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**Nvidia GeForce GTX 980 Ti Review Thread**

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And now the HTC vibe arrives giving my wallet the itch AGAIN OMG but the oculus is going to be Higher res BUT yet again more waiting... I cant bare it anymore, im going back to my 360 :|
 
SeeNoWeevil said:
My stock EVGA reference card hits 82c and the only reason it won't go higher (according to the PerfCap reason in GPU-Z) is because it needs more voltage, not because it thinks it's too hot (fan speed is only around 50% iirc). I imagine the Superclocked cards give more voltage by default than reference.

What do people mean exactly when they say the card is throttling? As in, the clock gets to a peak and then drops back?
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Going by what my TX does, at 65c it drops 13mhz then when it hits 83c it drops again another 13mhz until it gets below that.

So for example my Gigabyte does 1189mhz boost, it will drop to 1176mhz at 65c and then again to 1164mhz at 83c, when it goes to 81-82c it will go back up to 1176mhz etc etc repeating the process.

By just running a custom profile you atleast skip the 83c 13mhz drop as it doesn't get that high. The 65c drop is hard to avoid though unless you have very good air flow, go crazy on the fan profile or change the cooler. I think custom bioses have an overide for this but I haven't personally tested it until I get my AIOs.
 
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africanos23 said:
Going by what my TX does, at 65c it drops 13mhz then when it hits 83c it drops again another 13mhz until it gets below that.

So for example my Gigabyte does 1189mhz boost, it will drop to 1176mhz at 65c and then again to 1164mhz at 83c, when it goes to 81-82c it will go back up to 1176mhz etc etc repeating the process.

By just running a custom profile you atleast skip the 83c 13mhz drop as it doesn't get that high. The 65c drop is hard to avoid though unless you have very good air flow, go crazy on the fan profile or change the cooler. I think custom bioses have an overide for this but I haven't personally tested it until I get my AIOs.
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That's interesting, I keep GPUZ open for both of my GPUs and neither drop clocks when at 84 degrees. Both them stay at a constant 1290Mhz in the Witcher 3 with an hour of play.

it might well be that the Superclocked BIOS prevents those little Mhz drops.
 
N19h7m4r3 said:
That's interesting, I keep GPUZ open for both of my GPUs and neither drop clocks when at 84 degrees. Both them stay at a constant 1290Mhz in the Witcher 3 with an hour of play.

it might well be that the Superclocked BIOS prevents those little Mhz drops.
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Looking at reviews and a couple of peoples temps when running the ref cooler I think the GTX980Tis thermal throttle is around 87c vs 83c of the TX.

Probably yes your SC bios might remove those throttles.
 
africanos23 said:
Looking at reviews and a couple of peoples temps when running the ref cooler I think the GTX980Tis thermal throttle is around 87c vs 83c of the TX.

Probably yes your SC bios might remove those throttles.
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From what I've seen, a reference card will hit the power limit (at around 1200MHz) quite some time before it hits 87c.
 
SeeNoWeevil said:
From what I've seen, a reference card will hit the power limit (at around 1200MHz) quite some time before it hits 87c.
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Also depends on the BIOS I think. When it comes to GPUZ saying why performance is limited it's never showing Power or Thermals.
Otherwise they couldn't boost and stay at 1290Mhz or 1303Mhz depending on game or benchmark.
 
Torn between the Asus Strix and the EVGA hybrid, I like that the Strix is silent at idle but I also like that the hybrid is pretty quiet at load (by comparison to most cards).
 
Kelt said:
Unless you need to expel the air out of the back, ie running these in SLI, can't see why you'd buy a ref. model against the MSI Gaming version. It's cheaper (unless it's the OCUK/Palit/EVGA version), quieter, with faster (1178 v 1000) clocks out of the box.
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Most people will be sticking a waterblock on it and overclocking it to higher than the "superclocked" versions? Including me.
 
Gerard said:
I used to think they were binned chips years ago, had an 8800gtx SC. Just never realised it was nothing but a different bios.
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Back then I bought from BFG exclusively. Got the 8800GTX OC2, and it was a beast.

Seem these days the only way to get binned chips is to bend over for Classifieds and Kingpins.
 
DBT85 said:
Question for you. You buying an OCUK one with the block attached or picking a different reference card and doing the block yourself?
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Buying an evag one and a block separately, ocuk one only has a 2 year warranty, probably means they are using Palit cards. EVGA have a 5 year warranty if you register before the end of the month.

Besides like doing things myself, also works out cheaper strangely.
 
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