GTX 970 3,5GB + 0,5GB with 56 ROP and less cache than advertised.

[WillSK]

Same here i paid $529.00 AUD for mine and that's only for 1

JESUS!! Aussie prices are absurd for Hardware. Just don't get it considering you're nearer than the EU to Taiwan etc. where half the stuff is made

 

[Doomslayer]

JESUS!! Aussie prices are absurd for Hardware. Just don't get it considering you're nearer than the EU to Taiwan etc. where half the stuff is made

I know we get rip off for everything

Look at the price of this ASUS GeForce GTX 980 Poseidon Platinum 4GB $999.00

 

[JR23]

I know we get rip off for everything

Look at the price of this ASUS GeForce GTX 980 Poseidon Platinum 4GB $999.00

Well that's a terrible example because it's cheaper than here. Incidentally so was your 970. You don't get ripped off at all it's just a comparatively weak currency.

JR

 

[Doomslayer]

Well that's a terrible example because it's cheaper than here. Incidentally so was your 970. You don't get ripped off at all it's just a comparatively weak currency.

JR

Yeah, its all to do with the exchange rate atm, But even when our dollar was good we were still paying the same price

It has something to do with the min-able wage too

 

[Warchild]

It's a bit confusing because what Nvidia have done is actually really good. It gives us that extra 500MB as a support instead of just disabling it completely, but it's just the fact they marketed it as a regular 4GB partition is what's disappointing.

Exactly. The way the memory was handled is very clever and well done. And it does not really impact gaming. Its their marketing ploy that has failed.

Now as for the people complaining, some that complained were then found to be using lower end gear and/or AMD FX chips, which correct me if I am wrong, aren't really aimed at gamers anyway.

So obviously they would run into issues. Feels like a mountain our of a mole hill scenario to me

As the Norwegian Kroner has crashed hard, a 970 now costs us 3790Nok as apposed to 3200Nok before Christmas.

 

[WillSK]

Well that's a terrible example because it's cheaper than here. Incidentally so was your 970. You don't get ripped off at all it's just a comparatively weak currency.

JR

Yeah silly me I was def doing the wrong math in my head. Should really slap myself on the wrist since my gf is an aussie.

529 aus dollars isn't that bad for a 970 at all

 

[WYP]

I'm playing Dying light at 1440p and I get tonnes of shuttering, funnily enough GPU-Z reports me as using over 3.5GB of VRAM.

Ugh, the 4GB frame buffer is what made me go with Nvidia, if I can return this thing because of this I will.

 

[TPC]

I'm playing Dying light at 1440p and I get tonnes of shuttering, funnily enough GPU-Z reports me as using over 3.5GB of VRAM.

Ugh, the 4GB frame buffer is what made me go with Nvidia, if I can return this thing because of this I will.

many german resellers are already taking back 970s only because of that...

and out of 250 people with a 970
94 said they will definitly get a refund
42 said they are thinking about it
65 said they will keep their card
and 49 said they will wait a bit
Source: http://www.computerbase.de/forum/showthread.php?t=1440835 (watch out its german)
Its interesting to see that so many would actually get a refund

 

[WYP]

I'm playing Dying light at 1440p and I get tonnes of shuttering, funnily enough GPU-Z reports me as using over 3.5GB of VRAM.

Ugh, the 4GB frame buffer is what made me go with Nvidia, if I can return this thing because of this I will.

Yeah, I just restarted Dying Light, only changing the texture settings. VRAM usage is now down to about 2750MB.

Poof, no more shuttering and sudden frame rate drops. Great job Nvidia.

 

[steverebo]

my problem is ive stuck waterblocks on both my 970's so i dont think i can send them back but i really really want to

 

[TPC]

my problem is ive stuck waterblocks on both my 970's so i dont think i can send them back but i really really want to

you have MSI cards dont you? they often still accept cards where the cooler had been off, worked atleast with my GTX770 some time ago and that cooler was painted ^_^

 

[steverebo]

I hope your right I think Im going to open a thread on the MSI customer care section and see if I can get a response from them. I would happily pay the extra and grab a pair of 980's instead of these

 

[WYP]

I hope your right I think Im going to open a thread on the MSI customer care section and see if I can get a response from them. I would happily pay the extra and grab a pair of 980's instead of these

I hope you can get a return sorted dude.

We didn't but GTX 970's to have less VRAM, goodness I got Dying light (an Nvidia game no less) to be playable for me at 1440p by lowering the texture settings, all because of this stupid issue.

"Edit",

I have just made an RMA request to Ebuyer.

