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**Nvidia GeForce GTX 980 Ti Review Thread**

Thoughts ?

1. Do you play games or stare at your graphics cards ?
2. Depends on how old your psu is, remember it drops a fair bit of efficiency year on year.
3. At least you know you will still have that OC headroom if you ever need it.

The ACX's would be a good choice.

Thanks, and yes perhaps the point about the colour scheme is being overstated. But the reality is that a lot of people are into their aesthetics these days with window panels being so common. A more neutral colour was needed. The fact that they thought gold/mustard was a good idea instead of the 980s white beggars belief.
 
See, I wouldn't run Titan X's that close in SLI and the 980Ti is the same card (for all intents and purposes)

I ran them like this for a while:

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And the top card was throttling at 83°C at the stock fan profile. That's why I went for AIO cooling.

That's a problem for future me ;)

If I go SLI I'll look into it, with Ref coolers it shouldn't be too bad, my single GTX580 was sitting at 69 degrees with the non-ref MSI twin frozr cooler so there seems to be decent airflow in the case with the 200mm up front. If the noise/temps are too much I'll just do a loop with the 2 cards, maybe chuck in the cpu with a 240mm and a 280mm rad.
 
My 780 runs much better, but still chokes at the full 3440x1440. And the Witcher 3 looks 10x more luscious with the extra aspect ratio.

Thing is, can even the 980Ti handle that at 60Hz?

Not with ultra settings no. Not far off though.

Edit: didn't test latest driver.
 
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I don't game with headphones, I use my home cinema for 5.1 audio but with the stock cooler you could hear it.

1:1 would be so loud! :D

Can't see it being louder than 2x non reference GTX580's, the top one hitting 90... something degrees :eek:

I tested them running with an android decibel meter and 2ft away and I seem to remember it hitting over 50db, with the case closed.

I might swap the H110i GT fans to pull air into the case too, the main priority with 2x 580's was to get as much air out the case as possible, although with just a single 980ti it probably won't make much difference.
 
Just been having a play with a 980ti and it's no louder than any other card with the same cooler. The default fan profile lets the card get hot as always but setting a custom profile keeps the temps down and the noise is not that bad no louder than a 780ti or Titan X.
 
Just been having a play with a 980ti and it's no louder than any other card with the same cooler. The default fan profile lets the card get hot as always but setting a custom profile keeps the temps down and the noise is not that bad no louder than a 780ti or Titan X.

good to hear that . i just cancelled my reference design card and i want to order evga hybrid version one but still not in stock.
if can't wait any longer then i might just get reference design. :D
 
I've got the hybrid on pre-order.

As much as I would love to get a TI now, I know it is worth the wait. Hopefully won't be too long....

Same. Keep looking at the page tempted to buy one but I really like the look of the iChill Hybrid. I'd get the EVGA one but it looks ugly to me
 
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