The GTX 980 Ti owners thread.

Tom B · 3 Aug 2015 at 22:37

Been playing with my Inno3d Hybrid Black. Haven't played with Overclocking or Fan Profile yet, So far Idle temp is 31 (Ambient is 28). Under load it maxed out at 60 but mostly was in the high 50s. Very nice

Really nice card, feels solid (I had an EVGA with the ACX2 and and always felt flimsy).

Nobody has mentioned this and it's not really relevant but the mousemat is a decent one, nice soft fabric. I was expecting a plasticy scratchy one, finally a replacement for my Starcraft 2 Heart of the Swarm collector's edition mat

edit: Should say, I mounted the fan using Push/Pull, although the pull fan isn't really a static pressure one

machinebummer · 3 Aug 2015 at 22:41

I was having tons of "nvlddmkm.sys page_fault_in_nonpaged_area" BSOD problems with my MSI 980ti 6G around 2 a day, in game mostly but sometimes even on desktop or when closing an application.

So I underclocked the memory on my card by about 20 MHz, I thought Id already tried this but Afterburner hadnt actually saved my settings so, thought Id try it again last week and since then Ive not had any of the "nvlddmkm.sys page_fault_in_nonpaged_area" BSOD crashes since (touch wood)

Is that possible or have I made another change that has helped somewhere. Also could this mean the RAM on my card is faulty or is my mobo maybe not up to scratch? ( pretty sure its only pci e 2.0)

Skynet5 · 3 Aug 2015 at 22:45

machinebummer said:
I was having tons of "nvlddmkm.sys page_fault_in_nonpaged_area" BSOD problems with my MSI 980ti 6G around 2 a day, in game mostly but sometimes even on desktop or when closing an application.

So I underclocked the memory on my card by about 20 MHz, I thought Id already tried this but Afterburner hadnt actually saved my settings so, thought Id try it again last week and since then Ive not had any of the "nvlddmkm.sys page_fault_in_nonpaged_area" BSOD crashes since (touch wood)

Is that possible or have I made another change that has helped somewhere. Also could this mean the RAM on my card is faulty or is my mobo maybe not up to scratch? ( pretty sure its only pci e 2.0)

Put the vram back to stock and find out!

If you have to under clock from stock then RMA.

machinebummer · 3 Aug 2015 at 22:52

lnoton said:
Put the vram back to stock and find out!

If you have to under clock from stock then RMA.

I raised it a few MHZ a few days ago and crashed with BF4 however it was in a very glitchy map on the CTE I think.

If it does crash again is it deffo the card then? I thought it could be that my mobo, cpu and RAM possibly bottlenecking me? (i72600 - 16gb RAM - WIn7 64)

Skynet5 · 3 Aug 2015 at 23:03

Well if the only variable is vram MHz, and when it is under stock speed all is good, but at stock if crashes I would say faulty card.

May I ask, not to be rude or presumptious. Are you fairly comfortable with PCs etc? If so then the above tells you how to decide on whether to return or not.

If you typically have problems..then it could be something else..but you'd have to give us more details on the rig and your settings.

Skynet5 · 3 Aug 2015 at 23:04

Worth saying I've had games crash on me...but BF4 has never ever crashed on me. Not once. Ever.

Skynet5 · 3 Aug 2015 at 23:05

And bottlenecking wouldn't cause a crash.

Put your spec in your SIG.

Skynet5 · 3 Aug 2015 at 23:06

Christ im drunk. And PCI 2.0 makes no difference for your stability. So don't worry about that

machinebummer · 3 Aug 2015 at 23:14

lnoton said:
Christ im drunk. And PCI 2.0 makes no difference for your stability. So don't worry about that

Cheers good to know it isnt effecting it. I've added a quick sig I hope it works.

Joe! · 3 Aug 2015 at 23:33

If I recall there is a limit of 4 lines in your signature, might wanna change it before a mod does

machinebummer · 4 Aug 2015 at 00:25

Fixed I hope

Just about to test a few games now with clocks back to normal.

Saltank · 4 Aug 2015 at 01:21

Please no, don't make me have to downclock my card again. I lived through this nonsense with my ASUS GTX 570 Direct CU II years ago.

( ͠° ͟ʖ ͡°)

Joe! · 4 Aug 2015 at 01:23

These comments take me back to my XFX 7970 DD Edition. It was unstable at the clocks it was boxed with, and since it was stable with the reference clocks and +20% power I was denied an RMA...

I vowed never to shop at said retailer again.

Gerard · 4 Aug 2015 at 02:08

Seems like stock of the asus 980ti strix is in even though it says preorder, the page itself says 10+. Shame about the price

the pokemon kid · 4 Aug 2015 at 10:00

I have just joined the 980ti owners club! In fact, I have joined it twice!

I have got two Zotac GTX 980ti's. I have however already stripped them bare and put waterblocks/ backplates onto them!

jasonsony735 · 4 Aug 2015 at 10:16

EVGA GeForce GTX 980Ti Hybrid 6144MB worth the upgrade from 290x ? I mainly play on 1440 and would like to max out GTA & Witcher 3.

Robzere31 · 4 Aug 2015 at 10:21

jasonsony735 said:
EVGA GeForce GTX 980Ti Hybrid 6144MB worth the upgrade from 290x ? I mainly play on 1440 and would like to max out GTA & Witcher 3.

Yes, it's a decent upgrade.

For comparision, my old 290 would score around 10K on Firestrike, my 980ti scores around 16.5K
I game at 1440P & pretty much every game I run is maxed out.

ratters · 4 Aug 2015 at 10:23

jasonsony735 said:
EVGA GeForce GTX 980Ti Hybrid 6144MB worth the upgrade from 290x ? I mainly play on 1440 and would like to max out GTA & Witcher 3.

You cannot max out the witcher 3 @1440p and achive 60fps. But with a few minor tweaks you could.

andybird123 · 4 Aug 2015 at 10:27

It would be pretty close, most of the time it would be fine... I'm running it at 1440 with only a few settings down and getting 80-90 most of the time with dips to 60's

Superpatsy · 4 Aug 2015 at 10:39

I'm a solid 60fps at 1440p with everything maxed apart from Hairworks on The Witcher 3.