GTX 980/970 Club

seanmac · Oct 4, 2014

Hey guys ! Very happy to have made the jump over to the Green Team. I'm incredibly impressed with my GTX 970 Galaxy reference card. In the next 3 weeks i'll add another for SLI .

Just installed the GTX 970 with the Kraken G10 on it. I've the Galaxy reference version. Because the pcb is so short the fan on the Kraken bracket turns out to be a ram cooler on my motherboard rather than the VRAMs on the GPU pcb

. The stock and very large VRAMs heat sink could stay on for this reason.

When aligning the pins on the backplate I used points 'C' (they are marked on the underside of the backplate). On the last pic you can see the stock VRAMS heatsink has been left on the card due to the layout and small size of the pcb after the bracket has been mounted.

I also had to loosen the the pin closest to the pcie cables so I could actually click and fix these into place. Once these were fixed in place I just hand tightened the pin again. I had also removed some of the padding (1-2mm) on the underside of the back plate. I believe that without having done this it would have made plugging in the pcie cables very difficult. This will differ from card to card though.

I'm using a Corsair H55 AIO mounted on the bracket and boy does this card run icy ! 1 hour of BF4 multiplayer and temps hovering around 47c-50c with the card @ 1500 MHz core and 1950 MHz memory !

What an incredible card this is ! Can't wait to SLI these babies !

Apocalypsee · Oct 4, 2014

Just gotr my MSI GTX 970 Gaming. Sweeet card. I don't really like that the fan shuts down at idle though.

seanmac · Oct 4, 2014

Here are some comparisons of an overclocked GTX970 vs GTX 980 in gaming performance

http://www.extremetech.com/computin...-gtx-980-performance-for-a-fraction-the-price

antuk15 · Oct 4, 2014

I've taken the cooler off my blower style card if anyone is interested to see the internals because as far I've seen there's no pictures any where to be found.

The actual heat sink itself is tiny!!

Thermal paste was also on stupidly thick and has now been replaced with Notua NHT

The pictures can be found here

rtwjunkie · Oct 4, 2014

antuk15 said:
I've taken the cooler off my blower style card if anyone is interested to see the internals because as far I've seen there's no pictures any where to be found.

The actual heat sink itself is tiny!!

Thermal paste was also on stupidly thick and has now been replaced with Notua NHT

The pictures can be found here

Wow, that's a lot of TIM!!

droopyRO · Oct 5, 2014

seanmac said:
I'm using a Corsair H55 AIO mounted on the bracket and boy does this card run icy ! 1 hour of BF4 multiplayer and temps hovering around 47c-50c with the card @ 1500 MHz core and 1950 MHz memory !

What an incredible card this is ! Can't wait to SLI these babies !

What ASIC is your card ? mine is 79.9%. Thanks.

seanmac · Oct 5, 2014

droopyRO said:
What ASIC is your card ? mine is 79.9%. Thanks.

Sup droopyRO ? Hey man :laugh:

. My card's ASIC reads 81.6% . It's been a real treat so far coming over to the green team !

I'm going to flash a modified bios with higher voltage limits when I can get nvflash to work !
Are you thinking of getting a Kraken G10 bracket ? I remember you said they are hard to get in your country.

droopyRO · Oct 5, 2014

Nope i went for a Gainward Phantom 970, it is quiet and with boost it reaches 1392 Mhz with no overclock, the temps are a bit high 80º C but at the moment i will stay with aircooling.

FreedomEclipse · Oct 5, 2014

droopyRO said:
Nope i went for a Gainward Phantom 970, it is quiet and with boost it reaches 1392 Mhz with no overclock, the temps are a bit high 80º C but at the moment i will stay with aircooling.

if you were gonna watercool somewhere down the line i would have just gone for the cheaper reference cooler design

MilkyWay · Oct 5, 2014

Alright i'm going to purchase a 970 in the next week or so, just wanted some advice on if there are any cards/brands to avoid like EVGA?

FreedomEclipse · Oct 5, 2014

MilkyWay said:
Alright i'm going to purchase a 970 in the next week or so, just wanted some advice on if there are any cards/brands to avoid like EVGA?

