There has been quite a few people in uproar over the ACX designed cooler on the GTX 970 (and possibly GTX 980). This thread is for people who have bought a card, lets post some real world benches. Here are a couple of my runs:
 
My system as it is currently:
i5-2500K @ 4.0Ghz
Gigabyte P67-UD4
EVGA GTX 970 SC
8Gb DDR3 (1333Mhz)
Corsair AX850 power supply
Cooler Master 590 case

Current ambient temp: 70*F (according to the thermostat in the room)
*These tests were run with the stock configuration unless otherwise noted*
GPU idle temp: 27*C


Base Clock: 1164 Mhz
Boost Clock: 1317 Mhz
OC base clock: 1214 Mhz
Boost OC: 1442 Mhz
*Note* I did not test any higher overclocks than this, 1442 Mhz seems pretty beefy.

Metro Last Light Benchmark
DX11
1920x1080
Quality: Very High
Texture Filtering: AF 16x
Motion blur: Low
SSAA: None
Tesselation: Very High
Scene D6

I decided to give it a modest overclock. Update: I was able to make a successful run at 1522 Mhz, any higher and it crashed.
OC base clock: 1294 Mhz
Boost OC: 1522 Mhz
Max temp: 64*C
*Please note I increased the fan speed by 10% for this test.*
Here is a screenshot under load, please disregard the temp as it's not the maximum.


 
I chose Metro Last Light since I think it's one of the most demanding games available. I will run other benchmarks and monitor temps if you like. Hopefully this clears any doubt of a "defect" with these cards.

blacksapphire08
There has been quite a few people in uproar over the ACX designed cooler on the GTX 970 (and possibly GTX 980). This thread is for people who have bought a card, lets post some real world benches. Here are a couple of my runs:
 
My system as it is currently:
i5-2500K @ 4.0Ghz
Gigabyte P67-UD4
EVGA GTX 970 SC
8Gb DDR3 (1333Mhz)
Corsair AX850 power supply
Cooler Master 590 case

Current ambient temp: 70*F (according to the thermostat in the room)
*These tests were run with the stock configuration unless otherwise noted*
GPU idle temp: 27*C
 
 
 
I chose Metro Last Light since I think it's one of the most demanding games available. I will run other benchmarks and monitor temps if you like. Hopefully this clears any doubt of a "defect" with these cards.

 
Very nice writeup. Awesome temps with a great OC. Wish all of my GPUs were defective now.

With your impressive overclocks, are you experiencing any coil whine?

I have an i7 2600k @ 4.4GHz, 16gb (4x4) 533MHz
EVGA GTX 970 SC ACX SLI @ 1,165 / 1,735

So here are my results..

3dMark Fire Strike:

11,703 (344.16 drivers went up to 11,802)

Graphics Score - 14,027
Physics Score - 10,948
Combined Score - 5,472

3dMark Cloud Gate

16,150 (with 344.16 drivers)

Graphics score - 22,792
Physics Score - 7,996

What's funny is my ASUS GTX 780 DCU2 OC non SLI destroyed my 970 SLI scores..

780 Run - Cloud Gate

25,630

Graphics score - 66,866
Physics score - 8,115

I was expecting a higher score I guess?

I'm using this set up to game at 4k on the Asus PB287Q using Display Port 1.2 @ 60Hz

The benchmarks I ran last night (off the top of my head, I don't have the numbers in front of me)

Assume for these they're all at 3840x2160 with Ultra everything and AA turned on

Grid Autosport - MSAA 4x -- 68fps
Batman: Arkham Origins - MSAA 4x -- 65fps (closer to 75 with no AA)
Witcher 2 -- 62fps 
Battlefield 4 - Single Player -- Fluctuated between 45 and 60fps
Dirt 3 --94
Metro: Last Light - Heavy Mission -- 45fps

Using Precision X, I keep the fan speeds as low as possible until 85C, at which point I have them spin up to 80% speed. During all of these tests I never once heard the fans spool up, and I was sitting in the mid 60's and 70's.

So basically what I'm getting at is my numbers seem to be very in line with what two of these cards can do in games, it just feels like my 3dmark scores are lower than I thought they should be.

Oh well. I'd rather have better performing games than a better performing 3dmark I guess.. heh.

When I get home tonight I can run some more benchmarks if people are interested.
 
(to sum up, 970 SLI outperformed my OC 780 by a considerable margin in games.. just not in 3dMark)

Bump.