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Lemming posted:MSI 970 seems to be back in stock on Newegg as of this post, I just ordered one
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Sep 24, 2014 22:03
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Newegg has the Asus 980 in stock. As these are all reference models am I correct in assuming the only thing I'm losing out on this vs. an EVGA is the step up program?
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Sep 24, 2014 22:14
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I upgraded my old 6970 to a Gigabyte Gaming G1 970. Conservatively I'd say it's at least 2 to 2,5 times faster just in 1920*1200. A shame I mostly play Wasteland 2 right now. Idle temp of 33c is kinda sweet.
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Sep 24, 2014 22:21
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Hope this is the right place to ask. I'm looking to upgrade my old GTX560 with a 970, would my PSU be able to support it or not? Currently using; -Corsair TX650 80+ Bronze CMPSU-650TX (http://www.corsair.com/en-gb/tx650w). -i5-4670k Intel CPU. -Gigabyte Z87-HD3 Motherboard
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Sep 24, 2014 22:22
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I think it actually has a slightly lower TDP, so yes.
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Sep 24, 2014 22:26
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Whee, I just made a new email account on Newegg with a new premier trial and snagged two MSI 970. I think on my SLI micro ATX board I'm going to use a couple of those PCI riser ribbon cables people have left over from bitcoin mining so that I can lift the cards and spread them more.HoboWithAShotgun posted:Hope this is the right place to ask. I'm looking to upgrade my old GTX560 with a 970, would my PSU be able to support it or not? You'll have at least 300 watts of breathing room, but your TX is probably reaching the risky end of it's life span so keep that in mind. Zero VGS fucked around with this message at 22:45 on Sep 24, 2014 |
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Sep 24, 2014 22:42
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Lemming posted:MSI 970 seems to be back in stock on Newegg as of this post, I just ordered one Thanks. Just ordered this. I should be getting all my parts today including the EVGA 970 that I will be returning. Is there a way to cancel an RMA so that I can create another RMA on the same item (it didn't update the RMA to remove the restocking fee that I don't have with this free premium trial since I got the trial after creating the initial RMA)
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Sep 24, 2014 22:50
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Anti-Hero posted:Newegg has the Asus 980 in stock.
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Sep 24, 2014 23:02
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Rastor posted:Thanks for the heads up, they also got in some stock of the ASUS 970 STRIX. Not sure why I didn't get the in-stock notification I signed up for, but I've got one ordered now. I signed up for notifications twice on one of the things, and both times it came in stock I wasn't notified.
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Sep 24, 2014 23:22
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GreatGreen posted:Found this link on Neogaf. It's a readout of all the major online vendors and their GeForce GTX 970 carrying status. In Stock, Out of Stock, or Taking Preorders. Thanks for this. Grabbed and Asus from newegg.
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Sep 24, 2014 23:27
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Anti-Hero posted:Newegg has the Asus 980 in stock. As these are all reference models am I correct in assuming the only thing I'm losing out on this vs. an EVGA is the step up program? Well if it ever has issues EVGA is a hell of a lot easier to work with than ASUS for RMA. Also, for those of us who watercool, EVGA won't instantly void your warranty for removing the cooler. Speaking of ASUS, is the STRIX a 3 slot card?
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Sep 24, 2014 23:30
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Zero VGS posted:You'll have at least 300 watts of breathing room, but your TX is probably reaching the risky end of it's life span so keep that in mind. You think so? I got it about 3 1/2 years ago and it's been a good PSU to date. Do PSU's give any warning signs before giving up the ghost? Thanks anyway, thought it would be enough for a 970.
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Sep 24, 2014 23:37
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Why does every graphics card on Amazon ship to Australia except for the MSI 970, the only card I want right now. Cheapest in an Aussie store is like $519. Even the blue budget MSI version ships, and I bought my MSI 780ti off Amazon.
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Sep 24, 2014 23:37
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Probably a matter of which warehouse has what atm
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Sep 25, 2014 00:09
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Had a strange issue with MSI's 970. After couple of hours the VRM fan apparently went full tilt, only I don't think you can see the speed of it anywhere so I had to take the side off and inspect every fan to find out which one it was. It continued to spin at full speed even after a reboot and manually changing the speed in Afterburner. Only a complete shutdown managed to stop it. The main GPU fan was idle and all temperature readers from GPU, CPU and motherboard were in the mid 30s. I hope this isn't going to be a recurring issue. Hamburger Test fucked around with this message at 00:19 on Sep 25, 2014 |
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Sep 25, 2014 00:16
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Just bought an MSI 970 the second I noticed it was in stock (hadn't been here yet)  Now I just need to find some more graphics intensive games to play to justify it :P I'll be selling my EVGA SC 760 w/ ACX on SA Mart for $160 shipped as soon as the new card arrives, if anyone is interested in one.
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Sep 25, 2014 00:24
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I don't know if this is an issue with the MSI 970 or Nvidia's drivers, but on my Windows 7 machine, my PC now automatically restarts as soon as my monitor goes into sleep mode. I'm connecting it using DisplayPort, and I know Windows 7 has issues with it. On my old AMD card, I'd sometimes get a corrupted screen or the monitor not responding after bringing it out of sleep, but it never restarted the entire PC. Anyone else have a similar issue when using DisplayPort?
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Sep 25, 2014 01:03
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Lowered my MSI 290xes to the frankly ridiculous price of $280 shipped each or $540 for both, I know they're not the new hotness, but they're certainly some kind of hotness (waste heat)! http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3667123
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Sep 25, 2014 01:43
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Lemming posted:MSI 970 seems to be back in stock on Newegg as of this post, I just ordered one Well looks like I will have mine Friday. So what are the odds AMD's announcement tomorrow will be a card or cards that at least match the GTX 9X0 series? I like to support the underdogs and AMD needs all the help it can get.
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Sep 25, 2014 03:09
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I think I forgot to mention this, but re-reading the spec pages for the GeForce 970 and 980, it seems that they can only support four displays despite having five outputs. Blah.
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Sep 25, 2014 03:15
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BurritoJustice posted:Why does every graphics card on Amazon ship to Australia except for the MSI 970, the only card I want right now. Cheapest in an Aussie store is like $519. Even the blue budget MSI version ships, and I bought my MSI 780ti off Amazon. Newegg ships to Australia too I'm pretty sure. Maybe try there? You'd probably be hosed if it had a problem though.
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Sep 25, 2014 04:22
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The Lord Bude posted:Newegg ships to Australia too I'm pretty sure. Maybe try there? You'd probably be hosed if it had a problem though. I spent a couple hours trying all my different options. Newegg is way out, 60-70USD for shipping, whereas Amazon is 7-11USD. Amazon support has also been fantastic to me in the past so I'm definitely biased towards there. I might just wait it out (rocking a single 570 at 1440, low settings in everything) and see if it changes, or wait for the MSI 980s 
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Sep 25, 2014 04:33
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How long till someone unlocks the 970 into the 980? Also, there was an article on TPU saying that MSI was saving the Lightning edition for a bigger card. Everyone there is assuming that said card will be GM200 in which case launch will be Q1 2015 probably. Khagan fucked around with this message at 06:27 on Sep 25, 2014 |
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Sep 25, 2014 06:25
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Quanta posted:I don't know if this is an issue with the MSI 970 or Nvidia's drivers, but on my Windows 7 machine, my PC now automatically restarts as soon as my monitor goes into sleep mode. I'm connecting it using DisplayPort, and I know Windows 7 has issues with it. On my old AMD card, I'd sometimes get a corrupted screen or the monitor not responding after bringing it out of sleep, but it never restarted the entire PC. Try another cable, if possible - this happened to me last time I swapped cards, the screen would just disconnect randomly. It never rebooted though...
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Sep 25, 2014 06:51
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Khagan posted:How long till someone unlocks the 970 into the 980? nVidia isn't known for their generous policy toward folks trying to unlock their poo poo. They make with the laser pretty aggressively. Remember... Anandtech's GTX 780 Review posted:At the same time because NVIDIA has gone from disabling 1 SMX (Titan) to disabling 3 SMXes, GTX 780’s GPC count is now going to be variable thanks to the fact that GK110 packs 3 SMXes to a GPC. GTX 780 cards will either have 5 GPCs or 4 GPCs depending on whether the 3 disabled SMXes are all in the same GPC or not. This is nearly identical to what happened with the GTX 650 Ti, and as with the GTX 650 Ti it’s largely an intellectual curiosity since the difference in GPCs won’t notably impact performance. But it is something worth pointing out. Zap. I feel like nV knows they can roll this stuff out at a more measured pace and get the most market value for it, whether they're sitting on their punches or not; AMD seems more likely to produce the poo poo out of chips and leave it up to the user to decide if they want to try for more than a 10-20% overclock... Agreed fucked around with this message at 07:21 on Sep 25, 2014 |
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Sep 25, 2014 07:19
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Gigabyte GTX 970 road trip report: Pros: - Stable overclock of 1540mhz (core) and 8000mhz (memory) - 65 degrees under 100% usage synthetic benchmark. - Actually quiet in synthetic benchmarks. Cons: - The fans are quite loud when idle. The fans can't spin below ~1500RPM. - My card has coil whine when under load but I reckon it would be fairly inconspicuous in a more closed case.
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Sep 25, 2014 10:31
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I'll do a trip report with the EVGA GTX 970 SC ACX 1.0 I suppose: Didn't overclock at all, played one of the games I play most often (War thunder) at movie (Meant for recording gameplay, rather than playing) settings (Aside from stuff I turn off simply because I do not like it, like motion blur, lens flare, grass, and post processing AA [which I don't like mostly because it feels/looks like it just blurs the poo poo out of everything]) played at over 100 fps, looked way better than I remember it looking on my old system, probably the particle effects/density. HWmonitor says max temp was 66 degrees celcius, but I also played ArmA III afterwards, and I am reading the max temp after having done that. So I am not sure which game made the temp higher. Arma III ran pretty drat well at max. The sound of the card (which I guess is the biggest complaint) isn't actually bad, at least compared to my old card which was the AMD HD 5870, this card seems quieter. I mean I didn't even notice it. Also it is a lot cooler than my old 5870. Often times my 5870 would idle at 70+ Celsius. This thing hasn't even gone over 66 max while playing pretty drat demanding games (Arma 3) didn't do any benchmarks, but idk. I need to go to bed. All I did was put together the computer, get the drivers, download 2 games on steam, and then just play them for a bit. I will still be returning the EVGA card though. I can hear it (or maybe some other fan in my PC) while idling, and I would like to experience what it is like to have near-silence while just browsing/ not doing gpu intensive things, after having had the AMD HD 5870 for the last 5-ish years.
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Sep 25, 2014 10:47
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Installed my Asus 970 (HD6950 & catalyst software, good riddance!) and games seem to run at 60FPS, even Minecraft with Seus Ultra shaders  You can make custom fan profiles with msi afterburner if you don't like the default profile.Idles around 40C with fans off, a bit under 70C when playing. I'll probably look at overclocking later, altough it doesn't feel like it's really neccessary. Can't hear any coil whine or other funny stuffs. My cpu (3,4GHz i7 920) is probably bottlenecking the GPU, but not sure if the bottleneck is severe enough to mandate spending $$$$ for new haswell-e and parts.
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Sep 25, 2014 12:34
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Ihmemies posted:Installed my Asus 970 (HD6950 & catalyst software, good riddance!) and games seem to run at 60FPS, even Minecraft with Seus Ultra shaders why would you be spending $$$ on haswell-e in any case? The platform isn't intended for gaming. You'd only need to spend $, on Haswell.