"Secondary edit"

Now ebuyer are wanting me to contact their support team by phone to let my RMA to be processed further. They told me this at 7.10, over an hour after their support team contact number closes.

I'll phone them tomorrow and let you guys know how I get on.

Nvidia will not recall their product due to the backlash that would occur. but tbh they need to address this somehow.

the sale of goods act has us covered here in the UK as the product was not as described and in that case it is the job of the retailer to settle things with me and provide a full refund.

 

[Warchild]

Ok for sanitys sake I borrowed someones 970 to test out shadows of mordor.

Used same settings as I did for my 780. No issues. Cranked up the details to ultra and saw stuttering. Put my 780 back in with the same settings, and saw.. stuttering.

I really really can't see an issue to prove that the memory handling differently is impacting performance like people are making it out to be.

And just fyi I had 3.88gb usage for SoM.

The same is being shown on various other sites (guru3d, pcper, anantech) who are testing real world home gaming scenario and not some silly pre allocation of memory to force the card into having issues.

If anything surely you would see the performance drop on the loading screens rather than ingame itself.

That being said. These MSI Gaming series cards are pretty damn impressive. Might have to get a 980 one (or two) next month if I can get the waterblocks at the same time.

Now im not accusing people of blowing this out of proportion, but don't you think its a little over reaction?

 

[Doomslayer]

Ok for sanitys sake I borrowed someones 970 to test out shadows of mordor.

Used same settings as I did for my 780. No issues. Cranked up the details to ultra and saw stuttering. Put my 780 back in with the same settings, and saw.. stuttering.

I really really can't see an issue to prove that the memory handling differently is impacting performance like people are making it out to be.

And just fyi I had 3.88gb usage for SoM.

The same is being shown on various other sites (guru3d, pcper, anantech) who are testing real world home gaming scenario and not some silly pre allocation of memory to force the card into having issues.

If anything surely you would see the performance drop on the loading screens rather than ingame itself.

That being said. These MSI Gaming series cards are pretty damn impressive. Might have to get a 980 one (or two) next month if I can get the waterblocks at the same time.

Now im not accusing people of blowing this out of proportion, but don't you think its a little over reaction?

No not really i can understand where people are coming from

 

[steverebo]

I hope you can get a return sorted dude.

We didn't but GTX 970's to have less VRAM, goodness I got Dying light (an Nvidia game no less) to be playable for me at 1440p by lowering the texture settings, all because of this stupid issue.

"Edit",

I have just made an RMA request to Ebuyer.

"Secondary edit"

Now ebuyer are wanting me to contact their support team by phone to let my RMA to be processed further. They told me this at 7.10, over an hour after their support team contact number closes.

I'll phone them tomorrow and let you guys know how I get on.

Nvidia will not recall their product due to the backlash that would occur. but tbh they need to address this somehow.

the sale of goods act has us covered here in the UK as the product was not as described and in that case it is the job of the retailer to settle things with me and provide a full refund.

Let me know how you get on as both my cards were purchased from ebuyer

 

[barnsley]

Ok for sanitys sake I borrowed someones 970 to test out shadows of mordor.

Used same settings as I did for my 780. No issues. Cranked up the details to ultra and saw stuttering. Put my 780 back in with the same settings, and saw.. stuttering.


Now im not accusing people of blowing this out of proportion, but don't you think its a little over reaction?

What settings did you use for SoM?

I think its not an overreaction. Nvidia should not get away with lying. If it was AMD there would be a public uproar. Why not Nvidia?

 

[Doomslayer]

What settings did you use for SoM?

I think its not an overreaction. Nvidia should not get away with lying. If it was AMD there would be a public uproar. Why not Nvidia?

Yes if this was AMD people would be calling for their heads, but since its Nvidia people sorta of forgive them, Same thing applies to Apple too in some things

 

[barnsley]

Yes if this was AMD people would be calling for their heads, but since its Nvidia people sorta of forgive them, Same thing applies to Apple too in some things

Indeed.

If the thing with Gsync ending up just to be a Display Port thing people would just shrug it off and claim that AMD copied Nvidia's idea to use the DP standard...

Then again the entire tech industry relies on double standards. :mellow:

In terms of Apple they should have got ripped a new one for Yosemite but they didn't despite it being a buggy, childish and half assed update to OSX.

 

[Doomslayer]

Indeed.

If the thing with Gsync ending up just to be a Display Port thing people would just shrug it off and claim that AMD copied Nvidia's idea to use the DP standard...

Then again the entire tech industry relies on double standards. :mellow:

In terms of Apple they should have got ripped a new one for Yosemite but they didn't despite it being a buggy, childish and half assed update to OSX.

Wow we finally agreed on something :lol: