Nvidia Launches GTX 980 And GTX 970 "Maxwell" Graphics Cards ($549 & $329)

I get a game from that Pick Your Path promotion, how is Assassin's Creed Parity performing these days? Or should I get Far Cry 4?

Unfortunately I'm not into racing games so The Crew isn't a choice here.
 
Just baked in my overclock and disabled GPU boost by editing the bios and my overclock is finally stable in less demanding games. Feels good to not have to apply overclocks at start-up anymore.
 
Canadian here, I am considering the cheapest Zotac 970, it's the only 970 in stock under 400$, I only game at 1650, what do you say GAF?

I now have a zotac 970 gtx for half a week, and I am pretty happy with it. It is very small ,reasonably cheap and the performance is just fine. I upgraded from a zotac gtx 460 that I had for 4 years, never had any problems with it.
The temperatures are about 30 C normal, and 80 C at full load. More worried about my CPU that gets to 95 C in dragon age :(.
 
PSA: It looks like Best Buy has 970's with reference "Titan" coolers in stock now. Several of my nearby stores have them in stock! Price is kinda steep tho. Somebody on slickdeals claims they price matched off another 970 that was $315. If my dieing Radeon 7970 can't hold on then I'll likely be trying to get one of these babies.

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/nvidia-...lack/9855169.p?id=1219441201895&skuId=9855169

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Planning on getting parts this week, any reason NOT to get this aside from its price? Seems like everything else is sold out, too.
 
Planning on getting parts this week, any reason NOT to get this aside from its price? Seems like everything else is sold out, too.
If you plan to overclock it, you might want to dig up some reviews to see what kind of performance you get out of it. Fan noise might be an issue too, although I suppose you could setup a quiet fan profile for it somehow.
 
So, I'm planing on selling my Asus Strix GTX970 and getting 2 new 970s. Any news/update on which card has no or the least coil whine/buzzing?
 
So, I'm planing on selling my Asus Strix GTX970 and getting 2 new 970s. Any news/update on which card has no or the least coil whine/buzzing?
I don't think I've heard anything about coil whine from reference 970s, so those might be a good option, especially if you're going to SLI them.
 
Bought a Galax 970 Black Edition for 340€. Tried Wolfenstein, Mordor and DA: Inquisition at 1080 high/ultra; first has some dips every now and then, Mordor is solid 60fps and DA:I stays on 50fps with a few drops at 45fps.

Highest temp was 52C (during benchmark) and on idle is around 30. Fan is silent and it doesn't seem to have coil whine.

Considering my last nvidia was a Matrox mx 440 and that I'm coming from a 7850 I'm quite happy with the results.

 
Bought a Galax Black Edition for 340€. Tried Wolfenstein, Mordor and DA: Inquisition at 1080 high/ultra; first has some dips every now and then, Mordor is solid 60fps and DA:I stays on 50fps with a few drops at 45fps.

Highest temp was 52C (during benchmark) and on idle is around 30. Fan is silent and it doesn't seem to have coil whine.

Considering my last nvidia was a Matrox mx 440 and that I'm coming from a 7850 I'm quite happy with the results.
Have they improved their warranty registration? Because whenever I got Galaxy cards in the past, I kept finding that their warranty registration page didn't exist.
 
Got a reference PNY 970 for the build I am shipping to Poland for a fellow gaffer. I was utterly surprised and pleased with not only the noise from the reference fan but the temperatures on top of the obvious performance gains from even a 770. In my opinion, as power efficient as these cars have become, I would not hesitate to recommend a reference design card when they barely even hit 62C even on heavy games. & I did run it with some maxed out, physics, super sampled Metro last light just to test its muscle. Very impressive.
 
FC4 on pc is a disaster. the ps4 version is superior. go with unity or the crew, they are the least broken.

I can't tell if serious or joking. FC4 is much better than Unity. I'm not sure about the crew, but you can actually max out FC4 with a 970, something you can't do in Unity without having a very variable framerate.
 
I can't tell if serious or joking. FC4 is much better than Unity. I'm not sure about the crew, but you can actually max out FC4 with a 970, something you can't do in Unity without having a very variable framerate.

im serious. FC4 on pc is a shimmering, noisy, aliased and stuttery mess.
 
FC4 on pc is a disaster. the ps4 version is superior. go with unity or the crew, they are the least broken.

I haven't experience any problems with FC4 on PC, It runs maxed out 60fps no prob with a gtx970, the game looks georgous.

If so by just having a FOV slider the pc version it is far superior to the ps4 version IMO. The console version horseview angles that's pretty rough.
 
Am I right in thinking the G1 gaming is the best 970? Saved about half for it so far, can't wait to get it.
 
