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Nvidia GTX 980 Owners Thread

WesleyBurns is any chance you could send me some pics of your card as I'm planing to do the same but nees some kinda guide how to keep back plate and add g10 on it.
 
All you need to do is purchase some M2.5 pitch 45 nuts and if you want some washers too. This will allow you to use the bolts on the back plate to hold the back plate on still. Beacuse you will be removing the original cooler, the threads are captive so this is why you need the nuts. The square G10 backplate has a thick piece of foam on that you need to remove because the bolts won't go all the way through. Other than that the fitting of the G10 is as per nzxt'a instructions. You hav use an H55 corsair pump and purchase a Noctua redux 92mm fan it is WAY better than the nzxt fan provided. You can purchase a GPU fan cable that converts to a standard 4 way and get a fan splitter. Get a high rpm 120mm pwm fan too for the radiator and use this as the primary fan on the fan splitter and the secondary can run the 92mm VRM cooler. As for the pump you can use a 7v molex converter as you don't need to run these pumps at 12v.
 
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GoogalyMoogaly said:
So, bit the bullet and update my RIVE BIOS to the very latest version.
PCI-e 3.0 now enabled in Windows! Not sure if it just worked or if it was because I had already run the tweak.
Quick run on Heaven at 4K and got about a 10% increase in score (maybe 5% I can't remember the exact number before).

Took screenshots of my BIOS setup so re-applied my OC. It's only a quick and dirty OC but gets me 4.4GHz. I mean 8Pack could probably do a better quick and dirty overclock purely through the power of expressive hand gestures, but it's as good as it was before I think. Might have needed a touch more voltage this time.

The new BIOS does allow me to save a profile to USB drive, unfortunately my original one didn't.

Now I just need to overcome the heat issue from 3 cards being close together!
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I just applied the registry changes and they appear to work. I am doing some stability testing now but at the extreme end, I see a 10% uplift at 4k.
 
Silent_Scone said:
Wouldn't that be nice if it were true though :D

Single card run in FS:

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Anyone know what EVGA card got this score :)
 
Any recommendations on what card to get as at the moment the gigabyte 980 g1 is at the top of my list, I'm wanting something that stays cool and silent and can overclock well
 
WesleyBurns said:
All you need to do is purchase some M2.5 pitch 45 nuts and if you want some washers too. This will allow you to use the bolts on the back plate to hold the back plate on still. Beacuse you will be removing the original cooler, the threads are captive so this is why you need the nuts. The square G10 backplate has a thick piece of foam on that you need to remove because the bolts won't go all the way through. Other than that the fitting of the G10 is as per nzxt'a instructions. You hav use an H55 corsair pump and purchase a Noctua redux 92mm fan it is WAY better than the nzxt fan provided. You can purchase a GPU fan cable that converts to a standard 4 way and get a fan splitter. Get a high rpm 120mm pwm fan too for the radiator and use this as the primary fan on the fan splitter and the secondary can run the 92mm VRM cooler. As for the pump you can use a 7v molex converter as you don't need to run these pumps at 12v.
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What card it was? Evga right? Where did you bought this m2.5 and nuts? I do have g10 and x41 now just need to buy 980 and this nuts but looking for reference one to do it same way. I fought about 970 and putting g10 on it but 970 it diffrent. Then you dont have any issue with vram tems and stuff?
 
I use a reference design evga 980 sc. You do not need any extra VRM cooling, the 92mm fan works perfect, there are no issues and the card runs WAY cooler. The nuts I got on auction site buy it now.
 
WesleyBurns said:
I use a reference design evga 980 sc. You do not need any extra VRM cooling, the 92mm fan works perfect, there are no issues and the card runs WAY cooler. The nuts I got on auction site buy it now.
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Cool just bought some from there. M2.5 and 45 with washers. You think all reference ones have the same pcb? Not shure if i should go for evga or asus or other reference 980.
 
Besty said:
I just applied the registry changes and they appear to work. I am doing some stability testing now but at the extreme end, I see a 10% uplift at 4k.
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Cool, more or less what I saw then.
Now, if you figure out a way around the heat...

Out of interest, what ASIC are your cards? (Wondering if I lost out on the silicone lottery as usual)
 
WgizmO said:
Cool just bought some from there. M2.5 and 45 with washers. You think all reference ones have the same pcb? Not shure if i should go for evga or asus or other reference 980.
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All reference same pcb, choose one that fits your wallet with the best OC if you can, otherwise, I would choose the cheapest one like the inno3d. All the parts are the same, they probably just use their own factories to build them under licence.
 
The Rog Matrix 780 Ti's are for sale for £375. I don't know what to do as the majority of my rig is all Rog stuff. Would look cool, but not sure to just get a 980 or that.
 
WesleyBurns said:
Are you running water? I cannot get mine to go past a +90MHz and be artifact even with any Overvolt, and it starts getting REALLY bad after +130MHz.
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Some 980 chips just don't over-clock well. Generally these chips seem to hate voltage although they tend to tolerate it more when in SLI.

Stock volts is the way to go on air unless you are benching.
 
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