** THE FINAL COUNTDOWN: GTX 980 & GTX 980Ti SUPER 48HR SALE!! **

[YoungBlood]

Just done a run of Heaven benchmark @ 1318mhz, (GV-N98TXTREME C-6GD) no problems, no extra voltage. (92 fps 2317 score)
I really would'nt send it back untill you have tested it yourself.

I think they simply don't test the chips in the classic, the odds of getting one that wont do the normal extreme gamings speeds are slim to none.

 

[Steviepunk]

Similar story for me, been very tempted by the GV-N98TXTREME C-6GD and was hovering over the buy button for most of yesterday, but i found that when you viewed the store page on a mobile device it actually states the OC Edition - Core Clock: Base 1216MHz / Boost 1317MHz (Standard Base: 1000MHz Boost:1075MHz)

OC Edition Clocks are actually the Gaming Mode clocks of the GV-N98TXTREME-6GD, looks like someone got there facts mixed up when they put the listing on at OC leading to sales which otherwise might not have been. Wonder if they will get many returns when people realise the difference in clock speeds

My guess is the GV-N98TXTREME C-6G are chips which failed to make the grade for the GV-N98TXTREME-6GD, making overclocking on these cards difficult and not as high as otherwise would be with its faster brother.

Would be good if Gigabyte or OCuk could state if the cards are differently binned or are just clocked lower to allow people to clock the cards themselves.

I noticed the model difference on Saturday night when I was installing the card - to say I was disappointed would have been an understatement!

However, since the card was in already I gave it a test.
Rage was the only vaguely demanding game I actually had installed, however I was able to get the card running at 1500Mhz without any problem, so looks like the model number might not be an issue

I know it's not the most demanding game, I'll need to get something else installed to try (not bought anything particuarly recent, though I might have Dead Island Definitive edition )

 

[Gibbo]

Its the same story with the PNY GeForce GTX 980Ti XLR8 OC 6144MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card as well.

Reviews and a competitor web-site reveal the following clocks -
GPU 1165MHz, Boost 1266MHz

However the clocks on the OCUK product page list -
Core Clock: 1000MHz
Boost Clock: 1075MHz

Gibbo please can you clarify for me if your reply about the chips not binned or tested applies to all of the 980ti that were included in the promotion?

The PNY even confused myself, they list one SKU but call it OC, yet it is clocked at reference clock speeds so to me makes no sense.

I believe they have some software that has an OC mode which when enabled overclocks the card, but were only advertising the reference clocks as the whole OC situation seems unclear.

To my knowledge PNY cards are reference cards with a better cooler, PNY do no binning or testing for OC.

 

[Gibbo]

I noticed the model difference on Saturday night when I was installing the card - to say I was disappointed would have been an understatement!

However, since the card was in already I gave it a test.
Rage was the only vaguely demanding game I actually had installed, however I was able to get the card running at 1500Mhz without any problem, so looks like the model number might not be an issue

I know it's not the most demanding game, I'll need to get something else installed to try (not bought anything particuarly recent, though I might have Dead Island Definitive edition )

Classics are just un-tested, so to safeguard themselves they list no OC. The fact is that any 980Ti that cannot achieve 1400MHz core makes you a very unlucky person as every Ti I have tested (a lot of them) all did well over 1400, most do 1475-1525 on air.

 

[StrongSad]

Classics are just un-tested, so to safeguard themselves they list no OC. The fact is that any 980Ti that cannot achieve 1400MHz core makes you a very unlucky person as every Ti I have tested (a lot of them) all did well over 1400, most do 1475-1525 on air.

Yep my 3 week old amp omega quite happily sitting at 1475 gaming and is 4000 points greater on firestrike than my 980 gaming profile....

http://www.3dmark.com/compare/fs/9876002/fs/10139218

 

[dlknight]

The PNY even confused myself, they list one SKU but call it OC, yet it is clocked at reference clock speeds so to me makes no sense.

I believe they have some software that has an OC mode which when enabled overclocks the card, but were only advertising the reference clocks as the whole OC situation seems unclear.

To my knowledge PNY cards are reference cards with a better cooler, PNY do no binning or testing for OC.

Classics are just un-tested, so to safeguard themselves they list no OC. The fact is that any 980Ti that cannot achieve 1400MHz core makes you a very unlucky person as every Ti I have tested (a lot of them) all did well over 1400, most do 1475-1525 on air.

