**** Official Titan owners thread. ****

[Besty]

120hz is great. Butter in Windows, plus being able to disable vsync without tearing for most games is a bonus.

The difference is massive, I run a Hazro 27inch IPS alongside an Alienware 24inch 120hz screen and next time around I will not be bothering with 60hz IPS at all unless I have the money to get an Eizo Colouredge.

 

[Rusty0611]

It's still £900 to play games that don't exist yet.

We're still being pillaged by console ports.

Already made my thoughts clear on it in another thread, but today I very nearly bought one. (For the second time)

Then I looked over my games library and asked myself again... Why?

This card is ahead of it's time and ahead of what Intel, plus games are doing right now.

This is a very strange move on nVidia's part. Might give indication of their thoughts on SLI here on too. They can't enjoy the extra man hours on driver optimization for it and constant agro with devs.

That's fine for you but for others the additional grunt is required. Value for money doesn't really come into it in my eyes for Titan. If it does then I would say that Titan is not a card for you.

 

[Kaapstad]

That's fine for you but for others the additional grunt is required. Value for money doesn't really come into it in my eyes for Titan. If it does then I would say that Titan is not a card for you.

+1

I am a big Civ5 fan and like to play on a huge map. Unfortunately this is very hard on the CPU/GPUs very late in the game (reviewers never use a very taxing setup when benching with Civ5). The list of my GPUs this game has beaten is getting quite long.

2 x HD 5970s Good to just past the middle of the game on huge map
2 x GTX 590s Good to 3/4s of the way into a game on huge map
2 x GTX 690s Can just about finish a game on a huge map

I just tried it with 3 Titans and they are a nice improvement on the GTX 690s.

So are the Titans worth it, to me yes as I can have a good experience on my favorite games.

 

[JeditOjanen]

£900 isn't really that much if you earn say a modest salary of > £30,000 a year, without any dependents and a wife who works as well.

Especially if you've been financially prudent over a period of time... it means you're likely to have substantial savings. It's all relative.

Comments like that above are just a bit.... daft.... really.

Not as daft as comments like "£30,000 a year plus a second income counts as a modest salary".

Titans cost as much as a top of the line 46" 3D LED TV. Trying to justify the purchase of such a luxury item with "it's not really that expensive" is ridiculous. They are that expensive. If you can afford it anyway, knock yourself out - it's your money. But please, don't be unrealistic about how much they cost for what they are.

 

[Stanners]

Not as daft as comments like "£30,000 a year plus a second income counts as a modest salary".

Titans cost as much as a top of the line 46" 3D LED TV. Trying to justify the purchase of such a luxury item with "it's not really that expensive" is ridiculous. They are that expensive. If you can afford it anyway, knock yourself out - it's your money. But please, don't be unrealistic about how much they cost for what they are.

I see no problem with Rustys salary example, how is it daft?

I would have thought a top end LCD would cost more than £900 as well..

 

[Orangey]

Are there any benchies that show Civ V being mean to SLI 690s and the like? I just started playing it again and am determined to finish my Huge game this time. I only play in 1080 though.

 

[Rusty0611]

Not as daft as comments like "£30,000 a year plus a second income counts as a modest salary".

£30,000 a year is modest though. Especially for your average top of the line PC hardware enthusiast. I didn't go to university and worked from the bottom up and I earn more than that at the age of 26. I know it's regional and there are large differences regionally but £30,000 is still modest. Even by national averages standard.

Titans cost as much as a top of the line 46" 3D LED TV. Trying to justify the purchase of such a luxury item with "it's not really that expensive" is ridiculous. They are that expensive. If you can afford it anyway, knock yourself out - it's your money. But please, don't be unrealistic about how much they cost for what they are.

You're completely missing the "it's all relative" part but sure keep on with the fallacious arguments, I'm not going to bother unravelling it .

p.s. top of range TV is far more than Titan price.

 

[flopper]

Ha! Never had the pleasure of using a 120Hz monitor. Much difference?

Back on topic: Using the Asus GPU Tweak utility I have my card running at 1020Mhz without changing any voltages.

120hz is just awesome yes the coloring/viewangle is a drawback but at my age the eyestrain is gone with a 120hz vs a 60hz.
I would guess that the lightboost 2.0 and a 120hz screen and the tweak to make it lock allows a even better experience with it.

 

[MOOGLEYS]

My Titan is in the MM. No longer needed for a build and is mass overkill for my needs.

 

[Rilot]

That didn't last long Moogleys. 2 days was it?

 

[MOOGLEYS]

That didn't last long Moogleys. 2 days was it?

It was bought for a build but they have decided a 680 will be plenty. 2 days is quite good for me the last one lasted about 30 mins..

 

[Gregster]

MSI is preparing a new custom version of the GeForce GTX Titan. The picture attached to the press release indicates that the company is readying a new version of TwinFrozr cooler, probably the 5th-Edition.

The new iteration of the TwinFrozr cooling solution will be kept in a red and black color scheme, which will contrast with the yellow Lightning and Blue Hawk/Power Editions. Despite the picture being so small, we can see it’s just a cooler, with no card in the back. Meaning it’s unclear (for now), if the PCB will be modified too. However it would be strange if not, although NVIDIA said AIBs would not be allowed to stray from the reference PCB layout very much at all. What we can expect from this card are quite possibly Military Class III components, increased stock power limit and obviously higher clocks.

