Nvidia GTX 980 Owners Thread

Neil79 · 10 Feb 2015 at 19:57

Are you going to keep your fan at 95% in games? It doesn't seem to be that noisy tbh

Dirk Diggler · 10 Feb 2015 at 20:14

JamesM said:
1613 core
8000 memory

Heaven

Firestike

1613 core
8036 memory

http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/5854908?

That's with the bios power limits removed. With the limits removed the card auto boosts to 1459 with everything at stock.

Had it running at 1630 core but still needs some tweaking. 3dmark Firestrike is a strange one, still working on that.

I know you're doing it for the fun of it, but you've put in a lot of effort and voided your warranty just to gain 40pts on my card that I took out the box, set 150/250 in Afterburner all on stock volts and power target.

It just doesn't seem worth it?

JamesM · 10 Feb 2015 at 20:18

Not voided my warranty at all. I can simply flash back the original bios and no harm done.

If I destroy the card but shoving too many volts through (which I won't as I haven't really touched the volts and Maxwell is pretty much voltage locked anyway) then i'd happily accept my stupidity

Dirk Diggler · 10 Feb 2015 at 20:25

JamesM said:
Not voided my warranty at all. I can simply flash back the original bios and no harm done.

If I destroy the card but shoving too many volts through (which I won't as I haven't really touched the volts and Maxwell is pretty much voltage locked anyway) then i'd happily accept my stupidity

Fair play, mate. I'm not criticising by the way. Just making a passing comment.

jimbaw · 10 Feb 2015 at 20:26

has anybody tried another bios on a 980 HOF? I'd like to remove the voltage limit really.

JamesM · 10 Feb 2015 at 20:32

String said:
Fair play, mate. I'm not criticising by the way. Just making a passing comment.

No worries, wasn't having a go either so please don't think I was

Unless your really stupid with the volts and let the card roast then your not really doing anything extreme to the card.

maschio · 10 Feb 2015 at 20:34

Considering the 980 HOF V2. Can't see the difference between it and the normal 980 HOF apart from a few core and clock Mhz? Oh and 60 quid.

JamesM · 10 Feb 2015 at 20:35

Out of interest those who had the fan issue with the SOC, does the new bios from KFA2/Galax spin the fans down to 0 when the card isn't being used?

Midlife Crisis · 10 Feb 2015 at 21:00

the fans go down to 30% and are silent at that with the new Bios

Awahwah · 10 Feb 2015 at 21:00

No, 30%.

JamesM · 10 Feb 2015 at 21:01

Okies thanks, was going to see if I could have them spin to nothing but it doesn't appear to work. No biggy as the card is quiet anyway

Neil79 · 10 Feb 2015 at 21:33

Is it normal for the clocks to drop from 1533 to 1522 and back to 1533 on occasion? I can't remember if my G1 970 GTX did it or not

jimbaw · 10 Feb 2015 at 21:36

maschio said:
Considering the 980 HOF V2. Can't see the difference between it and the normal 980 HOF apart from a few core and clock Mhz? Oh and 60 quid.

apparently it is because they can't find processors that will do the same clocks as the V1 due to demand so the v2 chips are binned lower

Dirk Diggler · 10 Feb 2015 at 21:40

Neil79 said:
Is it normal for the clocks to drop from 1533 to 1522 and back to 1533 on occasion? I can't remember if my G1 970 GTX did it or not

Sounds like it's throttling. Do you have high temps or high power %?

Is the voltage dropping at the save time as the clock?

Neil79 · 10 Feb 2015 at 21:42

String said:
Sounds like it's throttling. Do you have high temps or high power %?

Is the voltage dropping at the save time as the clock?

No voltage dropping that I can see, temps are about 73/74C

I'll keep an eye on it

Thanks

Dirk Diggler · 10 Feb 2015 at 21:52

Neil79 said:
No voltage dropping that I can see, temps are about 73/74C

I'll keep an eye on it Thanks

Thermal throttle at 70c by the sounds of it.

Awahwah · 10 Feb 2015 at 21:53

Mine does a similar thing but with a Volt drop too.

Neil79 · 10 Feb 2015 at 21:56

String said:
Thermal throttle at 70c by the sounds of it.

Awahwah said:
Mine does a similar thing but with a Volt drop too.

Yep volt drops from 1.250 to 1.222 and core from 1533 to 1522 at about 72C

Looks like a custom bios is the only way to bypass that?

Dirk Diggler · 10 Feb 2015 at 21:59

Neil79 said:
Yep volt drops from 1.250 to 1.222 and core from 1533 to 1522 at about 72C

Looks like a custom bios is the only way to bypass that?

Raise temp target in afterburner.

Neil79 · 10 Feb 2015 at 22:07

String said:
Raise temp target in afterburner.

Temp limit is at 91C / 122% Power Limit