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Nvidia GTX 980 Owners Thread
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If you've had it less than 2 weeks you are entitled to a full refund.
This. Every card I have ever owned has had coil whine at high framerates (3d mark space battle test thing
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Some pics of the MSI GTX 980 Gaming edition.
Went from a EVGA 780 SC ACX to this. So far it looks like a massive waste of money, because apart from being able to use 4xAA in BF4 (compared to 2xAA before), and the DSR feature (which is admittedly very cool) I can't notice any difference. Oh well.
Performance seems about 25% increase at best, possibly more in certain games I have yet to test. One thing I did find a little annoying is that the advertised base core clock of 1216 mhz, can only be attained through some silly program MSI bundled with the card, which allows you to switch between three clock/fan profiles. The default profile only gives 1190 mhz. Honestly, why not just leave the damn thing at 1216 mhz, it's so quiet anyway? Stupidity.
Apart from that it seems to be running stable. That said, I had one weird crash whilst running the Unigine Valley benchmark which I can't explain and haven't been able to reproduce. I played BF3/BF4 for some time yesterday with no issue. I also did have a crash whilst running DSR @ 3840x2160 in L4D2. Can't reproduce that either. All things point to shoddy drivers at the moment.
The card itself is runs very quietly though, even under load. I get coil whine, but it's the same as pretty much every other card I've owned since my 4870. It's also well built but huge; was an absolute **** to put into my already cramped Antec 300 case. The PCIE power cables barely fit.
Seriously though, if anyones on a 780 or equivalent card, don't bother. Wait for the full fat Maxwell cards or whatever AMD have in the works.
Went from a EVGA 780 SC ACX to this. So far it looks like a massive waste of money, because apart from being able to use 4xAA in BF4 (compared to 2xAA before), and the DSR feature (which is admittedly very cool) I can't notice any difference. Oh well.
Performance seems about 25% increase at best, possibly more in certain games I have yet to test. One thing I did find a little annoying is that the advertised base core clock of 1216 mhz, can only be attained through some silly program MSI bundled with the card, which allows you to switch between three clock/fan profiles. The default profile only gives 1190 mhz. Honestly, why not just leave the damn thing at 1216 mhz, it's so quiet anyway? Stupidity.
Apart from that it seems to be running stable. That said, I had one weird crash whilst running the Unigine Valley benchmark which I can't explain and haven't been able to reproduce. I played BF3/BF4 for some time yesterday with no issue. I also did have a crash whilst running DSR @ 3840x2160 in L4D2. Can't reproduce that either. All things point to shoddy drivers at the moment.
The card itself is runs very quietly though, even under load. I get coil whine, but it's the same as pretty much every other card I've owned since my 4870. It's also well built but huge; was an absolute **** to put into my already cramped Antec 300 case. The PCIE power cables barely fit.
Seriously though, if anyones on a 780 or equivalent card, don't bother. Wait for the full fat Maxwell cards or whatever AMD have in the works.
Not even in heat generated or noise? The damn fans don't spin until the GPU is being taxed properly Even then it generates less heat than my 4.5GHz i7! That's over 15 degrees less than my 780 and 290X used to generate when gaming.
Think of it this way, you're helping the environment now whereas before you were taking a large dump on its face
Even then it generates less heat than my 4.5GHz i7! That's over 15 degrees less than my 780 and 290X used to generate when gaming.Think of it this way, you're helping the environment now whereas before you were taking a large dump on its face
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Ooh, didn't realise that. I left them on. Do they melt?
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Lol! they won't melt, just don't need to be there. Beaten to it ^
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Just laugh 
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GPU delivered, fitted and benchmarked.
GTX 680, with a mild overclock, was benchmarked just prior to removal and the GTX 980 was tested, at stock clocks, soon after fitment...
980 percentage score gains are as follows...
Unigine Valley +46.3%
Unigine Heaven +72.2%
3D Mark 11 +42.2%
3D MK Firestorm +65.7%
It runs cooler and quieter, with no hint of coil whine.
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Playing with the bios, pixel rate is ridiculous
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Lol, flashed my reference to SC already, means i dont need to OC most of the time. Though my cards generally can boost to 1550 ish or so but i need more juice to them i think. What i have found if i edit the settings individually in afterburner doesnt seem to make any difference. This especially sucks as with SLI one card always runs arround 25mv less than the other.