Many thanks for clarifying this Gibbo

 

[KarolW92]

Gibbo,

I ordered a MSI 980Ti that was on offer on Saturday and since then has been removed off the 980Ti section. I sent a web note and a reply stated that the warehouse guys can't seem to find the card for me.

I work in IT so I know how it goes sometimes, was wondering if you could provide me a straight up answer if there is any more of those cards in stock?

Would be a great help.

 

[AthlonXP1800]

These then and now comparisons are always good for a laugh because they miss out one important thing.

If an old game runs worse on the latest drivers there is nothing stopping you from using old drivers that do run well.

Oh that brought back old bad memory of Sapphire Radeon HD 4870 back in 2008 when many AMD GPUs owners on NVNEWS forum recommended it because Catalyst driver was huge improvement over old broke ATi drivers years ago and HD 4870 is much cheaper than GTX 260. They told me I should gave ATi a chance so I bought it from OCUK then manually uninstalled Nvidia driver, removed 9800GT card and installed HD 4870, installed ATI and Catalyst drivers than ran first game Crysis. I was shocked to see Crysis benchmark and in game ran much worse, tried reset game graphic settings and Catalyst to default and it still ran much worse, other old games GTA3, Half Life 2 etc ran worse too so I tried 3 older beta drivers supported HD 4870, modded 12 old unsupported drivers so modded drivers can run HD 4870 but issues still the same. Also tried reinstalled Vista and formatted hard drive, uninstalled Catalyst but issues still remain same then I finally gave up after 3 weeks of struggles and stresses requested RMA for refund. OCUK tested and confirmed HD 4870 had issues with drivers caused old games run much worse.

After OCUK refunded me I ordered BFG GTX 260, manually uninstalled ATI and Catalyst drivers and removed HD 4870 then installed GTX 260 and downloaded latest driver then ran Crysis and BOOM!!! benchmark and in game ran much smoother twice faster than 9800 GT. All other old games I tested on HD 4870 ran much smoother on GTX 260. It amazed me 1 Nvidia driver fixed all my issues like magic, ATi and Catalyst was absolutely the worst drivers I ever seen since used S3, 3dfx, Nvidia and Intel GPU drivers before.

Few years ago my sister had same issues with games on new Lenovo laptop for work at college she bought at Currys for £229 used AMD Llano APU, I was disappointed she not asked my advice first before buy right laptop. She knew nothing about graphics card, she brought laptop over so I can have a look see if I can fix it but I cant fixed it with old and latest AMD drivers so I showed her my Dell laptop with Haswell CPU and HD 4400 GPU, all old games worked and ran fine. I advised her to take laptop back and get laptop with Core i3 CPU After she took it back and she picked up Acer laptop with Core i3 CPU and HD 4400 GPU for £399 then later late night I texted her asked how the games run? She texted me back said all games ran a lot better with latest Intel GPU driver, she finally very happy to lifted off all worries and stresses she had over the last 2 weeks just few days before 14 days return policy expired.

I reinstalled Watch Dogs, Crysis, Crysis Warhead, Crysis 2 and Crysis 3 on Saturday to see how well it run on latest driver. Holy crap it ran very fast at 1080p maxed settings, 1600p maxed was fast and I was very impressed it ran smooth at 4K maxed. Much better than it did on GTX 970.

After bought GTX 1070, over the last 3 months I replayed all old Tomb Raider games 1-5 modded with HD textures ran fine. Angel of Darkness, Legend, Anniversary, Underworld and Tomb Raider 2013 ran fine at 4K maxed. Been replayed Unreal in 4K for first time ever nearly 18 years since last time I played it on Voodoo Banshee at very low 640x480 resolution lol. I was surprised it worked fine on Windows 10 after downloaded modded Direct3D 11 renderer and replaced the file over old Unreal's Direct3D 6 renderer. GTA, GTA2, (GTA3, GTA: Vice City, GTA: San Andreas, GTA IV & Episodes from Liberty City all modded with ENB HD textures), GTA V, GTA Online, Star Trek Online and Star Wars Old Republic all ran well at 4K.

1 latest driver worked fine for all my games collection. Never been switched back to old drivers before on Nvidia cards since HD 4870.

 

[mahius]

Gibbo,

I ordered a MSI 980Ti that was on offer on Saturday and since then has been removed off the 980Ti section. I sent a web note and a reply stated that the warehouse guys can't seem to find the card for me.

I work in IT so I know how it goes sometimes, was wondering if you could provide me a straight up answer if there is any more of those cards in stock?

Would be a great help.

