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Nvidia GTX 980 Owners Thread

If you edit the cards bios you should be able to push the voltage higher. AB will report 1.275v as the max but you should manage up to 1.3v. Once again, I wouldn't do this without first trying a lower voltage and increasing your power target. Typically the stock bios gives you way more volts than you actually need.
 
Bluntwrapped said:
If you edit the cards bios you should be able to push the voltage higher. AB will report 1.275v as the max but you should manage up to 1.3v. Once again, I wouldn't do this without first trying a lower voltage and increasing your power target. Typically the stock bios gives you way more volts than you actually need.
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Agreed, stick with the defaults first and see how high you go in core/mem, you might actually hit a good clock without increasing volts. Especially on the SOC at least
 
Has anyone fitted a block on their Gigabyte G1 Gaming? If so, which block did you go for and did you fit a new back plate for passive cooling?

I really didn't intend to put my card under water, but I've got some spare cash so why not. :p
 
S2KIP said:
I don't understand?

So leave the voltage slider alone and increase power target?
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Yes, but there's a bit more to it. The only way to really get around it is by editing the bios.

As you overclock and increase the boost clock there is call for more voltage. The stock bios does this automatically. As the voltage increases so does the rate of hitting the power target.

The added voltage may not be needed for stability so by editing the bios it is possible to reduce this, reducing power target use and in my case helping with stability.
 
String said:
Has anyone fitted a block on their Gigabyte G1 Gaming? If so, which block did you go for and did you fit a new back plate for passive cooling?

I really didn't intend to put my card under water, but I've got some spare cash so why not. :p
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Regarding back plate, why are EK claiming the Gigabyte stock back plate can't be re-used (bottom of product page)? :confused:

YOUR BASKET
1 x EK Water Blocks EK-FC980 GTX WF3 - Acetal+Nickel £84.95
Total : £93.65 (includes shipping : £7.25).

 
I'm not happy today, looks like I might have to return my GTX 980 SOC because the far left fan is ticking slightly, if you increase the fan speed the tick speed increases. This is a fantastic card and having to RMA just because of one single fan is really annoying. I could end up with a dud return.

Why can't these companies just send out replacement fan kits?
 
String said:
Has anyone fitted a block on their Gigabyte G1 Gaming? If so, which block did you go for and did you fit a new back plate for passive cooling?

I really didn't intend to put my card under water, but I've got some spare cash so why not. :p
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I've got a EK waterblock and backplate coming for my G1 tomorrow.

Well impressed with this card. BF4 ultra settings x2AA and I get 90-110+fps. And that's at stock speeds! Nice thing as well it hardly dips down even with a lot going on. Really smooth game play. :cool:

Will be even better once I overclock it once its under water.

:)
 
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Combat Fighter said:
I've got a EK waterblock and backplate coming for my G1 tomorrow.

Well impressed with this card. BF4 ultra settings x2AA and I get 90-110+fps. And that's at stock speeds! Nice thing as well it hardly dips down even with a lot going on. Really smooth game play. :cool:

Will be even better once I overclock it once its under water.

:)
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Would you mind letting me know your thoughts on the fit n stuff? A couple of photos would be awesome.

Also, I'd be interested to know why they are saying the stock back plate can't be refitted. An obvious hindrance if we decide to put the WF cooler back on when selling on at upgrade time.
 
Looking to get a GTX 980 coming from a 780 gigabyte WF3...

I see there are quite a few that are good but the stand out ones for me ATM are-
Gigabyte G1
Asus Strix
MSI gaming

Anyone had issues with their's & what is you boost clock ?
 
String said:
Would you mind letting me know your thoughts on the fit n stuff? A couple of photos would be awesome.

Also, I'd be interested to know why they are saying the stock back plate can't be refitted. An obvious hindrance if we decide to put the WF cooler back on when selling on at upgrade time.
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Sure no worries.

To be honest I have a feeling what it's meant to say is you can't use the stock back plate with the EK water block fitted at the same time, hence there is a proper EK back plate.

If you was to put the air cooler back on the stock back plate should go on with that.

I don't think there is problem as such, more a compatibility issue.

Well that's my understanding anyway.