Nothing else was said, so we have to wait until CeBIT 2013 to learn more details about this card.

http://videocardz.com/39939/msi-preparing-geforce-gtx-titan-with-twinfrozr-cooling

Custom cooled cards on their way? I thought this wasn't going to happen.

And...

http://wccftech.com/msi-set-unveil-geforce-gtx-titan-lightning-edition-graphics-card-cebit-2013/

Manufacturer of some of the world’s best hardware components, mainly including motherboards and graphics cards, MSI (Micro Star International) is all set to unveil their latest GeForce GTX Titan Lightning Edition GPU at the CeBIT 2013 event starting from March 5th.

In their latest press release, MSI has mentioned that the company would unveil a new class of gaming graphics cards possibly utilizing their new custom design Twin Frozr V heatsink now with a red and black design scheme. MSI even added a teaser picture but its too small for anyone to note the new design scheme, hopefully they will release higher quality pictures of the new gaming series graphics cards during the event, following is from the press release:

Now you’re Gaming with MSI

Also on display are a new class of MSI graphics card. Distinguishable by a new red color scheme on the cool Twin Frozr these graphics cards are designed to complete an all MSI gaming setup much like the record-holding Lightning graphics cards fit the Z77 MPOWER. These new graphics cards are the first addition to an MSI Gaming ecosystem, where gamers can mix and match MSI Gaming products for even better performance. You can also see MSI’s latest GeForce TITAN graphics card as well as MSI’s renowned line of record breaking Lightning graphics cards, the overclockers favorite pacing through the exclusive MSI Fire Strike Tech Demo in the new 3DMark. Source


Read more: http://wccftech.com/msi-set-unveil-...ition-graphics-card-cebit-2013/#ixzz2MydVBIv3

 

[V3teran]

http://videocardz.com/39939/msi-preparing-geforce-gtx-titan-with-twinfrozr-cooling

Custom cooled cards on their way? I thought this wasn't going to happen.

And...

http://wccftech.com/msi-set-unveil-geforce-gtx-titan-lightning-edition-graphics-card-cebit-2013/

Waste of time......Heres why.

http://www.overclock.net/t/1363440/nvidia-geforce-gtx-titan-owners-club/2580#post_19455772

This guys card is watercooled and kept @ stock. Yet it still downclocks ....
How can it downclock while at 96%, 40c and STOCK?!

Samething happens to on air @ everything stock. People have reported never seeing there card hitting 100% power let alone 106%.

Highest i have seen was in Crysis 3 around 96% and in Valley hitting 94% in Nvidia's New Dawn tech demo im getting 86% .... GO figure...

At stock the card boosts around 1Ghz and when its hit 80C it downlocks to 925/950Mhz. Even tho when setting 106% power and a max temp of 90C.

With a GPU offset of 125+Mhz on the GPU and 100+Mhz on the Mem some people are reporting of getting a boost of 1110Mhz and when it hit 80C it downclocks to 1040/1080.



See when I originally heard GPU Boost 2 was based on temp and not TDP like GK104 I thought it would be amazing under water -- because the GK104 has power target of 132% max. But GK110 is capped at 106% TDP. So even if you cool the thing with LN2, soon as it starts pulling close to 265w the card downclocks. The unlocked voltage is basically a myth too, because all it's really doing is unlocking a higher bin of the offset. In a game that isn't eating the card, it will OC itself till it hits the power target (again max of 265w) regardless to the voltage. All upping the voltage does is raise the base.

So in a nutshell Nvidia have promised something that isnt quite exactly what they said you would recieve.

If it was me i would send mine back, Get a refund and wait for something better but thats just me.

 

[Biffa]

Could be that its down clocking when something that isn't cooled by the block gets hot. There are hot things on pcbs that arent the memory and gpu.

Oh yeah, and to be relevant to the thread, I've just sold my 690s and ordered 4 Titans

 

[MOOGLEYS]

ordered 4 Titans

I found one overkill

 

[V3teran]

Could be that its down clocking when something that isn't cooled by the block gets hot. There are hot things on pcbs that arent the memory and gpu.

Oh yeah, and to be relevant to the thread, I've just sold my 690s and ordered 4 Titans

Wether you are correct or not its still a shoddy card in my opinion and is not worth the hype.

If nvidia cant fix this issue somehow i can see Titan going down as one of the worst overclockers released in alongtime.

 

[RetrogamerX]

I found one overkill

lol. One is all I want. Four is just silly

Wether you are correct or not its still a shoddy card in my opinion and is not worth the hype.

If nvidia cant fix this issue somehow i can see Titan going down as one of the worst overclockers released in alongtime.

It doesn't need to be overclockable. It's fast already.

 

[Biffa]

I found one overkill

Mine won't be playing games

 

[V3teran]

lol. One is all I want. Four is just silly



It doesn't need to be overclockable. It's fast already.

2x680's and a 690 beat it on performance easily, I wouldnt call that fast for new technology considering as the 680 and 690 are old tech.

And with new consoles coming out soon and there games we will need all the speed we can get.

 

[Gregster]

2x680's and a 690 beat it on performance easily, I wouldnt call that fast for new technology considering as the 680 and 690 are old tech.

And with new consoles coming out soon and there games we will need all the speed we can get.

I think with maturer drivers, we will see the Titan start to get closer to the 690/SLI 680's. New architecture does take time to get working fully.