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Nvidia Launches GTX 980 And GTX 970 "Maxwell" Graphics Cards ($549 & $329)

garath said:
You should have a code that you redeem through nvidia's site which in turn gives you a code to enter into uPlay which effectively pre-orders the game.
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I redeemed the code on Nvidia's website which gave me a promo code to enter when buying Far Cry 4 which reduced the price to 0. I bought the game and didn't get a code although I got an email saying that I need to click a link to download the game. Clicked the link there was no download as instructed, it just listed the game.
 
KINGofCRA5H said:
Any chances these go on sale for black friday?
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I wouldnt be totally shocked.......... actually yes I would. These things are selling so briskly that it makes little to no sense for them to offer sales. Don't be shocked to see 970s bundled with other random items though, newegg does this all the time on BF. Maybe a 970 and a rice cooker .
 
hoserx said:
I wouldnt be totally shocked.......... actually yes I would. These things are selling so briskly that it makes little to no sense for them to offer sales. Don't be shocked to see 970s bundled with other random items though, newegg does this all the time on BF. Maybe a 970 and a rice cooker .
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mmmmmmmm, tasty
 
SliChillax said:
I redeemed the code on Nvidia's website which gave me a promo code to enter when buying Far Cry 4 which reduced the price to 0. I bought the game and didn't get a code although I got an email saying that I need to click a link to download the game. Clicked the link there was no download as instructed, it just listed the game.
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Yep. That's about right. You've pre-purchased it through uPlay. That's UBI's storefront/drm/game portal/game overlay. You'll be able to download it through your uPlay account on release.
 
Just got my MSI GTX 970 OC Gaming edition.

Currently running Kombustor. Full GPU load. Fans kicked on appropriately. No coil whine. I feel like I won the lottery.

28 degrees idle, 54 at load.

Also this card is maaaaad quiet.
 
Mengy said:
With the way they are selling I doubt they go on sale. Which is why I ordered mine tonight!
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Same here. I'm getting my Gigabyte version tomorrow, any noob guide to overclocking it? What I should set it etc (sorry this must have been asked a 100 times)
 
Alo81 said:
Just got my MSI GTX 970 OC Gaming edition.

Currently running Kombustor. Full GPU load. Fans kicked on appropriately. No coil whine. I feel like I won the lottery.

28 degrees idle, 54 at load.

Also this card is maaaaad quiet.
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How the hell is this possible?
My same card stays at 59 idle and 68 max load.

And my room is cold as hell, what kind of cooling do you have?
 
lordfuzzybutt said:
How the hell is this possible?
My same card stays at 59 idle and 68 max load.

And my room is cold as hell, what kind of cooling do you have?
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Genuinely nothing fancy.

I have an intake fan at the front, two cheap exhaust fans on the top, and one exhaust fan on the back top. Other than the two cheap ones I got for like 5 bucks on a weird sale, all other fans just came with my computer. Also my PC is dusty and I should probably clean it out.
 
lordfuzzybutt said:
How the hell is this possible?
My same card stays at 59 idle and 68 max load.

And my room is cold as hell, what kind of cooling do you have?
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59 idle? That seems odd. 68 at load is alright but higher then most I'd say. I have 2. The one getting the best air maxes at about 60C the one getting limited warm air hits 70C.
 
Alleged specs of Nvidia’s GM200 GPU revealed: 50% faster than Titan Black

An unknown person has benchmarked an unknown graphics card using SiSoftware’s Sandra benchmark, according to online database of the program. Based on the specification of the hardware, the person benchmarked a graphics card powered by Nvidia Corp.’s code-named GM200 graphics processing unit. If the specs are correct, then expect graphics cards featuring the new flagship GPU to offer 50 per cent higher compute performance when compared to GeForce GTX Titan Black.

Based on an entry in the SiSoftware’s database, Nvidia’s GM200 graphics processing unit features 3072 stream processors, 24 streaming multiprocessors (SMM), 3MB L2 cache and 384-bit memory bus. If the architecture of SMMs and graphics processing clusters (GPCs) of the GM200 is similar to that of SMMs and GPCs of the GM204, then the chip sports 192 texture units and 96 raster operations pipelines. The graphics card based on the GM200 GPU features 1.1GHz/1.39GHz GPU frequencies as well as 6GHz memory clock-rate; the board is equipped with 12GB of GDDR5 memory.
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If the information in SiSoftware’s database is accurate, then graphics cards based on the GM200 will offer a dramatic performance advantage over existing GeForce GTX Titan Black graphics adapters thanks to increased efficiency of the Maxwell architecture (by up to 35 per cent per stream processor on shader-limited workloads), increased number of SPs (by 6 per cent) and amplified frequency (by 23.7 per cent).

