74%
boosts to 1417 stock

FTW+ became available last night for step up at eu.evga.com. But 399 EUR ...😒 vs 345 for SSC+

Yeah, I called up the EVGA sales department and asked what the difference is between the SSC and FTW+. At first the rep mentioned that the FTW+ had a whole new PCB with a entirely new layout... Then I mentioned... No, the new SSC that has the same upgrades and added 6 phase power. He basically told me performance wise, both will be about the same. I really don't see how a backplate and a very small increase in speed makes up for $40 difference on the US side. Especially if they put out backplates to add to the SSC for $20, which seems to be the going rate... After you add a backplate to a SSC card, you are looking at a $20 difference in price for 26MHz higher on the base clock and a FTW+ in blue letters for the price difference. I'm not seeing the value at this point, but those new backplates might cost more than I expect.

adamba
FTW+ became available last night for step up at eu.evga.com. But 399 EUR ...😒 vs 345 for SSC+

why do they increase the price on their own website by such a big margin? thats about 30% higher than newegg price.
 
Actually the evga price isnt that bad, is due to really weak euro now.
 
But I had to convert my price paid to euros as is no UK GBP stepup page.  So it would depend on evga agreeing with exchange rate.

Well, I have read up all the pages and can't figure it out... does it worth to step up from 970FTW with back plate to new 970FTW+ 

danut23
Well, I have read up all the pages and can't figure it out... does it worth to step up from 970FTW with back plate to new 970FTW+ 

 
I am still debating that very issue as well, my FTW with backplate performing very well for me so far...
 

I will check ASIC on my card and if its good (which I don't know exactly what that means :) ) I don't think I will step up for the + edition

Tried some overclocking, and this was the best I could coax out of the new SSC.

I paid £320 for my FTW and the step up said 408 euros so I only have to pay postage.

Yeah you send the old card back and they send the new one.

I've checked the ASIC for my FTW edition and the value is 67% (I don't know if it is good or bad). I have activated the kboost option in evga precision x and the GPU frequency rise at 1395 MHZ and was stable but when I have benchmark with furmark, my TDP was around 101% and GPU temp was at 70° with cooler set up at 50% RPM. I have no experienced any coil wine sound... Maybe some benchmarks will help us to compare the cards

fkrIII
So I just received by stepup ssc+ today.  it runs cooler and quieter than the old sc I had.
 
I have reached a non crashing boost clock of 1550 without any extra voltage in heaven and valley.  I had to turn it down to 1530 so that I had absolutely no glitches in the benchmark.  the memory is at 7950 right now and I have pushed it right up to 8000 but once again I started getting some texture pop ins and such so I lowered it
 
I am running at 1530/7950 at stock voltage and 110% power limit.
 
asic is 67.

 
Looks like we have a winner, even with a "low" asic score.  Post some bench numbers dang it.

Where is that reading coming from? Is that from precision or gpuz?

fkrIII
well tried to push it a little further today,  I can reach 1565MHZ and make it to the last section of heaven benchmark but then it freezes.  I may try lowering the memory overclock and see if that helps.
 
also I found in some cases my boost clock would drop by 12 so I upped the voltage to +20.  It needed it.  temps are always below 70C with an aggressive fan curve
 
here is a all max settings @1080p ran at full screen heaven benchmark.  very typical score of 1600 with this overclock.

Dude: you're getting better OC on your SSC than I did on my FTW+… O_O
Anyway, here's my promised 2nd video with benchmarks against a reference card: http://youtu.be/HEb2K25vIlU

Hope it helps some of you. Cheers. :)

fkrIII
So I just received by stepup ssc+ today.  it runs cooler and quieter than the old sc I had.
 
I have reached a non crashing boost clock of 1550 without any extra voltage in heaven and valley.  I had to turn it down to 1530 so that I had absolutely no glitches in the benchmark.  the memory is at 7950 right now and I have pushed it right up to 8000 but once again I started getting some texture pop ins and such so I lowered it
 
I am running at 1530/7950 at stock voltage and 110% power limit.
 
asic is 67.

That's about where I'm at.  At 1540 I start to see artifacts on my core clock, so I dropped it back to 1530.  Memory is sitting at 8120 (2030 according to GPU-Z).  At 8140 I started to see artifacts in OC Scanner memory burn, so I dropped it back a bit.
 
Don't have firestrike ultra, but at regular settings, I get:
http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/5701591
 
ASIC is 66.6%

i dont have a multimeter to test, but the reading is from precision, ill check gpu-z tonight
both gpu-z and precision are saying the boost limiter is the voltage cap so thats what im basing it off of
 
edit: just checked, gpu-z says the same