Nvidia GTX 980 Owners Thread

Boomstick777 · 4 Nov 2014 at 17:40

@ Kaap..

I knew it would happen (;

Wilkeh · 4 Nov 2014 at 18:49

Bah I just bought a 980 from OCUK last week and now they're giving away free items?

calliusmaximus · 4 Nov 2014 at 20:46

GoogalyMoogaly said:
On air?
Without the SLI backplate sections removed?
That's gonna get toasty!

I'm mean not 4 x 290/X on air toasty, but...

Pretty sure I saw a 4way Benchmark and they said it actually increased temps on the VRM's removing the plates causing some issues.

cwgk91 · 4 Nov 2014 at 20:59

GoogalyMoogaly said:
On air?
Without the SLI backplate sections removed?
That's gonna get toasty!

I'm mean not 4 x 290/X on air toasty, but...

Does it make that much difference? Im running two in SLI without the sections removed, will it make much of a diff to temps to remove it?

GoogalyMoogaly · 4 Nov 2014 at 21:07

cwgk91 said:
Does it make that much difference? Im running two in SLI without the sections removed, will it make much of a diff to temps to remove it?

I guess it would depend on if you have them right next to each other or if you have a slot or more gap between them.

cwgk91 · 4 Nov 2014 at 21:15

Just did a quick google search and it appears that removing the little plate reduces temps by 3-4degC and that then drops fan speed by around 400rpm. Will have to test it out this friday!

TonyTurbo78 · 5 Nov 2014 at 10:16

Kaapstad said:

good man Kapp, I can see you have your priorities right, GPU's ahead of new carpet

Geeman1979 · 5 Nov 2014 at 10:17

That would be a quilt cover by the looks of it.

TonyTurbo78 · 5 Nov 2014 at 10:20

Geeman1979 said:
That would be a quilt cover by the looks of it.

think you might be right

blind this morning a lot going on in my life

looking good though Kaap, you reckon they'll be better than your Quadfire 290 setup? Quite intrigued by your reasoning for getting them as your on a 4k screen

Besty · 5 Nov 2014 at 10:35

TonyTurbo78 said:
think you might be right blind this morning a lot going on in my life

looking good though Kaap, you reckon they'll be better than your Quadfire 290 setup? Quite intrigued by your reasoning for getting them as your on a 4k screen

Well, I would imagine having a 800Watt power draw to cool rather than 1.6 Gigawatts is appealing. Not sitting next to a jump jet ready for take-off also positive.

Kaapstad · 5 Nov 2014 at 11:00

TonyTurbo78 said:
think you might be right blind this morning a lot going on in my life

looking good though Kaap, you reckon they'll be better than your Quadfire 290 setup? Quite intrigued by your reasoning for getting them as your on a 4k screen

Two reasons

1. Place holders until the Maxwell Titans show up.

2. Benching fun as these cards are fantastic for that.

The thing about 4K (or anything else for that matter) is it is just an option, that does not make it the best for everything. Like everything else it is a case of using the right tool for the right job. I have just finished installing Win8.1 on this new PC which is supposed to be great for use with 4K and it looked rubbish. As I use a 32" screen everything was too big, so I have just finished making the text, windows, internet pages etc smaller like they appear in Win7 and now everything is fine. The reason I mention this is it is another case of finding the right tool for the job, bigger is not always better.

Something I figured out today that anyone upgrading to 4K/Win8.1 may find useful.

When running steam games some of them won't run in 4K all they will do is 1440p. This is caused by Win8.1 using oversized menus/boxes and is easy to fix by resizing them to 100%.

Things change I've changed · 5 Nov 2014 at 11:08

cwgk91 said:
Just did a quick google search and it appears that removing the little plate reduces temps by 3-4degC and that then drops fan speed by around 400rpm. Will have to test it out this friday!

If that's the case it makes you wonder why they left it on the first place, will test this out later.

MOOGLEYS · 5 Nov 2014 at 11:12

lowrider007 said:
If that's the case it makes you wonder why they left it on the first place, will test this out later.

For single card users it makes no difference. It gives a bit more breathing room for the card aboves fan in multi card tight set-ups like Kaapstad's above.

Kaapstad · 5 Nov 2014 at 19:59

Which is better for overclocking these cards

PrecisionX or MSI Afterburner.

Thanks

GoogalyMoogaly · 5 Nov 2014 at 20:06

Kaapstad said:
Which is better for overclocking these cards

PrecisionX or MSI Afterburner.

Thanks

8Pack

BRIGGBOY81 · 6 Nov 2014 at 20:52

After giving up with two 780s that didnt clock at all and worked poorly together in sli, i deciced to cash in while they still hold some value on the bay and bought a zotac amp gtx 980 and ek water block. I will post my pics on saturday when it gets delivered. Also does anyone else have this card and if they do could you please tell me how they clock.

ozzy1925 · 6 Nov 2014 at 21:19

hello,anybody here tried voltage tool for asus 980strix?

Kaapstad · 6 Nov 2014 at 21:32

A bit CPU bottlenecked with 4 x 980s

5960X @4.5
4x 980 @1472/1962

andrewohare · 7 Nov 2014 at 11:04

well after a week running 2 x EVGA 980 SC I have to say I'm really impressed with these cards

Running 1 on its own on a Swift was great but having 2 of them is just sweet!

carrot1401 · 7 Nov 2014 at 11:25

andrewohare said:
well after a week running 2 x EVGA 980 SC I have to say I'm really impressed with these cards

Running 1 on its own on a Swift was great but having 2 of them is just sweet!

While I'm wondering whether to "step up" from my 980 SC to the ACX 2.0 version, I'm also wondering if it's worth getting a Swift around Christmas. Where were you seeing the jump by going to SLI?