Nvidia GTX 980 Owners Thread

mysticsniper · 4 Oct 2014 at 15:08

serjames said:
Seems to draw approx 300 watts more than siting Idle when gaming. I.e. my Corsair link shows a jump from 190 at idle to approx 600/650 peak.

(that's with an i920 too at 3.9 too mind)

Perhaps 150 watts each ?

I reckon an 800 watt or 1000 would be enough. (I run an AXi1200 for reference)

Cheers for that, I have an Evga 850w, so might be pushing it a bit. Might buy the 2x970 instead.

MOOGLEYS · 4 Oct 2014 at 15:11

mysticsniper said:
Cheers for that, I have an Evga 850w, so might be pushing it a bit. Might buy the 2x970 instead.

That PSU is plenty for a pair of 980's.

My system with a single 980 and 4770k @ 4.5ghz when gaming is drawing 330w. A decent 650w would have no issues with a pair of 980's tbh....

mysticsniper · 4 Oct 2014 at 15:27

MOOGLEYS said:
That PSU is plenty for a pair of 980's.

My system with a single 980 and 4770k @ 4.5ghz when gaming is drawing 330w. A decent 650w would have no issues with a pair of 980's tbh....

Have a dilemma now, 1x980 now and another next year, or 2x970 now?

Geeman1979 · 4 Oct 2014 at 15:42

2x 970's now & a 3rd later, not that you'll need it.

Pulse88 · 4 Oct 2014 at 15:48

Silent_Scone

thats some nice load temps

temps on load when oc and are on more volt?

MOOGLEYS · 4 Oct 2014 at 15:57

mysticsniper said:
Have a dilemma now, 1x980 now and another next year, or 2x970 now?

Considering a 970 is not a lot slower than a 980. Why not get one 970 now and then another later..

mysticsniper · 4 Oct 2014 at 16:05

MOOGLEYS said:
Considering a 970 is not a lot slower than a 980. Why not get one 970 now and then another later..

I can afford 2x970 now, so that sounds like the best choice.

Gregster · 4 Oct 2014 at 16:08

Very nice build Frosty

MOOGLEYS · 4 Oct 2014 at 16:45

mysticsniper said:
I can afford 2x970 now, so that sounds like the best choice.

Fair enough a pair of 970's will serve you well....

GoogalyMoogaly · 4 Oct 2014 at 17:39

Trying to run my 980s on my Rampage IV Extreme with a 3930K.
They only seem to run in PCI-e 2.0 mode though. I've run Nvidia's tweak to enable PCI-e 3.0, but it hasn't made any difference. Does it not work with the 980 drivers?

Would updating my motherboard to the latest BIOS make any difference?
As I'm running 3 cards 2 of them are running at 8x, so I'd like to get them working at PCI-e 3.0, especially for 4K use.

Also, 3 run together like Frosty has but on air, very very toasty!

Geeman1979 · 4 Oct 2014 at 17:51

Did you run as Admin then reboot? Also make sure in Bios the PCI-E lanes are set to Gen 3 I think it's called.

Retron · 4 Oct 2014 at 18:35

GoogalyMoogaly said:
Trying to run my 980s on my Rampage IV Extreme with a 3930K.
They only seem to run in PCI-e 2.0 mode though

IIRC Sandy Bridge CPUs, no matter what flavour, only support PCIe 2.

Ivy Bridge was the first generation to support PCIe 3, AFAIK.

Gerard · 4 Oct 2014 at 18:45

Retron said:
IIRC Sandy Bridge CPUs, no matter what flavour, only support PCIe 2.

Ivy Bridge was the first generation to support PCIe 3, AFAIK.

Doubt it would make much of a performance difference anyway.

serjames · 4 Oct 2014 at 20:17

Gerard said:
Doubt it would make much of a performance difference anyway.

What he said.....

GoogalyMoogaly · 4 Oct 2014 at 20:34

serjames said:
What he said.....

With 3 cards running at 4K?
Didn't Kaap or someone show that it made more of a difference at higher resolutions?

Geeman1979 · 4 Oct 2014 at 20:39

GoogalyMoogaly said:
With 3 cards running at 4K?
Didn't Kaap or someone show that it made more of a difference at higher resolutions?

Did you check what I suggested?

GoogalyMoogaly · 4 Oct 2014 at 20:42

Geeman1979 said:
Did you check what I suggested?

Yes, they were set to Gen3 anyway as I was running AMD cards perviously that have no such issues with SB-E.
I did try running the exe as Admin, can't remember if that was before or after your suggestion. Didn't make any difference. I even checked the Registry and I think the relevant value was set to 4.
Maybe Nvidia have changed they way it works and the old tweak doesn't cut it any longer?

Geeman1979 · 4 Oct 2014 at 20:52

GoogalyMoogaly said:
Yes, they were set to Gen3 anyway as I was running AMD cards perviously that have no such issues with SB-E.
I did try running the exe as Admin, can't remember if that was before or after your suggestion. Didn't make any difference. I even checked the Registry and I think the relevant value was set to 4.
Maybe Nvidia have changed they way it works and the old tweak doesn't cut it any longer?

Works for me with a pair of Titans. Ask Whyscotty when he's next about, he runs a similar setup as yours with a pair of 980's.

whyscotty · 5 Oct 2014 at 07:47

Geeman1979 said:
Works for me with a pair of Titans. Ask Whyscotty when he's next about, he runs a similar setup as yours with a pair of 980's.

The hack works for me

GoogalyMoogaly · 5 Oct 2014 at 12:28

Definitely not working of me. No idea why (there's not much to mess up running an exe).
Annoying as it seems the only way around it is to spend about £1000 on Haswell-E.

From the other thread the only real difference between our systems is the BIOS version of the R IV E, but I can't imagine that would make any difference. The tweak was out when I got the board and my current BIOS was the newest (or close to) at that time. Also it worked in PCI-e 3.0 with my 290s.