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970 to 980 ?

Pyr0m@nI@]{;27575929 said:
I asked KFA2 European support and they say:
"All GTX980 SOC Will come with the updated bios"
:)
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Mine doesn't as the fans are pegged at 52% at idle. Bought 3 days ago.
 
I've only just received mine @ work, so can't test or check my bios version until this evening.. :(
I'd emailed eurosupport[at]kfa2.com and asked the question after seeing the Hexus review.
 
Well my to kafa2 980s appeared today and in they went with out a hitch.

So I ran heaven 4.0 for 10 mins at stock and gpu1 was hitting 80 degrees and seemed to throttle back at that whilst gpu ran 66 degrees so it looks like I cant Oc these any more due to the 1gpu getting to hot which is a shame.

I bumped the core up by 75 on AB and after 6 mins of running gpu 1 was hitting 89 degrees :( whilst gpu 1 was a happy 71. The fans were hititng 95% to.


So into the games! Shadow of mordor 1440p ultra everything apart from AO which was turned down by 1 notch and same for shadows. Well it ran like a dream I was getting 60-90 fps on my 970's I got 20 fps and massive stuttering so its a win!

ACU well what can you say apart from .....UBISOFT should be ashamed.All ultra and was getting 40 fps ish, ran sort of smooth but thats what you get for a crap port.

Dragon Age Inq all maxed fade textures getting a nice 69-79 fps .

BF4 all maxed was getting a min of 100 fps maxed at 121.

As for the fans well they aint that bad unless you start hitting 80 and then yhea they do get a little loud.
 
It will be interesting what kfa say back to you regarding bios. Even still how would we even be able to flash it or whatever very weird.blasterbolt the temp of that card seems slightly high imo.
I mean i can play all day on games ive never seen it hit even 80c. Mine is always stuck in the 70s
 
My KFA2 (Galax) card arrived and fitted. Also the fans do spin at 52% by default and that seems to be done that way n the BIOS.

Extracting the BIOS and looking at the RPM's etc....





....suggests that they could be adjusted and then the card re-flashed, for those who are brave enough..!
 
nails666 said:
I have to say I'm very suprised that so many peoples reaction to finding out that their Nvidia card might not perform quite as well as they were lead to believe is to immediately go and give Nvidia even more money by upgrading to a 980?
I imagine Nvidia are somewhat happy that this massive PR problem has seemingly resulted in a large increase in sales of their high margin flagship product!
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Nvidia can't do any wrong, instead of people sending their cards back for their money, they are sending them back with even more money, for their next card up (as its more expensive), Nvidia, i bow to your greatness! :cool:
 
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Pyr0m@nI@]{;27576289 said:
I've only just received mine @ work, so can't test or check my bios version until this evening.. :(
I'd emailed eurosupport[at]kfa2.com and asked the question after seeing the Hexus review.
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Please keep us informed on that :)


FWIW this is mine....

 
Struggling with my new kfa2 980 getting crashes in all games

Think I've tried pretty much everything to get it working

Psu is plenty good enough
reinstalled drivers
reseated card checked cables
latest geforce drivers
Ran cpu and ram at stock
Temps are good

can anyone think of anything else I can try?
 
maddog said:
Struggling with my new kfa2 980 getting crashes in all games

Think I've tried pretty much everything to get it working

Psu is plenty good enough
reinstalled drivers
reseated card checked cables
latest geforce drivers
Ran cpu and ram at stock
Temps are good

can anyone think of anything else I can try?
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Have you got both the 8 pin connectors connected....?

For me I just needed to reinstall the NVidia drivers over the top of the ones already installed, from my MSI 970, and all has been well - so far. It runs good in the small testing I have done.

What card did you come from and what exactly is the PSU...?
 
Vimes said:
Have you got both the 8 pin connectors connected....?

For me I just needed to reinstall the NVidia drivers over the top of the ones already installed, from my MSI 970, and all has been well - so far. It runs good in the small testing I have done.

What card did you come from and what exactly is the PSU...?
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I came from a 780, psu is ocz 850 watt gold.
 
Pyr0m@nI@]{;27576678 said:
Afraid I already posted their reply in my previous post. :(
They told me that the cards should come with the updated bios: "All GTX980 SOC Will come with the updated bios"
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Ah sorry missed the follow up.

When you get home please check your BIOS version against that of what I posted. Mine has a 52% fan at idle, but it doesn't seem loud.
 
maddog said:
Struggling with my new kfa2 980 getting crashes in all games

Think I've tried pretty much everything to get it working

Psu is plenty good enough
reinstalled drivers
reseated card checked cables
latest geforce drivers
Ran cpu and ram at stock
Temps are good

can anyone think of anything else I can try?
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What is your PSU?
 
Maddog thats very weird tbh ive not had any trouble at all nothing. If ur sure uve done everything correctly like cables air flow psu is enuff and drivers all done.
Is it possible ur card is a 1 in a million broken 1?
 
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