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Nvidia GTX 980 Owners Thread
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Just dropped the hammer on an EVGA Hydrocopper
Good man, I love mine.
Nice, what clocks?
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Card is going back, not only is that fan annoying, but it's also really badly coil whining in heaven and 3D MARK, can hear it badly when having my side case off. Bad for re-sale that!
Sad
Too bad dude. What are you going to replace it with?
I really don't know, prices are ridiculous again
It's either
EVGA 980 GTX 2.0 SC
GIGABYTE WINDFORCE 980 GTX ( NOT G1 )
or the ASUS STRIX 980 GTX ( Is currently on offer )
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Maybe go for a reference card Neil if you're returning that one?
edit: I'd probably go for the OCuk reference one myself.
edit: I'd probably go for the OCuk reference one myself.
Hey guys, something very weird!!
If I use my finger and push the center of the fan up on the right, it doesn't move up or down it's rock solid. Same with the middle fan! But the far left fan you can push it up easily, it's able to move up and down and then it makes that sound like it's scraping on something moving it up slightly... It looks as if the bearing isn't holding the fan maybe?
Video tonight
If I use my finger and push the center of the fan up on the right, it doesn't move up or down it's rock solid. Same with the middle fan! But the far left fan you can push it up easily, it's able to move up and down and then it makes that sound like it's scraping on something moving it up slightly... It looks as if the bearing isn't holding the fan maybe?
Video tonight
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As you see above, I just got two of these - no coil whine here.
But then I didn't have coil whine with Asus Strix 970 or Gigabyte G1 970.
Either I'm lucky or my PSU is dealing with it for me... Superflower Platinum 1200W.
Is it possible it's your PSU combo?
A superflower 850W highly recommended PSU by OCUK that didn't whine with the G1, ermm no
What clocks are you getting on those EVGA's?
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Five year warranty with EVGA too.
This. I think I've found my new favourite brand, I had one of their Titan's and now have the Hydro Copper 980 and both are fantastic cards.
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1544 Core
8210 Mem
+37mV
Up to 1549 Core and it starts getting unstable. Always get a little bit lower when running two cards instead of one.
Up to 8250 Mem and I start seeing a couple of sporadic memory artifacts.
I haven't tried the 8211-8249 range yet - still tweaking.
I think I will be settling around:
1529 Core
8100 Mem
+37mV
for a while... I will try reducing the voltage offset and see if I can get them stable at a lower value.
Another reason to go with EVGA + they were one of the first to jump to support their customers with the 970 *thing* too... I've always heard good things with their support + 3-month step-up program should the big chip make an appearance + 5 year warranty (extra 50 Euro here to increase that to 10 years too, if you want it) + officially transferrable warranty = slightly better resale value.
8210 Mem
+37mV
Up to 1549 Core and it starts getting unstable. Always get a little bit lower when running two cards instead of one.
Up to 8250 Mem and I start seeing a couple of sporadic memory artifacts.
I haven't tried the 8211-8249 range yet - still tweaking.
I think I will be settling around:
1529 Core
8100 Mem
+37mV
for a while... I will try reducing the voltage offset and see if I can get them stable at a lower value.
Another reason to go with EVGA + they were one of the first to jump to support their customers with the 970 *thing* too... I've always heard good things with their support + 3-month step-up program should the big chip make an appearance + 5 year warranty (extra 50 Euro here to increase that to 10 years too, if you want it) + officially transferrable warranty = slightly better resale value.
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No - why? Is it worth it?
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Well that's the waterblock/backplate fitted.
The bare card
Quite a lot of unnecessary stock goop on the gpu. Not good!
All cleaned up
That's better with all that crud taken off. Rest assured I did a better job of reapplying than Gigabyte. I used MX4.
In it's natural habitat
Currently idling at 27c / load 40c
Now to get around overclocking this properly. . .
The bare card
Quite a lot of unnecessary stock goop on the gpu. Not good!
All cleaned up
That's better with all that crud taken off. Rest assured I did a better job of reapplying than Gigabyte. I used MX4.
In it's natural habitat
Currently idling at 27c / load 40c
Now to get around overclocking this properly. . .
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Soldato
Looks awesome man