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Well I just ordered an EVGA GeForce GTX 970 4GB Superclocked ACX from a place in Canada that says they have stock. The website said 21 and then a few min later it said 15 so we'll see if they actually ship me one. I'm upgrading from a 660 that just wasn't cutting it for my Oculus Rift DK2.
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I have a GTX970 on the way. Think it's worth keeping my GTX660 for PhysX? I wouldn't think so but I'm going to try it before I sell the old card anyway.
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Sep 21, 2014 22:19
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Agreed posted:Worth it in what sense? Well the newest game I have is the Asscreed one with pirates and I think it does PhysX. I have Borderlands 2 as well so I guess that's two games  Anyway I just want to see if it makes any performance difference at all, or say, better than 5% or something. I'll just sell it if it doesn't do my system any good. I think it's worth maybe $100 but that's probably going to drop now that the new cards are out.
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Sep 21, 2014 22:41
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I checked with pcpartpicker and went through the list. I think they only shipped 50 cards to all of Canada and they are all the EVGA ACX models.
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Sep 24, 2014 21:11
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Alright, my 970 has arrived. I have a GTX660 in my computer right now. Any benchmarks anyone wants to see done comparing the 660 to the 970, and then also using the 660 as a dedicated Physx card? I have Borderlands 2 and Assassin's Creed 4 that use Physx. If there are any free benchmarks I'll run them too.
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Sep 25, 2014 18:23
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NarDmw posted:That'd be useful for me. I have the same cards and was wondering the benefits vs the heat and noise cost. I think a 2nd hand 660 can go for like $80 Well so far I've put the new card in just to make sure it works. My old GTX660 non-ti was a blower and my new card is the EVGA 970 superclocked ACX 1.0 model that everyone says to avoid. I can't hear it at idle. My computer was fairly quiet before and it's under my desk but now it's nearly silent. I think I can hear a case fan or maybe it's my PSU fan now. Before I heard the blower fan all the time. I'm going to try it under load and see how it is.
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Sep 25, 2014 18:51
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Agreed posted:Here are two free ones to get some more numbers on the table for everyone interested: Thanks, I'll try and do some good testing later. First impressions: At idle it's very quiet. I ran GeForce Experience and went with the graphics settings it wanted for Assassin's Creed 4 at 2560x1440. While I was playing the game it was very smooth and I noticed no slowdowns and the game looks fantastic. I couldn't hear the card over the in game sounds. After I quit the game the fans were still spun up and it was about as loud as my old card was at idle. If you have ordered an EVGA ACX card and can't return it don't sweat it, it's fine. I reserve the right to change my mind later after more testing of course. 
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Sep 25, 2014 19:03
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I ran PLA with everything set to max at 2560x1440 and got this: 970 Only:  I ran FluidMark using the 1080 preset and got this: 970 Only:  Then I overclocked the core 100MHz and ran FluidMark again and got the exact same result. I noticed the benchmark was locked to 60FPS and it didn't stress the card very much. It was only pulling 50% TDP.
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Sep 25, 2014 20:03
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I forced VSync off in the drivers panel. That made a big difference. It also made the fans spin up pretty good. They still aren't a problem though. I'll do proper testing now.
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Sep 25, 2014 21:11
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This is the highest stable core OC I can get. I haven't touched the memory yet. After the break I'll put my 660 in and see what that does.
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Sep 25, 2014 21:41
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This is with my 660 pulling Physx duty. I had to lower the OC on my 970 a little bit to get it stable with 2 GPUs. Neither of them are running at 100% so I think I'm CPU or memory bound or something with two cards. Also don't believe all of the scores on the FluidMark site. An error happened and I got this:  But the fluid was not being rendered. My 970 shot to 100% when that happened. Maybe if you had a really high end compute card doing all the Physx you could get that.
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Sep 25, 2014 22:20
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Okay testing PLA at 2560x1440 with everything set as high as it will go: GTX970 only:  GTX660 doing the PhysX GTX970 doing the rendering:  I'd say in some cases it's worth having a dedicated PhysX card, but man just being able to play games cranked up at 2560x1440 is great either way.
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Sep 25, 2014 22:41
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Rime posted:I forgot to add that it's going in ITX / M-ATX, fixed. That's still insane.
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Sep 26, 2014 17:49
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I don't know if I've got a freak card but I have the EVGA ACX 970 and I haven't heard any whine from it.
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Sep 26, 2014 22:20
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If you go for the 1440 then for sure. Maybe nvidia will make a 960 sometime soon that would be better for 1080p but who knows.
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Sep 28, 2014 17:13
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Panty Saluter posted:That's a good read. Seems like DSR is a pretty decent option if you're on a "low-res" display. I just tried DSR set to 1.5x in Borderlands 2. I have a 2560x1440 monitor and all the other settings are at max. I get good frame rates and it looks amazingly smooth. The picture quality is something else.
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Oct 2, 2014 03:14
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To add to this, I have the EVGA card that people are saying is too loud. I've used it since I got it with the side of my case off and I have never heard coil whine from it. I've actually got my 660 in there still from when I was testing Physx with it and the 660 has the louder fan 90% of the time. It's not a bad card and if it fits use it. You can probably find a marked down one if you look hard enough with all the people blowing this out of proportion on the internet. I'm not an EVGA fanboy. In fact I have historically preferred to use ATi cards because of Canadian pride. I've had a lot of cards from different manufactures over the years and this time around the 970s are all so good that the 'worst' one is better than 99% of cards you could have bought a month ago.
