So, you are upset that others are spouting baseless claims, but you're too lazy to test out a card you already own and provide information that might validate what you're saying (which is equally baseless)?...
I don't have to validate anything what I'm saying. I only added comment to what is happening around the GTX970 issue topic.
I saw many complains around the web and not many actual tests of mentioned issue. Those who provided their results didn't say that issues are appearing in every game. I said I'm too lazy ( maybe used wrong word ) just because I don't care so much to waste 1-2 days on tests that won't directly affect me even if I kept this card.
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Why should you care... you are getting a 980 and issue will be done for you, weird mentality. Most users are not actually experiencing issues thats correct but somehow they was not informed in advance about the possible issues, a issue hard to get in term not much scents for ethical value. Consumers can safely be tricked it seems and many people consider it valid. Guess thats the main point why so much drama... not the real world hitters, its a mental thing. I surely understand why many people are not gentle with the matter even if they are not actually suffering. Again, it is a advertised 4 GB card but may actually become issues at 3.5 GB+ on the hardware side... like it or not.
I simply don't care about so high settings as single GTX970 is too weak card for that anyway. I'm using new hardware mainly for benching and reviews so yes, why should I care to waste my time on these tests ?
Still my friend has GTX970 and I see many users on our forums who also have these cards. I'm not happy about the fact what Nvidia made as it's not right but this issue is not affecting maybe 99% users and probably won't affect for next 1-2 years. I just don't want to see whole community to panic because of issue which for most users will be only "on paper" as they won't see it while playing games.
I'm sorry it may affect you at some point but it doesn't mean all these threads around the web have to make other GTX970 users unhappy because of something that probably won't ever affect them. I bet that most GTX970 users will sell these cards before they move to something like 4k displays.
Indeed, guess some evil force was helping out Woomack in order to become a affordable 980... else i dunno why to turn down a matter and even to lazy to make own confirmations... at the same time expecting others to do so. The 970 apparently lacked power (he must have some crazy games) or not future proof.. who knows. I am surely gonna test it out and not just copy the claims others do. But most freaked out claim is that he is currently running a GTX 580 and it is "enough for what he does", in the backdoor there is already a postman with a 980 waiting and will be replacing a sufficient card... one of two, sorry it is kinda weird the story. I guess he then gonna tell "oh thank you for the nice unrequired upgrade, and people that are moaning about possibly insufficient cards, in future, are just boredoom". Really cool story...
I don't know why are you picking on me here. Just because I got GTX980 ? I ordered GTX980 before was any info about GTX970 issues. I'm not saying that all is fine because I already have GTX980. I would care the same if I haven't got it just because I won't use whole memory on these cards for anything I do.
As I said, I'm mainly benching on this hardware and I actually had 2x GTX970 and friend gave me one for tests. I made tri-SLI tests and decided to keep one card but since GTX980Ti will be probably in half year and there won't be anything better around for some time then I decided to get GTX980. Overpriced and not so much better than GTX970 but still better for my needs because of higher OC potential on lower temps.
If you worry about performance then simply test it. I never said I will check it and I won't because ( as you may read above ) I don't care so much to waste my time. Actually You said that will test it and then I said it will be best option. What's wrong with that ? I'm not making other users to waste their time and check anything for me. I don't need that.
It won't change what Nvidia made but if it won't confirm then at least you will feel better ( regardless what other say ). If you find some bigger issues then you have good base to drill the topic on the forums and even return hardware to the store as product is not exactly what was specified ( at least in some countries you can make that ).
It happened in the past and will happen in the future too regardless if it's Nvidia or other brand. Nvidia just used us to provide products or info not really what we expected.
So, I've been trying to hit this issue for the past hour or so in BF4. 1440P, Ultra. Vram is maxing out around 3GB, so I haven't been able to see if there is stuttering.
I tried upping the resolution scaling, but I think it's the GPU core which can't keep up. I am seeing some "lag" at 200% res scale. VRAM is around 3400 at that setting.
Now think how many players are using 1440p or higher resolution and who actually will see lack of 0.5GB.
What I mainly mean is not to make other GTX970 users unhappy as most won't even see mentioned issue but will feel that they've spent a lot of money on a hardware which is "defective". I mean in general, not only about this thread as many similar are around the web and already couple of topics on OCF.
Some users were already checking GTX970 with GTX980 BIOS and it didn't work so probably it's hardware locked.