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Nvidia GTX 980 Owners Thread

markk33nan said:
How do you find the 980 HOF cards ? i was planing to go SLI but thats gona set me back over £1000 on the cards alone.

was planing on going with a 28" 4K monitor. im intrested in what you had to say about moving from SLI 970 to a single 980 HOF and your plan to wait to upgrade to the Nvidia 8GB cards if the manage to come out with the 990 which might only be 6GB onboard.

Am i mad going with SLI 980 HOF KFA2 ?
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I like it mate, Dying Light appears to be running better and it is nice knowing I'm not going to have to disable SLI etc for when games come out and you get those flashing graphics as to be honest once I disable SLI I normally forget to turn it back on.

I'm not sure how these will perform at 4k, I was always under the impression people had said that 4k you should really wait for 6-8GB vram but I could be mistaken.

I didn't know that about the 990, that's interesting... but yea' so far I'm loving the card :)
 
Rykane said:
Ah right yeah, sorry I thought you were talking about the display cables, yeah those are fully in. I think I've fixed the issue. It seems like the card wasn't actually fully in the PCI-E slot and I had to force it in a bit. It's was pretty odd, Installing drivers now and hopefully won't have any other issues.
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Good to hear :)
 
Hello everyone,

I need some help with my new EVGA 980 Classified cards. One of the cards has a steady green light and the other has a steady amber light.Does anyone know what this means? The GPU's do not go above 80% TDP (GPU-Z). The GPU speeds sit at 1580Mhz approx. and the temperatures are holding at a steady 59C average on both cards.

Both the 8 pin PCI-E power connectors are firmly connected on each card. The cards are properly seated in the PCI-E slot.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance.




My Specifications are:
Intel i7 4790k @4.8Ghz
Asus Sabertooth Z97 Mark 1
16GB of 2133Mhz G-Skill DDR3 memory
2 x EVGA 980 GTX 4GB Classified
Samsung EVO 840 1TB SSD
Coolermaster 1200 Watt Silent Pro Gold
 
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milko said:
Thanks guys. It's the fan at the other end actually, where the power cables enter the card. Sounds like I'll have to raise it with the RMA folks :(
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I fixed it! While taking the card out of the machine I had a bit of a closer look, and realised the back-plate armour has a little tab to cover the end of the card. This had bent in juuuust enough to stop the fan from moving, really hard to spot at first!

I don't know if I somehow did it while installing it (nah!) or whoever returned it to make it b-grade stock did it (yep!) but it was simple enough to bend it back out of the way and now all is hunky-dory once again. :)
 
psychas said:
any 980 gtx nvidia reference cooler owners here is cooler good ? and hows the noise ?

as i just ordered one
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Wouldn't that of been a question to ask first before dropping that much on a card? They are suppose to be the way to go on SLI as heat is pushed out the back of the case and definitely look the best. I had reference 670s and with a custom fan profile they worked well.
 
got 2 ref in my Air 240 top card runs about 6 degrees hotter than bottom.

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psychas said:
any 980 gtx nvidia reference cooler owners here is cooler good ? and hows the noise ?

as i just ordered one
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The reference cooler is great - Really quiet and pushes a ton of air. If you have good airlflow in your case chances are you'll not hear it. The only time it becomes noisy is around the 60%+ fan speed.
 
Just installed my KFA2 SOC 980. There is some initial whurrring when the fans start up but this seems to go away once windows is loaded. I will play around with some fan settings to sort this out.

It looks great in the case and has a nice backplate. Dont think ill worry too much about overclocking it for the moment. Not sure how it all works with the boost etc. Is the best tool for this card still msi afterburner?
 
I'm thinking about modding my 980's Bios to allow up to 1.312v in search of max stable clocks.

Will 1.312v be safe enough for testing on the reference cooler providing the fan speed is set high enough to keep temps down?

If I mod the voltage tables using the Maxwell Bios Tweaker would I also have to mod the power target to stop the card from throttling at 1.312v?
 
tombomb said:
Just installed my KFA2 SOC 980. There is some initial whurrring when the fans start up but this seems to go away once windows is loaded. I will play around with some fan settings to sort this out.

It looks great in the case and has a nice backplate. Dont think ill worry too much about overclocking it for the moment. Not sure how it all works with the boost etc. Is the best tool for this card still msi afterburner?
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Make sure you update the BIOS on the card, reduces fans down to 30% :)
 
Bluntwrapped said:
I'm thinking about modding my 980's Bios to allow up to 1.312v in search of max stable clocks.

Will 1.312v be safe enough for testing on the reference cooler providing the fan speed is set high enough to keep temps down?

If I mod the voltage tables using the Maxwell Bios Tweaker would I also have to mod the power target to stop the card from throttling at 1.312v?
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Yes you will need to increase the power target, tbh I wouldn't run 1.3v day in day out. I have a custom 1.3v bios for benching but otherwise I've locked my cards to 1.225v for 24/7 which is rock solid stable at 1506/8000 clocks.
 
SS-89 said:
Yes you will need to increase the power target, tbh I wouldn't run 1.3v day in day out. I have a custom 1.3v bios for benching but otherwise I've locked my cards to 1.225v for 24/7 which is rock solid stable at 1506/8000 clocks.
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Thanks for getting back to me man. I will do a bit more testing this evening and see if I can stabilise things on the stock Bios. Was passing Heaven 1501/8000 with 1.225 - 1.250v but had driver crashes while running Valley.
 
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