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Forums - PC Discussion - Looking to get a GTX 970, which to get?

Sleepyprince on 12 November 2014

Go MSI, without contest. The price is maybe 20$ more but they're worth it. Never buy low or middle price when buying pc stuff.



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Ashadian on 12 November 2014
the-pi-guy said:

I need help deciding what to get.

Been hearing a lot about coil whine, EVGA's mess up, etc.  

Are either of these things, plus anything I may have missed concerning? 

 

Absolutely needs to be shorter than 11 inches or about 27.94 cm.


I bought the MSI Twin Frozr.  Excellent card and have heard no coil whine so far!



SubiyaCryolite on 13 November 2014
the-pi-guy said:
SubiyaCryolite said:

I see, heres mine. Not sure if I should blame the CPU or temps XD

Unigine Valley Benchmark 1.0

FPS:
51.8
Score:
2166
Min FPS:
9.7
Max FPS:
107.1

System

Platform:
Windows 7 (build 7601, Service Pack 1) 64bit
CPU model:
AMD FX(tm)-8350 Eight-Core Processor (4008MHz) x4
GPU model:
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 9.18.13.4448 (4095MB) x1

Settings

Render:
Direct3D11
Mode:
1920x1080 8xAA fullscreen
Preset
Extreme HD

What 970 do you have?


Reference Gainward 970, stock everthing. I suspect temps cause GPUZ lists "thrm" as a performance cap reason really during most of the bench. I've also read that Intel CPUs do better in the bench.



I predict that the Wii U will sell a total of 18 million units in its lifetime. 

The NX will be a 900p machine

SubiyaCryolite on 15 November 2014

I got a slight boost after disabling Avast antivirus. FPS 52.8, Score: 2211, Min: 22.5, Max: 105.2. Since everything is running at stock I guess that's OK.



I predict that the Wii U will sell a total of 18 million units in its lifetime. 

The NX will be a 900p machine