SLI Titan X to ....... ?

africanos23 · 7 Dec 2016 at 16:53

Jumped on the VR train (only works with one GPU for the time being, but it's amazing - gives a whole new feel) and running 4K fine on my non VR games.

Thinking of an upgrade before the Titan XMs depreciate more (in general very happy with them)

Currently eyeing the Titan XPs but they are out of stock, 1080 doesn't seem to be much of an upgrade as I can clock the TXMs pretty high ~1400 even on stock voltage.

What is left is when Nvidia launches the 1080Ti or next Titan ... but have no idea when.

Views?

CapitalOne · 7 Dec 2016 at 17:16

I'm in the same boat, similar clocks and a rift user.

IMHO there isn't an upgrade out there worth taking the hit for at the moment, not in the GPU department anyway.

If you must buy something new/pascal I can tell you from experience use the cost of a 1080 to build a VR capable MITX PC - much more fun to be had there

If you do jump, I'd be very keento hear your thoughts though rather than just numbers.

ETA, just seen your signature. You have the disease as bad as I do....

africanos23 · 7 Dec 2016 at 17:51

CapitalOne said:
I'm in the same boat, similar clocks and a rift user.

IMHO there isn't an upgrade out there worth taking the hit for at the moment, not in the GPU department anyway.

If you must buy something new/pascal I can tell you from experience use the cost of a 1080 to build a VR capable MITX PC - much more fun to be had there

If you do jump, I'd be very keento hear your thoughts though rather than just numbers.

ETA, just seen your signature. You have the disease as bad as I do....

I will probably sell the AMD GPUs (at some point) and put the Titan Xs into those rigs.

The problem is that I'm mining ATM (can't/wont sell for now, Nvidia isn't that good for mining) and looking at the MM TXs are going for 380 :eek:

like WTF ?

straxusii · 7 Dec 2016 at 18:23

I think now is a terrible time to jump ship. The TXM won't go much lower, wait for 1080Ti/Vega

And you're right 1080 is a pointless move from a TXM and personally I felt £1200 for a TXP with a terrible stock cooler was not an option.

DarrenM343 · 7 Dec 2016 at 19:58

straxusii said:
I think now is a terrible time to jump ship. The TXM won't go much lower, wait for 1080Ti/Vega

And you're right 1080 is a pointless move from a TXM and personally I felt £1200 for a TXP with a terrible stock cooler was not an option.

IMO it's a very good stock cooler. Water cooling helps push the chip further but the stock cooler is very quiet. I dunno why so many are infatuated with the often lower quality non-ref air cooling parts pushing hot air into the case. From what i've read pascal clocks well even with the stock cooler, aftermarket 1080's for example are IMO not worth the premium as the reference cards actually do clock nearly as well I believe, just a little louder.

I use one on the desk next to me and I don't even notice any extra noise when gaming over the system ramping up generally anyway.

Sem · 7 Dec 2016 at 20:10

DarrenM343 said:
IMO it's a very good stock cooler. Water cooling helps push the chip further but the stock cooler is very quiet. I dunno why so many are infatuated with the often lower quality non-ref air cooling parts pushing hot air into the case. From what i've read pascal clocks well even with the stock cooler, aftermarket 1080's for example are IMO not worth the premium as the reference cards actually do clock nearly as well I believe, just a little louder.

I use one on the desk next to me and I don't even notice any extra noise when gaming over the system ramping up generally anyway.

come on now... reference coolers are garbage compared to the coolers from Gigabyte, MSI, Asus etc

up to 15c cooler and vastly quieter....

yes the reference coolers does the job and might be suited to case that cant exhaust hot air out themselves but still...

HoneyBadger · 7 Dec 2016 at 20:20

I've gone from dual Titan xm for single Titan xp.

Firstly, the plan was to watercool the XP, but I wanted to try it first before dismantling it. I could hear the fan when playing Forza, so it is loud with the stock cooler.

Single card grunt is king for me, big difference in FPS, the XP has some real grunt in comparison to a single XM.

I do have the upgrade bug though.

africanos23 · 7 Dec 2016 at 21:32

HoneyBadger said:
I've gone from dual Titan xm for single Titan xp.

Firstly, the plan was to watercool the XP, but I wanted to try it first before dismantling it. I could hear the fan when playing Forza, so it is loud with the stock cooler.

Single card grunt is king for me, big difference in FPS, the XP has some real grunt in comparison to a single XM.

I do have the upgrade bug though.

