• Competitor rules

    Please remember that any mention of competitors, hinting at competitors or offering to provide details of competitors will result in an account suspension. The full rules can be found under the 'Terms and Rules' link in the bottom right corner of your screen. Just don't mention competitors in any way, shape or form and you'll be OK.

Nvidia GTX 980 Owners Thread

Neil79 said:
Nice choice, Gigabyte are fantastic! I didn't go for the G1 on the 980 GTX because it was just too much
Click to expand...

I got mine for £467.99, and to be honest as much as I love the WF cooler I think the current price of £500 would have been a stretch too far.

AtreuS said:
I also got the free keyboard, Unity AND it only cost £479.99... that was on monday ( in person at the ocuk shop ).... i see they have gone up!
Click to expand...

I got the free keyboard, but not Unity. I'm at work for a week or two now so I can't physically check, what is the keyboard like, is it any good?

Also, to all owners of this card:

Are you finding that it sits at a downward slope due to its weight?
 
Vimes said:
Couldn't imagine it being £100 is so better than the KFA2 980 I bought.
Click to expand...

No, but it is £100 better than the 970 GTX ;)


String said:
I got the free keyboard, but not Unity. I'm at work for a week or two now so I can't physically check, what is the keyboard like, is it any good?

Also, to all owners of this card:

Are you finding that it sits at a downward slope due to its weight?
Click to expand...

Same here, would have preferred a copy of Unity over the Keyboard as it'll be gathering dust as I don't have any use for it.

I'm not seeing any downward slope in my 540 case, but this might be the way I have the power cables set above the card.
 
Keyboard i have no use for as i have an Isku already. However a friend is giving me £30 for it so bonus. The nvidia find your path code was on the invoice from the shop so redeemed for unity so another £20 or so i guess...

So the G1 cost me £430 in reality minus the £281.99 from the 970 refund of course.

So in a round about way its cost me £150 to go from the 970 to the 980 G1... which i can live with.

I have not noticed much downward sloping in my air 540.. slight but you always get that with any card.
 
Last edited:
Bluntwrapped said:
Are you overclocking with stock voltage? If not drop it back down and see if headroom improves. I've found as I increase voltage I lose ram stability and I'm able to get another 10Mhz or so out the core if I drop my voltage back to stock.

The only way to get around your max power target is by editing the Bios to allow a higher power draw. I have my 100% power target set to 240w which allows my 1506/7600 overclock to run through Fire Strike without throttling.
Click to expand...

Thanks for the reply.

I have done some additional benchmarks.

Fire Stike has settled down with the voltage back to stock and a power target of 102, anything higher than that and it crashes on second graphics test.

Also just posted my best Heaven bench (1997) with the voltages turned down.

I am very happy with my card, it has never been above 64 c. I was more interested if anybody had seen artifacts glitches, tearing, black screen's etc with the 980 as I have not with mine. before anything like that happened the driver crashed.

Cheers for the advice.
 
String said:
This is the angle my G1 sits at.
Click to expand...

Windforce here as well. I've got a black cotton thread tied on the pcie cables and attached to a screw fitting at the top of my case to alleviate this. Very discrete, no cost and does the job perfectly. Haven't got a picture unfortunately as I'm away from my PC at present.
 
Strudders said:
Thanks for the reply.

I have done some additional benchmarks.

Fire Stike has settled down with the voltage back to stock and a power target of 102, anything higher than that and it crashes on second graphics test.

Also just posted my best Heaven bench (1997) with the voltages turned down.

I am very happy with my card, it has never been above 64 c. I was more interested if anybody had seen artifacts glitches, tearing, black screen's etc with the 980 as I have not with mine. before anything like that happened the driver crashed.

Cheers for the advice.
Click to expand...

Artifscts if push memory above +430 with more than 25mv extra or I allow temps to climb to wildly in to the 90s . ( only in heaven tho )
 
Neil79 said:
So are people lowering voltages to gain a more stable clock/throttle?
Click to expand...

This has worked for me.

I am sure the Vram becomes unstable before the GPU.

My heaven bench was stock volts (from +35) full power target of 109 and a clock speed of 1539, which is +172 on AB

That is the highest stable overclock I have had on the card yet for heaven.

However Fire Strike is still stuck at 150 but that maxes out the power target every-time regardless.
I am not at all experienced at this so I am sure someone will be able to help.
 
Strudders said:
However Fire Strike is still stuck at 150 but that maxes out the power target every-time regardless.
I am not at all experienced at this so I am sure someone will be able to help.
Click to expand...

JamesM said:
You'll be limited with voltage and power no doubt.

Only way around it is to edit the bios
Click to expand...

Most likely what James was talking about in raising the power limit in bios
 
Neil79 said:
So are people lowering voltages to gain a more stable clock/throttle?
Click to expand...

Seems to vary quite a bit depending on overclocking headroom and rate of power target climb but there is definitely a point where voltage stops becoming useful and is more of a hindrance.

I managed to get another 150Mhz out the memory and +10-20Mhz out of the core after dropping my voltage back to 1.2v. This could be linked to PCB component temps but until I get the card under water I have no way of checking.
 
Bluntwrapped said:
Seems to vary quite a bit depending on overclocking headroom and rate of power target climb but there is definitely a point where voltage stops becoming useful and is more of a hindrance.

I managed to get another 150Mhz out the memory and +10-20Mhz out of the core after dropping my voltage back to 1.2v. This could be linked to PCB component temps but until I get the card under water I have no way of checking.
Click to expand...

If you drop the voltage the card will drop core clocks. Have you watched them when benching?

It was a similar thing with the 970. I saw loads of people saying their card would clock to so and such without any voltage increase but the way boost works is that if you do apply more voltage, without touching the core slider, the core speed will increase slightly at the same time.

Essentially the card will boost depending on what values the voltages, power limit, GPU load and GPU temp are at.
 
JamesM said:
If you drop the voltage the card will drop core clocks. Have you watched them when benching?

It was a similar thing with the 970. I saw loads of people saying their card would clock to so and such without any voltage increase but the way boost works is that if you do apply more voltage, without touching the core slider, the core speed will increase slightly at the same time.

Essentially the card will boost depending on what values the voltages, power limit, GPU load and GPU temp are at.
Click to expand...

You would need to edit the boost/voltage table in your bios to change this. If you scroll right down to the bottom where it says clk 74 this is the corresponding voltage of the #74 green highlighted boost clock.

1.jpg

2.jpg


This isn't the current version of my Bios all of the 1262.5mV settings have been reduced to 1225.0mV.
 
Last edited:
Nocky24 said:
Windforce here as well. I've got a black cotton thread tied on the pcie cables and attached to a screw fitting at the top of my case to alleviate this. Very discrete, no cost and does the job perfectly. Haven't got a picture unfortunately as I'm away from my PC at present.
Click to expand...

Such a simple solution, I'll get that tried out when I get home. I know the card could probably sit like that for 10 years without issue, but it's been bugging me! :D

Thanks.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom