Does anyone know if this is legitimately using the reference nvidia cooler or is it likely just a placeholder image? http://www.eclipsecomputers.com/product.aspx?code=GC-XNGTX974 Also are they reputable? Cheers
Already contacted Eclipse and it is NOT the titan type cooler that's supplied with a 'generic' GTX 970!
Just a reference image, the card will probably be a palit. Eclipse should be fine to order from though.
Pulled the trigger today on a 780ti. The prices on them have crashed to £340 ish. Plus a free game and a free set of cheap headphones from scan. Slightly better performance than a 970, but more power hungry. I'm happy with it. It'll be more grunt to run a 1200p screen for a long time to come yet.
I was so tempted to go the same route, but went with the Asus 970 instead (ordered today). I'll buy a second 970 in a month or so, which my 650w Superflower Gold PSU will be comfortable powering. Looking at power consumption figures, 780Ti SLi would use about 80-100w more..which really would be too close to my PSU limits.
there is not any card out yet to out do the 780ti from what I can see, the 980 is a poor excuse, sure it has lower power but it has lower specs. the wise money here is to get a 970 for not very much money and then SLI it, you are talking huge super computer GPU power and for the same price as one 780ti a short while ago. I have a ASUS GTX 780 TI Direct CUII and I can pick up a second one for 342 from scan. matched with a z99 board and CPU upgrade, that is going to ensure 75 frames per second for the dk2, but still not quite good enough for 120frames per second for the commercial oculus rift, but then that's a year away. What is going to change every thing is when the 980ti comes out, if it does. it would be wrong of me to sell my 780ti for £250 to replace it with a 970CU II say and put my hand in my pocket for a second one just to get less performance than 780ti in SLI. As far as I can see it, if you don't have a powerful GPU, buy a 970 for sure 100%, if how ever you have a 780 or a 780ti, just take advantage and go sli to smash your FPS up. What would be interesting is if some one actually said ok I spend say 10to 20 hours per week on my pc gaming, over 6 months or 12 months, if I did that with a 780ti or 780ti sli, it would cost x amount more than if I was to buy the lower power requirements 970sli. with the 780ti you are talking about a lot more power required, there is a cost for that, sli is like 100watts more right, that has to add up over a year, how much thou, if its like 800£ or some thing then I have to decide if its right to sell the 780ti and go 970sli if its just a few quid like £200 over a year forget about it. 970 is a great card thou, would be good to have no decent gpu here and it would be a no brainer purchase.
If we assume that you pay 15p per KWh of electricity, then by my sums 100W extra power load, run 24/7 for an entire year, would cost a massive £131.40. If we take your 20 hours per week example, that's £15.60 a year. That's assuming that 100W is the additional power draw of a pair of 780tis relative to a pair of 970s.
I went for the (£320! Yikes) 970 with the reference blower & 980PCB over a cheaper 780ti. Reference blower rather than OEM (rebadged 670 blowers all around) because the NVTTM is actually quite nice whereas the OEM blowers are cheap screaming little noisemakers. And the 780ti was right out because it would mean buying a new SFX PSU (with the only game in town being the £100 600w Silverstone). The current 300w SFX can handle a 970 and a 3570k at stock.
It's a damn shame that some of the partners haven't invested more in designing good blowers for the current generation of cards. Even more of a shame that the 970 isn't officially available with the reference blower.
It would certainly be possible on the 970 especially as the 980m (which is just a 970 cut down slightly) is adequately cooled by a HSF that is tiny in comparison.
The last single-slot mid/high end card I can remember was the 8800GT, and that was half the TDP of the 970.
Galaxey has done single slot cards for cards that a are newish. But they dont sell to the west. Lastest one is the 750Ti at 60tdp single slot, but the 970 is 145tdp :/ I see your point
