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MSI or Gigabyte GTX 970 Cooling?
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.
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a c 94 Î Nvidia
a c 248 U Graphics card
October 1, 2014 7:12:04 PM

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_97...

1050 Core boosts to 1178 (+128)
1140 Core boosts to 1279 (+139)
1325 Core boosts to 1501 (+176)
October 1, 2014 1:30:43 PM

JackNaylorPE said:
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.


Thats exactly what i thought. So to be honest Core clock isnt that important.
a c 94 Î Nvidia
a c 248 U Graphics card
October 1, 2014 8:39:12 AM

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.
October 1, 2014 2:59:02 AM

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


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?
a c 94 Î Nvidia
a c 248 U Graphics card
September 30, 2014 6:00:46 AM

It boost on anything that wants more "juice", just like the CPU.
September 29, 2014 11:31:27 PM

JackNaylorPE said:
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)


Yes but the cards boost at games anyways right?
a c 94 Î Nvidia
a c 248 U Graphics card
September 29, 2014 3:28:22 PM

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)
September 29, 2014 2:13:07 PM

JackNaylorPE said:
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_97...
http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/gigabyte_geforce_g...

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_97...
Quote:
Core Clock 1501 MHz
Boost Clock: ~1501 MHz
Memory Clock: 8002 MHz


http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/gigabyte_geforce_g...
Quote:
Core Clock 1328 MHz
Boost Clock: ~1516 MHz
Memory Clock: 8002 MHz


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


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?
a c 94 Î Nvidia
a c 248 U Graphics card
September 23, 2014 7:15:12 PM

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_97...
http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/gigabyte_geforce_g...

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_97...
Quote:
Core Clock 1501 MHz
Boost Clock: ~1501 MHz
Memory Clock: 8002 MHz


http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/gigabyte_geforce_g...
Quote:
Core Clock 1328 MHz
Boost Clock: ~1516 MHz
Memory Clock: 8002 MHz


Incredible overclocking card .... 43% OC !!!
a c 163 Î Nvidia
a c 428 U Graphics card
September 23, 2014 7:08:34 PM

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

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