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They're pretty much the same to be honest, Just the skin that's different, Try them all and stick to the one you like the look of best
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Nvidia GTX 980 Owners Thread
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They're pretty much the same to be honest, Just the skin that's different, Try them all and stick to the one you like the look of best
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[ZiiP]carrot;27174070 said:
Playing games like crysis 3 on Ultra @1440p was a nice jump in FPS and all round in general just more FPS lets face it one card will run pretty much anything @ 1440p but its always nice to have that bit of extra OOMPFH
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Playing games like crysis 3 on Ultra @1440p was a nice jump in FPS and all round in general just more FPS lets face it one card will run pretty much anything @ 1440p but its always nice to have that bit of extra OOMPFH
Yes, but on 1920x1200 atm and gotta decide between monitor or sli first before I can go for other
The Vram is getting maxed out already ? might be better to wait for the 8gb 980gtx.
I just got a 980 GTX form a competitor but I haven't opened it yet after hearing about games running at 1080p maxing out Vram already.
Not being able to run shadow of mordor with the ultra texture pack is a real let down seen youtube videos where this guy was getting 90fps+ but it stutters like mad.
Seems 4gb of VRAM is now the minimum if you want to run everything maxed out, even at 1080p.
Call Of Duty Advanced Warfare, never ran that on the 780 Ti, but maxed out at 1080p it uses about 3.8gb VRAM and runs silky smooth.
Did buy 2x Reference inno3D GTX 980's but found in SLI with a single slot spacing between the two, it ran hotter and downclocked far quicker than my EVGA Reference GTX 780 Ti's.
My 2x reference 780 Ti's would pretty much stay at their full boost speed of 1020mhz (stock 876mhz) 80% of the time, even with hours of gaming. The 2x GTX 980's downclocked from their max boost speed within minutes. I even changed the stock paste to Coollaboratory Liquid Pro, helped a little but not much. Looking at reviews it seems that Nvidia didn't use the vapor chamber cooling on the 980, that probably explains the hotter temps.
So I replaced them with 2x Gigabyte GTX 980 G1 Gaming.
These run much cooler. These boost to 1367mhz from the stock 1228mhz and they stay at their max boost clocks permanently during gaming/benching. 8hrs of Call Of Duty Advanced Warfare, maxed out at 1080p, bottom card stays around 58c (39% fan speed), top card 68-71c (50% fan speed). Extremely impressed with these cards. When idling they are around 1c to 3c apart. I did replace the stock paste on both with Coollaboratory Liquid Pro as one card was idling 7c hotter than the other one. The stock paste on the Gigabyte was crap, it was very dry like cement, came of in 3 large chunks. The stock paste on the inno3D though was very good.
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I will sent mine back and wait for the 8gb might be going 4k at some point and I'd like some head room all these games are just bad console ports they're could have made them use less vram and more ram but they've just ported the code off consoles.
I bought 2 of the extreme versions. Not sure the power control for the non-omega/extreme is the same but if so then read on. They're a bit of a pain really, you have to connect a micro-usb to the board to be able to unlock the full potential - otherwise max vcore is 1.21v which is useless. You also have to use the Zotac provided software 'Firestorm' which allows you to then set vcore at 1.26v.
Download Firestorm from the Zotac website (I'm using v1.0.44.006) as the one on the provided disk didn't actually appear to work at all. So you'll be stuck with Firestorm for overclocking - but it has been updated over the past week and does appear to be functional now. I was using Afterburner, Firestorm hasn't got any bells and whistles but it can do the overclock and set a fan profile.
Oh and don't trust any of the numbers Firestorm throws back as clock rates, I have to add 400MHz to memory clock to get a 200MHz boost - use GPU-Z to see what's really going on.
I'm still working out how much i can push it, but I'm in SLI so temps are going to be an issue. It'll be interesting to see what you can get with a water block.
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There not 'console ports' these games are natively design in x86. There are no ports anymore, PS4, Xbone, PC all use x86.
