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Gigabyte GTX980 for 340€ (429$) - a good purchase? Replacing a GTX285 that finally gave up the ghost.
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Oct 3, 2014 10:13
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Welmu posted:Gigabyte GTX980 for 340€ (429$) - a good purchase? Replacing a GTX285 that finally gave up the ghost.  It might be! 
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Oct 3, 2014 10:29
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Those who are saying they can play at ultra res textures in Shadow of Mordor with a 970 GTX, are you actually installing the optional high res texture pack that actually makes ultra different to high? Only ask because whilst the benchmark on my 970 GTX gives good results on ultra in QHD or even 4K. If I actually try to play the game and turn the camera or something the game will freeze for a second whilst I assume it's loading new textures making it virtually unplayable if fighting. Only fix for me is to put the textures to high and play at HD.
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Oct 3, 2014 10:47
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DarthBlingBling posted:Those who are saying they can play at ultra res textures in Shadow of Mordor with a 970 GTX, are you actually installing the optional high res texture pack that actually makes ultra different to high? Yeah, that is with the texture pack installed. I get the momentary stuttering when I first start the game and swing the camera to look around from atop the tower, but once I get going I have no issues.
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Oct 3, 2014 10:52
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Diviance posted:Yeah, that is with the texture pack installed. I get the momentary stuttering when I first start the game and swing the camera to look around from atop the tower, but once I get going I have no issues. For me it won't stop no matter how far I get into it
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Oct 3, 2014 11:11
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ElBrak posted:It might be! edit: unless this is a moot point since all 980s are reference models. Welmu fucked around with this message at 11:46 on Oct 3, 2014 |
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Oct 3, 2014 11:18
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DarthBlingBling posted:Those who are saying they can play at ultra res textures in Shadow of Mordor with a 970 GTX, are you actually installing the optional high res texture pack that actually makes ultra different to high? Not having this issue on dual 970s either. Can you load up GPUz and look at how much memory is being used by your GPU while playing the game?
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Oct 3, 2014 11:59
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DarthBlingBling posted:For me it won't stop no matter how far I get into it What CPU do you have?
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Oct 3, 2014 12:36
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Diviance posted:What CPU do you have? Monitoring programs show I'm using all the memory and I'm using a i3570k @4.2GHz and 16GB RAM
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Oct 3, 2014 12:52
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DarthBlingBling posted:Monitoring programs show I'm using all the memory and I'm using a i3570k @4.2GHz and 16GB RAM Well, then I haven't the slightest. Are you using the 344.16 drivers that came out after the 970/980's got released? Unless maybe it is the speed it is loading the textures from the HDD is insufficient, so it stutters more often?
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Oct 3, 2014 13:06
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I just updated from 331.x to 344.x and not only did I lose my custom resolution of 3264x1836 but after reentering the same settings, it wouldn't past the test, so I had to rollback an hour and luckily my custom res was back. Nvidia's DSR looks good on paper but I hear it can make the screen blurry, where as using a custom res does the same thing with out making it blurry.
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Oct 3, 2014 13:17
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Diviance posted:Well, then I haven't the slightest. Are you using the 344.16 drivers that came out after the 970/980's got released? Latest drivers yeah. Will try moving onto my SSD later to see if it helps at all
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Oct 3, 2014 13:33
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DarthBlingBling posted:Latest drivers yeah. Will try moving onto my SSD later to see if it helps at all Just for comparison's sake... i7 4790k 16GB DDR3 1600Mhz GTX 970 500GB Evo 840 SSD That is what I am running it on and I don't get the stuttering except right at first. I seriously doubt the CPU could make that big of a difference but the speed of the SSD with RAPID enabled might?
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Oct 3, 2014 13:42
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Doctor Albatross posted:Is this new 9 series worth an upgrade for somebody with a 6 series? I'm strongly considering it, but a friend suggested I could just get another 660ti and go for SLI. They seem kinda hard to find locally, though, and I know SLI can be a real bitch. Unless you have a GTX780(ti) right now, a 9 series card is absolutely worth the upgrade. Don't bother with SLI 660tis.
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Oct 3, 2014 14:21
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Welmu posted:Mainly I'm wondering if Gigabyte also cuts corners on the design/circuitry/components of their GPUs like they do on (some) of their motherboards. Unless nVidia's GreenLight-program put a stop to that poo poo. Anecdotal but I've resold about 20 Gigabyte branded R9 280x/290/290x, both reference and custom, from a friend who mined cryptocoins, not a single one had any issues and one that I probably hosed up myself by tightening a Kraken G10 to a bit too hard, I still got Gigabyte to RMA no problemo but just putting the original cooler back on, needing nothing but the serial number on the card. So, no nightmare stories from me, they're pretty solid. That was on cards without a Greenlight so I can only image these are even better.
