Thanks for the reply. in other words, I just don't touch it, right? Noob here.

not good combo.

upgrade your CPU soon.

my Core i5 760 on stock bottlenecks even the AMD R9 280X on Full HD. I had to OC it to some 3.2ghz onwards just to barely close the gap (a frame or 2).

Anyone hv msi gtx 970 bending in their rig? First time encounter such problem.

Ok wat. I've played the game till the final mission and left it as it is because I had to go away for work.

Running it on ultra on a R9 290x with a little bit of OC seems to be enough for me. Tolerable enough for me not to install both my GTX 980s and just continue playing.

Not sure is it because of MSI skipping on the back plate. So far my Strix 970 is holding nicely.

yeah, the clock speed matters.

the new generation like Sandy / Ivy / Haswell series are a lot faster, when it comes to base and TB speed.

yeap. but i wonder what DSR bought to us and the impact on the performance.
nvm, its just Down-sampling with nicer nick
read few comment and user with below 780 unable to activate the dsr

btw.. im confusing selecting the dsr factors  need help here 

edit : some of my games look blurry

Using zotac 970 amp omega, so far no issues but temp is definitely on the higher side compared to other brands but nothing to worry about. (not aircond room)

Noise is quiet during idle and does fairly well under load. (the card under load is quiet compared to sapphire 6870 on idle)

No coil whines in any games i've played so far except for when i'm exiting unigine heaven 4.0.

I'm interested in how zotac will honour its 2 years extended warranty after the 3 years local warranty expires. 

Wonder how much will it cost.Still though,4GB more than enough for 1080p.

so now you are saying that why games today suddenly surge over 10-20GB plus in sizes from the standard 4GB sizes 10 years ago is because of uncompressing textures?

Then 4GB isn't enough? I'm fine not playing with AA MsxAa Or whatever it's called.

Got my Gainward 970 reference.
Quick question: I know that the housing is made of plastic, and when I first turned my pc on yesterday, it had the slight hint of "burnt plastic", and I THINK its coming from the gc because I could vaguely smell it coming from the card when I first opened it in its packaging. Its more obvious now when its running.

Is this normal ? Anyone with the Gainward 970 reference can testify here ?
Maybe its "new hardware" so need to wait before the smell goes away by itself ?

No problems in games though, temps hovering around 50-60. Tried dota 2 so far, and redownloading battlefield 4 and Metro Last Light now.

after 2 months of intensive testing,,,i have finally convinced the 770 will choke like crap at 1440p in all HIGH/ULTRA games haha dang it

jump the gun 2 soon i guess

had i known it is crap in 1440p,,,i would have wait a year longer then  

Sell off your gtx760 , get a gtx970 straight away if you have enough of budget after selling off your gtx760 , gtx970 delivery slightly lower performance than gtx780 and it is the best choice of budget , for me i prefer Windforce gigabyte edition , 3fans and silence, blue lightning  LED with the word Windforce .

so how about gtx780ti compare with gtx980? Issit worth to upgrade from 780ti to 980?

by using 80+ 500w psu , could i take gtx980?

Hmm... since DSR was introduced into the drivers, I have been trying some of my current games to use 4k resolution; thus far only "F1 2014" (benchmark at 1080p: average 101fps, at 4k: average 40fps) and "Diablo III" the smoothest.

Recently tried 4k on "CoD: AW", it almost does it, but there is a constant 'loading'; possibly due to my 680's 2G memory buffer limitation, it is however smooth sailing at 1080p.

Here's hoping that the upcoming 970/980 with higher VRAM would be (finally) be a worthwhile upgrade to my 680 2G.

At 1920x1080 FXAA, it runs exceptionally well, can say no major hitches or slowdowns of any kind. "Shader Preload" Turned On and "Shader Preload During Cinematics" Turned Off, the rest turned maximum / Turned on. Load time about average 2 minutes (4k resolution, haven't check time for 1080p). Memory usage close to 5.0Gb RAM during 4k gaming    My system is i7-870 4Ghz, 8Gb mem, Palit Jetstrm 680 2G.

Crashes? Hmm... not really. I don't get that not enough memory issue as well. Perhaps you need to update graphics driver (344.60).

dear friends, thanks for the feedback.

I won't buy gsync monitor. no money.

so means I have to v sync. is it better to choose adaptive vsync in Nvidia experience or in game?

repeat question: is there a way to force my card to display only at 60fps?

thank you in advance.

You should see D3 in real 4K. The in-game text is sooo sharp