VRAM use will always go up, as games grow larger in scale / details / resolution etc. This isn't a bad thing, progress is good. If anything within a couple of years people will be moaning that the limited console hardware are holding PC back again, and beyond 4GB GPU will be the norm, probably 6GB+ in 2015, and 8GB+ in 2016.
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You might be waiting quite a while for the 8GB versions seeing as even Nvidia have said they are not making them anytime soon.
A couple of years? They already are!
my g1 is a bit odd...like my 480 before it. seems to be perfectly happy running 1490 at 1.19 v, but love nor money will make it stable at 1500. well, stable in OCCT, which i know you'll all tell me is a terrible way of testing stability anyway . and it tends not to boost as high as it could then
think i'll leave it at the lower voltage and let it run at 1500, i seem to remember gibbo saying that sometimes the increased voltage makes it less stable.
edit: obviously my 480 didn't run at 1490 lol. else i might still be using it! it would run at 825 at stock voltage, but really struggled past 850 regardless of voltage.
. and it tends not to boost as high as it could thenthink i'll leave it at the lower voltage and let it run at 1500, i seem to remember gibbo saying that sometimes the increased voltage makes it less stable.
edit: obviously my 480 didn't run at 1490 lol. else i might still be using it! it would run at 825 at stock voltage, but really struggled past 850 regardless of voltage.
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Just gave DSR a go for the first time. Just had a quick go on Fifa 15 at 4k on 1080p monitor. Looks amazing and completely eliminates any jaggies/aliasing! Even at DSR 4k it with v sync on it still runs fifa 15 maxed out using only 50% of its potential power,lol (Afterbuner power usage is sat at about 47%)
Where have they said this ?
they told gibbo, do a search for the threads where everyone was going on about 8gb 9xx series. it was only last week.
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depends what you want!
value, ocuk value.
overclocking, gigabyte g1 or hof. or ocuk value!
a lot of the best oc results i've seen posted (1600+) have been on high ASIC reference cards. it really is a silicon lottery, just because you buy an 'overclocking' card doesn't mean you're going to get a high overclock. i still believe that the 'binning' is just marketing, they guarantee that it will do the clocks specified, anything more is a bonus.
if you want a guaranteed minimum overclock over reference then pay whatever you're comfortable with for a factory oc'd card. galaxy hof is the highest i think, but it is 25% more than ocuk value and is not 25% faster at stock.
if you're happy playing the silicon lottery, playing it with reference cards is cheaper.
i have a g1, fwiw. if i were buying today, i would probably get the hof. actually i would wait and see what feedback from various users is on the hof, in terms of o/c results, compatibility with afterburner, ability to tweak voltages etc. zotac's amp extreme looked really good on paper but come release some ppl have found the custom overclocking software etc a bit of a pain. i'd prefer to be able to just o/c with AB etc so that would rule zotac amp ex out for me - luckily i got the g1!
value, ocuk value.
overclocking, gigabyte g1 or hof. or ocuk value!
a lot of the best oc results i've seen posted (1600+) have been on high ASIC reference cards. it really is a silicon lottery, just because you buy an 'overclocking' card doesn't mean you're going to get a high overclock. i still believe that the 'binning' is just marketing, they guarantee that it will do the clocks specified, anything more is a bonus.
if you want a guaranteed minimum overclock over reference then pay whatever you're comfortable with for a factory oc'd card. galaxy hof is the highest i think, but it is 25% more than ocuk value and is not 25% faster at stock.
if you're happy playing the silicon lottery, playing it with reference cards is cheaper
.i have a g1, fwiw. if i were buying today, i would probably get the hof. actually i would wait and see what feedback from various users is on the hof, in terms of o/c results, compatibility with afterburner, ability to tweak voltages etc. zotac's amp extreme looked really good on paper but come release some ppl have found the custom overclocking software etc a bit of a pain. i'd prefer to be able to just o/c with AB etc so that would rule zotac amp ex out for me - luckily i got the g1!