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Oct 3, 2014 15:35
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Gwaihir posted:Unless you have a GTX780(ti) right now, a 9 series card is absolutely worth the upgrade. Don't bother with SLI 660tis. Definitely. SLI and Crossfire are only worth dealing with if you're shooting for power that you can't possibly achieve with a single, better card.
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Oct 3, 2014 15:43
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$365 780ti http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814500322&ignorebbr=1&cm_re=PPSSQDHSRSYXWN-_-14-500-322-_-Product EMCWPPG33 coupon code
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Oct 3, 2014 16:16
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Gwaihir posted:Unless you have a GTX780(ti) right now, a 9 series card is absolutely worth the upgrade. Don't bother with SLI 660tis. Yeah. It would be mega dumb to double down on a two-generations-old card to get less performance out of a more finicky setup. I hope we see a GM210 part eventually. Kinda feels like we should be able to skip a repeat of Fermi where they put the chip out and couldn't actually run it at the time because of process issues, and it took them another generation to basically just do that one card without having to kneecap it so it wouldn't burn through the PCB. The 28nm node is well enough understood; I just hope nVidia sees sufficient reason to actually put out a higher performance product this generation. They have consistently nailed the "this is exactly good enough" thing, plus running on a leaner product stack lately from a fabrication standpoint. They -rock- this efficiency stuff. If system requirements are about to see a ridiculous uptick, I expect them to at the very least react quickly. If you look at the RAM amount on their top end cards, it has pretty much always been enough for the useful life of the product. I still think it's silly season with some of these games, and I have no goddamned clue why some devs apparently feel it is necessary to have 4-6GB worth of textures and other assets resident, but I don't make this crap I just play 'em and want to turn up sliders 
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Oct 3, 2014 16:16
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Factory Factory posted:Here, read this bajillion page article to get enough background to really understand why SLI is both really cool and trash at the same time. G-sync/Freesync is supposed to stop micro stuttering though, at least in theory anyways.
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Oct 3, 2014 16:29
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Welmu posted:Mainly I'm wondering if Gigabyte also cuts corners on the design/circuitry/components of their GPUs like they do on (some) of their motherboards. Unless nVidia's GreenLight-program put a stop to that poo poo.
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Oct 3, 2014 16:50
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Who makes the nVidia and ATI / AMD branded cards, anyway? I've had 2 ATI branded cards in my life, an X800 Pro and a 5850, and I see nVidia branded cards at Best Buy for $40 more than they should cost.
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Oct 3, 2014 16:57
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My Gigabyte 570 came with a stock BIOS with a broken fan curve. The minimum fan speed on it was 70%, which was INSANELY loud with that three fan cooler. Gigabyte did helpfully provide a fixed BIOS, but it took a lot of digging to find it. Even with the fixed BIOS it is a loud motherfucker. The cooler is more than capable however. I've since dumped, modded, and reflashed the BIOS to have the fans go to 10% at idle, and it still runs chilly. The fans still have a distinct rattle at low speeds unfortunately. I'm considering modding passive idle mode onto the card, just to get the experience of the 900 series cards it'll soon be replaced by.
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Oct 3, 2014 16:58
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Khagan posted:G-sync/Freesync is supposed to stop micro stuttering though, at least in theory anyways. It's supposed to stop tearing and general motion stuttering from rendering at a framerate that doesn't evenly divide the monitor's refresh rate. Without extra frame-timing logic, G-/FreeSync can still microstutter. That said, microstutter has been addressed a lot with such frame-timing logic over the past couple of years. Twerk from Home posted:Who makes the nVidia and ATI / AMD branded cards, anyway? I've had 2 ATI branded cards in my life, an X800 Pro and a 5850, and I see nVidia branded cards at Best Buy for $40 more than they should cost. I think historically it has been PNY for Nvidia (their Quadro partner) and Powercolor for AMD. Not really sure if that's changed.
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Oct 3, 2014 17:02
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I just ordered an out of stock MSI 970 gaming card from amazon. Is it worth it to leave my gtx 560 non-ti card in for physx? Are the fan issues with the msi confirmed or just rumors?
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Oct 3, 2014 17:14
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r0ck0 posted:I just ordered an out of stock MSI 970 gaming card from amazon. Is it worth it to leave my gtx 560 non-ti card in for physx? Are the fan issues with the msi confirmed or just rumors? I can confirm that I had issues, but in my case they seem to have disappeared.
