The GTX Titan X owners thread.

faxfan · 1 May 2015 at 11:54

Kaapstad said:
Nice setup you have there.

Which brand of TitanX are you using ?

I'll get my name on the hall of fame as well -

dessimpson · 1 May 2015 at 11:54

S2KIP said:
Would I be mad to change two 980's for two Titan X's for 3440*1440?

Or just wait for the Ti to come out?

Or just stick with the 980's until nvidia release the maxwell replacement.

dessimpson · 1 May 2015 at 12:00

Flashed my EVGA SC to the proper bios. Played BF Hardline last night and I'm getting about an extra 25fps over my 980.

Klunt Bumskrint · 1 May 2015 at 12:49

dessimpson said:
Flashed my EVGA SC to the proper bios. Played BF Hardline last night and I'm getting about an extra 25fps over my 980.

Proper bios? Which bios are we recommending for cards on air with low ASIC?

Ayahuasca · 1 May 2015 at 12:55

On air the highest I'd go is the maxair BIOS, it locks the card to 1.255v though.

The EVGA SC 425 bios is fine for some but I was getting crashes due to voltage not being high enough for my clocks, could have just upped the voltage manually in PX but I flashed maxair instead.

Anything that gives you a higher TDP to stop power throttling is a good start.

Kaapstad · 1 May 2015 at 12:57

faxfan said:
I'll get my name on the hall of fame as well -

Welcome and on TROH.

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To get on the Roll of Honour all you have to do is post a pic with your user name on it of your TitanX.

dessimpson · 1 May 2015 at 13:01

Klunt Bumskrint said:
Proper bios? Which bios are we recommending for cards on air with low ASIC?

Mine somehow shipped with the non sc bios.
It now has the standard sc bios.

Klunt Bumskrint · 1 May 2015 at 13:09

Ayahuasca said:
On air the highest I'd go is the maxair BIOS, it locks the card to 1.255v though.

The EVGA SC 425 bios is fine for some but I was getting crashes due to voltage not being high enough for my clocks, could have just upped the voltage manually in PX but I flashed maxair instead.

Anything that gives you a higher TDP to stop power throttling is a good start.

That's cool, I downloaded both of those last night. I'll flash this weekend.

alex_123_fra · 1 May 2015 at 14:01

I want 2 EVGA SC versions of these but can't find them anywhere. Any reason not to pull the trigger on a couple of ASUS ones? They don't seem to be as popular. From a warranty point of view it would be OCUK dealing with it would it not?

africanos23 · 1 May 2015 at 14:09

alex_123_fra said:
I want 2 EVGA SC versions of these but can't find them anywhere. Any reason not to pull the trigger on a couple of ASUS ones? They don't seem to be as popular. From a warranty point of view it would be OCUK dealing with it would it not?

It goes through OCUK yes.

Just grab any two and flash the bios to the SC version.

alex_123_fra · 1 May 2015 at 14:17

Ok done. Lets hope they arrive tomorrow

Quartz · 1 May 2015 at 16:57

Current rumours have the 980ti with 6gb which I don't think will be enough for 3440x1440 let alone 4k

alex_123_fra · 1 May 2015 at 17:01

Yep, having seen various posts about GTA V using more than 8GB in those resolutions, I am just sick of having to worry about VRAM. 980ti won't have more than 8GB I would imagine so Titan X was the only choice really.

Mayh3M · 1 May 2015 at 17:02

The 980Ti reportedly has a different chip configuration than the Titan X GM200-400, which leads me to believe it will have fewer CUDA cores.

But 6GB is definitely enough for 3440x1440 in my opinion. 2 x 980Ti would be great.

If the 980Ti does indeed have the same number of cores as the Titan X I would seriously consider selling mine and picking up two of them for this resolution.

Orangey · 1 May 2015 at 17:17

It's GM200 dash something.

Pretty sure that means it's basically a stepping change (as someone already pointed out)?

And not anything drastic like chopping off shaders. (going by NV nomenclature of the past)

DarrenM343 · 1 May 2015 at 21:07

Anyone find their Titan X smells?

Probably just a new card smell but can't say I have noticed any smell in the past with other new cards. Bit like burning PCB but as it hasn't exploded yet after about an hour of gaming I'm assuming all okay. Only smelling under load, so not at Windows desktop.

Valrak40k · 1 May 2015 at 21:13

I have a normal titan, is it worth upgrading to a Titan X?

MOOGLEYS · 1 May 2015 at 21:15

Valrak40k said:
I have a normal titan, is it worth upgrading to a Titan X?

Depends if you feel your Titan is struggling at your gaming resolution.

Orangey · 1 May 2015 at 23:07

We really need to investigate these smelly Titan Xs.

Did you remove the film?

DarrenM343 · 1 May 2015 at 23:49

What film?

Noticed something on top of my old card when I removed it but didnt inspect as put it straight into the original box but would assume the part (heat sink shroud/casing) the film sits on doesnt get hot.
Used it again this evening for 30mins and didn't notice it so seems to have settled now. I'll check inside the PC tomorrow morning to check for any melted plastic film

. Doubt it was that to be honest