Quick update: Had a few display crashes where the screen would just go black and the monitor would show 'no signal'. They appear to have been caused by the VRMs on the card overheating and shutting it down for safety. After I upped the VRM fan speed in the CAM software to run higher at lower GPU core temps, they didn't return. So, little learning - if you are using a G10 make sure to use nice fast 92mm fans on your VRMs (AMD cards have a built in VRM temo sensor so you can monitor them more accurately).
Final update (for now). I've found out what the above crashes were being caused by. It wasn't heat at all I don't think. From what I can tell I'd over tightened the G10. Was still getting intermittent crashes, so went back in and untightened it a lot, and they stopped. However my temps were 60C which I disliked, so I went back in again and retightened it a little and now they hit 53C but I don't get any blackscreens. Kerching.
Did a little bit of overclocking tonight. Got 1542Mhz stable on the core. Temps top out at a balmy 55C. Amazing!
Its ok. Overclockers are sorting me with an RMA. Bit annoying as that's the second mobo in a row I've ordered from there that had to be RMA'd.
Overclockers will see you right Tom, they've improved no end - I've had to RMA a motherboard and GPU with them and on both occasions it was straight forward and hassle free Sweet Here's my day to day OC I run with my 970 Strix for a comparison LINK
Hmmmm I'm kinda surprised at that score of yours, I know mine is an above average clocking card but still... I'd have a crack at tweaking the memory for sure though your CPU clock and RAM speed may also be a contributing factor in your instance.
Parge, out of interest have you been paying any attention to the incoming Corsair Bulldog setup? http://www.corsair.com/en-gb/landing/bulldog The 92mm fan on the SFX psu could make it a no brainer when compared to the Silverstone equivalent and the CPU cooler looks a bit interesting. All the parts will be available as separates which makes them a nice little proposition for M1 builds of the future.
Yeah, mine is only clocked at 4.1Ghz. I'll play with the memory too. I LOVE the internals, but the box itself is ugly as sin to me. I don't actually find the PSU fan too instrusive to be honest! I'll stick with the SS unless I see the Corsair version cheap. Stoked that more people are pushing SFF though.
Wow, that Bulldog looks interesting! And by interesting, I mean absolutely honkingly ugly Really nice concept, though, and as Parge says it's great to see more SFF stuff in the market. Just a pity that the chassis itself is not the bonniest looking.
