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Just so you know, the FTW has just been ordered, should be with me on Friday.
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Nvidia GTX 980 Owners Thread
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Just so you know, the FTW has just been ordered, should be with me on Friday.
Soldato
Give this man a prize
Yep it's the fans, cheap and nasty fans on a brilliant cooler!
On my G1 at nearly 1600mhz I could leave it on auto and it'd never throttle and never go over 64C, but the SOC.... 90% fan speeds hitting 75C+. The same issue also affected the Palit, good cooler, cheap fans.
Coincidence that the 980 SOC is not listed on OCUK now....
Associate
Spotted that too.
Lucky ***
Perhaps they wont be getting any more in so have taken it off? Who knows
Soldato
I'm still torn and hovering over the buy button. Is this card really worth £500?
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-148-GI
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-148-GI
Associate
Some say it has a very good cooler and power delivery which will aid in OC'ing - remember the Silicon lottery though.
Associate
i run 2 gtx 980 reference cards the standard ocuk 1s
1552/1992 im under water so obviously there silent
but they oc great out the box.
Soldato
I'm not into OC'ing a gpu really, maybe a tad IF I don't have to raise the heat/fan noise.
I also have a small lian li tower with a micro atx build. So the airflow is there, but it's not the best, a reference card will obviously cool better, but the above is damn fine... The current card I have is a gigabyte 780 windforce OC rev 2.0, so literally the G1's smaller brother. It cools ok but can get hot and heats up the case. Not overclocked.
I also have a small lian li tower with a micro atx build. So the airflow is there, but it's not the best, a reference card will obviously cool better, but the above is damn fine... The current card I have is a gigabyte 780 windforce OC rev 2.0, so literally the G1's smaller brother. It cools ok but can get hot and heats up the case. Not overclocked.
Soldato
I was having trouble cooling my SOCs until I stuck a 200mm side fan on, now the top card idles at 44 and with a fairly aggressive fan profile I keep @70° during Heaven, so i'm happy enough. I have a sound card between them so that's probably not helping.
Thinking of putting the Essence STX on the MM and getting a Sound Blaster X7 to free up space between the cards.
My GTX 980 EVGA SC arrived this morning, must admit it does look like a higher quality product than the SOC. Testing will tell though later, I hope it clocks to atleast 1500
Soldato
My GTX 980 EVGA SC arrived this morning, must admit it does look like a higher quality product than the SOC. Testing will tell though later, I hope it clocks to atleast 1500
Ooooooo chap, do me a favor and run a game at high FPS (CS:GO or the likes) and see if you get coil whine? Thanks!
Caporegime
Have you tried a custom fan profile on the wf 780? On stock fan setting my first one would go over 70c, but changing to a 1-1 ratio fan curve kept it at 65c. Fan curve like so, 50c - 50% fan speed. Noise wasn't really an issue as the wf cooler is pretty good.
Soldato
Yea, toyed around with profiles, it's not so much the heat the gpu it's self is having, it's the heat it disperses with a blow cooler. It fills the small Lian Li case pretty quickly and doesn't help other things stay cool.
A reference card will give me brilliant airflow again.
I've decided on this card:
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-255-EA&groupid=701&catid=1914&subcat=1812
Caporegime
Reference would indeed be much more suitable for your smaller case. As I own two wf 780's in sli, I can certainly attest to their ability to heat up the inside of a case. Even a large full tower like mine. With no fps limit in games they add 10c to my cpu temps, 74c max as opposed to 64c if the cards are limited.
Associate
Hmm the SOC whined at 60fps
Let us know how you get on. Mine should be with me tomorrow
Soldato
Cool, glad I made the switch then! My pc is fairly noisy atm as I removed the noctua fan resistors to compensate from 560ti's reference cooler to my current 780 windforce. Needed more case flow.
But now I can slow it all down.
Also, my PSU fan is noisy (air rush noise), I'm going to place a sensor in the PSU and wire in a resistor to slow the fan down to see the difference.
I need silence!
Caporegime
Yep, understandable as i remember from your thread in general hardware that you have your system in the lounge. The psu i have in the spec in sig is thankfully very quiet at idle, that and i can turn all my case fans off via a fan controller, (cpu cooler fans on auto PWM). When gaming it does get audible but thankfully its in a room were noise isnt an issue and i use noise cancelling headphones.
Soldato
I might invest some pennies into a fan controller so I can put my PC into 'film mode'...
Not a bad idea actually.
As for the GPU, real quick, only have 2x 6pin instead of the G1's 2x 8pin, will this hinder me much? Again, the card I've decided on will likely stay stock.
Not a bad idea actually.
As for the GPU, real quick, only have 2x 6pin instead of the G1's 2x 8pin, will this hinder me much? Again, the card I've decided on will likely stay stock.