EVGA GeForce GTX 970 4GB GAMING ACX 2.0, 26% Cooler and 36% Quieter Cooling Graphics Card 04G-P4-2972-KR
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Style: GTX 970 ACX 2.0
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- Virtual Reality Ready
- DirectX12 Ready
- Gamestream to NVIDIA SHIELD
- EVGA "ACX 2.0" Cooling Technology
- EVGA's 24/7 Technical Support; Base Clock: 1050 MHz / Boost Clock: 1178 MHz
- Memory Clock: 7010 MHz Effective; CUDA Cores: 1664; Memory Detail: 4096MB GDDR5
- Memory Bit Width 256 Bit / Memory Speed: 0.28ns / Memory Bandwidth: 224.3 GB/s
- Recommended PSU: 500W or greater power supply
Description
Base Clock: 1050 MHZBoost Clock: 1178 MHzMemory Clock: 7010 MHz Effectiv
Max Screen Resolution: 4096 x 2160
Memory Speed: 7010 MHz
Graphics Coprocessor: Nvidia GeForce
Chipset Brand: NVIDIA
Card Description: GeForce GTX 970
Graphics Card Ram Size: 4 GB
Brand: EVGA
Item model number: 04G-P4-2972-KR
Item Weight: 2.38 pounds
Product Dimensions: 10.5 x 4.4 x 2 inches
Item Dimensions LxWxH: 10.5 x 4.4 x 2 inches
Manufacturer: EVGA
Is Discontinued By Manufacturer: No
Date First Available: September 19, 2014
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Style: GTX 970 SSClk 2.0+
I have upgraded graphic cars so many times now that it has become completely routine for me. I am always wanting more! I'm an addict... I'm a power hungry, rig building, graphics junkie addict... And I am proud of it. I started out small... very small. It all began 2 years ago when I went back to school. I am 37, so going back to school was a big deal to me. I am going for a masters in graphic design so needless to say I needed a good computer. I bought a pre-built factory rig at Best Buy. At first it was all I needed, but eventually I needed to upgrade so I could successfully run Photoshop and other graphic munching programs. I decided to build me a rig. After all... Everybody in most of my classes built their rigs, so why couldn't I. The first rig I slapped together was nothing special, but being my first built rig I loved it. Since I was now able to play games with decent frame rates, I switched from being a console gamer to a hardcore pc gamer. After I made the change I was constantly wanting to upgrade and build new rigs. Each time I would slightly increase the budget. I started off with a 200 series GTX and worked my way up from there, switching back and forth with AMD to Nvidia. Each time I went up, I would buy the respectable counterpart of each brand. If I bought a 600 series GTX I would buy an AMD card equally as powerfull. It wasn't just the GPU I would upgrade either... I would change everything. When I couldn't upgrade anything else I would get a new chassis.Now I am using this GTX 970 switching from an R9 290x. The GTX 970 is working great, but I want more! Problem is I do not want to spend $600-$800 on a new card only to be buying a new one in another 4 months. So... I bought this GTX 970 so I can pair it with my current GTX 970 and go SLI! Judging by the specs and the research that I have done... SLI GTX 970's will out perform a TitanX. Not only out perform it but REALLY out perform it!!! Everything that I have read about SLI GTX 970's says that I will be playing games with unheard of frame rates! My rig is totally ready for it too! I have more than enough ram (32gigs Kingston HyperX Fury Beast ram), the perfect MOBO, CPU and a super fast SSD to help push my rig to ludicrous speed (well for me anyway)! By itself, the EVGA GeForce GTX 970 ACX 2.0 SSC works wonders. Depending on what you are coming from, all of your games will be brought to life. Be ready for better frame rates, brighter colors and a better all around gaming experence! But if you are anything like me (and most of us rig builders are) you will be craving for more and wanting to get ready for all of the awesome new "Next Gen" games that are set to roll out this coming holiday season. If so, I suggest buying two of them rather than spending $1000+ on a TitanX! For almost half that you will get twice the performance! My 2nd card hasn't arrived yet, but I can not wait! Oh... I don't know about you but I picked Assassins Creed: Syndicate! For me it is a no-brainer. The new R6 game looks watered down and cheesy. More of an "arcade" type fps rather than an in depth regular Tom Clancy title. Either way, you are still gonna get a good game... Because the game that "you" pick is gonna be the game that "you" like and "you" are the only one that matters when buying a game... Am I right or am I right? Well my 2nd card arrived about 2 1/2 weeks ago. As I was saying in the above paragraph... I am ALWAYS craving more! Since I am a rig building, power hungry, wirenut junky I decided to go ahead and change up everything. New chassis, new MOBO, new