I think I've found a happy spot to settle with as far as OC'ing my card goes. Tomb Raider 2013's one of the few games that made my 670 run hot, and it's no different here. With the contact shadows and TressFX on, it uses a constant 99% of my GPU, and gets up to 80 degrees. I always play with vsync on and with a global framerate cap of 60fps, so I don't think it'll ever get that hot, but it seems pretty stable for now.
Nvidia Launches GTX 980 And GTX 970 "Maxwell" Graphics Cards ($549 & $329)
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Numbers?
jim2point0
Banned
This is my 980.
I overclocked the core another 125 mhz and the memory 400mhz. My power is set to 122%.
Also, my 3770 is overclocked to 4.4 Ghz. Might help a bit.
Windom Earle
Member
Yeah, Fire Strike is weird sometimes. Looking at the benches in this review my numbers are fine:
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/NVIDIA/GeForce_GTX_970_SLI/1.html
Dave_6
Member
Are you running any monitoring sofware (Afterburner, etc)? I never could get it to launch on mine if I had RadeonPro running in the background.
10101
Gold Member
Nah I think it's about right for my processor / GPU combo looking at the other scores in the result list. I'm 43rd out of 60 which is where I'd expect to be given I'm running a conservative 4.1Ghz overclock on my CPU and my 980 is running at stock. Tis good enough anyway and a million times better than my last graphics card
So, we own the same model but you seem to have gotten a superior piece of silicon.
You haven't touched the voltage, have you? I'll follow your recipe once I get home and we'll see if my card can take it.I'm running a 4930K at 4.5Ghz, which should be comparable to your 3770K.
Jin
Member
I don't mind motion blur. But just blur all over the screen 100% of the time is awful. I'll take jaggies over blur like FXAA.
The whole point of downsampling is to make a sharper image, I really don't understand why Nvidia added the option.
As a point of distinction, there is a difference between turning on motion-blur in game and this setting. Nvidia is blurring the entire image, while motion blur adds a blurring effect to simulate motion while turning.
Vulcano's assistant
Banned
well, the guy who preferred to play in lower res for the fuzziness has no excuse now.
Windom Earle
Member
I found the DSR blur quite pleasing for GTA4, but it looks bad in most other games.
But downsampling does not get rid of all jaggies in a lot of cases. A small amount of blur (like some people like to use FXAA on top of downsampling) can help with the remaining aliasing.
And it's not like you have to use it, just set it to 0 and never bother with it again.
CloudyTuba
Member
10171 on Firestrike.
27492 on Cloud Gate.
Major coil whine when at 400+ fps on Cloud Gate. MSI 970. Is that normal at such high fps? Will it go away in time?
27492 on Cloud Gate.
Major coil whine when at 400+ fps on Cloud Gate. MSI 970. Is that normal at such high fps? Will it go away in time?
jim2point0
Banned
So, we own the same model but you seem to have gotten a superior piece of silicon.
I'm running a 4930K at 4.5Ghz, which should comparable to your 3770K.
I haven't touched the voltage, no. I'm too afraid to. And nobody I've asked seems to know when or if you even should.
mordecaii83
Member
I have my voltage locked to 1.135.
Yes, coil whine at very high FPS is common. But you will never play with that FPS anyway, so it's no big deal.
CloudyTuba
Member
Okay, so for older games I just need to set VSYNC on because right now Halo 1 PC is whining like a banshee with vsync off.
My old 570 rendered that game at high FPS and never whined, it's my first time experiencing it.
ThoseDeafMutes
Member
Coil whine is something that can happen under load. Sometimes it can be grounds for an RMA if it's really bad. I returned a 770 in April because it had bad coil whine when I was playing Thief and Company of Heroes 2. In older or less graphically intense games that didn't stress the 770 as much, I didn't get it.
If you're getting coil whine playing Halo: CE I would think that's a significant problem. Does your 970 whine in most recent, graphically intensive games?
If you're getting coil whine playing Halo: CE I would think that's a significant problem. Does your 970 whine in most recent, graphically intensive games?
BrokenEchelon
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What's this about 8GB VRAM 970/980s in November/December? Worth the wait? Is that even a realistic release date? That seems way too close to the release of these cards.
A rumor and a dubious one.
Nobody knows.
