MSI GTX 970 GAMING 4G Golden Edition is now listed at Newegg for $399.99
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With this cooler I can see a more stable overclock on these cards. Those that had their Gaming 4G's at 1600mhz but had to downclock because of temp throttling may be able to get a solid 1600mhz + overclock. But you never know YMMV
temp throttling? i thought it was the power limit's fault.
MSI 970 'Werther's Original' Limited Edition
Would like to be able to buy this backplate for my gaming model...
This card is so boss, oh man. If money grew on trees...
30 dollars is a little excessive for a back plate (and not a fan of the color scheme either), the OC is almost nothing, you'd have to have a really bad silicon lottery to get a normal 4g to not OC to those clocks...
Don't get me wrong I have reference 980s overclocked very well. I wont be buying these to exchange them but the thing that catches my eye most on these is the following from their marketing
"The new MSI GTX 970 GAMING 4G Golden Edition features increased clock speeds and improved cooling performance, thanks to an all-copper heatsink and heatpipe with anti-oxidation treatment."
The bold and underlined part I provided above should equate to (one of the) IF NOT The best all-air cooling setups on a videocard ever. Now add that to a MSI Gaming with all of it's extra bells and whistles and we have a winner.
MSI 970 'Werther's Original' Limited Edition
Faint (but noticeable) coil whine. Damn.
Do eet! I don't want to be the only one making an impulse buy.
NooOooO! Lol. Nothing's perfect, huh?
Lol, man if you got the extra cash, 10/10 would buy again. For myself, nah, I've got other things to deal with first, lol.
I had one card that was pretty close. My ASUS GTX 670 Direct CU II didn't have any coil whine. As far as buying again - probably not. It was 1AM and I was kind of punchy at that hour.
This is what I was wondering. Makes me wonder why they didn't include one to begin with. Since basically everyone else had one with the other brands.
Hopefully they will give everyone one free or sale it at a low price.
Don't get me wrong I have reference 980s overclocked very well. I wont be buying these to exchange them but the thing that catches my eye most on these is the following from their marketing
"The new MSI GTX 970 GAMING 4G Golden Edition features increased clock speeds and improved cooling performance, thanks to an all-copper heatsink and heatpipe with anti-oxidation treatment."
The bold and underlined part I provided above should equate to (one of the) IF NOT The best all-air cooling setups on a videocard ever. Now add that to a MSI Gaming with all of it's extra bells and whistles and we have a winner.
Here are some benchmarks from my MSI Gold edition. How do these look? Can you give me any indicators on what I can or should push up anymore using Afterburner or should I be happy with these results?
No manual OC applied:
http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/4718525?
A second run, with manual OC using Afterburner:
Core clock 1,279 MHz
Memory bus clock 1,819 MHz
Graphics Score 12752
Overall 9567
Do I push the Core clock up more? The memory clock? I have Power Limit set to the max of 110 right now, but haven't touched Voltage. As you might be able to tell, I'm new to this stuff!
Keep upping the core by 25 until you start seeing artifacts then back off by 100MHz (there might be a spot in between that is stable if you want to spend the time). Then try upping memory by say 2% at a time, find where it's stable.
Make sure you're looking at actual boost speed in Afterburner or whatever tool you are using during the runs. You can also track the card's temp as you may need to up your fan speed f you're getting near the limit.
The cards are smart as in they are practically impossible to damage with the stock BIOs.
Voltage probably isn't worth it unless you use a modified BIOs, which many of us have, but installing it has it's own risks of course. A modified bios would take away power limit (for all intents and purposes) and you could up your voltage slightly more.
Check out the 970/980 OCing thread but it should be pretty easy to hit 1500MHz and beyond.
Can you show me the link to that OC thread? Also, I feel like I pushed my core clock closer to 1500 but Fire Strike wouldn't complete one of the first scenes and would give me a partial result with a lower score, as a result.
Another problem I just started having:
I've uninstalled and reinstalled the MSI gaming app twice now but when I launch it it just appears as a tray icon but then it disappears when I mouse over it. The app itself never even shows up and doesn't appear to even be running as a process. Help?
Can you show me the link to that OC thread? Also, I feel like I pushed my core clock closer to 1500 but Fire Strike wouldn't complete one of the first scenes and would give me a partial result with a lower score, as a result.
Another problem I just started having:
I've uninstalled and reinstalled the MSI gaming app twice now but when I launch it it just appears as a tray icon but then it disappears when I mouse over it. The app itself never even shows up and doesn't appear to even be running as a process. Help?
You havent seen the Herculez X4 then.
http://www.kitguru.net/components/g...-ichill-herculez-x4-air-boss-ultra-review/18/
That card is just plain Sick!
They don't sell in the US though do they?
You havent seen the Herculez X4 then.
http://www.kitguru.net/components/g...-ichill-herculez-x4-air-boss-ultra-review/18/