DDR4 ram, new PSU, new and bigger ssds and a new sound card. Like I said... I'm a POWER hungry, wirenut junky! This time I decided to go Intel. I had no choice really. My FX-9590 Vishera is as big as I can go with AMD until their new chip hits the market sometime late next year. Although I am an avid AMD fan I can not wait til late next year to go big. I want to go big RIGHT NOW! I am not a prejudice rig builder. I might lean a little more toward the AMD side of things but that doesn't mean I hate Intel, As a matter of fact I love Intel. They are a good company whos processors deliver a crazy punch. They just happen to be a little on the expensive side. Because of that I had to work extra hard to be able to afford this build. All of the extra hard work that I put into this rig caused me to be more cautious than usual. When you are spending a crazy amount of money on a build, you make sure that you are getting exactly what you want and nothing less. I'm not gonna into detail about the specs of my latest build. This review isn't about my gaming rig as a whole, it's about the 970 GTXssc Gaming ACX 2.0 graphics card. Let me tell ya... By itself this card is a bad ass! Especially if you pair it with a decent processor and a fair amount of ram! Every game I through at the card would run near perfect frame rates on ultra settings. The only time that I ran into trouble is when I decided to go to 4K or UHD res. When making the 4K jump there was a significant difference in what I was able to set my games at. Running games at 4k res on ultra settings was out of the question. Usually I was able to go half and half (half of the settings on ultra and the other half on either high or medium). This was a heart breaker for me and its what literally kicked me in the butt and set me in motion by a 2nd 970 and eventually to upgrade my whole set-up. On my old AMD FX-9590 set-up, the extra 970 exceeded my expectations! I immediately was able to tell a difference! Usually when playing Witcher 3 on 4Kres the game automatically sets itself to run with over half of the graphics settings on medium, 2-3 on high and 1 or 2 of them on ultra... With my rig running SLI GTX 970s The Witcher 3 automatically set itself to run with EVERYTHING on ultra settings... AT 4K RES!!! I'll say it again... EVERYTHING on ultra!!! And when I actually played The Withcer 3 at 4Kres on "all ultra" settings... Complete gaming nirvana!!! The game and every other game after that played wonderfully. Every one of them saw 50-60fps with zero stuttering, screen tears or glitches. So why did I decide to totally build a new rig if my games were running at 4Kres, 60fps and zero errors? Because I want to be ready for the future. Keep in mind that I was running an almost outdated AMD FX-9590 CPU, and although DDR3 ram is affordable and sufficient enough to power even the best gaming rigs... DDR4 is eventually gonna be the set standard. When it comes to gaming rigs, technology always seems to be one, two and sometimes three steps ahead. With my new rig I know that I am future proofed for at least the next 4 years. The "Next Gen" games that are being developed are ridiculous and I know that they are gonna require "Next Gen" rigs to run them. I didn't get into PC gaming so that I could play games at the half way mark. I got into PC gaming so that I could experience games at their best! Anything less would defeat the purpose of owning a gaming rig. It's like buying a sports car. You don't buy a sports car to drive to church. You buy a sports car to experience the thrill of going fast! If I wanted to play video games at the half way mark I would buy a console. (Although I have to admit that consoles are beginning to look pretty damn good). In conclusion I would like to say that the EVGA GeForce GTX 970 4GB SSC GAMING ACX 2.0+, Whisper Silent Cooling Graphics Card does everything that it says it will, but if you want to experience it for what it is worth, you better have a rig to match! If you really want to kick it up a notch and experience PC gaming at its best... Buy 2 of these bad boys and get ready for one helluva gaming experience!!! Do the research and you will see that 2 of these cards respectfully outperform a TitanX Black! That is a BIG DEAL considering the price gap between two 970s and one TitanX Black! Seriously... I highly recommend getting two of these vs. one. If you wanna stick with a single GPU I suggest that you maybe look at the 980. It cost a little more, but with games constantly getting better, having a 980 will set you up for future "Next Gen" titles and allow to experience 4K res without any hick-ups. If you aren't worried about 4K res then by all means go with the 970. My 970 would successfully run all of my games on ultra settings at 1080i, 60fps with ease!
