ASUS GeForce GTX 970 Strix review

Posted by: Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 09/24/2014 08:41 AM [ 30 comment(s) ]

We review the new ASUS GeForce GTX 970 Strix edition. A product that has been overhauled in terms of PCB and cooling. ASUS also clocks the product a little faster then reference. The new DirectCU II based cooler is so good that it won't even spin with GPU temperatures up-to 67 Degrees C. This card however has one8-pin power feed and again, does come with that new revision model DirectCU cooler, the one with the two ROG eyes. The card has 4 GB graphics memory, is energy efficient and factory overclocked for you. You will be surprised by how this card looks, how silent it is, how well it performs and how much it can be overclocked.

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nanogenesis
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Posted on: 09/24/2014 08:54 AM

Nope, it seems this round Gigabyte is the winner, excellent clocking and cool VRMs.

mohiuddin
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Posted on: 09/24/2014 09:17 AM

Performance not bad. But you can decide not to buy it , just by looking at it.

bigfutus
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Posted on: 09/24/2014 11:23 AM

My old Gigabyte GTX560 Ti was super noisy after two years, so i try Asus now. Not so stellar performance doesn't matter for me, because overclocking. And this time it's cheap like the rest, which is nice too.

alanm
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Posted on: 09/24/2014 11:25 AM

Hilbert, nice review. I had ordered this card yesterday but then cancelled after reading this from the bit-tech review:

One issue we did notice with the ASUS card is that it initially wasn't boosting as high as we'd have expected. We noticed that the fans didn't seem to want to spin beyond 42 percent, apparently prioritising low noise over boost frequency. As such, we set the fans manually to 50 percent, which saw a higher and more constant boost clock emerge. The downside to this is that the fan speed is locked, and won't slow down or enter its passive mode, even when idle.

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/graphics/2014/09/19/nvidia-geforce-gtx-970-review/12

Not sure if they missed something here, but they set the fans "manually" at 50% (using Asus GPU Tweak). Cant this card use fan profiles in MSI-AB to follow temps or is their something hard coded in the bios that interferes with that due to the cards unique cooling design? If it can work with profiles like all other cards, I'll reorder it (and make sure never to visit bit-tech ever again). Thanks.

Hilbert Hagedoorn
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Posted on: 09/24/2014 11:49 AM

As my charts show, perf is just a hint slower overall, but so little in the entire scope of things.

I'm running some SLI tests ATM so the test-system / bench is in use, but if you can wait a bit longer I'll pop in the ASUS card later today and check if fan profiles work with AB for you ok ?

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