldn't hit 1500 MHz boost core on air, nor have I seen any hit  much past 1600 MHz on air.

 

Everyone seems to fall in that 1500 MHz-1600MHz range.  

 

 

 

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The ASIC rating doesn't really mean anything.

I've yet to see a Maxwell card that couldn't hit 1500 MHz boost core on air, nor have I seen any hit much past 1600 MHz on air.

Everyone seems to fall in that 1500 MHz-1600MHz range.

I'm not too fussed just a bit dissapointed about the ASIC rating but the ticking thing is a serious problem that is worthy of an RMA so if I can get it swapped with a new gpu with a higher ASIC rating that would be a bonus.

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I just bought a 970 with a reference cooler from overclockers.co.uk and I checked its ASIC rating.... It has an ASIC rating of 66% :'(

The good news is that it is ticking and I may be able to send it back and get another one.

 

 

Low ASIC is not a bad thing my buddy has the fastest 970 on air in 3dmark on HWBOT, and it has like a 64% asic.

Apparently Low ASIC cards usually scale better with voltage with water / ln2 (or kept very cool), so if you plan on doing some modding to the BIOS you may get a lot more out of it.

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Low ASIC is not a bad thing my buddy has the fastest 970 on air in 3dmark on HWBOT, and it has like a 64% asic.

Apparently Low ASIC cards usually scale better with voltage with water / ln2 (or kept very cool), so if you plan on doing some modding to the BIOS you may get a lot more out of it.

A good thing about it being a reference design is that I can get watercooling blocks for it.
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Buying a GPU and returning it because it doesn't OC as you'd like it to just puts up the expenses of OCUK (and of all retailers). These costs are passed on to the rest of us.

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Buying a GPU and returning it because it doesn't OC as you'd like it to just puts up the expenses of OCUK (and of all retailers). These costs are passed on to the rest of us.

I think you misunderstood, im only going to return it is the ticking noise persists. The ticking noise is worth an RMA.

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I think you misunderstood, im only going to return it is the ticking noise persists. The ticking noise is worth an RMA.

It's easy to misunderstand when the title focus's on possibly poor overclocking potential; and only a foot-note mentions a potential cooler/Fan defect.

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It's easy to misunderstand when the title focus's on possibly poor overclocking potential; and only a foot-note mentions a potential cooler/Fan defect.

Yep, im sorry that im not making things very clear. The thread wasn't intended to be on the ticking noise anyways. I just got sidetracked. :)

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The ASIC rating doesn't really mean  anything.

 

I've yet to see a Maxwell card that couldn't hit 1500 MHz boost core on air, nor have I seen any hit  much past 1600 MHz on air.

 

Everyone seems to fall in that 1500 MHz-1600MHz range.

My 980 has a 66 rating and does not hit 1500 without resetting drivers, so theres that

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How do you find Asic value of your card?  GPU-Z doesn't show anything on mine I looked like 5 times and I have the newest version.

 

Update... found it. Needed to right click int he header.

 

Awesome. My GTX 770 got a 79% ASIC and I can tell. My card is a really good 770 batch. OC's a lot.

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