GTX 970 G1 Gaming ridiculous ASIC, ridiculous overclock.

[btoledob]

I thought the GPU Gauntlet ™ Sorting would be a safe buy, but I was wrong. I feel cheated because on the card I acquired the ASIC is a ridiculous 57.9%, and its overclocking ability is extremely limited.

Surely my next card will be not from Gigabyte.

Thank you for that!

[Cardinal_Fang]

Gauntlet wasn't designed to find GPUs that would overclock beyond the factory settings - the card is already overclocked. The reference base/boost frequencies are 1050/1178Mhz, whereas the Gigabyte card runs out of the box at 1178/1329MHz.

You can't complain that an already overclocked card won't overclock further because Gigabyte never said it would - it's just luck of the draw. Would you complain to Intel or AMD if you bought a CPU that didn't overclock as fast as someone elses?