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The GTX 980 Ti owners thread.

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I have two Zotac GTX 980Ti "Artic Storm" and I'm well happy with them.
But something a mate said to me the other day has me thinking. Although my cards are water cooled would a different block ie say from EK.
1) be a better cooling solution than the one already on the card (The fans on my card are redundant)
2) Which one if 1 is yes.
 
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I have two Zotac GTX 980Ti "Artic Storm" and I'm well happy with them.
But something a mate said to me the other day has me thinking. Although my cards are water cooled would a different block ie say from EK.
1) be a better cooling solution than the one already on the card (The fans on my card are redundant)
2) Which one if 1 is yes.

What are your full load temperatures?
 
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Think I definitely need to upgrade my cpu etc sooner rather than later!!! Firestrike is giving me 11500 as a score.

I'm assuming this will be the 8350 holding it back?
 
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Guess so, but firestrike and games are different things tbh.

Fwiw, I just got 15982 in standard firestrike with my cpu @4.4 and card at stock (boosts to 1316-1329mhz). GFX score 18433.
I'd imagine the x99 boys are getting plenty more than that.
 
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It's when your GPU usage drops below 99% when you need to worry, more importantly, when your GPU usage is <99% and when you aren't hitting your refresh rate.

My i5-3450 was bottlenecking my 980Ti in Valley/Heaven, especially at 1080p, but for games it was 'fine' - I noticed an improvement from a 5820k in games such as GTA:V, but that's to be expected.
 
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It's when your GPU usage drops below 99% when you need to worry, more importantly, when your GPU usage is <99% and when you aren't hitting your refresh rate.

My i5-3450 was bottlenecking my 980Ti in Valley/Heaven, especially at 1080p, but for games it was 'fine' - I noticed an improvement from a 5820k in games such as GTA:V, but that's to be expected.

Ah there we go. I'm getting less than 80% usage on the card but in gta just now its hitting around 55fps at 4k.

I'm upgrading everything else in a few weeks anyway so its no issue at the moment.

As I point of reference for the future, what are good overclocks for core and memory? 200 on core, 300 on memory or are these capable of more?

Edit: Regardless, I am so impressed right now regardless. Amazing
 
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For games? Something around 1450 core/1900 memory (aka 4800 in Afterburner) is what I would consider normal for a 980Ti.

I can't give you the figures in +s as every card has a different base core clock :p
 
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