Review: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 970 G1 Gaming

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 09/22/2014 08:13 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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nanogenesis
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#4916469 Posted on: 09/19/2014 10:22 AM

I love that they atleast included a backplate. Any word on pricing?

Hilbert can you take off its clothes so that we can see how the VRM is being cooled?

MSI didn't include a backplate, but atleast got their VRM cooling right this time. Although the Gigabyte version OCs super high so I guess that isn't an issue. Also Sammy ram omfg.

Can you post FLIR temps of the OC? I'd like to know what all is frying with a 1500mhz boost clock.

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#4916481 Posted on: 09/19/2014 10:42 AM

Its £299 in UK. I do have my eye on this one to be honest or MSi gaming Edition for £282.

MSI and Gigabyte

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#4916498 Posted on: 09/19/2014 11:09 AM

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

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#4916503 Posted on: 09/19/2014 11:13 AM

Well im going away for a week soon so ill have to wait a little bit, hopefully price wont go up and there will be more reviews!

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#4916619 Posted on: 09/19/2014 01:05 PM

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

You ordered the GTX 970 from Gigabyte? Damn. Its not even available here.

Care to explain what exactly the fan issues were?

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#4917649 Posted on: 09/20/2014 11:19 AM

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 11:34 AM

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!

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#4917749 Posted on: 09/20/2014 02:30 PM

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#4917813 Posted on: 09/20/2014 03:39 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 04:27 PM

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

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#4918309 Posted on: 09/21/2014 03:26 AM

So anyone here notice/hear any coil whine? There were reports from a couple of G1 970 owners on a fairly popular 3d-related website and I've been wondering.. Could be just an isolated issue if no one else here's had it!..?

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#4919136 Posted on: 09/22/2014 12:48 PM

Great! Another kickass 970 which makes it even harder to choose.

This card is available in Sweden but in very small quantities though shipments are incoming in about 2 weeks which is too far off. I love the backplate on this card and the fact that it's cooler than the MSI which seems to have hot VRMs.

But if there are problems with the cooler then its a big no-no.

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#4919183 Posted on: 09/22/2014 01:40 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)

Yea only less popular brands are available at the moment, the rest are pre order. Gives me week or 2 to decide and read few more reviews!

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#4919229 Posted on: 09/22/2014 02:19 PM

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#4919258 Posted on: 09/22/2014 02:59 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)

Guru3D liked the 780Ti JetStream so I assume the 970 version will be as good that one. I did own the 780Ti version for a week or so but returned it since the cooler was so large (3 slots) and fairly noisy.

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