:)
 
Combat Fighter said:
Sure no worries.

To be honest I have a feeling what it's meant to say is you can't use the stock back plate with the EK water block fitted at the same time, hence there is a proper EK back plate.

If you was to put the air cooler back on the stock back plate should go on with that.

I don't think there is problem as such, more a compatibility issue.

Well that's my understanding anyway.

:)
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Makes sense.
 
Andi-C said:
Looking to get a GTX 980 coming from a 780 gigabyte WF3...

I see there are quite a few that are good but the stand out ones for me ATM are-
Gigabyte G1
Asus Strix
MSI gaming

Anyone had issues with theirs & what is you boost clock ?
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I have 2 Gigabyte 980 G1's, out of the box one card will hit 1380Mhz boost clock, the other tops out at 1367Mhz. Haven't overclocked these cards so I have no idea what their full potential is.

I went from 2x EVGA reference 780 Ti's to 2x Gigabyte 980 G1's. The 980's are much better in VRAM demanding games, at 1080p game settings maxed out, games such as Shadow of Mordor (ultra textures) or Watch Dogs stuttered on the 780 Ti now run much smoother thanks to the extra 1GB of VRAM.

My 980's even run much cooler in SLI than the 780 Ti's. Even though I went from 2 blower cards with a single slot spacing, to 2 open air coolers they ran far cooler and permanently at their max boost clocks while my 780 Ti's could only maintain there boost clocks for so long before downclocking.

Even though the 980 G1's are factory over overclocked and my reference 780 Ti's were not, they still run much cooler (about 10 to 20c cooler in an ambient of 22c depending if I use SLI or not).

In an ambient of 22c and using SLI with Assassins Creed Unity (both 980 G1's average 80% load on both), the top GPU averages 74c, bottom 64c. On their own, each GPU rarely goes past 65c. When idle, again in an ambient of 22c they both average 27 to 28c.

Since going with open air coolers I have noticed my CPU averages 3 to 5c more when gaming (which I did expect) but gaming for hours in an ambient of 22c, it's extremely rare for my stock 4790k to break 60c anyway, tends to average 55c to 58c when gaming across all cores.

I love my 980 G1's, fast and very cool, and I just lover the all metal heatsink. It's a very heavy card but the build quality is fantastic.

The only 1 negative that I would give the card is the stock paste, it was like cement and both GPU's in an ambient of 22c the cards idled at 34c.

I could cleanly remove the paste my flicking it off in 4 large chunks, extremely bad stuff.

I put IC diamond on one GPU and Coollaboratory Liquid Pro on the other, both pastes run extremely close (at idle their temps identical, at load there is barley 2c in it if that) so I left each GPU with each paste. Both GPU's have been running 24/7 for close to 4 months without a single issue.

Sorry for a long post, I went on a bit :)
 
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Andi-C said:
Looking to get a GTX 980 coming from a 780 gigabyte WF3...

I see there are quite a few that are good but the stand out ones for me ATM are-
Gigabyte G1
Asus Strix
MSI gaming

Anyone had issues with their's & what is you boost clock ?
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Really depends what your priorities/preferences are.

I chose the Strix because of its excellent build quality, clean backplate, idle fans during low load, and excellent overclocking capability which is very close to the competition. For me it was also really important the card to look good side-on through the window. Again it just has a much cleaner look than the MSI for example which has multiple heat-pipes.

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Edit: The picture/camera quality really doesn't do it justice. It looks ultra 'premium' in person.
 
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Purchased a single 980 Gigabyte card yesterday with a I7 4790K 4.5GHz with Motherboard and RAM and a 1000W Evga PSU as partly recommended by some very nice users on the forum.

Definitely enough for SLI. I made a decision yesterday not to order a second due to it surpassing my initial budget on the hardware front. Then I took another look at things and thought should I just order the second as I've already spent loads anyway, to get the maximum performance from my machine.

Is the SLI option definitely worth it? Looking to play and record footage at 60 FPS with my 1440P screen. My only sticking point apart from the increased budget is how long can the SLI 980 setup last? Is waiting for a reduced price or even waiting for the new cards to hit the market a sensible option?. Not AMD the next NVIDIA cards.

Help appreciated as always.
 
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