The GTX 980 Ti owners thread.

plazyma · 29 Jun 2015 at 18:36

So far reached a steady at +120 core clock and 1512 Mhz boost clock with +45mv.
GPU boost was still limited by volts at +45 and would still boost further if I could increase the voltage more but I am not that crazy.. This card is a monster
Ran some benches for reference, max temps I reached were 68/69c with fans at 65%.

Firestrike Extreme

Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward

Unigine Heaven 4.0

setter · 29 Jun 2015 at 18:38

Cheers guys. Quick run of heaven 4 just to test load temps etc. Max of 69c on auto fan, (very very quiet). Max boost clock of 1329mhz, but this mainly stayed around 1316mhz. Asic rating of 66.3%.

Captain · 29 Jun 2015 at 18:38

Good to see the roll of honour expanding every day

has it surpassed Titan X now?

Ayahuasca · 29 Jun 2015 at 18:48

TX roll of honour won't take much beating, not many people willing to splash £800+ on a single GPU.

Once the Fury X has stock I think it will get a decent list as well.

northwestdakota · 29 Jun 2015 at 18:48

I have never really bothered overclocking a video card, but having grabbed myself a G1 it seemed stupid not to. I'd like some advice.

I set the following through Afterburner -

Core volt + 30
Power Limit - 107
Temp Limit - 84
Core Clock +110
Mem + 195
Fan - Auto

I figured that would be a reasonable overclock that shouldn't push the card too hard. I did a Firestrike standard run and scored 17255, which seems great and i'm happy with it. The card kept boosting to 1489.9Mhz, which was higher than I expected and the temp never went above 73.

So my question is this, bearing in mind it seems stable and temps are low, do you think it's safe and I should be good? As I said earlier, I don't want to push too hard or shorten it's life or anything.

Brutos · 29 Jun 2015 at 18:49

Think i now want a second MSI lol am getting greedy after seeing how the 980 Ti blows my 780 out the water.

shadow_boxer · 29 Jun 2015 at 18:51

Damn don't say that, might tempt me to upgrade my 780!

RyanF · 29 Jun 2015 at 18:54

shadow_boxer said:
Damn don't say that, might tempt me to upgrade my 780!

Not to tempt you but I upgraded to a 980Ti as my 780 died about 3 days prior to 980Ti release; it's awesome

Glanza · 29 Jun 2015 at 18:58

shadow_boxer said:
Damn don't say that, might tempt me to upgrade my 780!

I went from 780sli to one 980ti and happy with the upgrade.

shadow_boxer · 29 Jun 2015 at 19:01

Bah, stop it! Just moved house so have expenses coming out of every orifice, really don't need a 980 Ti

Skynet5 · 29 Jun 2015 at 19:02

For people with the MSI gaming..what sort of oc are you getting. So far I've added 70 to the core and getting boosts into 1410. Temps are down at 65 with my custom profile...
Thinking this might be easyntonreach 2500

My asic rating was 70.3 I think. Maybe 71.3.

RyanF · 29 Jun 2015 at 19:03

shadow_boxer said:
really don't need a 980 Ti

That's what I thought at the time as well

setter · 29 Jun 2015 at 19:03

shadow_boxer said:
Damn don't say that, might tempt me to upgrade my 780!

Made the switch from two 780's to one 980ti. So much cooler running. On heaven with stock fan on default clocks my top card in the pair would hit throttle temp in seconds. Had to bench with 100% fan speed.

kael13 · 29 Jun 2015 at 19:04

RyanF said:
Not to tempt you but I upgraded to a 980Ti as my 780 died about 3 days prior to 980Ti release; it's awesome

I'm also coming from a 780. Judging by benchmarks, should be 2x performance with an overclock. That's pretty darn nice.

oldestgregg · 29 Jun 2015 at 19:05

shadow_boxer said:
Bah, stop it! Just moved house so have expenses coming out of every orifice, really don't need a 980 Ti

I just upgraded from a 780 to a TX (which is nearly the same thing at this point) and its a massive jump

whyscotty · 29 Jun 2015 at 19:07

shadow_boxer said:
Bah, stop it! Just moved house so have expenses coming out of every orifice, really don't need a 980 Ti

No point fighting it

setter · 29 Jun 2015 at 19:08

lnoton said:
For people with the MSI gaming..what sort of oc are you getting. So far I've added 70 to the core and getting boosts into 1410. Temps are down at 65 with my custom profile...
Thinking this might be easyntonreach 2500

My asic rating was 70.3 I think. Maybe 71.3.

Not clocked mine yet, but I heard someone mention something about some program that allows the card to boost a bit higher? Is this something that comes on the driver disk, no optical drive here so don't know whats on the disk.

Raiden85 · 29 Jun 2015 at 19:12

I have returned the my 2x 980 Ti G1's due to the fans sounding like a hoover when they hit 70%+.

I now have 2x MSI 980 Ti Gaming 6G instead, what a massive difference in noise, even at 60% fan speed on both cards I can't hear them over my case fans, and at 100% on both cards it sounds like the G1's I had at 65%.

Extremely happy with these ones, I did replace the paste with IC Diamond, knocked a bit of the temps and made them more even with each other. MSI used a massive amount of paste on both of mine.

The asic on these is 67% (boosts to 1329Mhz) on one, 73.9% on the other (boosts to 1349Mhz).

Cavallino · 29 Jun 2015 at 19:14

I tell you, playing games with 3 screens, at full whack, silky smooth.... just awesome

oldestgregg · 29 Jun 2015 at 19:14

Radeon123 said:
I have returned the my 2x 980 Ti G1's due to the fans sounding like a hoover when they hit 70%+.

I now have 2x MSI 980 Ti Gaming 6G instead, what a massive difference in noise, even at 60% fan speed on both cards I can't hear them over my case fans, and at 100% on both cards it sounds like the G1's I had at 65%.

Extremely happy with these ones, I did replace the paste with IC Diamond, knocked a bit of the temps and made them more even with each other. MSI used a massive amount of paste on both of mine.

Quietest cards I ever owned my 780 gaming editions were. Never went above 70% fan speed and were barely audible even at that.