Same thing happened to me. I got an email about it and in the end... I just decided to cancel it/get a refund. I guess it's still lost in the warehouse somewhere (the guy on the phone mentioned new starters and that they'd probably just put it in the wrong place, they'd given up on looking for it), but if you want to wait and hold out hope, then sure keep waiting.

I had another item on the order though, which was being held back due to the misplaced 980ti and considering that I can't make the most of it on my current 1080p screen, I just decided to cancel it. It was an impulse buy anyway at that price lol. I guess in some way I'm glad this happened... I'd rather get a nice new monitor first. I personally didn't really need it since my current 970 does just fine for me. The brilliant offer itself was the temptation that sent me over the edge.

 

[Gibbo]

Gibbo,

I ordered a MSI 980Ti that was on offer on Saturday and since then has been removed off the 980Ti section. I sent a web note and a reply stated that the warehouse guys can't seem to find the card for me.

I work in IT so I know how it goes sometimes, was wondering if you could provide me a straight up answer if there is any more of those cards in stock?

Would be a great help.

Did you order the one without the bundle pack? If so I can see we have none left and 6 orders assigned?

I do have bundle pack version, if your OK with it I shall just swap all six orders over to those, essentially same card but more free goodies.

 

[dlknight]

Well I ordered the Gigabyte GeForce GTX 980Ti Xtreme Gaming after much contemplation, listening to advice here on the forum.

I'm glad I did I've just popped it into the PC - the heatsink / fan assembly is simply amazing - shame it will eventually get replaced with a watercooling block



I set the GPU Core Clock to the same as the OC mode of the none Classic Xtreme Gaming and ran the furmark stability test and then a run of Unigine Valley. With the fans running on auto the card never went over 70C and it held a constant boost of around 1460MHz

Gibbo - I am very happy, apologies for doubting but it seemed to good to be true. Still confused as to why Gigabyte don't just slap the same firmware on these cards as the none C version...

 

[KarolW92]

Did you order the one without the bundle pack? If so I can see we have none left and 6 orders assigned?

I do have bundle pack version, if your OK with it I shall just swap all six orders over to those, essentially same card but more free goodies.

Hi Gibbo,

I did indeed however I ended up cancelling the order as it couldn't be found and I thought I made a mistake by going with the 980Ti instead of the 1070, upon further investigation I've realised there isn't much between the cards.

Currently in the process of waiting on the refund money to come through so I don't know what we can do as I wish I didn't bottle it in the first place.

 

[mahius]

Hi Gibbo,

I did indeed however I ended up cancelling the order as it couldn't be found and I thought I made a mistake by going with the 980Ti instead of the 1070, upon further investigation I've realised there isn't much between the cards.

Currently in the process of waiting on the refund money to come through so I don't know what we can do as I wish I didn't bottle it in the first place.

My refund has come through just today. The person on the phone was saying that the bundle itself costs a fair bit more than a regular 980ti, he wasn't sure if Gibbo meant to 'upgrade orders' for 'free' or not. Regardless, I'm happy with the RX 480 I received today (now all nicely wrapped ready to be gifted) and I'm now on the prowl for a decent monitor, a 980ti would be icing on the cake so to speak.

 

[Minstadave]

Well I ordered the Gigabyte GeForce GTX 980Ti Xtreme Gaming after much contemplation, listening to advice here on the forum.

I'm glad I did I've just popped it into the PC - the heatsink / fan assembly is simply amazing - shame it will eventually get replaced with a watercooling block



I set the GPU Core Clock to the same as the OC mode of the none Classic Xtreme Gaming and ran the furmark stability test and then a run of Unigine Valley. With the fans running on auto the card never went over 70C and it held a constant boost of around 1460MHz

Gibbo - I am very happy, apologies for doubting but it seemed to good to be true. Still confused as to why Gigabyte don't just slap the same firmware on these cards as the none C version...

Looks like a nice card despite all the nonsense spouted about not hitting stock clocks earlier.

 

[KarolW92]

My refund has come through just today. The person on the phone was saying that the bundle itself costs a fair bit more than a regular 980ti, he wasn't sure if Gibbo meant to 'upgrade orders' for 'free' or not. Regardless, I'm happy with the RX 480 I received today (now all nicely wrapped ready to be gifted) and I'm now on the prowl for a decent monitor, a 980ti would be icing on the cake so to speak.

I was lucky and the money never actually left my account.
Was hoping that Gibbo would provide some advice but the call of the weekend must have been a strong one, understandably I would have done the same.