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Sep 25, 2014 12:38
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Ihmemies posted:My cpu (3,4GHz i7 920) is probably bottlenecking the GPU, but not sure if the bottleneck is severe enough to mandate spending $$$$ for new haswell-e and parts. Never for gaming are the extreme parts worth it. A 4790K would literally be better than any Haswell-E part because the clock speed is higher, and single thread performance still outright rules the roost in gaming terms. Obviously if we're talking about overclocking you can make the E exceed the clocks of high end Devil's Canyon, but we can't exactly guarantee that, and you'd still be spending money you did not get any benefit from.
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Sep 25, 2014 12:43
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Chafe posted:Gigabyte GTX 970 road trip report: This makes me want to cry. Just ordered the same card, and in Japan it is apparently impossible to cancel an order.  God I hope I won't regret buying the Gigabyte card over the MSI. drat thing costs 500$ here. 
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Sep 25, 2014 13:26
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Well poo poo. I took the plunge and ordered a pair of STRIX 970s three days ago, and the distributor just emailed me that due to a general shortage, they can only get my cards in two+ weeks. Thanks, Eastern Europe.  Another distributor I looked at only had EVGA 970s and a single STRIX 970. All of them were gone literally within an hour.
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Sep 25, 2014 15:10
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Ihmemies posted:Installed my Asus 970 (HD6950 & catalyst software, good riddance!) and games seem to run at 60FPS, even Minecraft with Seus Ultra shaders The ASUS card uses higher end components for power delivery so it's actually impossible to get any coil whine on it I think. That's one of the nice thing about the ASUS and MSI versions. Also, yea, the ole -920 is going to bottleneck you a bit, but almost certainly not to the point of changing anything from "playable" to "unplayable." If you do anything aside from gaming that's CPU limited it's probably worth an upgrade.
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Sep 25, 2014 15:20
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All these people worrying that their i7s will bottleneck them. I'm still running an i5 2500k (stock clock). Pretty sure I'll hit a bottleneck in most stuff. 
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Sep 25, 2014 15:30
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AirRaid posted:All these people worrying that their i7s will bottleneck them. I'm still running an i5 2500k (stock clock). Pretty sure I'll hit a bottleneck in most stuff. I think its just the architecture itself thats getting a bit old and slower now, not the i7 or i5 part. It is like 6 years old at least I think
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Sep 25, 2014 15:33
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AirRaid posted:All these people worrying that their i7s will bottleneck them. I'm still running an i5 2500k (stock clock). Pretty sure I'll hit a bottleneck in most stuff. If you overclock that 2500K, it will be in the same ballpark as a 4690K.
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Sep 25, 2014 15:42
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1gnoirents posted:I think its just the architecture itself thats getting a bit old and slower now, not the i7 or i5 part. It is like 6 years old at least I think Made with 45nm process. The newest haswell-e is at 22nm Ran 3dmark, got a bit under 9300: http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/4153837 Looking at reviews they get like 10-11K with current processors. Of course gaming is not the only thing you can do with a 6core. But since the stuff I do is just a hobby I haven't minded the wait times too much.
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Sep 25, 2014 15:47
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Twerk from Home posted:If you overclock that 2500K, it will be in the same ballpark as a 4690K. But that means finding a decent cooler and  . I'll not bother unless it becomes a huge problem.I did specifically buy the 2500k with the idea of OC it to get more life later on though.
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Sep 25, 2014 15:48
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Ihmemies posted:Made with 45nm process. The newest haswell-e is at 22nm I just meant comparing i7 and i5 across different architectures doesnt mean much, not that a 920 is bad or slow. Although from everything ive come across you would benefit from an upgrade, at least for gaming, but if you're happy why bother.
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Sep 25, 2014 15:52
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AirRaid posted:But that means finding a decent cooler and  cmon son you get a good cooler when you buy the machine, and OCing a 2500k is as simple as changing one number. Regardless, a 2500k has tons more lasting power than Nehalem does at this point.
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