Review: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 970 G1 Gaming

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 09/22/2014 09:13 AM | source: | 41 comment(s)

Next to the flagship product we also test the more budget Gigabyte GeForce GTX 970 G1 SOC gaming graphics card. The product does not vary much from the 980 other than a chunk of performance. This card however has one 6 and one 8-pin power feed but then again, does come with a WindForce 3X cooler. The G1 Gaming 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 and how well it performs.

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slickric21
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#4917649 Posted on: 09/20/2014 12:19 PM

VRM is somewhat hot on that MSI. Gigabyte had coil whine and fan issues so I ordered Asus Strix.

I wanted the Strix, untill I saw that it has no direct memory cooling and that when overclocking a manual fan profile is needed to maintain boost clocks.

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/14

Still damn nice card and only 1x 8pin pcie needed !!!

Wish they had included the Gigabyte in that review aswell.

Leaning towards the MSI myself.

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#4917661 Posted on: 09/20/2014 12:34 PM

Good find made, yea that kind of puts me off Asus now. Looks like MSI it is, ive got MSI now and no problem for the last 2 years!

slickric21
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#4917749 Posted on: 09/20/2014 03:30 PM

Yeah.

I guess the only unknown now is the Palit Jetstream version. Its availible now and is cheaper than the others, but dont know if its cooler is any good or has a custom pcb and/or upgraded power phases (like the Asus and MSI)

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#4917813 Posted on: 09/20/2014 04:39 PM

GTX x70 G1 Gaming. Third Gigabyte in a roll(670, 770, 780), never had any issues. Just fanboy arousing flames wars ...again!

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#4917833 Posted on: 09/20/2014 05:27 PM

Those (FLIR) temps compared to MSI version are so lower , dat backplate.

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