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Oct 3, 2014 17:37
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I remember someone posting that SLI 970 is going to work on a 650w power supply. Now I read this from guru3d.comquote:Here is Guru3D's power supply recommendation:
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Oct 3, 2014 22:43
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r0ck0 posted:I remember someone posting that SLI 970 is going to work on a 650w power supply. Now I read this from guru3d.com That doesn't even make sense. A modern high quality power supply can run 100% load without issues and sli 970 in their scenario wouldn't even break 450w, and thats probably measured at the wall which means the psu load is probably 400-425w
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Oct 3, 2014 22:59
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Diviance posted:I went from an eVGA 670 FTW 2GB and it was a significant increase. I went from 40-ish fps on high 1080p to 50-60 on Ultra with Ultra textures at 1440p in Shadow of Mordor. This post is me exactly, but I went with the EVGA ACX 1.0. This thing is fast and being able to turn the textures up too was a big plus. The fans at 100% are quite loud but I had to manually put it there to see how loud it was because they haven't gone above 60% and temps have never broke 65 so far with the automatic fan profile. Really happy with this purchase and I am going to be selling my old EVGA 2gb 670 FTW now. If anyone wants it pretty cheap(120?) PM me I'm gonna put it on SA mart soon. I think it's time to get one of those Korean 1440p displays.
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Oct 3, 2014 23:13
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So my fresh-drivered no-PhysX-installed MSI 970 just had a stopped driver on *Hearthstone*, despite doing 2+ hours of Wolfenstein New Order without a hiccup. EDIT: Make that BIG HEADLINE fucked around with this message at 00:30 on Oct 4, 2014 |
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Oct 3, 2014 23:32
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r0ck0 posted:I remember someone posting that SLI 970 is going to work on a 650w power supply. Now I read this from guru3d.com I've got 650w, SLI 970s. Mild overclock. Haven't really stressed them out yet, but I've run a few benchmarks and seen no problems.
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Oct 4, 2014 00:12
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Did this Asus card just come out or something? It doesn't show up when you filter in only the 980 cards, but I saw it when I was screening through all the new graphic cards and I'm ashamed to say that after convincing myself to wait until The Witcher 3 is out before getting a new card, I impulse bought the drat thing. I've heard goods things about the970 version of the strix, how good is the Asus 980 build compared to the other brands?
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Oct 4, 2014 00:15
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Don Lapre posted:That doesn't even make sense. A modern high quality power supply can run 100% load without issues and sli 970 in their scenario wouldn't even break 450w, and thats probably measured at the wall which means the psu load is probably 400-425w Even their numbers say 278 watts at full load + another 170 is 450 watts. Not sure why they recommend 800 after posting those numbers.
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Oct 4, 2014 00:19
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If a cord gets too close to one of those heat pipes on an MSI GTX 970, is there a chance it might melt?
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Oct 4, 2014 00:32
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DarthBlingBling posted:Latest drivers yeah. Will try moving onto my SSD later to see if it helps at all ive been playing with a 970 on ultra with it installed on my ssd. runs great at 1080p
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Oct 4, 2014 00:34
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Fallows posted:Even their numbers say 278 watts at full load + another 170 is 450 watts. Not sure why they recommend 800 after posting those numbers. A lot of guys as far as power supplies go recommend whatever you need x2 purely on the basis of "the more watts your PSU is capable of handling, the less it is stressed by the requirement of X watts." This can be true up to a point, but a lot of people tend to vastly overestimate what you need to put into the power supply that will handle its requirements with ease over a long period of time. Plus, as far as recommendations go, you're generally always safer over recommending then under recommending. The cost of under recommending tends to be a lot higher. GreatGreen fucked around with this message at 00:44 on Oct 4, 2014 |
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Oct 4, 2014 00:35
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Skwee posted:ive been playing with a 970 on ultra with it installed on my ssd. runs great at 1080p Yeah me too, but the issues arise when I play at QHD which other people seem to have no issues with. Copying everything over to my SSD to see if it helps
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Oct 4, 2014 00:35
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Fallows posted:Even their numbers say 278 watts at full load + another 170 is 450 watts. Not sure why they recommend 800 after posting those numbers.
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Oct 4, 2014 00:37
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everythingWasBees posted:If a cord gets too close to one of those heat pipes on an MSI GTX 970, is there a chance it might melt? Not a chance in hell.
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Oct 4, 2014 00:39
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BIG HEADLINE posted:So my fresh-drivered no-PhysX-installed MSI 970 just had a stopped driver on *Hearthstone*, despite doing 2+ hours of Wolfenstein New Order without a hiccup. 
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Oct 4, 2014 00:54
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BIG HEADLINE posted:So my fresh-drivered no-PhysX-installed MSI 970 just had a stopped driver on *Hearthstone*, despite doing 2+ hours of Wolfenstein New Order without a hiccup. So you say you installed the MSI 970 after installing the EVGA 970? Because I did the exact same thing. I got my drivers from the nvidia website for the EVGA, and when my MSI came in, I just swapped them out and have been using it just like that with no problems yet. Mostly playing battlefield 4 and Shadow of Mordor so far. Seems like maybe a card problem instead of a driver problem? Not sure how you could test that though
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