It is expected that the first graphics cards powered by the GM200 graphics processors will emerge in the first quarter of 2015. It is interesting to note that the new graphics boards will compete against AMD’s Radeon R9 390X graphics adapters that are also projected to arrive in the Q1 2015.

Nvidia did not comment on the news-story.
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http://www.kitguru.net/components/g...m200-gpu-revealed-50-faster-than-titan-black/

original source: http://www.sisoftware.eu/rank2011d/...dbe6deeadbeedbfd8fb283a5c0a598a88efdc0f8&l=en

Radeon 390X with HBM vs Big Maxwell should be really good competition :)
 
Yay! my ASUS GTX 970 finally shipped. Is the free game promo voucher in the box or are they supposed to send me a code through an email?
 
zero shift said:
So if I buy this card now, then the price won't change?

This line of text confuses me:

Also is this a good buy? Is it worth spending the extra thirty or forty dollars for the other versions of this card?
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I think the EVGA card is fine. There has been a lot of reports about coil whine, but it's affecting almost every card from every other manufacturer except for Zotac. But I bet there are some Zotac cards that suffer from coil whine too. I'm not exactly sure why the price would change. I think that's their regular price. The card is not Super clocked or anything special, and it seems to be about the same price as reference 970's. But it's out of stock almost everywhere. You should also know that EVGA 970's seem to run hotter than other cards such as the gigabyte gaming g1 edition. I would say, you go for the gigabyte g1, it's $40 bucks more, but worth it, in my opinion. Also keep in mind that you're in for the coil whine lottery. Some cards have it, others don't. Best of luck.
 
Felix Lighter said:
Based on what I've seen and heard it's just a little higher than average I'd say but definitely fine. Ambient temps make a big difference as well.
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Well my idle temp is normal at 30, but the room is usually cold. The gpu is extremely close to the heatsink though, maybe that's a factor, not sure.
 
Trying to overclock my Asus 970 and hopefully eliminate coil whine, but I can't seem to change the core voltage. By that, I mean I unlocked voltage control in afterburner settings and it lets me change the sliders, but when I run benchmarks it still caps out at 1.200 and won't register the changes. I'm not sure how to tell if the power limit adjustment is working either. I was able to get a nice stable +150 OC on the core clock and +275 memory without changing any voltage, but I'm just not able to change the voltage for some reason. Anyone know what's up?

I've tried MSI afterburner as well as Asus GPU Tweak, but none of them seem to be able to actually change the voltage.
 
Gonna buy 970 come Black Friday. I definitely want to upgrade from the 760 after playing AC:U and then Witcher 3 next year.

Anyone know if places like Walmart and Staples sell GPUs? I don't have any computer parts stores in my city. I am in Canada.
 
Is it recommended to use AA with DSR?

I'm trying older games like Doom 3 BFG, Portal 2, Bioshock and trying to see how good I can get the image quality to look. I'm setting DSR at 3840x2400 (4x Native) downsampled to 1920x1200... How much AA should I add on top of that and what kind(s)? Nv control panel vs. in-game, etc.

I haven't messed with the Smoothness setting yet.
 
Naked Snake said:
Is it recommended to use AA with DSR?

I'm trying older games like Doom 3 BFG, Portal 2, Bioshock and trying to see how good I can get the image quality to look. I'm setting DSR at 3840x4000 (4x Native) downsampled to 1920x1200... How much AA should I add on top of that and what kind(s)? Nv control panel vs. in-game, etc.

I haven't messed with the Smoothness setting yet.
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Yes, more the better.

The in-game AA is applied to the large image when rendering, the DSR downsampling is done after that.
Even FXAA works quite nicely as the blur it introduces is smaller than pixel.

MSAA and such work nicely as well as they give more sub-pixel information.

Control panel AA should behave ni similar fashion, outside FXAA which might be added after DSR resolve. (Not sure as I haven't done any tests.)
 
JavaMind said:
No one knows nothing about PNY GTX 970? Is it a reliable brand?

