Joooordaaaaaaan

levifig

Piospi
End of a week and there is no official release.. :/

 
Uhhhh… Except I ordered one a few hours ago, it's on NewEgg and EVGA.com? :X #confused

There is more to the world then just America. :/ I personally got sick of waiting and just ordered the Gigabyte G1. Good luck to those still waiting. :)

 
Dude: I'm Portuguese (only moved to the US in '07) so I feel your pain! I'm sorry man… :(
 
Having said that:  http://www.newegg.com/global/uk/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814487090 ;)

levifig

Joooordaaaaaaan

levifig

Piospi
End of a week and there is no official release.. :/

 
Uhhhh… Except I ordered one a few hours ago, it's on NewEgg and EVGA.com? :X #confused

There is more to the world then just America. :/ I personally got sick of waiting and just ordered the Gigabyte G1. Good luck to those still waiting. :)

 
Dude: I'm Portuguese (only moved to the US in '07) so I feel your pain! I'm sorry man… :(
 
Having said that:  ;)

I tried that ages ago, totals to £330 (£41 more then the g1 which is silly), and that's BEFORE customs duty & tax. Absolutely no chance. I'm not butthurt or anything, I realise that EVGA are US based & they'll look to distribute to the US first, I've just personally grown impatient. I've been almost a month without a GPU, I couldn't wait any longer. :p

EVGA COMES THRU.
 
I am so proud of them, I am sure many of the previous owners of the 970 FTW will be happy

Hold the phone... I was quite literally one click away from purchasing the extended warranty to reactivate the step up program in order to step my FTW up to a FTW+ (missed the 14-day period by 1 day), and I don't know what came over me, but I decided to give EVGA a quick call just to confirm that they were indeed allowing this...
 
The answer I was given is that it "doesn't appear we are allowing FTW owners to step up to a FTW+ because that is stepping up to a GPU of the same class."
 
I just died a little.
 
I asked about why 970 SC owners were able to step up to the SSC version and he said that, "...it was a company decision to make an exception to the step up rules due to the heat pipe design of the original SC version."
 
Really, EVGA? The FTW can't even hold it's boost clock that you advertise because the power design implementation is inadequate. They need to rethink their decision because they just screwed over a lot of people. I bought my "new" FTW two weeks ago... already outdated 

RaghuC99
 I have a SC, is it worth 55 bucks for a backplate, few extra mhz? 

IMO, if you can OC that SC for anything worthwhile and are happy with it, then no.  

SpecialForces54
Hold the phone... I was quite literally one click away from purchasing the extended warranty to reactivate the step up program in order to step my FTW up to a FTW+ (missed the 14-day period by 1 day), and I don't know what came over me, but I decided to give EVGA a quick call just to confirm that they were indeed allowing this...
 
The answer I was given is that it "doesn't appear we are allowing FTW owners to step up to a FTW+ because that is stepping up to a GPU of the same class."
 
I just died a little.
 
I asked about why 970 SC owners were able to step up to the SSC version and he said that, "...it was a company decision to make an exception to the step up rules due to the heat pipe design of the original SC version."
 
Really, EVGA? The FTW can't even hold it's boost clock that you advertise because the power design implementation is inadequate. They need to rethink their decision because they just screwed over a lot of people. I bought my "new" FTW two weeks ago... already outdated 

Hmm, this is the first I'm hearing after looking around the forums. I'm wondering if support is saying one thing while those able to step-up are going straight through with the process anyway. This ought to be interesting. 

SpecialForces54
Hold the phone... I was quite literally one click away from purchasing the extended warranty to reactivate the step up program in order to step my FTW up to a FTW+ (missed the 14-day period by 1 day), and I don't know what came over me, but I decided to give EVGA a quick call just to confirm that they were indeed allowing this...
 
The answer I was given is that it "doesn't appear we are allowing FTW owners to step up to a FTW+ because that is stepping up to a GPU of the same class."
 
I just died a little.
 
I asked about why 970 SC owners were able to step up to the SSC version and he said that, "...it was a company decision to make an exception to the step up rules due to the heat pipe design of the original SC version."
 
Really, EVGA? The FTW can't even hold it's boost clock that you advertise because the power design implementation is inadequate. They need to rethink their decision because they just screwed over a lot of people. I bought my "new" FTW two weeks ago... already outdated 

In the ftw+ thread by Jacob, it looks like you should be able to. Jacob didn't quote anyone on the answer, but he said you can step-up just like the new ssc. That should mean that ftw owners can step-up to ftw+

Thank goodness! Thanks for the quick reply as well

RaghuC99
I can get my SC to around 1460 mhz at like 67 degrees full load, so it'd only be around 3-4 fps more which is not really an in issue, but the main thing I'm worried about is that everyone is saying that the heat-pipes have some manufacturing defect, but my temps are fine so idk what to do

Referring to that one heatpipe that doesn't touch the core again? I'm still sticking to my original answer, but if these new features are something that interest you then don't let me or anyone else keep you from being happy .

I really don't know what's going on, but are people coming from really trashy cards ? Oo.

I had 2x Palit 970s "reference" in SLI, then I sold them for 2x 980s in SLI reference as well.

My 4790k at 4.9Ghz couldnt utilize that mich GPU power and was the limiting factor. So I went for a 290x with 8GB by XFX.

Card was too loud an the Omega drivers are bad due to a 144hz memory bug on idle. So I replaced that card with a new 970 SSC 3975.

THW card has coil whine, when the Blades are spinning up at 60 DEG. The card is making a humming sound. And either you get 72 deg almost silent or loud 62 DEG. Thats nothing special at all. Max OC is a stable 1522mhz with 69% asic qual. Dont know why everyone is so mega hyped.

t3chn0m0
I really don't know what's going on, but are people coming from really trashy cards ? Oo.

I had 2x Palit 970s "reference" in SLI, then I sold them for 2x 980s in SLI reference as well.

My 4790k at 4.9Ghz couldnt utilize that mich GPU power and was the limiting factor. So I went for a 290x with 8GB by XFX.

Card was too loud an the Omega drivers are bad due to a 144hz memory bug on idle. So I replaced that card with a new 970 SSC 3975.

THW card has coil whine, when the Blades are spinning up at 60 DEG. The card is making a humming sound. And either you get 72 deg almost silent or loud 62 DEG. Thats nothing special at all. Max OC is a stable 1522mhz with 69% asic qual. Dont know why everyone is so mega hyped.

There is hype because the owners of the regular 970 FTW were having issues with their cards. The FTW+ is an update of the late FTW and EVGA is gracious enough to their customers to allow them to trade in their older FTW to the FTW+ for the difference in cost, $10, and shipping and handeling. Most times you can't update to a GPU in the same family, but the new SSC and FTW+ were special cases as they were updates that fixed problems in the older cards.
 
This is the only GPU company that does this kind of thing.

I just order my FTW+
When is the FTW++ coming out so that I can step into that one?

still not available for step-up in the EU, but glad they put the trigger.

Glad people were able to step up to the revision and have a real FTW card. I returned my SSC's unfortunately... gave them a good 16 hours of solid gameplay over a weeks time to decide they were just not what I was expecting out of $700 in video cards. The FPS meter was showing almost a solid 90FPS on precision, but my game was not smooth. Hope others have better luck... I'm waiting till the end of the month to decide what i'll be doing.

Miko Ryukudo
What resolution do you play at RainStryke?

Currently, 1080p @ 75Hz