Kind of sounds like a bum card to me. The MSI I'm particular shouldn't have any coil whine due to the 6+2 phase power delivery. Its one of the selling points of the card
I don't think you'll see amazon have any stock for awhile due to them letting you still order while out of stock. They'll just keep sending out new stock as they get it in until they catch up with demand. Best bet is to just order it from them and they'll ship it when they get it. My guess is under a week. Newegg has already gotten stock in a few times.
SneakyStephan
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Seriously? That is 'mouse smoothing and negative mouse acceleration on by default in ue3' levels of baffling
nvidia guy who decided on default blur:
Go on defend it anyone, I will fight you
Ehm since when is that normal?
I've been playing cs un vsynced and running older benchmarks and older games unvsynched for years, 300-500 fps,several gpus over the years.
I've neverrrrrr had coil whine and never even heard of that being a thing
BrokenEchelon
Banned
I will help you fight them. I'll bring a knife.
Ravijn
Member
and my axe?
TC McQueen
Member
The rumor seems a bit too good to be true, but if you're not going to get the card(s) until then, it wouldn't hurt to see if it comes true.
CloudyTuba
Member
Seems to be doing the exact opposite of your suggestion!
It only whines when at extremely high FPS, so basically just old games that are too easy for it. I'm talking 300+ fps. VSYNC fixes it.
Since its a new computer I dont have much on it yet. Only game I was able to test was Transformers War for Cybertron and I do not get coil whine in that game even with VSYNC off. Im going to try Skyrim cranked up shortly.
Kind of sounds like a bum card to me. The MSI I'm particular shouldn't have any coil whine due to the 6+2 phase power delivery. Its one of the selling points of the card
:/
DarkChronic
Member
Bit of a noob here - what should I use to "measure" my GPU temps? Saw an earlier post about someone playing Tomb Raider and his card getting hot.
How hot should it get until I should be worried?
How hot should it get until I should be worried?
GTX980 is just a more efficient design hence the better benchmarks! And its not worth upgrading if you already own a GTX780TI! Upgrading to a GTX980 when you own a GTX780TI is just foolish man!
Digital Foundry(graphics/tech website)
Codenamed GM204, the new Maxwell has two billion fewer transistors than the top-end GTX 780 Ti, and features a much narrower memory bus (256-bit vs 384-bit) and is physically a much smaller chip (398mm2 vs 552mm2). However, it carries more RAM and a much more efficient design actually sees it pull ahead of the prior Nvidia flagship.
lowrider007
Licorice-flavoured booze?
Awesome news, mine should be arriving in the morning, how are you finding the fan noise?
Felix Lighter
Member
I've had these 2 GTX 970 sitting in my dining room, mocking me, since monday.
Never said normal, just common. I've seen plenty of people complain about this happening while running at a extremely high framerates. My old 680 got some while running the laptop benchmark or something in 3Dmark but never in anything else that stressed the GPU.
jim2point0
Banned
I would agree that if you have a 780TI, there's no point to upgrade (unless you bought it in the last 90 days)
Hmm so there might be a 980Ti and 20nm 390X coming soon?
980Ti and Titan X end of this year
20nm 390X 1H 2015
Of course that site is about as trustworthy as a legendary engram.
980Ti and Titan X end of this year
20nm 390X 1H 2015
Of course that site is about as trustworthy as a legendary engram.
If anything of that is true, it's most likely the Titan that's coming. Doubt they would use the big maxwell chip for a 980Ti so soon. Titan at the end of the year and then a cut down Titan for the 1080 towards the end of next year seems more logical.
loool
is the AMD event not in some hours?
They even hinted VR stuff
But i cant find the exact time when this starts.
Last year at 25th September AMD had their GPU 14 event on Hawaii, where they announced the 2XX GPUs.
So pretty good chance for some new AMD GPUs if they have a new event exactly one year after the last event where they announced new GPUs.
crazepharmacist
Member
So Firestrike is the benchmark everyone is using? I'll have to download and run it tomorrow after work to make sure my 970 is running up to par.
FunkyMunkey
Banned
Scored ~9700 on the firestrike benchmark with a gigabyte 970 stock clock and an i5-2500K @ 4.3 ghz. I'll overclock in a couple days and try again to see how high I can get it.
Dusktildawn48
Member
Anyone know what the highest sli 970 firestrike score is so far?
