This video is pure bs,they made the Strix look so loud.They use 60% fanspeed which unless your aiming for mid 50 cels load its completely not necessary.I go for 45% and its dead silent while i hit about 61-63 depending on ambient temps.Did enough curves on mine to tell you all about it.Cooler makes a bit more noise once pass 50% but honestly its just not needed period.
That stupid video nearly scared me off the Strix.Dug deeper on youtube to really see how quiet it was.
That's not the point here. The video shows how loud the card is at different fan speeds and temperature levels. For example, if you are going to be cranking the 970 to 1.5Ghz on both the Strix and MSI Gaming 970, the MSI card will be quieter at similar temperatures. A video like that will show you exactly that scenario. Obviously if you are running light overclocks or are OK with higher temperatures at 1.4-1.5Ghz overclock, you can run 45% fan speeds. That's not the point. The point is MSI Gaming remains quiet even if you scale its fan speeds up to 100%; and that's why it's an overall quieter 970 than the Asus Strix. Both the Strix and the MSI Gaming are very quiet out of the box, but these minor differences should be noted by reviewers along the entire fan curve because extra information certainly doesn't hurt the potential buyers. I wouldn't call their test BS as you seem to have implied.
It's understood that you don't need to run a single card at 80-100% fan speed at stock speeds. However, another scenario which you
haven't considered in your reply is SLI and Tri-SLI. Those users will absolutely have to run their cards at 60-100% fan speed.
Now imagine 2-3x Asus Strix @ 1.5Ghz vs. 2-3x MSI Gaming SLI 970 @ 1.5Ghz cards. Since the reviewer doesn't know the case you have, how many cards you have and how high of an overclock you aim to get, it's actually very informative when they give us noise measurements at different fan speed intervals. This is a methodology that is 100% missing from all North American websites and Computerbase should be commended for including it in their reviews. :thumbsup:
Uhhh, whats the point of this jab?
It's an online game. And you do level up.
I never took a jab at you I just don't understand what is there to do in a game like GTA V for 2000 hours? This is not a multi-player game like WoW or SC2.
Where do you get 400 days?
You said you will spend 2000 hours on GTA V alone. If we assume a normal person with a job, I used 5 hours a day as a conservative estimate. That amounts to 400 days straight. I was just curious to know what in the world is there to do in a game like GTA V for 400 days @ 5 hours a day.
People could probably say this same thing about the amount of time you spend on the internet debating video cards. Don't be a hypocrite.
I usually reply to posts during free intervals in my day. I don't spend anywhere near 5 hours a day replying. Over 13 years of posting on AT, my average number of posts is about 3.4 per day. You think that takes hours out of my day to write 3 replies? I am not criticizing you playing 2000 hours in
a videogame game, but specifically for GTA V. I would have never imagine anyone spending 2000 in this game. I've never heard of anyone before who spends that much time on GTA multi-player. Wow, SC2, DOTA, CS: GO, LoL, sure. A game that's primarily a single-player title with multi-player as an after-thought like GTA V?
I guess my question then is if you are going to spend 2000 hours in a game like GTA V, I mean at that point might as well get a 980 if you are that concerned about VRAM. If I knew I would dedicate 2000 hours towards which roughly amounts to 400 days @ 5 hours a day, I certainly wouldn't care at all about saving $150-200. If this is your most played game of all time, why not go for the
$475 EVGA 980? Alternatively, just get a 970, use it for 6 months and then once mods start coming out for GTA V, maybe you can save up for a faster card. That's why I think your worries about VRAM bottlenecks at 1080P on a 970 are over-exaggerated in practice.
Cannabis. Lots of cannabis, that's how. It's a well known stoner game, they just mooch about whilst stoned, doing "crazy cool things".
That's hilarious. I do find some insane fascination with GTA games and many gamers forgive ALL flaws (Physics, graphics, storyline) for GTA that no other gaming franchise can get away with. It's actually very hard to explain since the story line is generally rather weak. When we look at a game like The Witcher 3,
the map is gigantic but there are legitimate 100 hours of real storyline in there.
The physics in GTA V are an
absolute joke and no one talks about it. I dunno but GTA games and even GTA V are completely immune to media and PC gamer criticism it seems and whenever you start discussing them, GTA fans immediately get offended like you hurt their offspring.
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