I've been looking at getting one of these cards and am after some clarification on some of the specs.
Cooling
1.a Hybrid cooling would be nice which I understand MSI certainly has with the ability to allow the fan to remain ON at say 20% fan when the GPU has low usage by setting up a custom fan curve.
1.b I think I read somewhere that the Asus does not allow the fans to remain on and will always deactivate the fan when the temps are below a set level. Is this adjustable like the MSI with a custom fan curve or is there a fixed value like 50 degrees and the always switches off?
1.c As these cards are so efficient do I even need to worry about case cooling with any extra fans on the side/top/front?
1.d Any other recommended GTX 970's? EVGA/Gigabyte? (I dont think they have hybrid cooling)
HDMI 2.0
2.a MSI seems the most versatile for cooling but are all manufacturers confirmed as using HDMI 2.0? The specs listed on MSI website has varied over the weeks from if I recall correctly, initially listing 4K or HDMI 2.0 support on their main page, then removing this to show only HDMIx1.
And on their specs page only showing showing Max Resolution: 4096x2160 @24 Hz (UK) and Max Resolution: 4096x2160 @24 Hz (1.4a) & 3840x2160 @60 Hz (2.0) (US).
The fact they quote 4096x2160 @24 and both 1.4a and 2.0 separately seems to indicate that there are 2 versions with both standards as obviously HDMI 2.0 superceeds 1.4a so there would be no need to even mention it. EVGA & Asus both clearly mention HDMI 2.0 support but what about MSI?
2.b Does anyone know if any/all these cards use 4K@60 with full resolution 4:4:4 chroma information, or do they employ chroma subsampling.
Many Thanks
Cooling
1.a Hybrid cooling would be nice which I understand MSI certainly has with the ability to allow the fan to remain ON at say 20% fan when the GPU has low usage by setting up a custom fan curve.
1.b I think I read somewhere that the Asus does not allow the fans to remain on and will always deactivate the fan when the temps are below a set level. Is this adjustable like the MSI with a custom fan curve or is there a fixed value like 50 degrees and the always switches off?
1.c As these cards are so efficient do I even need to worry about case cooling with any extra fans on the side/top/front?
1.d Any other recommended GTX 970's? EVGA/Gigabyte? (I dont think they have hybrid cooling)
HDMI 2.0
2.a MSI seems the most versatile for cooling but are all manufacturers confirmed as using HDMI 2.0? The specs listed on MSI website has varied over the weeks from if I recall correctly, initially listing 4K or HDMI 2.0 support on their main page, then removing this to show only HDMIx1.
And on their specs page only showing showing Max Resolution: 4096x2160 @24 Hz (UK) and Max Resolution: 4096x2160 @24 Hz (1.4a) & 3840x2160 @60 Hz (2.0) (US).
The fact they quote 4096x2160 @24 and both 1.4a and 2.0 separately seems to indicate that there are 2 versions with both standards as obviously HDMI 2.0 superceeds 1.4a so there would be no need to even mention it. EVGA & Asus both clearly mention HDMI 2.0 support but what about MSI?
2.b Does anyone know if any/all these cards use 4K@60 with full resolution 4:4:4 chroma information, or do they employ chroma subsampling.
Many Thanks
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