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Reviewed in the United States on October 16, 2015 by William D. Worth
Style: GTX 970 ACX 2.0 SC+
UPDATE 2/24/15 : I have read in tech-news that Nvidia had misinformed all about the memory performance of all GTX 970 cards (does NOT affect GTX 980 cards) and that Newegg and Amazon have been offering full or partial refunds to folks who ask (Google "Nvidia 970 memory issue"). From what I gather this will mainly affect those with large resolutions above 1920x1080 in causing game stutter due to the remaining 512MB of VRAM being slower than the first 3.5GB. Just a heads-up. UPDATE 1/9/15 : "Coil-whine" - in another review and also a comment made to my review if you limit the frames to the refresh rate of your monitor (this is ideal) it will get rid of the coil whine. I downloaded "Nvidia Inspector" from Guru3D, went to settings, then under frames limiter set it to a value - preferably the refresh rate of your monitor. (I settled on 120 even though my monitor's max refresh rate is 144Hz). INTRO First things first, there are about 6 different cards under one umbrella here so I will explicitly say that the one I purchased was the (04G-P4-2977-KR) (FTW reference with ACX 2.0 heatsink/fan assembly, hardware version 1.0). The product image on Amazon showed that it would have a "REF" labeled on the front of the box while SuperClocked would get a "SC" and FTW would get a "FTW". My box showed a "SC" even though it is actually a "REF"; verified via the sticker on the underside of the card with the exact modal number "2977". The SuperClocked card is a "2974". I bought the "2977" because it was the cheapest card at the time compared to the FTW which was $100 more than the reference; reference meaning that the card has the same components as the FTW but it wasn't stable at the FTW default (overclocked) clocks so it is rebranded as the "SuperClocked" card. The card is just about exactly the same length as my EVGA GTX 680 SC Signature 2. With the power savings there are only 2 6-pin power adapters instead of the 1 6-pin and 1 8-pin that my 680 had. Ripped all the protective covers off the fan assembly (cellophane), the rubber cap on the PCI-e male-end. The PCB is pretty sturdy (I read some folks saying that the reference board for the 970 is not) but a couple fins were bent. I easily shifted and fixed them but just saying. One corner of the rubbery cap that encapsulates the PCI-e male-end while in-package was torn which I found odd. There was some talks that the SuperClocked ACX 2.0 heatsinks didn't make good contact with the heatpipes at the base of the heatsink (you can see images for what I mean by Googling for it). I did not and will not remove my heatsink to verify BUT I can say with certainty that my ACX 2.0 heatsink design is definately different from said images - more heatpips also. I'll post images when I receive my 970 backplate as I'll be ripping my card out then anyways. INSTALLATION (UPDATE 12/19/14 apparently I'm not the only one with a GTX 970 and the DVI-D port not working. Google "GTX 970 DVI-D not working") 1) I planned to install this in a Windows machine so after booting into Safe-Mode (With Networking) I downloaded "DDU" (Display Driver Uninstaller). Some say that under the same manufacturer (i.e. Nvidia 680 replacing with Nvidia 970) you can simply swap cards without uninstalling drivers but I like to play it safe. "DDU" is the ONLY sure way that you can get rid of any video driver traces from your machine. "DDU" has the option to uninstall drivers THEN shutdown - this is the option I selected from the software. To continue playing it safe I uninstalled EVGA Precition X software as well. 2) After shutdown I swapped cards then powered on the machine. I plugged my monitor into the DVI-D female adapter and my monitor said "No signal". I had previously used the DVI-D for my 680 so I wasn't sure why this wouldn't work. I plugged the monitor cable into the DVI-I female adapter and voila!, working fine. Interesting that I can't get DVI-D to work. I proceeded to install Nvidia Geforce Experience first then through that software installed the drivers. Once install complete I rebooted my machine. For an extra measure I tried plugging back into DVI-D..."No Signal". Weird. FIRST USAGE AND "COIL WHINE" (UPDATE 12/19: After two days of use (9 hours of gaming) the coil whine is definitely not as loud anymore but still noticable) First thing I did after I swapped cards was boot up Watch Dogs. During the rendering of the main menu I heard this awful and VERY LOUD whine eminating from my PC tower. The fans did not even kick on yet at this point so the whine was VERY loud - I can't emphasize "VERY" enough! After a few minutes it quieted down a bit but never actually went away. I'm not kidding folks...it is loud! At least mine is. Once at the main menu I went into settings and