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Nvidia GTX 980 Owners Thread

With some careful case tidying and quite frankly genius on my part.. My monster Mini ITX is once back on the dark side !

Water cooled GTX 980, IDLE 28c. Load 55c Max.

MSI Gaming GTX 980
2 X SSD Samsung 128GB 840 Pro (OS) 1TB Samsung 850 Pro (Games)
2 X Hybrid SSD / HDD (Data)
16GB DDR3 2400mhz
Gigabyte Z97N Wifi
750W Cooler Master PSU

Behold the beauty !!

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From what I understand it one row is for idle, one row is for 3d/load and one row is used for the initial boot up of the PC. Its trying to decipher between the confusing guides over which row does what. So in theory you dont have to change the right hand side to all the same you just need to alter the one that applies to the GPU under load. Its probably people doing the former as not knowing which row does what properly.

Once thats done along with row clk 74 should make it easier to understand all round.

The HardOCP one seems to make more sense.
 
varkanoid said:
From what I understand it one row is for idle, one row is for 3d/load and one row is used for the initial boot up of the PC. Its trying to decipher between the confusing guides over which row does what. So in theory you dont have to change the right hand side to all the same you just need to alter the one that applies to the GPU under load. Its probably people doing the former as not knowing which row does what properly.

Once thats done along with row clk 74 should make it easier to understand all round.

The HardOCP one seems to make more sense.
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I think you are on to so,etching there. I just hope EVGA support will enlighten us.
 
Give up & play some games ! Hehe

Boosted mine to 1503 & 7.5 Mem on stock Volts with AB, not gamed with it yet to see what the temps are like ! Banching see them about 57c....
 
Awahwah said:
I think you are on to so,etching there. I just hope EVGA support will enlighten us.
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so looking at it further when I put mine under load at default clock it boosts to 1392mhz. The volts read by Afterburner and GPU-Z show 1.206. According to the boost table that core clock is clk 63. If I then look at clk 63 on the Voltage table the range is 1075mv to 1281mv.

The top three max ranges are 1225/1262mv so none of those ranges are actually limiting my card.

If I then add a 150+ overclock it then boosts to 1542mhz which is just passed my max table (yes "table") clock which is 1531mhz. My V's are still 1206mv according to GPU-Z and Afterburner.

So for me none of these ranges appear to control the max volts my GPU uses under load.

As I dont seem to be able to find a good explanation of the voltage table settings then the next step would be to go through them one at a time to see which one does actually change the 1206mv. When I have the time.
 
Just wondered has anyone used a kraken g10 on a kaf980 ?

I have two kaf2 s and the top one is hitting 75-78 degrees on stock . I can oc them to a stable 1540 but the top card is always 15 degrees more and throttles. I can't afford a full water cooling system so was wondering about the g10 and a pair of corsair 80 his .
 
Finally got my MSI reference under water over the weekend. Modified the Bios again and now I'm getting 1569.5/4000 up from 1506.5/3800. The card is much happier underwater with added volts (1.275v). Will be pushing for more over the next few days.

I missed the discussion earlier but if you want to force clock 74 and disable boost completely just make all the voltages within the first 5 sliders of the voltage table your max voltage (for mine they're all set to 1.275v).

The card will still undervolt and downclock while idle/2D. You can check this using AB's OSD.

Oh and 1.275v is the max voltage reported by AB, so if you go higher while it's there you'll not be able to see it without a multi.
 
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Bluntwrapped said:
Finally got my MSI reference under water over the weekend. Modified the Bios again and now I'm getting 1569.5/4000 up from 1506.5/3800. The card is much happier underwater with added volts (1.275v). Will be pushing for more over the next few days.
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Nice one, would you be able to modify my bios if I upload it tonight?
 
blasterbolt said:
Just wondered has anyone used a kraken g10 on a kaf980 ?

I have two kaf2 s and the top one is hitting 75-78 degrees on stock . I can oc them to a stable 1540 but the top card is always 15 degrees more and throttles. I can't afford a full water cooling system so was wondering about the g10 and a pair of corsair 80 his .
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Hi, haven't got a 980, but I have got a Kraken G10 and Antec 920 on my Titan and it works great. Temperature is about 25 degrees cooler than before, plus it's quieter :)
 
blasterbolt said:
Just wondered has anyone used a kraken g10 on a kaf980 ?

I have two kaf2 s and the top one is hitting 75-78 degrees on stock . I can oc them to a stable 1540 but the top card is always 15 degrees more and throttles. I can't afford a full water cooling system so was wondering about the g10 and a pair of corsair 80 his .
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No I have two taken off my 970's waiting in the wings in case I decide to do it with mine.

My advice would be forget the corsair ones and go for the NZXT X41 140mm radiator if you can. I really like the CAM software too that comes with it. I used it with the Kraken on my top 970.
 
I think my Card it bust. The FTW has two BIOS's. I switched to BIOS 2, as EVGA say it may be a performance BIOS but I saw no difference with it. So powered the machine down, moved the DIP Switch back to the primary BIOS and the Card no longer Posts. I'm not sure what has happened there, but looks like the BIOS is now corrupt.

Do you guys think it's worth firing up nvflash to see if it will read the EEPROM and maybe try to flash the stock rom from BIOS two?
 
Bluntwrapped said:
Finally got my MSI reference under water over the weekend. Modified the Bios again and now I'm getting 1569.5/4000 up from 1506.5/3800. The card is much happier underwater with added volts (1.275v). Will be pushing for more over the next few days.

I missed the discussion earlier but if you want to force clock 74 and disable boost completely just make all the voltages within the first 5 sliders of the voltage table your max voltage (for mine they're all set to 1.275v).

The card will still undervolt and downclock while idle/2D. You can check this using AB's OSD.

Oh and 1.275v is the max voltage reported by AB, so if you go higher while it's there you'll not be able to see it without a multi.
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Its not quite that straight forward with mine as apart from one row they are set to 1.262v already yet the card is only using 1.206v whether its 1392mhz or 1542mhz core.
 
varkanoid said:
No I have two taken off my 970's waiting in the wings in case I decide to do it with mine.

My advice would be forget the corsair ones and go for the NZXT X41 140mm radiator if you can. I really like the CAM software too that comes with it. I used it with the Kraken on my top 970.
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Thanks for the advice I will have a look :)
 
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