What can i expect for OC on this one?
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00NH5ZNWA/?tag=neogaf0e-20
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Any particular reason why you want that one? For few dollars more you can have MSI gaming or G1 from gigabyte.. Galax seems great as well
That one should be fine as well , although i don't really know how good OC can you get and what temps should you expect. If you don't care about those things then i see nothing wrong with getting it
 
garath said:
It appears to be a bigger problem with the 970s. This is the first card type I've ever owned that did this across two different manufacturers too. Nothing to do with how quiet the cards are. The whine is unmistakable at high fps regardless of what fans are running. The buzzing might be masked by case noise.
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I had the same issues with 560TIs and 660TIs. Only changing my PWM made it less noticable so that I could live with it. Today I don't notice it anymore. Coil whine with the 970s is probably as good/bad as it ever was, it just gets a lot more attention (because the cards get a lot of attention).
 
Just a fast question, but is 8800 expected result for a MSI 970 and Intel i5-3750 ?

Thanks in advance.

Edit: It might help if I write that I was referring to results from the 3D Mark Fire-strike test :)
 
Felix Lighter said:
59 idle? That seems odd. 68 at load is alright but higher then most I'd say. I have 2. The one getting the best air maxes at about 60C the one getting limited warm air hits 70C.
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Pepiope said:
My 970 goes to 68 at max load with the factory OC. That's higher than usual?
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What brand do you have? I read some review and the MSI Gaming one (mine) have its fans stopped completely during idle and only move when it gets over 60. The guy in the review has his card running at around 59 during idle too. I may buy some more 140mm fans and see if it's better.
 
jfoul said:
HardOCP and Overclock forums have some stories. Most of these cases went from obnoxious coil whine to acceptable coil whine.
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I'd settle for acceptable. Are whine and buzz the same? I feel like I have two things going on, a high pitched whine at high framerates that is the common one, and a lower, louder buzz sound that takes place whenever the card is at load.
 
Awntawn said:
I'd settle for acceptable. Are whine and buzz the same? I feel like I have two things going on, a high pitched whine at high framerates that is the common one, and a lower, louder buzz sound that takes place whenever the card is at load.
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This was worst case scenario with my ASUS 970 Strix. Coil whine would change depending on the game. Ranging from Ticking, buzzing and really loud coil whine that I could hear 10 feet away from my case. While playing Borderlands The Pre-Sequel the card noise was close to the video with v-sync on.

I returned the ASUS Strix and ordered a Gigabyte G1 Gaming. I'll follow up when I get the card either this week, or monday.
 
Yep, got my third Gigabyte G1 970 (this one's the 1.1 revision as compared to the 1.0 of the first two) and it's got the same buzzing. The only difference I noticed about the thing is it's inner box says "G1 Gaming" instead of "Gigabyte" and it uses Hynix instead of Samsung RAM.
 
I posted this on the new pc thread but I figure it might be more appropiate here.

So, I just upgraded my 2500k to a 980 card (from a 570) and everything seemed fine except... something funny happened.

Benchmarks are ok, temperature low, not noisy at all, but I get this weird blue dots flickering across the screen in black/grey backgrounds (such as Steam for instance). And what's funny is this: it only happens @120Hz via DVI, when I set a 60Hz refresh with the same cable or switch to HDMI the dots go away.

PSU is a Corsair TX850, I think that should be plenty? Could it be the cable (even though it was working just fine with my 570) or does it sound more like my 980 is faulty?

Any help is appreciated!
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Yup. Same one I've been using with my 570, also 1080p@120hz without problem.

I've done some more tests, the problem seems to be exclusively related to the refresh rate:

1920*1080@120hz: Blue dots
1680*1050@120hz: Blue dots
1920*1080@110hz: Blue dots, only less of them
1920*1080@100hz: Blue dots, and red dots too! (wtf?)
1920*1080@60hz: no dots, even under graphical load (Lords of the Fallen)

So, even though the cable does work with my old 570, I think it's worth a try to get another one and see if it fixes anything. If it doesn't then it is the card. Oh well. Gonna get me some sleep now :P
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What do you guys think? Has anyone seen something like this happen before? Will try the cable thing after work.
 
jfoul said:
This was worst case scenario with my ASUS 970 Strix. Coil whine would change depending on the game. Ranging from Ticking, buzzing and really loud coil whine that I could hear 10 feet away from my case. While playing Borderlands The Pre-Sequel the card noise was close to the video with v-sync on.

I returned the ASUS Strix and ordered a Gigabyte G1 Gaming. I'll follow up when I get the card either this week, or monday.
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I have a replacement coming from Amazon. I love their replacement policy. Don't have to send the old one back for 30 days, so I won't have to be without a card while waiting for the new one. I can handle the whine, that seems to only be prevalent during insanely high framerates that I don't run into during gaming. It's the buzz that annoys the hell out of me.
 
