To true . Only reason there grabbed my custom 2nd time around is due to it not being 100 odd quid higher then the rest this time. Barely 30 more then Reference is acceptable. Failing them this time it'll be classy under loop from here after.
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Nvidia GTX 980 Owners Thread
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To true . Only reason there grabbed my custom 2nd time around is due to it not being 100 odd quid higher then the rest this time. Barely 30 more then Reference is acceptable. Failing them this time it'll be classy under loop from here after.
Reckon you have a good card there, my 980SC wont go much over +140 on the core, mind you I have not gone for maximum voltage yet.
Which card have you got?
Mark
It's a reference MSi. Have not touched voltage or memory just stuck the core to +250 to see if it would do 1500Mhz stable.
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So what sort of clocks are people getting on these?
Still debating sending my stuff back and getting some of these. One of the big draws for me is overclockability, especially if I go watercooling.
How do you even go about overlocking them? (I've not used an Nvidia card with the Boost 2.0 or whatever it is)
Still debating sending my stuff back and getting some of these. One of the big draws for me is overclockability, especially if I go watercooling.
How do you even go about overlocking them? (I've not used an Nvidia card with the Boost 2.0 or whatever it is)
I used precision 16 and just added +250 to the core for 1500Mhz not tried anything else.
will run it at stock for gaming as tbh it makes little difference on a single 1440p screen.
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Ah, I'm thinking of 3 for 4K gaming.
Nice....
I can barley read off a 1440p screen so 4k on anything smaller than 50" would be wasted on me...
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Up to 1580 on the core with EVGA SC. Water / heatsinks has def helped stabilize the card, sinks on the vrm and memory this card runs really cool.
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Nice....
I can barley read off a 1440p screen so 4k on anything smaller than 50" would be wasted on me...
It is a bit small it's true. You can set scaling, but not everything seems to obey that (e.g. afterburner)
I'm thinking of the Inno3D cards, because they're cheap.
Also because postage will cost me £70 on returning my 295x2 and 290X (insurance up to £1050).
A little worried about heat considering they will be in a 900D, which isn't great for air cooling. 3 cards close together with poor airflow could be an issue.
Also, do you still need a registry hack to get Nvidia cards running at PCI-e 3.0 on an X79 board with SB-E?
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Nice....
I can barley read off a 1440p screen so 4k on anything smaller than 50" would be wasted on me...
Set scaling to 125% for 1440P, looks like 1080P does at normal settings (100%). Think 4K needs 150% to look ok...
Yeah 3 Inno's would be nice, bound to get toasty though? Two would be enough wouldn't it? Scaling gets worse with each extra card tbh, add in the heat / noise, 2 might be better..
Not sure about the Z79 thing, I'm sure they will be fine though, latest bios update etc. Z79 was designed to make use of multi cards..
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But 2 980s would be a downgrade from what is effectively 3 290Xs, so would be a waste as it's probably cost me about the same (give or take £100 or so).
The heat does worry me, although MjFrosty (aka Silent_Scone?) was/is running 3 on air until his waterblocks arrive. Also, seen review sites doing 3 and 4 way SLI reviews that said temps were fine (probably not in a case though).
The X79 + SB-E restriction isn't to do with the motherboard, it's an Nvidia thing as AMD cards run at PCI-e 3.0 fine. With the 600 series Nvidia cards you needed a BIOS hack.
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Nope about par for the course given his a reference msi. Base clocks on the SC are quite a bit higher at 1241. +140 would put you into the 1500's just like +250 does on the reference msi.
2 and 3-way SLI review up at Guru3D:
http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/geforce_gtx_980_sli_review,1.html
http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/geforce_gtx_980_sli_review,1.html
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Any news on different bios guys?
Rumour is they can't get nvflash working due to a new encrypted signature mechanism.
Kingpin posted a full hardware tear down of how to hard mod the card last week but it's for ln2 hacks only.
I can only assume that nvidia is responsible for the new bios mechanism and not the vendors.
some geeza posted this in the other forum: ftp://download.nvidia.com/open-gpu-doc/Falcon-Security/1/Falcon-Security.html
Also, this: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTc5ODA
I would imagine this affects all new Nvidia cards.
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Anyone else got a Palit 980 reference card? The reason I'm asking is unless I set a custom fan profile (which I have) the fan only spins up to 40% while the card reaches it's 79c throttle limit. I noticed this on day 1 when I launched Crysis 3 and it throttled pretty much immediately. Not too bothered because it's easily sorted with Afterburner, just curious.
And I thought that only Amd had driver problems with multiple cards. Frame times are really low though for the 980sli setup, they just need to fix all those dropped frames.
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Does this look right? http://www.3dmark.com/fs/2872753
I havent changed voltages only PL to 120% but somehow Im stable at +250/+400 ?? Cant be right no?
I havent changed voltages only PL to 120% but somehow Im stable at +250/+400 ?? Cant be right no?
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Do Gigabyte offer the same warranty as EVGA when removing the stock cooler for a waterblock? I have an EVGA on backorder but there's plenty of Gigabytes 980's in stock and it's a tenner cheaper.
Mine is stable at +250 on the core with power limit at %100 not touched the ram.
Great cards..