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EVGA GTX 970 FTW+ (changes to the original FTW)

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Has anyone seen this?

http://hexus.net/tech/news/graphics/78613-evga-launching-new-improved-geforce-gtx-970-ssc-card/

I guess the EVGA GTX 970 SSC has already been updated to 04G-P4-3975-KR from it's 04G-P4-2975-KR variant and is available on newegg already.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814487088&cm_re=gtx_970_evga-_-14-487-088-_-Product

The FTW version is also getting an update to a FTW+ version which I imagine will go from the sku 04G-2978-KR to the sku 04G-3978-KR. It doesn't appear to be available yet.

Changes with these cards include 6+2 phase power instead of the original 4+2, better cooling with copper heatpipes and full coverage on the memory, a new I/O which includes 3 displayports, a dual bios and included with the FTW+ versions will be a backplate! OMG a backplate!
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Weird that you still have to purchase a backplate for the 980 Classy though???

Anyway I have a couple Gigabyte GTX 970s in SLI, but I'm a massive fanboy of EVGA and the whole reason I didn't get them this time around was due to the heatsink failure in their original ACX 1.0 cards. I have felt separation anxiety though for the past couple months and I believe once the FTW+ comes in stock I'll be all over it. I feel they really fixed the previous mistakes very nicely.

I just wanted to share this information as I hadn't seen it anywhere on the forums and I would like to know...is anyone else thinking of getting either the new SSC or FTW+ cards?
 
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Higher power target of 133% too. Ahh the joys of being an early EVGA adopter.
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So I am a little bummed. I didn't realize that this card was coming out and I just ordered a standard 970 FTW about a week ago. It hasn't arrived yet, and I can send it back. But what kind of timeline are we anticipating for the release of the FTW+? Within the next 30 days? Or should I just buy a 970 SSC? What kind of performance difference will there be between the SSC and the FTW+?
 
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Originally Posted by BrewWY View Post

So I am a little bummed. I didn't realize that this card was coming out and I just ordered a standard 970 FTW about a week ago. It hasn't arrived yet, and I can send it back. But what kind of timeline are we anticipating for the release of the FTW+? Within the next 30 days? Or should I just buy a 970 SSC? What kind of performance difference will there be between the SSC and the FTW+?
Buy the SSC. From what I hear it's exactly the card EVGA should have released on 970 launch. I personally picked one up myself yesterday. I don't think the FTW+ specs have really dropped but from what I read on the EVGA forum it's expected to just be an SSC with a higher clock speed.
 
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So with both having the 133% max power they should OC about the same I would assume?
Yes. Usually the only difference between FTW and ACX is FTW has 2 more phases and higher base clock speed, but both SSC and FTW+ will have 6+2 digital phases. From what I understand EVGA doesn't actually bin their FTW cards, only Classifieds.
 
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Well I am still a tech newb and I don't understand your above statement. And would a pair of SSC's starve on a Corsair TX750 PSU?
Binning is a process by which it is determined how fast a chip can run. EVGA bin their Classified cards to ensure they are able to run at high overclocks. No, 2 970s can run easily in your system on 750 watts.
 
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Originally Posted by MapRef41N93W View Post

Buy the SSC. From what I hear it's exactly the card EVGA should have released on 970 launch. I personally picked one up myself yesterday. I don't think the FTW+ specs have really dropped but from what I read on the EVGA forum it's expected to just be an SSC with a higher clock speed.
Yeah I believe they are the same card outside of the FTW+ having higher clocks out of box and a backplate. IMO I'm going with the FTW+ just to get the backplate considering the cost will probably be what the SSC is with the backplate and I know I will hunt for a backplate the second I get an SSC if I went that route.

They do look great though...def the cards evga should've went with at launch even if it meant delaying their versions of the cards a month or so.
 
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Well got to looking and for some reason Newegg is not allowing returns on my FTW. On the upside I can get a SSC through the upgrade program EVGA offers, and I have roughly 84 days for the FTW+ to release before I have to make a choice. So I can enjoy a better card for now and see what the future holds. Maybe if I am really lucky the gm200 will drop.
 
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I was going to pull the trigger on a new SSC but going to wait for the FTW +. If the SSC had a back plate it would already be in my system. If EVGA pulls full ****** and ships FTW + with no back plate i'm done looking at EVGA for the 900 series.
Nah it will def have a backplate... It's one of the big features they're hyping with the ftw+
 
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I hear this will be out this week.
 
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Originally Posted by MapRef41N93W View Post

Got my SSC+ 970. Don't get it though, I thought the card was supposed to have 33% higher power limit? My card is showing only +10 max in both Afterburner (extended overclock) and Precision X on both bioses.
I'm not sure, but they probably updated the default power limit by 33% (so 100% is now 33% higher than before), and you can also manually increase that by another 10%.

Either way, if you mod your BIOS, you can change the limit to whatever you want. Check out this thread for more details: http://www.overclock.net/t/1467851/nvidia-maxwell-kepler-bios-editing-thread-gtx-2xx-to-9xx-now-supported
 
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