So, I'm planing on selling my Asus Strix GTX970 and getting 2 new 970s. Any news/update on which card has no or the least coil whine/buzzing?
Just anecdotal but I went from an EVGA FTW (RMA'd three of them actually) to the MSI Gold Edition and there's a marked difference. It runs cooler, faster, and much quieter. I'd describe the FTW's coil buzz as "light" which I could probably only hear because my PC is otherwise silent. Can't hear the MSI unless I open the case and put my ear next to it, and it might actually not do it at all anymore. Virtually silent. I'd assume other MSI cards are similar. I can't recommend EVGA after going through three, even though their CS was super helpful.
 
Picked up the reference 970 as well. Pricematched it with the reference 970 available on Newegg (only available in a bundle on there).
 
PSA: It looks like Best Buy has 970's with reference "Titan" coolers in stock now. Several of my nearby stores have them in stock! Price is kinda steep tho. Somebody on slickdeals claims they price matched off another 970 that was $315. If my dieing Radeon 7970 can't hold on then I'll likely be trying to get one of these babies.

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/nvidia-...lack/9855169.p?id=1219441201895&skuId=9855169

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Well I'm late to seeing this. Can anyone explain to me why this is so good to have the premium on it?

Is the Titan reference cooler that good?
 
Well I'm late to seeing this. Can anyone explain to me why this is so good to have the premium on it?

Is the Titan reference cooler that good?

If you have a small case or a case with bad air flow it's actually the best GTX 970 you can get since it pushes hot air out of the system. Also the PCB is nVidia reference design.
 
FC4 pc doesnt even support 16:10 resolutions...the game is abysmal. i either have to upscale or play with black bars. sheer brilliance

Assassins Creed has not supported anything other than 16:9 since the first one.. So...

Wait, I have a 16:10 monitor and I noticed that I can't seem to get the games to display properly but I thought it was a problem in my end... So even when a game offers 16:10 in its options it can be broken?
 
Just anecdotal but I went from an EVGA FTW (RMA'd three of them actually) to the MSI Gold Edition and there's a marked difference. It runs cooler, faster, and much quieter. I'd describe the FTW's coil buzz as "light" which I could probably only hear because my PC is otherwise silent. Can't hear the MSI unless I open the case and put my ear next to it, and it might actually not do it at all anymore. Virtually silent. I'd assume other MSI cards are similar. I can't recommend EVGA after going through three, even though their CS was super helpful.

I was actually looking at the FTW! Thank you for telling me this. I'll look at the others instead the Gold is so ugly >_<
 
Wait, I have a 16:10 monitor and I noticed that I can't seem to get the games to display properly but I thought it was a problem in my end... So even when a game offers 16:10 in its options it can be broken?
When I used to game with a 16:10 monitor, I used a program called Flawless Widescreen that got rid of black bars and let me change FOV options. It might be worth a shot.

On a side note, if a game offers a 16:10 option, it should work. But that's only my experience.
 
Well I'm late to seeing this. Can anyone explain to me why this is so good to have the premium on it?

Is the Titan reference cooler that good?
Its not that the cooler is *that* good(though its perfectly fine), its that it works differently than most of the non-reference design coolers that have fans that blow down. If you have two(or more) GPU's, having the top cards blowing down on the other ones is obviously not good as its blowing hot air at the bottom cards and also limits the amount of room for the hot air to dissipate, reducing the cooling potential of the top card as well. The Titan cooler blows out the side of the card, out of the back of the case.

The reference cooler doesn't seem to be the absolute best solution for single card cooling, but is definitely preferable in an SLI situation.
 
That hyperbole, but whatever... abysmal it is..

It's not hyperbole. Not having 16:10 support is some bush league shit. I don't have a 2560x1600 monitor to play at some peasant resolution with black bars.

(now THAT is hyperbole)
 
Wait, I have a 16:10 monitor and I noticed that I can't seem to get the games to display properly but I thought it was a problem in my end... So even when a game offers 16:10 in its options it can be broken?

Yes, unfortunately lots of games have stopped properly supporting 16:10 resolutions, and you'll get black borders instead of filling the entire screen. This includes most 2D games, everything recent from Telltale and Ubisoft, amongst others.
 
Yes, unfortunately lots of games have stopped properly supporting 16:10 resolutions, and you'll get black borders instead of filling the entire screen. This includes most 2D games, Telltale and Ubisoft.

I don't really mind the black bars actually, as long as I'm getting the correct aspect ratio and my GPU is not working any harder than rendering 1080p. I had just assumed that if a game offer 16:10 then it would fill the screen, and when I saw black bars I thought something was wrong and I kept quitting and fiddling with control panel settings. At least now I can rest knowing it's working how it's meant to.
 
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