Nvidia GTX 980 Owners Thread

Kaapstad · 24 Nov 2014 at 21:23

systemerror said:
Well hopefully my blocks will be here this weekend and I can get everything back on water.
Will be a temporary loop for now but at least I should be able to bench them

The 980s are really good on water and run very cool.

bigmike20vt · 25 Nov 2014 at 10:27

Hi all.... Hoping to replace my GTX670 with a 980 off santa for xmas. I am holding off ordering as long as poss to see if there are any holiday deals.

But for now, the inno3D one for £399 does seem to offer great bang for buck, compared to other cards. Is there a reason for its lower price?

(I have a rift DK2 and am hoping my card will be good for CV1 as well - no SLI for me sadly - so I want one i can oc the balls off

)

just hoping for any thoughts off current inno3d 980 X3 ultra owners (its cheaper than their stock card!).

thanks

facboy · 25 Nov 2014 at 12:55

i think it's just on special. afaik it's basically a reference pcb with a custom cooler on it. reference cards tend to be more expensive because apparently the reference cooler is more expensive than many custom coolers so the cost to the manufacturers is higher.

BRIGGBOY81 · 25 Nov 2014 at 12:59

I just got that inno3d x3 and I am very impressed with it. With just upping the power limit to 115% it will boost to 1569 on the core on stock volts.

CraigN · 25 Nov 2014 at 13:35

what sort of temps are guys with Reference coolers getting?

I'm having to use Afterburner to increase fan speed to stop throttling at 80 degrees as the stock fan profile never sees fan speed go above 50%

60-70% fan speed seems to keep me under 80 degrees but its quite loud. This is running taxing games like Shadows of mordor or Dragon age inquisition.

Is this typical or do i have an abnormal one?

virdee2 · 25 Nov 2014 at 14:59

bigmike20vt said:
Hi all.... Hoping to replace my GTX670 with a 980 off santa for xmas. I am holding off ordering as long as poss to see if there are any holiday deals.

But for now, the inno3D one for £399 does seem to offer great bang for buck, compared to other cards. Is there a reason for its lower price?

(I have a rift DK2 and am hoping my card will be good for CV1 as well - no SLI for me sadly - so I want one i can oc the balls off )

just hoping for any thoughts off current inno3d 980 X3 ultra owners (its cheaper than their stock card!).

thanks

You wont regret it! best card I have ever owned (although it is the most expensive I've ever bought too lol)

cwgk91 · 25 Nov 2014 at 15:11

CraigN said:
what sort of temps are guys with Reference coolers getting?

I'm having to use Afterburner to increase fan speed to stop throttling at 80 degrees as the stock fan profile never sees fan speed go above 50%

60-70% fan speed seems to keep me under 80 degrees but its quite loud. This is running taxing games like Shadows of mordor or Dragon age inquisition.

Is this typical or do i have an abnormal one?

If you increase the power limit, the temp limit should increase to 91C. For most things mine run at 80C odd and 50% fan speed, but in AC unity temps seem to go up to high 80s with a 75% fan speed. It does get quite loud, but looking at performance benchmarks the actual sound produced is something like 45dB

Kaapstad · 25 Nov 2014 at 17:45

4K
4 x GTX 980 @1512/1962
5960X @4.0
344.75 drivers

Still some in the tank.

Dicehunter · 25 Nov 2014 at 17:48

Would still like to be put on the owners list please Smogsy

Asus Strix GTX 980

Kaapstad · 29 Nov 2014 at 23:37

4 x 980 @1472/1962
5960X @4.5
344.75 drivers

1080p

1440p

1600p

It was a waste of time overclocking the cards as the CPU was bottlenecking them really bad @1080p.

roozor · 5 Dec 2014 at 12:23

Guys,

Which 980's to go sli with? I've been told reference for sli. What about the inno 3d Hercules?

Kaapstad · 5 Dec 2014 at 13:07

roozor said:
Guys,

Which 980's to go sli with? I've been told reference for sli. What about the inno 3d Hercules?

Best avoided, with any non ref card all the heat they produce goes into your case.

Have a look at a couple of these.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-204-OK&groupid=701&catid=1914&subcat=1812

And if you want to overclock them a bit.

Dicehunter · 5 Dec 2014 at 18:18

Is the owners table on the 1st page just not getting updated now ?

virdee2 · 6 Dec 2014 at 12:57

Dicehunter said:
Is the owners table on the 1st page just not getting updated now ?

I want to be on there too please...

Boomstick777 · 9 Dec 2014 at 15:30

Although I'm happy with my current card. I am really tempted to pick one of these MSI Gaming GTX 980's. That PCB is ready to go for an AIO. Imagine temps / headroom would be awesome.

thefogo · 9 Dec 2014 at 15:32

Boomstick777 said:
Although I'm happy with my current card. I am really tempted to pick one of these MSI Gaming GTX 980's. That PCB is ready to go for an AIO. Imagine temps / headroom would be awesome.

You already had an AIO cooled 980 just a few weeks ago lol

Boomstick777 · 9 Dec 2014 at 15:33

thefogo said:
You already had an AIO cooled 980 just a few weeks ago lol

Ha, I know ! It's an addiction/illness I'm sure

Because the VRM / Memory cooling is pre fitted on the MSI Gaming card it will be much better than sticking on small heatsinks. In the benchmarks this card kicks ass !!

Must resist..

KillBoY_UK · 9 Dec 2014 at 15:35

thefogo said:
You already had an AIO cooled 980 just a few weeks ago lol

I had the same feeling when i see cards like this, I have some swiftech GPU only blocks that have been gathering dust since i upgraded from GTX 670 4gb SLI to GTX 780 SLI.

thefogo · 9 Dec 2014 at 15:37

Boomstick777 said:
Ha, I know ! It's an addiction/illness I'm sure

Because the VRM / Memory cooling is pre fitted on the MSI Gaming card it will be much better than sticking on small heatsinks. In the benchmarks this card kicks ass !!

Must resist..

Yeah I suffer from it myself mate. Though maybe not as bad as you

You could end up getting a naff clocker and then you would be kicking yourself. I wouldn't if I was you.

Boomstick777 · 9 Dec 2014 at 15:51

thefogo said:
Yeah I suffer from it myself mate. Though maybe not as bad as you

You could end up getting a naff clocker and then you would be kicking yourself. I wouldn't if I was you.

Lol, one thing that does annoy me about my 290X 8GB is the multi screen power consumption and temps, just sat at desktop with X2 screens it's about 45c !!

With one screen it's 35c.

980 uses less power with x2 screens at desktop than the 290X with 1 !!

The MSI Gaming is up there with the Gigabyte G1, but has the perfect PCB for AIO cooling.. If there was an 8GB version I would have already bought it