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Oct 5, 2014 12:39
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This may be a crazy question, but I have a 2560x1440 monitor and a GTX 970. I've been playing Elite but it doesn't seem to have anti-aliasing that works. If I use DSR the I get really really bad framerates. Is there a way to use a DSR mode for 1080p with a non-1080p monitor? It only gives me multiples of the monitors native resolution.
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Apr 28, 2015 02:19
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I've only changed settings in the NV control panel and it didn't seem to do much of anything. In game ranges from jaggies to sparkly jaggies when I change settings. I'll go read up on injectors, thanks.
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Apr 28, 2015 14:58
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Mikojan posted:Guess I'm behind the time I used a 660 with my 970 when it first came out and it made physx benchmarks give bigger numbers, but it was dumb so I sold it to my brother.
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May 11, 2016 13:16
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makes sense that all the stuff I see about dedicated physX are dated articles and videos
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They should put a mini bus bar running up the inside of the back of the case next to the expansion card slots.
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Oct 24, 2022 23:53
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Dr. Video Games 0031 posted:Buildzoid has his own take on the 12VHPWR issue: This makes way more sense to me. I saw someone blame the solder and I thought that was dumb right away. If that was the case the wires would be overloaded and get hot, not the terminals.
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Oct 28, 2022 15:28
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Some of the adapters have low quality terminals that don't make good connections with the pins. The bad connection has higher resistance which leads to overheating and melting. That's what I'm betting on anyway.
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Oct 31, 2022 01:16
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That's not good. The other thing that was pointed out before was that the 8 pin power connectors could handle 300w each but are only tasked with 150w to provide a wide safety margin, while the new power connector could handle ~680w but is being used at 450w to 600w, which is a much lower safety margin. I think that in the end it's just going to be down to manufacture tolerance, slight user errors, and any other little things that add up to make it easy to melt a cable because the margin for error has been removed. When you have a high resistance connection it heats up, but it also causes more power to flow through the other terminals that managed to make a connection. I think the real solution is to just have more pins so there is a fall back for the amount of power trying to go through if there are one or two bad connections.
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Nov 4, 2022 14:49
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Got an RTX 3060 Ti to replace my GTX 1070. There was a pretty good early black Friday deal. Now I get to run all the cool ray tracing and AI cuda stuff everyone has been playing with.
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Nov 11, 2022 20:18
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istewart posted:I just went from 1070 -> 3080 myself. I don't think I actually have anything in my library that can tax the 3080 yet. Maxed-out Elden Ring for a few minutes didn't even make the fans come on (and then it crashed, but I don't think that was a GPU problem). The 1070 has been a good card. I have two kids that are old enough to enjoy a decent video card so I'll be doing the computer parts shuffle and pass the 1070 down and move the 970 from one kid to the other. That should make them happy as they are using AMD APUs at the moment.
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Nov 11, 2022 21:12
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I've had my RTX 3060 Ti for a day now and I'm really impressed with the productivity speed up over my GTX 1070. Blender is way faster now. I can't imagine what it would be like to use a 4090. Those things would be worth every penny if you were being paid.
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Nov 16, 2022 13:40
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Apparently the connector doesn't really click when you plug it in. GN showed a clip of what looked like a cable being almost all the way in and then coming loose when they wiggle the cable around. I can see someone putting the card in, not quite getting the connector seated, and then carrying their PC back to their desk and the big honking mess of cables pulling themselves back out a bit.
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Nov 16, 2022 19:36
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GN goes into pretty good detail. There is more than one way there could be a problem, but only one where they themselves made it melt. The video is well worth the watch. I love GN for this kind of deep dive and actually getting to the bottom of things.
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Nov 16, 2022 19:42
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If the sense pins were shorter then the card would shut off when the connector isn't fully seated, which would be great. I guess they didn't think to do that because the old 8 pin connectors have a much more positive seating feedback, and also maybe they fall all the way out easily if the clip hasn't engaged so they don't get a chance to heat up and melt. I don't know. Maybe they didn't think of any of this when they designed the thing. Right now at least we know the melting is rare, and how to deal with it going forward. It's user error, but the connector enabled that user error IMO.
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Nov 16, 2022 20:00
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mdxi posted:I'm also a big fan of the 3060 Ti after having picked one up ~2 weeks ago. Nice.
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Nov 16, 2022 21:00
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I will admit at first I thought there must be something seriously wrong with the connector as I never would have thought someone could be so clueless about plugging something in.
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Nov 19, 2022 04:39
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There is a very specific upside to the LHR models though. LHR are my wife's initials and she was amused enough by that to buy me a video card. She was kind of sad the box didn't have LHR prominently displayed though. Hope this helps!
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Nov 25, 2022 09:50
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I turned RT on in Cyberpunk 2077 and while it doesn't look a lot better, it does feel more real after playing for a while. The lighting just triggers something in my brain that says what I'm looking at isn't fake, not as fake anyway.
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Au Revoir Shosanna posted:i don't remember all the details and this probably isn't the thread for it but iirc there was also a controversy with some in game advertising that crudely sexualised trans people and when called out their social media guy gave a really poor response This is closer to what real people were actually upset about. The problem was pretty much that CDPR put trans content in the game and marketing and patted themselves on the back over it when what they actually did was pretty off-putting to a lot of trans people. I'm not sure it was ever a huge deal but it came off as exploitative and ill thought out more than anything. I do like Cyberpunk 2077, but it's still buggy even after all the fixes and the game will never live up to what people expected. It has some good missions and story elements but as an open world it feels like it's missing quite a bit.
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