of course it would, GTX 960 can't even maintain 120fps on dota 2 1080p...

GTX 970 just passed that mark. If you make it 4K then lol

Did you enabled some sort of high AA in NV CP@4K?

Not sure what you are trying to do:


That's as 60fps smooth as it gets.
Also, you understand that Source engine was never stable on 4k resolution right?

I play dota lol - http://www.dotabuff.com/players/74030445

Not everyday, but I've played it since the WC3 days.

I have no issues running the game at 1440p with a single card. I also have near zero issues running it at 4k (crashes happen but that's due to the source engine, it happened on L4D2 as well), either natively or through DSR. I have them locked at 72fps (as I OC my monitors to run at 72hz) on my 1440p monitor through a custom script and they stay there without dropping no matter if it's wtf mode 5v5 with 10 CMs spamming her ult. I can run them at 120fps if I want, but because I don't play with vsync (input lag) so I keep them at 72fps.

So, yeah... did you try capping your framerates with a custom startup script for the game? The default is 120fps, but are you even using a 120hz monitor?

One last thing, turn off MFAA. Dota 2 does not use MSAA, so MFAA is useless.

the thing is, a lot of people underestimate MOBAs like LoL or Dota 2, saying they have MMO graphics and look dated
in LoL i get 300-500 fps no problem @ 1080p, while dota 2 is around 100-200 fps @ 1080p
the game changer is during chaotic wtfbbq 5v5 on both games, that's when your PC is brought down to its knees, in dota 2 i sometimes dip below 60 fps and thats when you rage because you don't know what killed you, plus internet lag summore
but usually i cap them both with vsync

Of course, it is like upgrading from a Kancil to a Ferrari 
Is the coil whine really loud?

Did you alt+enter haha

You buffer pre-rendered frames to 5? That's huge amount of input lag in addition to Vsync. Set pre-rendered frames back to 1 (or 3 at most).

You get coil whine when the card is using more power and performance than it needs to. This is why ALL cards will have coil whine, irregardless whethere they hear it or not.
Well... Gsync has been found to be working on some laptops with no gsync module recently. So.... yeah.
It's quite an open secret that Gsync 2.0 was/is in the works for quite some time now and knowing nvidia, they'll never let AMD have something that they do not have. The whole module thing was mostly because VESA didn't have a ready solution yet 2 years ago.

Since we are talking about dedicated cards on my main rig ( not including the ones i bought just to test which is more than this)

  and will never go back to ATI

reason is

1. Packaging (yup). Everytime. Paid a lot. Open it and always like hmm.. errr... did i get con kind of feeling.
2. Drivers
3. They always blame other ppl.
4. Hoovers.
5. Expecting them to bankrupt any time now.

but seriously on my whole lifetime of gaming and buying games. Rarely Nvidia Disappoints me compared to Ati on just installing a game and just play. Putting aside sli issues.

Not saying nvidia doesnt have its issue but seriously if money is not an object.. you rarely find a go to gamer having any issue with Nvidia on new game releases.

They are wasting time on Mantle. But i guess they had no choice as their drivers team has a lot of issues with directx11 api so to solve the issue in the future and put it at game developers hands... but ultimately dx12 will be better as microsoft have better ppl working on it.

y my spektism on freesync. Nvidia has a lot of fantastic programmers. They said it wasnt easy for gsync until hey had to use FPGA.

If you change it to H97,no BIOS updates needed.

Also,you are asking in the wrong section..

My pc kena repair. Cannot testing liao. Dang.

Upgrade fix Z97 + SSD 120GB till this Saturday. Argh.

Haha cant afford 240 with my remaining balance. Will surely grab 480 when windows 10 releases.

347.52 WHQL

this driver still has bug for mpc-hc when using mad vr option diffusion option 1.

for a temporary fix i use diffusion option 2 for now

got vertical lines. can't watch at all, is too obvious a bug