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How to underclock a GTX980Ti?

AWPC

AWPC

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I presume I use MSI Afterburner please can someone confirm.?I bought this stonking GPU from OCUK last week mainly for the massive HSF to provide near silent operation not bothered about the extra bandwidth & clocks:
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-054-IN&groupid=701&catid=1914&subcat=1402

Its a great GPU but as I game @ 4K in some games I can hear the triple fans a little its not much but I really prefer 100% silence as I sit 2ft away so as I am not bothered about the out of the box overclock (which is why it most likely needs 30% fan RPM which is ever so slightly slightly audible).

Is there anyway to set the GPU to stock 980 Ti clocks without flashing the bios using software if so please can someone give me some pointers I just want to try @ stock to see if the fan RPM drops or its the specific game causing the audible RPM (Arkham Knight!!).
 
AWPC said:
I presume I use MSI Afterburner please can someone confirm.?I bought this stonking GPU from OCUK last week mainly for the massive HSF to provide near silent operation not bothered about the extra bandwidth & clocks:
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-054-IN&groupid=701&catid=1914&subcat=1402

Its a great GPU but as I game @ 4K in some games I can hear the triple fans a little its not much but I really prefer 100% silence as I sit 2ft away so as I am not bothered about the out of the box overclock (which is why it most likely needs 30% fan RPM which is ever so slightly slightly audible).

Is there anyway to set the GPU to stock 980 Ti clocks without flashing the bios using software if so please can someone give me some pointers I just want to try @ stock to see if the fan RPM drops or its the specific game causing the audible RPM (Arkham Knight!!).
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You are not going to get total silence during gaming even with an underclock, you could drop it lower using MSI afterburner with a custom fan profile but likely to get stupidly high temps.

Unless you downclock so far (which you can also do in MSI afterburner) that it runs like ****.
 
Well, afterburner goes down to minus 105 on the core slider for my 780Ti's. So I assume underclocking is possible. Can't say I've ever underclocked a GPU though :)

Why don't you try it for yourself? :confused:
 
One reason I want to underclock this is I am sure the GPU boost 2.0 & factory overclocks are why the fans at times @ 4K gaming are audible. The factory oc is about 10-15% more so in theory if I back off to the stock 980Ti levels the massive HSF should be 100% silent at all times. The extra few FPS @ 4K are not worth the extra noise to me its still very silent just not the 100% silent I want as I sit about 2ft away.

I am going to try on Precision X first as I hear its more accurate than MSI Afterburner.

Nvidia should consider adding a GPU boost 2.0 disable button in the NVCP as I have done some research on this and some power gamers reckon they get better smoother gaming results with GPU Boost disabled & manually tuning their own cards with a custom fan profile as well!!
 
Really????? i sit a foot away and want more out of my overclock.. Theres no way id spend all that cash on my 908Ti to underclock it
 
Buy better case for silence and air flow?

Send 980 Ti back and get 980 with a massive heat sink?

They are fairly hot cards. If they don't have a fan running they will cook.

Either that or go custom water with big low dpi rads and some low rpm fans.

Think the only other way to get 'silence' wil be with lower power gpu with big heatsink.
 
evolad said:
Really????? i sit a foot away and want more out of my overclock.. Theres no way id spend all that cash on my 908Ti to underclock it
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Right now for 4k you don't really have many choices. 980ti, Titan X, Fury X.

Unless of course you want to dance with the devil and go multi GPU..

I know a few people that have underclocked both their GPU and CPU to bring down the power consumption and noise.

Sadly OP you bought a MSI and their fans have a very annoying whirring sound. I fear that even underclocked you are going to have to hear them.

I just got a Fury X and it is near silent. It really is about as quiet as a GPU gets, so, maybe it would be a good idea to look into AIO cooling the GPU? that way you could run the 120mm fan at a very low speed and still get decent cooling?
 
Underclocking the 980 Ti will only affect 4K performance, as 1080p is CPU related. If you're gaming at 4K, you need all the horsepower you can get, so keep it at stock clocks.
 
No offense but you brought the best card on the market to underclock it? Give it to me and I'll give you my R9 290 which will be quiet as I'll put a G10 and AIO on it :D

If noise bothers you that much get a little GTX 750 ti or watercool it.
 
You downclock for 4k gaming and it will suffer in performance. You keep fans on low while gaming and it will throttle. Its mind boggling why you would buy this card to downclock it
 
Try setting a custom fan curve in MSI Afterburner.
ALXAndy said:
Sadly OP you bought a MSI and their fans have a very annoying whirring sound. I fear that even underclocked you are going to have to hear them.
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I think the card he bought is the Inno3D GeForce GTX 980Ti X3 Ultra.
 
You'd be better off undervolting rather than underclocking to reduce temperature / fan speed. I dropped from 1.193v to 1.155v and kept my overclock. No need to sacrifice performance :)
 
ALXAndy said:
Right now for 4k you don't really have many choices. 980ti, Titan X, Fury X.

Unless of course you want to dance with the devil and go multi GPU..

I know a few people that have underclocked both their GPU and CPU to bring down the power consumption and noise.

Sadly OP you bought a MSI and their fans have a very annoying whirring sound. I fear that even underclocked you are going to have to hear them.

I just got a Fury X and it is near silent. It really is about as quiet as a GPU gets, so, maybe it would be a good idea to look into AIO cooling the GPU? that way you could run the 120mm fan at a very low speed and still get decent cooling?
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Its an Inno3D not an MSI the triple fans are fine its just you can hear them when they go above 30% RPM its very slight but I really want total silence.
http://www.inno3d.com/products_detail.php?refid=201

I may see if I can put either 2 x 120mm silent fans & or 3 x low profile fans instead as the HSF is amazing it allows no fan RPM up to 60C so some games & desktop use are 100% silent its just @ 4K certain games are poorly optimised thats when the fans kick in up to 25% they are still silent but after that you can gradually hear them once they hit 30% rpm which is what I want to prevent.
 
Doogles said:
No offense but you brought the best card on the market to underclock it?
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Its not even the 5th or 6th best GPU on the market there are several other cards which are way more overclocked & or hybrid cooled coming out now like the HOF or Inno3D hybrid.

I bought this GPU because I thought it would be silent a few extra FPS @ 4K is pointless to me vs virtual silence a few feet away.
 
Thanks for the input everyone I have solved this now.

GPU is silent up to 60% fan rpm.

Whats happening is the PSU is working harder & that fan is the one I can hear not the GPU which is up to 60% fan rpm silent. So I need to get some better fans on the GPU & or a newer silent PSU.
 
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