EVGA GTX970 FTW +

[johnerz]

Just ordered one of these beauts sadly it will take about a week to arrive from EVGA in Germany (and yes I used EVGA bucks to drop the price to about $200 )

I'm going to push for 1 day @ 1,000,000 plus and then sell of the 670 currently in my rig. This is to keep a decent ppd after Big Adv dies, if the ppd/cost is not worth my while after then.
Also I'm going to need it for Star Citzen Sadly it won't make up for me bing a cr** pilot lol


New Features:

• dBi � dB Noise Inverter turns fans off below 60C, generating 0dB of noise during idle!
• QSD BIOS � Quick Switch Dual BIOS allow you to switch to secondary BIOS with the flick of a switch.
• MMCP � Memory MOSFET Cooling Plate reduces MOSFET temps by 47% and Memory by 14%.
• OPT � Optimized Power Target offers 33% more power over reference.
• SHP � Straight Heat Pipes reduce GPU temperature by almost 5C!

SPECIFICATIONS

• Base Clock: 1216 MHZ
• Boost Clock: 1367 MHz
• Memory Clock: 7010 MHz Effective
• CUDA Cores: 1664
• Bus Type: PCI-E 3.0
• Memory Detail: 4096MB GDDR5
• Memory Bit Width: 256 Bit
• Memory Speed: 0.28ns
• Memory Bandwidth: 224.3 GB/s

DIMENSIONS

• Height: 4.376in - 111.15mm
• Length: 10.1in - 256.5mm
• Width: Dual Slot

KEY FEATURES

• NVIDIA Dynamic Super Resolution Technology
• NVIDIA MFAA Technology
• NVIDIA GameWorks Technology
• NVIDIA GameStream Technology
• NVIDIA G-SYNC Ready
• Microsoft DirectX 12
• NVIDIA GPU Boost 2.0
• NVIDIA Adaptive Vertical Sync
• NVIDIA Surround Technology
• NVIDIA SLI Ready
• NVIDIA CUDA Technology
• OpenGL 4.4 Support
• OpenCL Support
• HDMI 2.0, DisplayPort 1.2 and Dual-link DVI
• PCI Express 3.0
• EVGA ACX 2.0 Cooling
• Quick Switch Dual BIOS
• 1.215v+ Voltage Boost
• dB Inverter
• Memory MOSFET Cooling Plate
• Optimized Power Target
• Straight Heat Pipes
• Preinstalled Backplate

RESOLUTION & REFRESH

• Max Monitors Supported: 4
• 240Hz Max Refresh Rate
• Max Analog: 2048x1536
• Max Digital: 4096x2160

REQUIREMENTS

• 500 Watt or greater power supply.****
• PCI Express, PCI Express 2.0 or PCI Express 3.0 compliant motherboard with one graphics slot.
• One available 8-pin PCI-E power connector and one available 6-pin PCI-E power connector
• Windows 8 32/64bit, Windows 7 32/64bit, Windows Vista 32/64bit

 

[BUCK NASTY]

I'm in the same boat as you @johnerz . If SMP on the G34 4P's is not worth it after -bigadv ends, the servers are going up for sale! I'm going to pick up 2 more here shortly for a total of 6 ASUS Strix 970's. Keep buying those GTX970's.

 

[johnerz]

Sadly I think 1 is all I can afford - its looking like I may be out of work soon and with almost 3 weeks in Maui at the start of March I've got a bag full of expense coming my way

I may consider selling mine as well and if I get a reasonable price pick up a second one.

 

[johnerz]

It should arrive on Tuesday so I'm hoping for a 4P double drop on Wednesday to give me my first (and possible last) 1 million ppd


Tracking Detail

Your package is on time with a scheduled delivery date of 27/01/2015


Tracking Number:


1Z0091Y26862077417


Status:


In Transit: On Time


Scheduled Delivery:


27/01/2015


Shipped To:


CHIPPENHAM, , GB



UPS Service:


UPS Standard®

 

[BUCK NASTY]

970 arriving today @johnerz ? Let's get that baby fired up!

 

[johnerz]

Sadly it arrived and I can't get it to run

clean installed 344.75 shut down removed the 670 fitted the 970 black screen pc not booting

I have updated the bios reinserted the 670 into the first slot, added the 970 into the second, it boots the 670 runs as it should, the 970 is seen by GPUZ but the info is not complete and in the device manager (yellow exclamation m there, in the device manager it has a yellow exclamation mark against it, I've tried uninstalling and clean installing 3 time to different drivers

I seem to remember from when I replaced my 280 with the 670 i had issues with the 2nd slot, but the first works well with the 670 and I only intend running the one card long term

 

[rtwjunkie]

It runs with the 670 because that is what you installed drivers for when you updated the drivers.

try UNinstalling the drivers, shut down, remove 670, install 970, turn on, let windows sort itself out with its less than stellar generic driver, and THEN install the 344.75 drivers.

NOTE: If you were just putting in another Kepler card, you could likely get away with the way you did it. But each driver includes ALL the cards it could install for, and then when the card is identified, installs those portions that pertain to the inserted card. Maxwell is an entirely other family, so that's why I suggest doing it the way stated above. And right now, nothing is intalled for Maxwell, only Kepler.

 

[johnerz]

Good Idea, I'll try that (despite it never booting to bios, as an add on the BIOS is set to optimized defaults and I have remove all usb devises apart from mouse and keyboard

I'll be back

 

[johnerz]

Well that's stopped me beating my head against the wall, thanks for that, I had assumed that as both cards will work on that driver it would be OK to do what I did - I must be getting old lol

Now all I need a one days double drop on the 4P and I should hit the 1.000.000 ppd for the firsrt and maybe only time, can't wait, I'm as excited about that as I was sat waiting for the door bell to do today

 

[rtwjunkie]

Good to hear!! I'm glad you can get to working now. Good Luck!

 

[johnerz]

Folding like a steam Train 250% on the 670

 

[BUCK NASTY]

Nice!!! Don't forget that these 970's will run @ 1500 core on stock voltage. Just ramp your fans up to 50%+.

 

[johnerz]

I'll let it run in for a day or two first lol