GTX 980 / 970 Discussion

Gerard · 22 Sep 2014 at 14:40

humbug said:
It might be that the cooler is from an older card.

Asus did this with the 290/X, they used the DC II cooler from the GTX 780 and bolted it straight to Hawaii, the 780 (GK110) is much bigger than Hawaii (552mm2^ vs 438mm2^) so the outer two of its four heat pipes didn't make contact with the die, result: overheating.

Indeed, looks like EVGA cheaped out and hoped it wouldn't be noticed.

Flying_Hellfish · 22 Sep 2014 at 14:41

stulid said:
Not in stock.

Probably for the best. Between the coil whine and this potential defect, the EVGA is off the shortlist. Wonder if they will recall them?

Gibbo · 22 Sep 2014 at 14:42

Guys

Palit just arrived, checked the basic one and Jetstream, both use Samsung memory.

The Jetstream looks ace with its black/gold colouring.

stulid · 22 Sep 2014 at 14:49

Gibbo said:
Guys

Palit just arrived, checked the basic one and Jetstream, both use Samsung memory.

The Jetstream looks ace with its black/gold colouring.

I'm after a fancy 980, Gigabyte G1, Zotac or Galax.

mrk · 22 Sep 2014 at 14:51

RRP for USA stock makes our UK prices look like a rip off. I was at first thinking "Oh no did I buy the 290X Tri-X too early and should have waited for the 980?" as everyone was going on about new lower nVidia prices being "about time" but then saw the price of the 980 and calmed down and grinned slightly.

Think I made the right choice

Geeman1979 · 22 Sep 2014 at 14:52

Gibbo said:
Guys

Palit just arrived, checked the basic one and Jetstream, both use Samsung memory.

The Jetstream looks ace with its black/gold colouring.

The Jeststream looking bling.

Have all the 980/970s you've tested so far use Samsung mems?

SHOGUNXSHINOBI · 22 Sep 2014 at 14:52

stulid said:
I'm after a fancy 980, Gigabyte G1, Zotac or Galax.

I'm trying to find out the same thing, also trying to find out if it would be better to sli 970s instead?

Gibbo · 22 Sep 2014 at 14:54

Geeman1979 said:
The Jeststream looking bling.

Have all the 980/970s you've tested so far use Samsung mems?

All Samsung so far, the best!

Geeman1979 · 22 Sep 2014 at 14:59

Gibbo said:
All Samsung so far, the best!

Yup quality, every card I've had that's used Samsung mems have always Clocked well on the memory side.

stulid · 22 Sep 2014 at 15:02

Flying_Hellfish said:
Probably for the best. Between the coil whine and this potential defect, the EVGA is off the shortlist. Wonder if they will recall them?

Doubt it, probably throw out some spiel like "internal testing has been fine"

Things change I've changed · 22 Sep 2014 at 15:15

Flying_Hellfish said:
Probably for the best. Between the coil whine and this potential defect, the EVGA is off the shortlist. Wonder if they will recall them?

Are you referring to the 970 or 980? Or both? Because that's a real shame if so because I was going to per-order the evga 980 sc but the fear of coil whine puts me off, can't stand it.

ubersonic · 22 Sep 2014 at 15:16

Apart from it looking wrong is the an actual issue? I wouldn't have thought using an over-specified cooler should cause problems.

At the end of the day the card has three heatpipes two of which are more important than the third and that's the one not making contact, as this cooler was designed for 200-250 tdp cards a 165 tdp card making 80% contact shouldn't cause an issue in practice I would ave thought.

Geeman1979 · 22 Sep 2014 at 15:32

lowrider007 said:
Are you referring to the 970 or 980? Or both? Because that's a real shame if so because I was going to per-order the evga 980 sc but the fear of coil whine puts me off, can't stand it.

You can get coil whine on any card.

Flying_Hellfish · 22 Sep 2014 at 15:33

lowrider007 said:
Are you referring to the 970 or 980? Or both? Because that's a real shame if so because I was going to per-order the evga 980 sc but the fear of coil whine puts me off, can't stand it.

970

I have the FTW 670 and it suffers from it. Was mentioned up thread (or was it the other thread) that the ACX 970 also has it.

Flying_Hellfish · 22 Sep 2014 at 15:34

ubersonic said:
Apart from it looking wrong is the an actual issue? I wouldn't have thought using an over-specified cooler should cause problems.

At the end of the day the card has three heatpipes two of which are more important than the third and that's the one not making contact, as this cooler was designed for 200-250 tdp cards a 165 tdp card making 80% contact shouldn't cause an issue in practice I would ave thought.

I see where you are coming from - most likely won't be an issue. It's just shoddy work though, you pay the premium for EVGA expecting it to be spot on.

Orangey · 22 Sep 2014 at 15:34

Geeman1979 said:
You can get coil whine on any card.

And you can fix it without (technically) voiding warranty (so long as your AIB allows cooler removal).

barmyllama · 22 Sep 2014 at 15:40

Caved.

Just bought 2 MSI GTX 970's.

Someone needs to buy my GTX 690 ASAP or I could be getting divorced.

Geeman1979 · 22 Sep 2014 at 15:42

Orangey said:
And you can fix it without (technically) voiding warranty (so long as your AIB allows cooler removal).

Yup!

I've had it with Gigabyte, Asus and EVGA etc! from both AMD & Nvidia cards. Sometimes it can amplify itself even more depending on brand/power of Psu's

Andy321 · 22 Sep 2014 at 15:42

Gibbo said:
All Samsung so far, the best!

Are the new batch of MSI GTX 970 Gaming that you had come in this morning using samsung memory?

whyscotty · 22 Sep 2014 at 15:42

lowrider007 said:
Are you referring to the 970 or 980? Or both? Because that's a real shame if so because I was going to per-order the evga 980 sc but the fear of coil whine puts me off, can't stand it.

No whine on my two 980 SC's