EVGA Released GeForce GTX 970 HYBRID Graphics Card
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Kaarme
Perhaps EVGA remembered to pay their Asetek licensing fees, unlike some others...
Twiddles
First post had to be something with Asetek and fees 😀
OT: Looks pretty cool, wonder if you'll gain anything from the lower temps though. My cards do 1550/2050 each on air with a max temp of 76c.
icedman
These 900 series cards all have too many Nvidia restrictions using water or air cooling is very pointless.
Cave Waverider
What I really like on my EVGA Titan X Hybrid is that the card hardly ever reaches 40°C when under full load (which is rather good improvement compared to the 83°C the stock air cooler lets it reach before the thing throttles) and doesn't throttle at all even when overclocked considerably, thus the other components on the card and inside the PC as well as the room the PC is in doesn't heat up as much.
I'd expect it to be similar with the 970 model, too.
Twiddles
No it's not, and why is air cooling pointless? You expect them to be passive? :P
I modded my cards so they could draw more power and IIRC even modded the boost tables on both cards, so what limitations?
@Cave WaveRider:
Yeah that sounds like a true advantage, stock coolers almost always suck unless you can mod the BIOS. Nvidia stock coolers are at least less crappy than the AMD ones.
signex
My card is doing extremely well on air, never goes above 69c with 1500mhz on the core.
Too bad its the cards limit, anything higher results in system freeze.
Although it may not be the cards fault?
Twiddles
Could be, results look pretty good anyway 😀 Have you modded the BIOS? If not I could do it for you 🙂
The Goose
If gpu`s had no limitations then amd and nvidia would gone bust years ago
and we`d all be using the same gpu from the 90`s
icedman
I Didn't mean that air cooling is pointless i mean liquid cooling is pointless vs air considering the cost difference. Also they all seem to cap around 1500mhz whether custom, vanilla, on air or water.
sykozis
The temps aren't the problem unless you're using a card with a reference cooler.
My card will run 1564mhz all day long without temperature becoming an issue. I stay right around 68-70C.
umeng2002
I wonder if they were dumb enough to lock the Vregs.
Twiddles
Maybe, can't say for sure. You could do a dump and send it over to me, I could take a quick look.
Thought so too, nice temps for those clocks! Mine would run a tad bit hot due to the case. Cooler Master Lab was the solution :P
sykozis
Increasing voltage does nothing for my card. 1564mhz is a brick wall....and my card does it at stock voltage.
Darkest
I don't really see the point in this, the cards don't run hot to begin with. As mentioned by sykozis, most of them don't need much (if any) change in voltage in order to cap out around 1500mhz.
Twiddles
True, and there is no advantage when it comes to size. Full blown stock cooler with an extra rad.
fry178
unless looking at the amount of heat that doesnt get dumped inside the case.
its been normal for most nv cards to run into limits not related to temps these days,
so i wouldnt care to put an aftermarket wc on it, but if it doesnt cost much more than the 2-3 fan solutions, why not.
just cooling my rig thru an external radiator, under load all motherboard/case temps dont pass 115*F, not even talking the fact that gpu temps drop significantly as well (air)..
