Nvidia GTX 980 Owners Thread

neilwhiteley · 18 Oct 2014 at 10:59

MOOGLEYS said:
The OCUK reference card is the same as Gigabyte but £30 cheaper.

Exactly the same, except the packaging and possibly the warranty?

MOOGLEYS · 18 Oct 2014 at 11:02

neilwhiteley said:
Exactly the same, except the packaging and possibly the warranty?

Both have 3 years warranty and do you really want to pay £30 for a box with Gigabyte on it...

neilwhiteley · 18 Oct 2014 at 11:09

MOOGLEYS said:
Both have 3 years warranty and do you really want to pay £30 for a box with Gigabyte on it...

Thank you, the decision is made...

chaparral · 18 Oct 2014 at 11:45

khemist said:
Got mine on water now, it doesn't help with overclocking but i don't see the speeds fluctuating now... hope a new bios comes out soon.

Your water must be years old it gone green

calliusmaximus · 18 Oct 2014 at 12:07

Did some runs of firestrike
980 GTX Sli reference.
I5 4690K Asus hero 7

Cpu - gpu freq - mem freq - voltage - total/graphics scores.
4ghz - 15418/25963
4ghz +50 gpu 15568/26305
4ghz +100 gpu 15645/26893
4ghz +150 gpu 16063/28033
4ghz +200 gpu 15939/28752
4ghz +250 gpu 16267/29417
4ghz +275 gpu 16469/29570
4ghz +275 gpu +500 mem 16688/30758
4ghz +275 gpu +500 mem +15mv 4ghz 16930/30287
4.2 16594/30482
4.4 16864/30285
4.6 16749/30442
4.7 17074/30584
4.8 16965 / 30435
4.9 16817 / 30375

Blitzkrieg · 18 Oct 2014 at 16:01

Blitzkrieg said:
Having some performance issues. my 2x EVGA 980 SC's are not performing as well as they should.
For example my graphics score on the standard firestrike was around 19-20k. However my friend running 2x Galax 970's was surpassing my score. When I also deployed a heavy OC than him I almost broke 21k graphics score, he hit 26k with his 970's. Another friend with 2x 290's with an OC has an almost identical graphics score as well.
The OC I gave my card was +250 Core and +350 memory.

I'm guessing I have a bottleneck. My Mobo is a z97 gaming 5 and I have an I5 4670k at 4.4 ghz. I also found in my GPU Z that one card in the X16 slot, one is running at x8 but the other is at x4. Would this be causing a problem?

Could use some help here.

Any one able to give any extra insight into this?

Pelinox · 18 Oct 2014 at 16:13

Blitzkrieg said:
Any one able to give any extra insight into this?

Could be Windows. Windows 8 score a lot more in FireStrike, than Windows 7.

Is your 2nd card in the bottom PCIe slot?

Blitzkrieg · 18 Oct 2014 at 16:14

Really? That I didn't know.

And no, my send GPU is in the middle slot. As the bridge will not extend that fire for the 3rd GPU slot.

Pelinox · 18 Oct 2014 at 16:23

Yea, it's stupid. My FireStrike score is damn low, only because of Windows 7.
http://www.3dmark.com/fs/2980490

Sounds weird your 2nd GPU run x4 though

Blitzkrieg · 18 Oct 2014 at 16:27

Interesting, have you swapped to windows 8 your self?

And yeah I have no clue on that front, I even tried to manually set it to 8x/8x/0x but didn't change anything when I checked in GPU Z.

Dicehunter · 18 Oct 2014 at 16:32

Pelinox said:
Yea, it's stupid. My FireStrike score is damn low, only because of Windows 7.
http://www.3dmark.com/fs/2980490

Sounds weird your 2nd GPU run x4 though

Something is definitely wrong there, This is my score with 1 x 980 so you should be shooting past mine with ease !

Pelinox · 18 Oct 2014 at 16:38

Blitzkrieg said:
Interesting, have you swapped to windows 8 your self?

And yeah I have no clue on that front, I even tried to manually set it to 8x/8x/0x but didn't change anything when I checked in GPU Z.

No I haven't, but comparing with other scores, the only difference is Windows version.

Dicehunter said:
Something is definitely wrong there, This is my score with 1 x 980 so you should be shooting past mine with ease !

Just the difference between Windows 8 and 7 in FireStrike, unfortunately.

Blitzkrieg · 18 Oct 2014 at 16:40

Yeah check mine and the overclock on it.

http://www.3dmark.com/fs/2825991

and

Dicehunter · 18 Oct 2014 at 16:55

Pelinox said:
Just the difference between Windows 8 and 7 in FireStrike, unfortunately.

I wonder what Windows 8.1 does under the hood that Windows 7 doesn't in the benchmark department :confused:

Silent_Scone · 18 Oct 2014 at 17:02

DX11.2 lol.

It's about the only bench that's better on Windows 8.1 though.

facboy · 18 Oct 2014 at 17:26

anyone who's w/c'd their 980(s) see much improvement (apart from lower temps/noise)? i always tell myself it's not worth the hassle but then when push comes to shove, 'well the loop is right there...and i have to drain it to remove the old card anyway...'

khemist · 18 Oct 2014 at 17:39

Doesn't help overclocking, hope there will be a bios released in the future.

facboy · 18 Oct 2014 at 17:56

on an unrelated note, does anybody play diablo 3 on a 980 and do you get driver crashes in it (driver stopped responding)? it's happened about 4 times now, screen freezes for a second or so and then carries on, except now the card is at max clocks (o/c'd clocks) for a few seconds, then clocks down again.

be surprised if it's a hardware fault given it happens with both my cards and they're not exactly stressed by d3! eg they'll run heaven or valley for hours at 1450 but d3 pootling around at 1230 (or below!) running 25% gpu load causes a driver reset?!?

neilwhiteley · 18 Oct 2014 at 18:07

Dan7 said:
Sorry for the late reply, been out all day - no problems with coil whine etc, it's very quiet!

And I missed your reply, thanks for the info mate. I intend on putting in an order today or tomorrow, ive just got to decide whether to get 1 or 2, getting 2 would require a new PSU though.

Sega Mega Dave · 18 Oct 2014 at 19:52

Whats a safe 24/7 voltage on a G1 980?

Stock voltage is 1.212v and with that i can hit 1385MHz core which boosts to 1499MHz and memory at 8000MHz.