MSI or Gigabyte GTX 970 Cooling?

PCBuilderMonster · Sep 23, 2014

It seems the Twin Frozr 5 is amazing, but so is Gigabyte's newer version of the Windforce. What cools better? Length of the Gigabyte doesnt matter for my case.

Gam3r01 · Sep 23, 2014

MSI has really stepped up their game on these cards. They cool amazing, even under passive cooling, and have very nice quality.

JackNaylorPE · Sep 23, 2014

MSI is usually 5 or more dBA quieter but this time they tied, at least in Guru3D review

http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/msi_geforce_gtx_970_gaming_review,10.html
http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/gigabyte_geforce_gtx_970_g1_gaming_review,10.html

But the Gigabyte ran cooler 68 versus 60 ... MSI usually runs warmer as that's how they keep the noise down but this time Giga did very well. In the thermal imaging tests, the Gigabyte topped out 20C lower than the MSI ... and incredible achievement.

However the MSi had a big win on core clock ... OTOH, Boost and Memory were almost identical.
http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/msi_geforce_gtx_970_gaming_review,26.html

Core Clock 1501 MHz
Boost Clock: ~1501 MHz
Memory Clock: 8002 MHz

http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/gigabyte_geforce_gtx_970_g1_gaming_review,26.html

Core Clock 1328 MHz
Boost Clock: ~1516 MHz
Memory Clock: 8002 MHz

Incredible overclocking card .... 43% OC !!!

Dawis67_AE · Sep 29, 2014

JackNaylorPE :

But i heard MSI has fan issues.
Correct me if i am wrong but core clock is the idle speed and boost clock is gaming or under load speed right? So it doesnt really matter that core is bigger?

JackNaylorPE · Sep 29, 2014

Core is the clock it is set out .... like 3.5 GHz on a 4690k and 4.0 om a 4790k (both will "boost" 0.4 Ghz higher)

Dawis67_AE · Sep 30, 2014

JackNaylorPE :

Yes but the cards boost at games anyways right?

JackNaylorPE · Sep 30, 2014

It boost on anything that wants more "juice", just like the CPU.

Dawis67_AE · Oct 1, 2014

JackNaylorPE :

So if i was playing Crysis 3 on core clock and there was this scene where it uses lot of GPU power, then it will go to boost clock? I mean its not gonna drop FPS?

JackNaylorPE · Oct 1, 2014

Just like your car, you want more power, you step on the gas, the car responds. If the game wants more power, the Boost 2.0 feature manages to clock bringing it up as far as it can within power and temp limits.

Dawis67_AE · Oct 1, 2014

JackNaylorPE :

Thats exactly what i thought. So to be honest Core clock isnt that important.

JackNaylorPE · Oct 1, 2014

When you bring up core clock, you bring up boost.

No. ore clock is important.... it's the place where the boost starts.

http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/msi_geforce_gtx_970_gaming_review,26.html

1050 Core boosts to 1178 (+128)
1140 Core boosts to 1279 (+139)
1325 Core boosts to 1501 (+176)

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