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Started by Dawis67_AE | | 26 answers
Which aftermarket Nvidia GTX 970 is the best?
GTX has been hype for lot of people this week. Because of lack of videos on youtube and my bad google searching skills i didnt find much about aftermarket 970.
So my question is following, What is the best aftermarket Gtx 970 for overclocking.
So far i have seen Gigabytes G1 970 get up to 1600mhz OC.

Second question. How do i overclock Gigabyte cards?
As far as i know gigabyte doesnt have anything like MSI Afterburner or EVGA precission. How do people overclock Gigabyte cards? Reason is i dont really like BIOS. They use fancy words there that i dont understand and i am afraid to mess something up.

Edit:
Also one more question. I heard my friend saying not so good things about Gigabyte products. He says that people he knows havent had good experience and that Gigabyte cards are often buggy and stuff like that. Is it true or not? Maybe its just here in Norway internet stores cant handle GPUs. IDK

So yeah, ty for help.
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October 20, 2014 2:02:03 PM

Dawis67_AE said:
It turns out reason i get low FPS is that my RAMs Pagefile usage is overloaded sometimes. But when i get it to work decent i get stable 60FPS (FPS stays at 60 and sometimes goes down to 58 or up to 61 but its rare)

GPU is amazing. My MSI overclocked to 1400mhz and i am not so good overclocker so i am sure i could push more.


It can do 1500MHZ easily..The range between 1500 and 1600 is where it gets tricky and unstable, but 1500 is a safe spot. Just make sure to bump the memory up with the core 450-500 should do. Oh and you don't have to touch the voltage.

Run a benchmark program like heaven 4.0 just to make sure there are no artifacts.
October 17, 2014 8:22:50 AM

Well I never had Asus, though the build quality looks great on the Asus. I would say gigabyte slightly wins out of the other 2. The card feels much more high end with the backplate and metal shroud. It cools better and oc better than the msi as well. As long as your case can fit it because it's very long... And you don't mind the blue led, I do prefer msi's white dragon led.
October 17, 2014 1:19:55 AM

It turns out reason i get low FPS is that my RAMs Pagefile usage is overloaded sometimes. But when i get it to work decent i get stable 60FPS (FPS stays at 60 and sometimes goes down to 58 or up to 61 but its rare)

GPU is amazing. My MSI overclocked to 1400mhz and i am not so good overclocker so i am sure i could push more.
October 16, 2014 11:02:45 PM

Guinibee said:
Yeah exactly how it is for me too dawis... Grats on the card! It really is an incredible bang for the buck

You have already tried MSI and Gigabyte so can you tell me please, what should I go with G1, MSI or Asus?

Thanks
October 16, 2014 9:14:06 PM

Dawis67_AE said:
BTW today i tried Crysis 3 on absolute max and i got about 30min 40avg and 50+ max. Is that good?


With what resolution and cpu?
October 13, 2014 11:31:48 PM

BTW today i tried Crysis 3 on absolute max and i got about 30min 40avg and 50+ max. Is that good?
October 13, 2014 11:29:57 PM

Yesterday ran Valley benchmark. For the first run it freaked me out that only 1 fan was spinning. I quickly opened the case and used my hand to help the fan to spin. After that i opened MSI afterburner and turned on and off the fan just to check if they were working now and thank god they were. Anyhow as i opened the case while benchmarking i think the buzzing was so hard that it had become coil whine. It wasnt loud or anything and i can hear it only when i open my case sidepanel.
October 13, 2014 7:08:28 PM

Well lets hope dual 970s will be a upgrade of one 290x
October 13, 2014 6:46:56 PM

Originally, the best non-reference was the MSi GTX 970 4G Gaming.
The Good:
>Sexy Box
>Sexy shroud
>High OC potential (depends with luck of the draw)
>It includes a sexy mouse pad
>1 x 6+2 pin sleeved cable
>1 CD Driver
>1 Magazine finished coloured Brochure
>1 Magazine finished coloured Guide
>It has facepalte matte black finished metal
The Bad

>shroud made out of plastic
>No backplate


But the demand for it right now is so high that every re-stock, the stock runs out immediately. This then forced the priced to go up so much so that its equal or more expensive than Gigabyte's G1 Gaming.

In the other hand, I have bought Gigabyte's G1 Gaming 970's.

The good:
>It has a full metal backplate and shroud
>Sexy box

The Bad:
>No CD
>had a cheap black and white paper guide
>had 2 x 2Molex to 8 Pin connector cheap non sleeved one's

:D 

I saw multiple video reviews of both cards at 1500mhz+ running stable with temps not going over 69 for the G1 Gaming and at 69-72 for the MSi. Both are good cards imo.
October 13, 2014 6:40:11 PM

Have a Msi Motherboard, Guess I will be getting a MSI 970 x2

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