Stick with MSI cards, Great cooling & very overclockable. Asus Strix is pretty good too but people have a love hate relationship with Asus CC

MilkyWay · Oct 5, 2014

Anyone got an opinion on the Zotac GTX 970, i can only find crap about the AMP! edition.

EDIT: leaning towards an
MSI GTX 970 GAMING Twin Frozr V

seanmac · Oct 5, 2014

droopyRO said:
Nope i went for a Gainward Phantom 970, it is quiet and with boost it reaches 1392 Mhz with no overclock, the temps are a bit high 80º C but at the moment i will stay with aircooling.

Nice card and great boost clock !

Frag_Maniac · Oct 5, 2014

The Giga 970 has best cooling, best parts, best performance, best support.

I see lots of people claiming the MSI has best cooling, but in tests it loads at 68c, and the Giga at 60c, and I've seen this verified by people whom have bough them.

The Giga has a full alu backplate and shroud, and a triple fan oversize HS. It's frickin 12.3" long. It should be obvious which would cool better.

Apocalypsee · Oct 6, 2014

Frag Maniac said:
The Giga 970 has best cooling, best parts, best performance, best support.

I see lots of people claiming the MSI has best cooling, but in tests it loads at 68c, and the Giga at 60c, and I've seen this verified by people whom have bough them.

The Giga has a full alu backplate and shroud, and a triple fan oversize HS. It's frickin 12.3" long. It should be obvious which would cool better.

True, my MSI loads at around that temps but not all cases can fit that gargantuan thing. To reduce temps it's as simple as making custom fan profile. With 70% fan speed load temps reduce from 68C to 56C and it's inaudible.

antuk15 · Oct 6, 2014

Guys can anyone upload me a copy of the Palit GTX970 BIOS, not the Jetstream version but the blower style version of the card please?

SteelStroke · Oct 6, 2014

Got a R9 295X2 for sale cheap. Since I got 2 980GTX's to replace that non HDMI 2.0 supporting POS AMD card.

64K · Oct 6, 2014

MilkyWay said:
Alright i'm going to purchase a 970 in the next week or so, just wanted some advice on if there are any cards/brands to avoid like EVGA?

I would recommend the MSI GTX 970 Gaming card. I've got one on back order. They are out of stock at Amazon and Newegg. They may be in stock elsewhere though. Demand for the 970 is very high right now because they are such a good deal for the money.

RCoon · Oct 6, 2014

antuk15 said:
Guys can anyone upload me a copy of the Palit GTX970 BIOS, not the Jetstream version but the blower style version of the card please?

Should've done a backup

Rule number 1 of flashing GPU BIOS's!

erixx · Oct 6, 2014

Yeah ^!

Anyway welcome to all the new and brave members!

antuk15 · Oct 6, 2014

RCoon said:
Should've done a backup Rule number 1 of flashing GPU BIOS's!

I did and it's saying it's corrupt.

Damn GPU-Z

Zoson · Oct 6, 2014

antuk15 said:
I did and it's saying it's corrupt.

Damn GPU-Z

Why do you want to go back? lol
Also, still only 4 GTX 980 biosses

antuk15 · Oct 6, 2014

Need to compare it to another bios.

FreedomEclipse · Oct 7, 2014

Decided to re-apply the thermal paste of my cards for shits and giggles on both my MSI cards. Id say i knocked about 5-10'c off because 10 runs of MetroLL benchmark with everything maxed and the highest temp was 65'c where as its normally 70-75'c.

I had a choice of some Arctic MX-4 or some Prolimatech PK-3, Ive ALWAYS used MX-4 so decided to give the PK-3 ago & results were more then satisfactory.

antuk15 · Oct 7, 2014

How do I submit a BIOS to the database?

erixx · Oct 7, 2014

Techpower Up! GPU-Z has the build in option to save it to your drive or the online database.
It is the tiny icon on the right side, besides the BIOS version number.

erixx · Oct 13, 2014

Futuremark Updates 3DMark (2013) with Ultra HD FireStrike Benchmark.... (http://www.techpowerup.com/downloads/2411/futuremark-3dmark-2013-v1-4-775/)

I feel we have some incoming jobs to do!

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GTX 980/970 Club

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