ASUS Strix GTX 970 OC 4 GB

[7950 Flex]

Just got off the phone with my MSI rep and he is testing out a brand new 780 ti gaming for me. He says it is not making any coil whine and he will leave it to run over night. I thought about selling it and getting two 970s but the most I'd probably end up with after all the ebay fees is like $400.
I think I'm just going to order a second one of these for SLI. They obviously have their lemons but a proper working 780 ti gaming is a great card and it's 30DBA under load that's only 1 DBA more than this Asus Strix 970. It's also faster of course, not enough to warrant the price gap between the two or between the $330 780
and the 780 ti but I already have one so oh well. Atleast I get some bragging rights! I was considering the Asus 780 ti DirectCU but after seeing that it puts out 39DBA (same as reference 780 ti) I won't go with it. It is priced very nicely though.

 

[chencxm]

W1zzard, could you address this question please? Is it possible to set a custom fan profile using e.g. precision X so that the temperature is lower when idle and doesn't exceed 60 °C when gaming?

From http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/foru...ews/67488-asus-gtx-970-strix-oc-review-8.html
"Unfortunately, the temperature at which the fans are enabled can’t be modified by ASUS’ GPU Tweak utility quite yet ..."

 

[Nabarun]

From http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/foru...ews/67488-asus-gtx-970-strix-oc-review-8.html
"Unfortunately, the temperature at which the fans are enabled can’t be modified by ASUS’ GPU Tweak utility quite yet ..."

That's a shame.

 

[maukkae]

MSI Afterburner 4.0.0 works with the Asus GTX 970 Strix. You can edit the fan profile and set the fans to come on at what ever temp you like.

 

[maukkae]

It seems that Asus GPU Tweak also works as long as you enable the advanced mode from the hexagon icon on the left from the profile selection.

 

[Troy210]

I have always bought used cards (mainly from this website) but after this review, I purchased it straight away today from Newegg.

Thank you W1Z

 

[gamble]

Strange, out of the box my Asus GTX 970 runs at 1329mhz out of the box without touching anything and theres no downclocking in 3d.

It OC up to 1450mhz on the core and Im able to bench or game at that setting for everything and will slightly down tick if I dont move the power limit slider up to 120%. I can bench up to over 1520mhz but I wouldnt call that a stable clock. The ram only does 7350mhz though but would rather have high core OC.

Im running it at 1400/7200mhz for 24/7 OC and its straight line on the core, power limit is set to 120% and core already runs at 1.2v so dont need to touch that. Using custom fan curve to 55% and keeps it under 70c.

 

[SmokingCrop]

Strange, out of the box my Asus GTX 970 runs at 1329mhz out of the box without touching anything and theres no downclocking in 3d.

It OC up to 1450mhz on the core and Im able to bench or game at that setting for everything and will slightly down tick if I dont move the power limit slider up to 120%. I can bench up to over 1520mhz but I wouldnt call that a stable clock. The ram only does 7350mhz though but would rather have high core OC.

Im running it at 1400/7200mhz for 24/7 OC and its straight line on the core, power limit is set to 120% and core already runs at 1.2v so dont need to touch that. Using custom fan curve to 55% and keeps it under 70c.

Use GPU-Z to check how much Mhz you're actually doing. e.g. MSI Afterburner uses a different approach which gives you numbers that are not comparable to those TPU uses.

 

[gamble]

@SmokingCrop Hi, yes just confirmed, the clock matches from both programs. Runs 1329 on the core with stock settings, if I only move the slider for the power limit to 120%, it goes to 1342mhz.

 

[Pumper]

Hey, can someone enlighten me?

Just got Strix 970 and been testing it. Since I have 4770K at 4.2GHz, I am trying to duplicate TPU results, but always get lower FPS than the ones posted in review, i.e. (1920x1080):

- Bioshock Infinite 120fps vs 140fps in review
- Metro LL 75fps vs 80fps in review
- Arkham Origins (max, noAA, noPhysx) 120fps vs 150fps in review
- Thief 105fps vs 120fps in review
- etc.

Any ideas whats going on? Full specs:
Win 7 64bit
Asus Gryphon Z87
4770K 4.2GHz
32GB 1866 RAM
Strix 970 stock
Corsair TX650W
OS and games on SSDs

 

[newtekie1]

There are a lot of things that can affect game performance. I big factor is things running the in the background. I'm pretty sure W1z uses a bare install for his testing, so just Windows and the games installed. Things like AV running in the background can affect performance. Same thing with different drivers, newer drives can actually cause slight performance difference, both good and bad. Like performance might go down a few FPS, but stability is improved because of it.

Also he tests his cards in an open test bench, so they get the best possible airflow, and the card will run a little cooler. This means his card might boost a little higher than a card in a close case.

 

[W1zzard]

Also I'm testing different scenes than you

 

[Pumper]

So your test results are not from the built in benchmarks?

 

[Maban]

So your test results are not from the built in benchmarks?

W1zzard uses his own time demos, not the built-in benchmarks. I assume to reduce the risk of driver/developer cheating.

 

[aged]

nice card I like it ！