Awntawn said:
I'd settle for acceptable. Are whine and buzz the same? I feel like I have two things going on, a high pitched whine at high framerates that is the common one, and a lower, louder buzz sound that takes place whenever the card is at load.
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No, whine and buzz are not the same. Buzz, you get always. The more the card is forced to work, the more buzz. Depends on the game and the clocks and your PWM. Whine you get with every card with very high framerates. Whine is actually the loud one. The buzz is just the normal noise it makes when it's working...like a fan makes noise when it's spinning etc.
 
Thrakier said:
No, whine and buzz are not the same. Buzz, you get always. The more the card is forced to work, the more buzz. Depends on the game and the clocks and your PWM. Whine you get with every card with very high framerates. Whine is actually the loud one. The buzz is just the normal noise it makes when it's working...like a fan makes noise when it's spinning etc.
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No way, I can't believe that. How can this be possibly considered acceptable as an industry standard?

Unless what I'm experiencing is beyond so-called "normal" parameters. In my case, the buzz is louder and more annoying than the whine. It's like I'm living under a power line.
 
Awntawn said:
No way, I can't believe that. How can this be possibly considered acceptable as an industry standard?

Unless what I'm experiencing is beyond so-called "normal" parameters. In my case, the buzz is louder and more annoying than the whine. It's like I'm living under a power line.
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It's definitely beyond normal with these GPUs for some people. Almost all GPUs have some sort of coil whine, but it's usually never this loud. Return it until it's acceptable. Obnoxious coil whine should never be accepted by the consumer.
 
Alo81 said:
Just got my MSI GTX 970 OC Gaming edition.

Currently running Kombustor. Full GPU load. Fans kicked on appropriately. No coil whine. I feel like I won the lottery.

28 degrees idle, 54 at load.

Also this card is maaaaad quiet.
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I feel incredibly lucky as my card isn't showing (well sounding) any forms of coil whine at this time. Perhaps I should actually buy a lottery ticket...

Plus I sold my pick your path code for £25 making the card effectively £245.
 
CyanideFuse said:
I feel incredibly lucky as my card isn't showing (well sounding) any forms of coil whine at this time. Perhaps I should actually buy a lottery ticket...
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I hope I'm as lucky as you, my card shipped last night and I'll have my superclocked EVGA 970 in two days according to the Newegg tracker. I'm anxious to see if I get a whiny card or not.
 
Hey guys, I'm in need of a little advice.
Basically my rigs currently is made up of:

Intel 4670 (not K)3.4 GHz
8 GB RAM
EVGA 760 GTX

Now, I'm considering buying a 970 GTX but the thing is, I'm not sure if I should buy one now or wait until the next series.

I'm going to be gaming at 1080p, I'm willing to turn down settings to get 60 FPS, I'll even lock it to 30 if 60's not possible. Is it really worth getting a 970 now or is it worth waiting until the next series to get the best value I can get there?
 
lordfuzzybutt said:
What brand do you have? I read some review and the MSI Gaming one (mine) have its fans stopped completely during idle and only move when it gets over 60. The guy in the review has his card running at around 59 during idle too. I may buy some more 140mm fans and see if it's better.
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I have the gigabyte g1 gaming. If your card does stay passive until 60C then its not surprising. I'd imagine if that's how it is designed then it must be safe.
 
lordfuzzybutt said:
What brand do you have? I read some review and the MSI Gaming one (mine) have its fans stopped completely during idle and only move when it gets over 60. The guy in the review has his card running at around 59 during idle too. I may buy some more 140mm fans and see if it's better.
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My MSi on idle sits at about 30c-35c.

In fact, that's what it's at right now. Fans don't go on unless the card starts getting used. I've monitored it pretty consistently, and it really does work perfectly as advertised for me.
 
Felix Lighter said:
I have the gigabyte g1 gaming. If your card does stay passive until 60C then its not surprising. I'd imagine if that's how it is designed then it must be safe.
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Yeah that's what I figured, I've been gaming heavily and the card never got past 70 even under OC, so I don't really mind.

Thoraxes said:
My MSi on idle sits at about 30c-35c.

In fact, that's what it's at right now. Fans don't go on unless the card starts getting used. I've monitored it pretty consistently, and it really does work perfectly as advertised for me.
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Now that is much better, I want that. But how?
 
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