Already have for past few days
Also do it in Geforce forum.

This post has been edited by gogo2: Jan 30 2015, 12:10 PM

Good, pretty much explains everything. Thanks.

I hope we both learn from this fiasco

Im noob in all these overclocking. Never done it before.

Indeed. 'It is not a bug, it is a feature', said nvidia.

I recalled during Geforce 8800 gtx era, when nvidia forced AIB/OEM and its driver to set GPU fan spins faster so that when the gpu failed, it will be out of warranty period, users were complaining about the loud fan and this was exactly what Nvidia said to press/forum, "'It is not a bug, it is a feature".

nVidia has been a shady company since then I guess... lol

and ofcourse bumpgate and others..

This post has been edited by gogo2: Jan 30 2015, 12:30 PM

AMD also shady company as well....

Promise this and that, never deliver....mostly.
1) Promised 4K H264 DXVA acceleration on existing gpu product, last last said only for GCN 1.2 GPU.
2) Where is the power saving mentioned?
3) Mantle API, said will be release before 2015, until now still not publicly available.
4) Legendary 2D mode flickering, black screen, excessive gpu thermal throttling.

Not as shady as nVidia.

1) well, at least it is broken promise. Your AMD card is still the same spec when you bought it.
2) I'm not sure.
3) Well, your AMD still same spec
4) probably bug or something.

GTX970 issue involved spec changes. Imagine the TV you bought is written 4K AMOLED. But its actually Pentile AMOLED.

1) No comment on this
2)
3) I bought R7 260X specifically for mantle API improvement. Turn out the so called 40% improvement for Battlefield 4 is not really true. Still hoping....
4) Actually, it is hardware issue. In fact, most AMD AIB issued VBIOS to disable the power saving ability for its GPU VRAM. GPU core itself unaffected. Which is back to (2)

Then I bought GTX970 only to discover about the 3.5GB issue few weeks later.

wah, you really sui...

But ok la. Some people say they still very very happy.

I think the only purchase that worth my money is Gainward ATI HD 4850 Golden Sample 1GB.

My first gaming GPU is Geforce 8800gts or x, cant remember, it died after 8 months due to bumpgate

Then I bought the HD4850. (This one still alive and running)

Next, directx11 games are too many, decided to get R7 260X when it was out in the market for its Mantle API claim and FreeSync.
There goes the many issue I encountered until the main issue 2d flickering fixed with VBIOS 3 months ago..... (keeping it in box now)

By the time R7 260X fixed by VBIOS update by disabling VRAM power management.....I bought ASUS GTX970 Styrix lor

Then one of the cap was faulty, send for RMA.....I just got it back this week....

.....3.5gb issue confirmed

eh, if 8 months died, you can't RMA 8800gts meh?

my gpu seldom die on me. But my sapphire HD5850 HMDI dead after 1 year.

That time, I was young leh.......I simply believed the shop owner who told me warranty only for 6 months.

Fast forward few years, I learn about factory warranty and shop based warranty.
That mother****** cheater shop owner!
Incidentally, I also learn more of computing stuff.

Edit: grammer mistake, damn autocorrect

This post has been edited by JohnLai: Jan 30 2015, 01:18 PM

oh that sucks... yeah, last time most tech shop are full of cheaters and liars.. coz we dunno mah

It is useless to talk with people that don't have good comprehension of what we're aactually talking about. They don't know the difference between frames per second and frametime.

I think probably he doesn't feel any spike when he play game (maybe due to non-demanding game setting). Furthermore in the PCPer review, the frametimes is worse with GTX970 but not as bad as expected due to 3.5GB VRAM. It seems PCPer is protecting nVidia lololol...

pcper only tests two games, they should tried modded skyrim, heard it got very very bad stutters.

then nVidia comes with the excuse saying that it is NOT "the way it's meant to be played"

Hi guys, I have 2 graphic card in my rig now, how do I enable SLI function? And how do I make sure that both graphic card is in use ?