set EVERYTHING to their highest setting ("Ultra", and chose HBOA+ for ambient occlusion). My previous card only had 2GB of vRAM so playing Watch Dogs on "Ultra" was a no-go. "High" setting wouldn't really work so I had to turn a lot of things down from "High". Game loaded and I ran around for a bit; rendering was smooth as cutting butter. Amazing! The transformation was absolutely stunning. However, do note that there is a difference between graphics 'stutter', for lack of a better term, and non-optimized game 'stutter' - which you can experience in Watch Dogs simply by driving around the block in a car for more than a minute. When the 'next' area is rendered there is bit of a game 'stutter'. I played for about 20 minutes and NEVER heard the coil whine in-game...only at the main menu. I installed Furmark app from ozone3D which is a heavy-hitting GPU instensive benchmark. For testing I chose a resolution of 1920x1080, anti-aliasing to 8x MSAA (MSAA is naturally GPU intensive), chose settings and selected all the checkboxes available (really once you choose the second option (sorry don't have it in front of me) only 2 checkboxes become the only ones enabled). I chose to do a GPU intense test and the benchmark began...so did the coil whine. For those of yous familiar with Furmark, there are basically fury donuts rotating around. The coil whine would get louder based on how 'close' to the screen they were. After 10 minutes the whine never ceased and for those of you interested my temps never rose above 71C (ambient temp 66). Amazing! My 680 fan's (default fan curve in EVGA Precision X) would have spun up loud just at the main menu screen. OVERCLOCKING I'm not an agressive OC'er anymore but I still like to tinker slightly. I want to reiterate that I have the FTW reference card rebranded as "SuperClocked" - as mentioned in the first paragraph (TL;DR: which from my reading has all FTW components/fan (note heatsink difference between "SC" and "FTW") but clocked at "SuperClocked" speeds because couldn't maintain FTW clock speeds). I read on the EVGA forums (sorry, no link) that the voltage controller is different between the two cards so the "FTW" card can be stable at higher clock speeds but I can not confirm. Within the EVGA Pricision X 16 software I set the "Power Target" to 102%, the "GPU Clock Offset" to +116 Mhz and "MEM Clock Offset" to +385 Mhz while leaving the voltage alone. I ran Furmark for 20 minutes with no issues. I haven't spent much time playing around with values that are stable I do know that when I increased the GPU clock offset by 20 and MEM clock offset by 50 Furmark immediately failed. As one would expect, your results may very. Some users posted that their cards could barely OC above +10 Mhz. THROTTLING ISSUES? (UPDATE 12/19/14: My card is not affected) Several users over at the EVGA forums stated that their 970 FTW suffers from "throttling issues" (Google "Modded BIOS to fix 970 FTW severe throttling issues w/ link"). TL;DR: Their card isn't performing at it's peak. I haven't run tests to see if my card similarly performs as stated in the forum post with "severe TDP throttling issues which causes excess tearing, stutter and GPU utilization hicupping" but I will test soon if my "Sensors" (see original posts attached images at said link) have any similarities. I'll update this section later with my GPU BIOS info and testing results here shortly. Just wanted to make people aware. UPDATE 12/19/14: I installed MSI afterburner so I could see a GPU utilization graph and I can confirm that my card doesn't suffer from this issue. CONCLUSION I can't believe what a performer this card is. The 970 is simply an amazing card for the money and I highly recommend that if you have a GTX 600 or prior card to upgrade to the 900s and you have the money. It was very refreshing to play Watch Dogs and Battlefield 4 on "Ultra" settings performing extremely well. With an ambient temperature of about 68F my card never went above 71C even after one hour of gameplay. NOTE: I have my gaming hardware installed in an all-steel 4U chassis; 3x120mm fans up front, 3x120mm fans in the middle and 2x120mm fans in the back so obviously I can push air from front to back with ease thus helping 'cool' my card. Performance wise I'm very impressed with this card and is a big jump upgrading from a GTX 680 SC. However, the coil whine and DVI-D female adapter apparently not working, while not dealbreakers for me, does create much disappointment. I have read that users have returned their card for one or both of these reasons and the problem went away. I'm not ready to part with the card just yet but may execute an RMA after couple of months or simply do a "Step Up". **EDIT: Added DVI-D 'issue' Added "throttling issues" testing results
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Reviewed in the United States on December 18, 2014 by Trav