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Nvidia GTX 980 Owners Thread

Anyone got any experience of the Palit Jetstream 980? (Not the super version!)

Never had a Palit card before so not sure if they are any good!
 
Robert_G said:
I ran Firestrike on 3DMark basic edition. Surely I should be getting way more than an extra 1k points over a 290?
If not then I might as well get rid of it lol. Hardly worth paying nearly £200 more for that small increase O_O.

Edit: Less than 1k as it goes, just checked the results again.

R9 290 in my sig 10450, GTX980 11124. That seems pretty dire really.
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What are your graphics and physics scores?

also what are your base clocks?
 
Strudders said:
What are your graphics and physics scores?

also what are your base clocks?
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This GTX 980 running at stock: http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-255-EA&groupid=701&catid=1914&subcat=1812

and this R9 290 running at 1180 core/1500 memory: http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-344-SP&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=1752

The 290 scored: Graphics Score 12962, Physics Score 8747
The 980 scored: Graphics Score 14394 Physics Score 8810

Here are the links to the results:
980 http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/6323252
290 http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/5905455

I know my score would be higher with a better CPU, it's just that I expected the gap between the 2 to be much bigger.

Edit: CPU was at 4.4 for both tests.
 
Robert_G said:
This GTX 980 running at stock: http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-255-EA&groupid=701&catid=1914&subcat=1812

and this R9 290 running at 1180 core/1500 memory: http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-344-SP&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=1752

The 290 scored: Graphics Score 12962, Physics Score 8747
The 980 scored: Graphics Score 14394 Physics Score 8810

Here are the links to the results:
980 http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/6323252
290 http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/5905455

I know my score would be higher with a better CPU, it's just that I expected the gap between the 2 to be much bigger.

Edit: CPU was at 4.4 for both tests.
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Hello!

Yep, your Graphics score is bang on for your clock speed (it is factory clocked BTW)

Edit edit

Check out the scores on http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18485414 to see what others have achieved on the spoiler other scores


It is the same base clock as mine.

My base score is
http://www.3dmark.com/fs/4375870

EDIT This is my vase score, sorry, base 1406\1507

if your Afterburner only has a power target max of 109 (which it should with your factory clock) its 140 on the core clock slider. Check with GPUz though.

I have found this clock stable in all games etc, apart from ED which hates 980's (under clock to make sure it does not crash in hyperspace)



However I am running an i7 4790K

Keeping an eye on temps, you could happily push the boost clock up to 1500Mz and that will produce much better results.

It is your CPU keeping your score down, but your graphics score is good for the card.

http://www.3dmark.com/fs/4248685

This is a 1500 MHz score form mine, 16k is what you would be expected to see.
 
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Finally got around to installing my Hydrocopper GTX980 last week after leaving it in the box for a fortnight (breaking into a water loop requires a lot of motivation lol). The thing is a beast! A small OC saw it hitting 14K in Firestrike, it runs slightly warmer than I expected but that's no issue.

Compared to the GTX970 it replaced I have noticed a difference in World of Warcraft, I have my monitor clocked to 75Hz and V-Sync enabled and now hit that a lot more often. Before I would get FPS dips into the 40s dips during the heavy chaos but now it mostly stays in the 50s and above :)
 
I'm having a problem running older (late 90s/early 00s) era games on my new 980 graphics powered. I've tried many things (changing graphics, sound, OS (Win7 vs Win8.1)) and they still crash randomly. I suspect it might be something up with the motherboard or RAM, as people with similar PCs have the games working fine!

Please, if you're running a PC similar to mine, see if the Need For Speed Hot Pursuit 2 demo will work for you or not (http://www.gamershell.com/download_110.shtml)?

Read up more on all the many (almost hilarious) trials I made, and the fuller list of games that crash for me (mostly racing games): http://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=42736
 
VirtuaIceMan said:
I'm having a problem running older (late 90s/early 00s) era games on my new 980 graphics powered. I've tried many things (changing graphics, sound, OS (Win7 vs Win8.1)) and they still crash randomly. I suspect it might be something up with the motherboard or RAM, as people with similar PCs have the games working fine!

Please, if you're running a PC similar to mine, see if the Need For Speed Hot Pursuit 2 demo will work for you or not (http://www.gamershell.com/download_110.shtml)?

Read up more on all the many (almost hilarious) trials I made, and the fuller list of games that crash for me (mostly racing games): http://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=42736
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I get a 404 error clicking that demo link.
 
VirtuaIceMan said:
I'm having a problem running older (late 90s/early 00s) era games on my new 980 graphics powered. I've tried many things (changing graphics, sound, OS (Win7 vs Win8.1)) and they still crash randomly. I suspect it might be something up with the motherboard or RAM, as people with similar PCs have the games working fine!

Please, if you're running a PC similar to mine, see if the Need For Speed Hot Pursuit 2 demo will work for you or not (http://www.gamershell.com/download_110.shtml)?

Read up more on all the many (almost hilarious) trials I made, and the fuller list of games that crash for me (mostly racing games): http://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=42736
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This seems to be a thing with me ATM

is your card reference clocked at 1126 Mhz ish or is it factory clocked at over 1200 Mhz?

I say this because I have issues running Elite dangerous at anything over 1200 MHz and wonder if you still get the problem if you down clock.
 
Strudders said:
This seems to be a thing with me ATM

is your card reference clocked at 1126 Mhz ish or is it factory clocked at over 1200 Mhz?

I say this because I have issues running Elite dangerous at anything over 1200 MHz and wonder if you still get the problem if you down clock.
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OK did a quick test on training.

FPS 235 ISH
MHz 1535
MEM Load 1600+
O/C 1266 to 1383 boost 1484 MHz
 
Anyone else having to lower clocks for BF4 and BFH ?? .. I get crashes all the time, although its fine on other software pushing its limits i.e. FC4
 
What sort of crashes? Blue screens? Driver crashes? Freezes/shutdowns?

List your specs so we can help

Don't own hardline but have not had a problem with bf4 personally.
 
Has anyone got the Asus Strix 980 here? If so how do you find the fan noise?

I fired up Crysis 3 and according to MSI afterburner the fan reached 65-70% and sounded really rather loud; an app on my phone said the noise was circa 50dB (it is under my desk and this was with the phone on the desk top)?!

It is overclocked by +105mhz core and I capped the fan speed to 50-55% tops which is quite bearable but as a result it reaches the thermal cap and throttles back by roughly 30-40mhz from full boost.

All that said, I was expecting it to be considerably quieter under full load with no interference from me in regard to fan speed... :/
 
Ironically I just put an AIO cooler on my Inno 3D 980 Ultra Air boss, temps are much better. The Kraken G10 needed a "mod" with a hack saw but it and the H55 are keeping temps down much better in my little Corsair Carbide 540. Wouldn't have put it on but had it sitting unused after taking it off my now redundant HIS 7950.

After 2 hours running 3DMARK Fire Strike Extreme:
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What did you do with your VRM's ? I bought a Gelid VRM kit for a 290/290x was going to see if that fits. Still also got the ram heatsinks that I used before also and my two G10's I used on my 970's waiting in the wings. Tempted to do my top 980 as I saw it hit 78c in SOM yesterday. I too have a H55. I bought a 120mm > 140mm adaptor so I could fit it to one of my front 140mm Fans too. Mmmmmm.
 
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