MSI GTX970 Gaming Review

[BigBlue1]

Maxwell. Yep here is your crown. I was hedging my money on this gen to follow suit of what we saw with the 750ti. Well done nVidia. For peeps like us here in Australia where electricity prices are going bonkers these power efficient, high performance cards are a godsend.
My 760's will be finding a new home soon to make way for a 980 or 2x 970's.
Will be interested to see what AMD does. I hope they can pull a rabbit out of their hat.

Yep, like the round file in the corner.

 

[jezza]

Same here. ordered the 240 and the board already. would be ideal if i didn't have to mess about with water to get the card.

After some searching around the MSi GTX 970 Gaming is to high for the case. It's 140mm where the case can only handle 120mm height GPU's.

 

[piezor]

After some searching around the MSi GTX 970 Gaming is to high for the case. It's 140mm where the case can only handle 120mm height GPU's.

Thanks for that mate. Shame about it being too tall.

looking at the evga superclocked card instead. seems to have a reference height cooler on it and looks alright, just noisier than other 970s. I guess that's from having reference sized cooler and a higher clock speed than the msi card.

decisions decisions.......

 

[Bozzy]

Thinking of selling my EVGA ref GTX780 for one of these for 1440p... maybe even two at that price...

 

[Tolemac]

I will have the money in a week or two for one of these cards I've always done asus with any build i've made but I quite like the look of the msi and it's £20 cheaper

 

[BigBlue1]

OK, but how does it look on the screen? they have put a lot of new features into these cards like Dynamic Super Resolution, letting a 1080 monitor show 4k quality images, Multi-Frame-Sampled Anti-aliasing (MFAA) which allows a much faster alternative to MSAA with a final result that looks just as good, Voxel Global Illumination which will allow dynamic lighting, and VR Direct to support OC Rift and other vr hardware (I hope they (oculous) change the hardware that rift uses to be comfortable to use).
The VXGI in particular looks most promising as it will free up game designers to create dynamic light sources and the objects in the game can be assigned properties that determine how they’ll reflect or absorb the light cast upon them. With this technology, the game programmer can simply place light sources, and those lights will react dynamically to any changes in the environment. Result: more things will be able to be destroyed in a game easier.

When it's all said and done, you buy a card for how well it performs and a huge part of GPU performance is the quality of the rendered images.

 

[NeverBackDown]

The VXGI in particular looks most promising as it will free up game designers to create dynamic light sources and the objects in the game can be assigned properties that determine how they’ll reflect or absorb the light cast upon them. With this technology, the game programmer can simply place light sources, and those lights will react dynamically to any changes in the environment. Result: more things will be able to be destroyed in a game easier.

If it only it was that easy.

 

[Watky]

Just ordered one Can't wait for the delivery! It's going to be an upgrade om my 1GB GTX 650.

 

[anti-duck]

Absolutely gutted lol, I just got mine a day before Nvidia started the Pick Your Path bundle. Absolutely fantastic video card though, I managed to get a stable overclock of +189 core and +493 memory for a 1543MHz boost clock speed and 7992MHz effective memory clock and it still doesn't go over 65°C, I can ever play F1 2014 maxed out at 4K and the fans don't even spin.