I think I've gotten two of the worst 970s for overclocking

[CarterDavison]

6 hours ago, Morgan MLGman said:

I don't think the G1 is even close to being the best 970, my buddy had the G1, I had the MSI 970 Gaming 100 ME Limited Edition, it was shorter, looked better, was much more silent and actually overclocked better for the same price, the only thing the G1 was better at was cooling, but even @1500mhz core it barely passed 70 degrees so I guess it's irrelevant...

EVGA FTW+, MSI Gaming, Gigabyte Xtreme, Galax/KFA2 HOF would be my choices instead of the G1

Do you understand how silicon lottery or the binning process works?

 

No, you have no clue/

[Morgan MLGman]

1 hour ago, CarterDavison said:

Do you understand how silicon lottery or the binning process works?

 

No, you have no clue/

Dude. G1 is not the best. Deal with it. Even Gigabyte releasing an improved version proves it. Get over yoursel and stop spreading misinformation

[CarterDavison]

Just now, Morgan MLGman said:

Dude. G1 is not the best. Deal with it. Even Gigabyte releasing an improved version proves it. Get over yoursel and stop spreading misinformation

Wasn't even talking about that rofl.

 

How much more is the xstream? Answer me that rofl

[Morgan MLGman]

Just now, CarterDavison said:

Wasn't even talking about that rofl.

 

How much more is the xstream? Answer me that rofl

It's around the same in price. It's just an improved version with better cooling, power delivery and some other improvements, you can read about it.

[CarterDavison]

2 minutes ago, Morgan MLGman said:

It's around the same in price. It's just an improved version with better cooling, power delivery and some other improvements, you can read about it.

TIL £275 = £320

[Morgan MLGman]

Just now, CarterDavison said:

TIL £275 = £320

Depends on the location. Where I live the price difference is around 5$.

[Dabombinable]

1 hour ago, CarterDavison said:

Do you understand how silicon lottery or the binning process works?

 

No, you have no clue/

And you seem to have no clue that that higher the ASIC score, the better the GPU is in the silicon lottery....

[Morgan MLGman]

Just now, Dabombinable said:

And you seem to have no clue that that higher the ASIC score, the better the GPU is in the silicon lottery....

My 290X has 80% ASIC and it already overclocks like a beast, I can downvolt it by 75mV and actually overclock the core at the same time (by 50mhz)

[Kinda Bottlenecked]

wtf are you guys talking about? 

 

 

That's the best 970. No other 970 can even stand just below it. 

 

Spoiler

 

[Morgan MLGman]

Just now, Pohernori said:

wtf are you guys talking about? 

That's the best 970. No other 970 can even stand just below it. 

I wouldn't even dare to call it a 970, a "monstrocity" would be a more accurate description of this card

[GSTARR]

I personally think that the HOF edition is the best 970; were you coming here asking for recommendations for new cards or...

[Kinda Bottlenecked]

Just now, Morgan MLGman said:

I wouldn't even dare to call it a 970, a "monstrocity" would be a more accurate description of this card

 

What are ya sayin? The "turbo" adds like +100fps 

[bomerr]

Did you increase the voltage? or even bettter flash a modded  bios with higher voltage? 1.28v specifically. 

[jjohnthedon1]

10 hours ago, Dabombinable said:

Well your graphics card doesn't appear to actually be aimed at overclocking, unlike the G1 Gaming series.

No ur right that's why they have a massive cooler and take 2 6 pins from the psu

[CarterDavison]

2 hours ago, Dabombinable said:

And you seem to have no clue that that higher the ASIC score, the better the GPU is in the silicon lottery....

Right, that's why i gain 70mhz from 1.212v to 1.262

[CarterDavison]

1 hour ago, bomerr said:

Did you increase the voltage? or even bettter flash a modded  bios with higher voltage? 1.28v specifically. 

1.262v seems to be the perfect voltage point for maxwell cards if it even likes voltage at all.

 

Anything higher is usually more instability or just increased temps.

[Dabombinable]

4 hours ago, jjohnthedon1 said:

No ur right that's why they have a massive cooler and take 2 6 pins from the psu

The GPU consumes a lot more power. If they were aimed at over clockers there would be 8+8pin with GM200 cards.

2 hours ago, CarterDavison said:

Right, that's why i gain 70mhz from 1.212v to 1.262

Your graphics card still isn't aimed at overclocking at all-its a reference GTX 980 made by Asus. I can overclock the ATI MR HD5650 in my laptop by 60MHz, doesn't mean that its aimed at overclockers.

[CarterDavison]

8 minutes ago, Dabombinable said:

 

Your graphics card still isn't aimed at overclocking at all-its a reference GTX 980 made by Asus. I can overclock the ATI MR HD5650 in my laptop by 60MHz, doesn't mean that its aimed at overclockers.

How is that related to the conversation?

 

ASIC isn't something that only effects overclocking cards wtf

[Dabombinable]

1 minute ago, CarterDavison said:

How is that related to the conversation?

 

ASIC isn't something that only effects overclocking cards wtf

It affects cards that are actually meant to be overclocked, unlike your Asus Reference GTX 980. The higher the ASIC score the better the GPU is for overclocking on air and under water as less voltage is needed leading to higher overclocks. Just like the way you have 4790K like mine that do the 4.4GHz boost at 1.23V, and others that can hit 5GHz at around the same voltage.

[CarterDavison]

20 minutes ago, Dabombinable said:

It affects cards that are actually meant to be overclocked, unlike your Asus Reference GTX 980. The higher the ASIC score the better the GPU is for overclocking on air and under water as less voltage is needed leading to higher overclocks. Just like the way you have 4790K like mine that do the 4.4GHz boost at 1.23V, and others that can hit 5GHz at around the same voltage.

That's completely based on the lottery.

 

And I have a 4670k lol

[Dabombinable]

6 minutes ago, CarterDavison said:

That's completely based on the lottery.

 

And I have a 4670k lol

Its not based on lottery for GPU however when they are actually supposed to be binned by Gigabyte. And just an FYI, some people actually bin CPU and sell them as well.....

[CarterDavison]

1 minute ago, Dabombinable said:

Its not based on lottery for GPU however when they are actually supposed to be binned by Gigabyte. And just an FYI, some people actually bin CPU and sell them as well.....

Personal binning and a manufacturing binning is completely different..

 

Manufactering binning is when a company has a higher minimum and anything above that minimum gets in.

[Dabombinable]

1 minute ago, CarterDavison said:

Personal binning and a manufacturing binning is completely different..

The end results are the same, you have them sorted out into X voltage required for X clock speed.

[AllWheelsDrifting]

I feel like a complete noob but, whats binning?

[CarterDavison]

Just now, Dabombinable said:

The end results are the same, you have them sorted out into X voltage required for X clock speed.

I updated my post