I see you are running a 4K monitor, are you lowering settings to get 60FPS ? And what games do you play?

DarrenM343 · 7 Dec 2016 at 22:13

Sem said:
come on now... reference coolers are garbage compared to the coolers from Gigabyte, MSI, Asus etc

up to 15c cooler and vastly quieter....

yes the reference coolers does the job and might be suited to case that cant exhaust hot air out themselves but still...

I have to disagree. With the case on the desk next to me there's no more noise from the GPU than there is from the case/cpu fans.

Reference coolers have come on too over the years. The non reference kit is often just some big ass fans surrounded by an ugly shroud

, using part probably cheaper than the reference cooler.

Personally I'd stay reference or switch water cooling. Look at the pricing for the some of the air cooled units vs reference from NVidia.£100+ just isn't worth it IMO. At some of the issues recently (MSI and EVGA) are with their own modded cards......

z10m · 7 Dec 2016 at 22:35

DarrenM343 said:
Reference coolers have come on too over the years.

Not on AMD cards they didn't.

HoneyBadger · 8 Dec 2016 at 07:07

africanos23 said:
I see you are running a 4K monitor, are you lowering settings to get 60FPS ? And what games do you play?

I use the 4K monitor for web browsing, watching things and office work.
I had two of them but with the two Titan XM I used to get screen tearing so got the S2716DG which has gsync and a refresh rate of 144Mhz so I game on that. The max resolution of that monitor is 1440p so I've never used the Titan XP for 4K gaming. I suspect it would be ok because my 4K monitor is capped at 60Mhz.

straxusii · 8 Dec 2016 at 07:37

DarrenM343 said:
I have to disagree. With the case on the desk next to me there's no more noise from the GPU than there is from the case/cpu fans.

The reviews I read showed the TXP to be the same loudness as TXM under load which for me was unacceptably loud during gaming.

tyler_jrb · 8 Dec 2016 at 09:32

straxusii said:
The reviews I read showed the TXP to be the same loudness as TXM under load which for me was unacceptably loud during gaming.

Same, actually had a TXP for a short while and was just as loud as any other ref coolers. Unbearable while gaming with any kind of overclock.

I sent it back due to price and gains over a 1080. It may be worth it over a single TXM but they are still £1100. Easily worth it to drop a setting or two and wait for the next gen of cards.

HoneyBadger · 8 Dec 2016 at 11:19

I've had 3 Titan XM cards in my time - An Asus with reference blower, that was quite silent for some reason (PC next to me) - then 2x EVGA Hybrid so they were naturally quiet.

The New Titan XP seemed very loud to me (At stock everything) and when playing FH3 at 1440P you could hear the fan ramp up after a while. Now it's under water it doesn't even break a sweat!

Jumper118 · 8 Dec 2016 at 15:53

Tell people to stop being lazy and get multi gpu support for vr. Most people who can afford vr will have 2 titans minimum anyway

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One gpu rendering one eye makes more sense to me anyway.

DarrenM343 · 8 Dec 2016 at 18:17

straxusii said:
The reviews I read showed the TXP to be the same loudness as TXM under load which for me was unacceptably loud during gaming.

having owned both I would say the Pascal card is quieter. When I used the Maxwell card it was under the desk but still was fairly quiet to be honest - the noise never disappointed when using speakers or headphones.

Must admit I've only played one game so far for 3+ hours with the TXP (Far Cry primal) and another for 20 odd minutes but with the PC on my desk it's definately very acceptable noise wise. The PC is generally a bit louder anyway under heavier load as they all are and I've not sat there thinking" oh, there goes the GPU again".

darket · 8 Dec 2016 at 19:06

And there was me thinking that the reference cooler on the Titan XP was there to protect the card whilst shipping and to be removed and replaced with a full cover water block. interesting........ Plebs

africanos23 · 8 Dec 2016 at 19:33

Jumper118 said:
Tell people to stop being lazy and get multi gpu support for vr. Most people who can afford vr will have 2 titans minimum anyway .

One gpu rendering one eye makes more sense to me anyway.

It does make more sense, but the only thing that supports 2xGPUs is Nvidia VR Fun House

enapace · 8 Dec 2016 at 20:08

africanos23 said:
It does make more sense, but the only thing that supports 2xGPUs is Nvidia VR Fun House

We all know it is going to come to more and more games as it does make sense.

Jumper118 · 8 Dec 2016 at 20:49

africanos23 said:
It does make more sense, but the only thing that supports 2xGPUs is Nvidia VR Fun House

the disappointment.