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I got a 970 Strix : )

orcinhell
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Nice! No coil whine? thats great news :)

My brand new 970 strix has no coil whine either :) May be do to the fact I'm using an older corsair re-branded sea sonic. 

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I'd say overclock, but since every Strix now sold uses Hynix, you would only get an extra 10-70Mhz on average...

 

Not like my dead strix where it did an extra 660 which is 8.36GHz effective... It could do 1558 on the core too... Sadly it died from my old power supply and it took me a week and a half to get ahold of customer support before I just contacted JJ about it.. I still need to send the card out...

 

Will say, EVGAs ACX 2.0 cooler does a better job cooling and is a bit quieter.. Highest on the fans I've seen is 1200RPM for 70-73C instead of 1800-2000RPM for 70-76C like my Strix was... :(

 

G1 Gaming can be just as quiet as the asus one and cool better.

My FTW+ is the same, except it comes with a 0% fan until 60C bios. :D

 

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Senor Shiny: Main- CPU Intel i7 6700k 4.7GHz @1.42v | RAM G.Skill TridentZ CL16 3200 | GPU Asus Strix GTX 1070 (2100/2152) | Motherboard ASRock Z170 OC Formula | HDD Seagate 1TB x2 | SSD 850 EVO 120GB | CASE NZXT S340 (Black) | PSU Supernova G2 750W  | Cooling NZXT Kraken X62 w/Vardars
Secondary (Plex): CPU Intel Xeon E3-1230 v3 @1.099v | RAM Samsun Wonder 16GB CL9 1600 (sadly no oc) | GPU Asus GTX 680 4GB DCII | Motherboard ASRock H97M-Pro4 | HDDs Seagate 1TB, WD Blue 1TB, WD Blue 3TB | Case Corsair Air 240 (Black) | PSU EVGA 600B | Cooling GeminII S524

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(Deceased) DangerousNotDell- CPU AMD AMD FX 8120 @4.8GHz 1.42v | GPU Asus GTX 680 4GB DCII | RAM Samsung Wonder 8GB (CL9 2133MHz 1.6v) | Motherboard Asus Crosshair V Formula-Z | Cooling EVO 212 | Case Rosewill Redbone | PSU EVGA 600B | HDD Seagate 1TB

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There's a know issue with it's thermal levels......

http://pcpartpicker.com/forums/topic/54326-overclocking-gtx-970-strix-issues

If the temp goes past it's "set temp", it'll throttle. http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/355591-asus-gtx-970-strix-oc/

Ask @Gofspar

I wouldn't say that it's the worst 970, just not the card to buy if you want to OC.

 

isn't that the point of the set temp, to throttle the card when it passes it, I can set that temp to 50 or go nuts and set it to 90. Its a safety feature not a fault. Your telling the card not to go past XX degrees, so it throttles to make sure it never goes past. On a side note when I was testing I noticed my fans would not spin at all, or if they were it was extremely low rpm around the 25% mark even under heavy load. As soon as I increased it to 40% temperatures dropped by a fair margin as you can see in my test the first one I hit a stable 69 degrees after the oc and custom fan settings I was only hitting 60 with a much faster card.

 

Edit: not being a smart ass, just asking... are we on the same page and talking about the same thing or not... here is a pick of the Temp control. And I also fully agree if you want to buy a 970 for overclocking the Strix is defiantly not the one to buy.

 

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I have it in normal mode not advanced hence the cap of 1400 mhz. But if you look at the GPU Temp Target it will throttle at 80 because I am telling it too, I can raise that all the way to 90

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