Nvidia GTX 980 Owners Thread

ICEx21 · 25 Feb 2015 at 22:09

Has anyone had this error before? I seem to get it when I play Battlefield 4 after a couple of rounds and then I need to restart the computer to get it working otherwise I just keep getting the same crash and error message.

Awahwah · 25 Feb 2015 at 22:19

Are you overclocked? That's a driver crash.

Bluntwrapped · 25 Feb 2015 at 22:21

tipes said:
Would this bios be ok for my Evga 980SC card - or not. Is this bios good for better overclock? Don't want to just dive in and try it until I checked. Would be very grateful for your help.

Mark

It's a SC bios so I wouldn't bother unless you have a problem with DP. I haven't had a chance to compare the versions, there may be other minor tweaks but they're not going to do anything to improve your overclock.

If you've got DP issues and you're in any doubt ask EVGA support and they'll send you the bios and a tool to update.

ICEx21 · 25 Feb 2015 at 22:26

Awahwah said:
Are you overclocked? That's a driver crash.

Hi mate it is overclocked but at stock volts.

Should I put the voltage up in Afterburner? If so what would you recommend?

Awahwah · 25 Feb 2015 at 22:31

Two options here, up the volts or reduce the clocks. If you up the volts do it is small stages. Eg 5mv (pick your own number). And remember that with volts the temperature will increase, so counter that with a more aggressive fan profile.

What are you currently clocked at?

ICEx21 · 25 Feb 2015 at 22:33

It was at +300 Core clock and +350 Memory clock, I've now dropped the core clock to +250.

tipes · 25 Feb 2015 at 22:45

Bluntwrapped said:
It's a SC bios so I wouldn't bother unless you have a problem with DP. I haven't had a chance to compare the versions, there may be other minor tweaks but they're not going to do anything to improve your overclock.

If you've got DP issues and you're in any doubt ask EVGA support and they'll send you the bios and a tool to update.

Have you got a better bios for the sc for overclocking - would be nice, being held back by volts, and vrel at the moment. Have no problem with DP btw.

Cheers

Mark

Awahwah · 25 Feb 2015 at 22:49

ICEx21 said:
It was at +300 Core clock and +350 Memory clock, I've now dropped the core clock to +250.

Let us know how you get on.

ICEx21 · 26 Feb 2015 at 14:35

+255 and +350 with core voltage at +10 in Afterburner so far it seems stable doing the Dragon Age Inquisition benchmark which was crashing last night.

Does that seem ok so far?

robgmun · 26 Feb 2015 at 14:46

Just got my 980 in the post and slammed it in (carefully of course)

Wired graphics problem and i'll try to describe it the best i can, it runs at a high frame rate but every half second it 'pauses' for a faction of a second, smooth then pause, smooth then pause, smooth then pause. What is this? It's at stock

Mayh3M · 26 Feb 2015 at 15:03

Awahwah said:
I've submitted a Support Ticket to EVGA with a couple of questions.

1) Why are the volts so low on the FTW (lower than the SC), it can't be cooler related as they are the same. And the FTW has extra power phases

Can you please elaborate on the problems you encountered with the FTW? You said elsewhere its voltage capped much lower than the SC.

StrongSad · 26 Feb 2015 at 16:48

robgmun said:
Just got my 980 in the post and slammed it in (carefully of course)

Wired graphics problem and i'll try to describe it the best i can, it runs at a high frame rate but every half second it 'pauses' for a faction of a second, smooth then pause, smooth then pause, smooth then pause. What is this? It's at stock

hello

First

Do you have anything running in the background? monitoring software?

Whats your PC spec

Did you do a DDU clean install of the drivers?

Do you have GPU-Z or afterburner installed to do a log

robgmun · 26 Feb 2015 at 17:10

Strudders said:
hello

Hi

Do you have anything running in the background? monitoring software?

Only Chrome web browser, this wasn't a problem with the 780

Whats your PC spec

i7-960 @ 3.2
16Gb of Ram
250Gb SSD
GTX 980

Did you do a DDU clean install of the drivers?

I *think* so

Do you have GPU-Z or afterburner installed to do a log

No to either

I think i'll reload the drivers again, you might be right on the clean install of the drivers

Awahwah · 26 Feb 2015 at 18:23

Does it happen all the time? Or just on certain Games?

StrongSad · 26 Feb 2015 at 18:57

robgmun said:
Hi

Only Chrome web browser, this wasn't a problem with the 780

i7-960 @ 3.2
16Gb of Ram
250Gb SSD
GTX 980

I *think* so

No to either

I think i'll reload the drivers again, you might be right on the clean install of the drivers

How did you get on?

Dashik · 26 Feb 2015 at 19:12

Well its no surprise, BF4 at 60 fps solid with the 2 cards in SLI on the Samsung Superwide

Awahwah · 26 Feb 2015 at 20:34

Just playing around some more with Classified and without any Voltage increase from 1.2v the best clocks I can get from it are 1559 Core and 4001 mem. Heaven below:

Mayh3M · 26 Feb 2015 at 22:11

Awahwah said:
Just playing around some more with Classified and without any Voltage increase from 1.2v the best clocks I can get from it are 1559 Core and 4001 mem. Heaven below:

Hey I think you missed my question earlier, I asked if you could tell me why you got rid of your FTW. You said it was voltage capped, is that by design?

Boomstick777 · 26 Feb 2015 at 22:48

After some playing with the bios I've gone for 1500 / 1900 for 24/7 stock clocks. Cool that it runs this at stock now without need for software OC etc.

Awahwah · 26 Feb 2015 at 22:51

Mayh3M said:
Hey I think you missed my question earlier, I asked if you could tell me why you got rid of your FTW. You said it was voltage capped, is that by design?

Sorry, must have missed that.

Capped to 1212mv but it did clock to 1450 on that.