My cables are not touching either...

Double posted.

This post has been edited by rav3n82: Nov 3 2014, 02:50 PM

Anybody got their Gainward GTX9xx series?

While everyone keeps moaning about 8GB cards I'm enjoying mine. Since Maxwell II BIOS editor and nvflash is now mature enough I start to mod my VBIOS, now it runs max 1455.5MHz GPU Boost by default, without throttle and increased power limit to 250W default and max 300W. Rock stable, not testing for highest overclock but I done some testing with 1555MHz core and 8000MHz memory it's rock stable and only reaching 70C on Fire Strike. Best Card. EVER

Kinda of a golden piece

Not really, my ASIC quality is only 65.8% which is quite low. I surprised it can go that high

Yeyyah... 8GB variant of the GTX970/980 -- more tempting than ever to go Maxwell. Should have a GTX 980 Ti too (384bit bus width perhaps), maybe Q1 2015.

I know Nvidia will be cooking up 22nm Maxwell sometime in 2015... a long long wait. I'm confident Maxwell has a lot of magic yet to be revealed.

Also waiting for Maxwell's "Titan" (supposedly called "Titan II" GPU), not that I am going to ever buy, but just want to see some crazy high benchie scores and Nvidia's marketing of 'the most powerful card ever made' which I always enjoy.

It's the 20nm Maxwell that should be interesting.....not the current crop of 28nm stuff, whether or not with 8 gb...

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.

I don't have the Gainward, but worth checking if you peeled off all the plastic ? If you're too excited the thin film is easy to miss

you sure you didnt mistaken the smell as fresh electronic smell instead? (though burnt plastic smell is very obvious)

check to see if you did remove all the plastic films on the GPU

50-60C not enough to burn plastic afaik

Hey guys, I did peel off all the plastic before assembling it. Sorry I couldn't find the correct term to "label" the smell... I think "fresh electronic smell" is a more correct term compared to "burnt plastic".. haha. Lets see if its still there tonight. Was wondering if anyone's Gainward had the same "smell".

Will post some benchmarks later after work.. here's the system:
Core i5-4440 with Scythe Katana4
Asrock H97M-ITX/ac
Corsair Vengeance 2x4gb 1600 LP
Gainward GTX 970 ref
Silverstone Strider Plus 600w (80+ silver ver.)
Fractal's Node 304 white

This post has been edited by noob4life: Nov 5 2014, 03:41 PM

Ok, I think then it makes more sense. When I first unbox my Strix, it did have that new "electronic" smell too. Something similar to those "plastic" smell only available in new cars. Anyway, that smell is no longer there now. Can't be precise when it got away though, didn't go and sniff my rig... hahaha...

HiHi, im still in dilemma on choosing GPU, either 980 or 970 (both 4GB for time being), different around plus minus 10fps or maybe 20% in performance, but in term of money different around RM800. Any opinion guys?

980 if you have tons of money to blow, otherwise get the 970 for it's price to performance value lol. (Just my own opinion, sifus here please don't bombard me)

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/1355?vs=1351

If u want to spend more,get GTX980,the cheapest are the Gainward GTX980 Phantom and Palit GTX980 Jetsream,both at RM1999,you can get them from IdealTech. Else,stick with the GTX970.

The 970 for best bang for the buck. I weigh this option as well before making my purchase and also asked for advice here. Couldn't bring myself to blow 100% more of my budget for 20-30% more performance. And mainly I only game in 1080p at 60hz, it made even less sense. I rather blow the additional funds into a kickass monitor to take advantage of my 970.

If I rally wanted to blow money, I rather wait for the 980 Ti if it comes with 8GB rams.

This post has been edited by Skidd Chung: Nov 5 2014, 08:20 PM

how many 970/980 in taa box

I'll choose 970, just consider which brand is better only.

Yes, same here. Play game in 1080p # working life here, not really focus on gaming. Just sometimes play Assassin, The Sims, Racing Games etc only. If like this maybe I'll go for Asus strix only.

I bought the Palit GTX 970 Jetstream (cheapest with 2 fans). Thank God no coil whine and the fan is really quiet unless it's spinning above 70%. Surfing web or just idling, the fans do not run at all unless I start up my MSI Afterburner which has some minimum fan speed I set up.

To be honest, I'm new to this "no fan running" while idling and I'm always nervous the fan will not start in time when I start gaming. Which is why I always set my MSI Afterburner profile to start the fans when the temps are 40°C instead of the default 60°C I believe.

Overall I love the card but I really despise GeForce Experience app. If only I can separate the Shadowplay component from it, it would be ideal.

However, be aware that the new 900 cards, SLI is really not ideal at the moment. Check out the GeForce forums at all the frustrated posts of SLI users. Also it seems a lot of cards including those from higher end card manufacturers are suffering from coil whine issues. Make sure you go through them to filter which card you think you will have less problems with.

It's still not perfect yet and the drivers really need some more work. So far only 3 drivers has been released since the cards introduction. If you try to install old drivers (pre 344.11), it will not recognize your card.

This post has been edited by Skidd Chung: Nov 5 2014, 10:33 PM