The GTX 980 Ti owners thread.

N19h7m4r3 · 30 Jun 2015 at 21:41

Doco said:
@N19 - ahh I see - would you not have a punt and see what they can both do

I'm curious but inside my H440 chassis the two cards already run at 84 degrees with a max sustained boost of 1290Mhz.

Happy enough with their performance, and I'd likely get a 3rd card over overclocking. Reason I went for the superclocked ones.
Might be stable in benchmarks and gaming at an OC but if it's sitting at full pelt in Adobe rendering for a few hours I want stability.

Doco · 30 Jun 2015 at 21:42

Ahhh I see, well if ever you needed a reason to watercool I think you have it

mof · 30 Jun 2015 at 21:44

I just got the G1 gaming card and I can't get windows or the nvidea control panel to change the desktop to 3840x2160 60hz. Only 30hz is an option. I've made sure that my monitor (Philips bdm 4065) is set to display port 1.2.

I've had this problem before and I solved it by choosing 3840x2160 PC resolution in the control panel but it always reverts to the 3840x2160 4k 2k UHD setting.
When I chose the 3840x2160 PC resolution and 60hz the screen went blank and had to revert back to the previous settings.

Anyone know how to solve this?

N19h7m4r3 · 30 Jun 2015 at 21:54

Doco said:
Ahhh I see, well if ever you needed a reason to watercool I think you have it

Ah been there, done that. I swap parts too much to bother with draining loops and buying new blocks.
Slot em in, make em cry with work and replace them.

marcus2704 · 30 Jun 2015 at 22:02

I am still disappointed with the coil whine noise of my G1 980TI. I wonder if I would have been better off with the MSI G6 instead. I saw earlier in the thread someone with similar complaints about the G1, who said the MSI is a lot quieter.

ZeroG · 30 Jun 2015 at 22:02

I'm not actually sure what the noise on my EVGA is but it's probably something I can put up with.

llamadal · 30 Jun 2015 at 22:06

My g1 is pretty much silent

Doco · 30 Jun 2015 at 22:11

N19h7m4r3 said:
Ah been there, done that. I swap parts too much to bother with draining loops and buying new blocks.
Slot em in, make em cry with work and replace them.

Lucky u

ive been down the multi gpu route but prefer single now that ive been there done that - water cooling is the next one on my hit list (got my list of parts ek g1 cover due in 2 months if ive got my info right, then imma prob go all in)

setter · 30 Jun 2015 at 22:34

marcus2704 said:
I am still disappointed with the coil whine noise of my G1 980TI. I wonder if I would have been better off with the MSI G6 instead. I saw earlier in the thread someone with similar complaints about the G1, who said the MSI is a lot quieter.

No idea what a coil whine free G1 is like for noise. But got the msi here and its exceptionally quiet. But seen some reports of people getting a bit if coil whine on it too, along with various other ti's. Thankfully I've not experienced any on mine.

arknor · 30 Jun 2015 at 22:38

mof said:
I just got the G1 gaming card and I can't get windows or the nvidea control panel to change the desktop to 3840x2160 60hz. Only 30hz is an option. I've made sure that my monitor (Philips bdm 4065) is set to display port 1.2.

I've had this problem before and I solved it by choosing 3840x2160 PC resolution in the control panel but it always reverts to the 3840x2160 4k 2k UHD setting.
When I chose the 3840x2160 PC resolution and 60hz the screen went blank and had to revert back to the previous settings.

Anyone know how to solve this?

maybe add a custom res?
reinstall your monitor driver

Raiden85 · 30 Jun 2015 at 22:39

The coil whine on my 2x G1 980 Ti's were quite bad, but my 2x replacement MSI 980 Ti Gaming does have a extremely small whine, so small you have to put your ear next to the card to hear it. When the side panel is on its silent, so a big improvement over G1's.

Cavallino · 30 Jun 2015 at 22:41

Thanks for the info in that video.

He gets 19k on Firestrike with a standard 980 TI!
How the hell does he do that!

Digital X · 30 Jun 2015 at 22:50

@mof http://www.monitortests.com/forum/Thread-Custom-Resolution-Utility-CRU Try this, once in the program, add an option for 35hz > 40hz> etc and see what is stable. Once you've selected a custom refresh rate use the "restart.exe" program and change the refresh rate in Display.

That helped me with my 290 I got from 30hz to 48hz without issues.

Hiijinx · 30 Jun 2015 at 23:03

mof said:
I just got the G1 gaming card and I can't get windows or the nvidea control panel to change the desktop to 3840x2160 60hz. Only 30hz is an option. I've made sure that my monitor (Philips bdm 4065) is set to display port 1.2.

Yikes, I have the same monitor and am experiencing the same issue (AMD card) and have been pulling my hair out over it all day. Got another DP cable coming tomorrow to hopefully fix it. Hope its not the monitor! :eek:

mof · 30 Jun 2015 at 23:12

Hiijinx said:
Yikes, I have the same monitor and am experiencing the same issue (AMD card) and have been pulling my hair out over it all day. Got another DP cable coming tomorrow to hopefully fix it. Hope its not the monitor!

I don't think it's the monitor or the cable. I had the same problem a couple of weeks ago and fixed it but now it's happening again with a new graphics card. I'm going to try reinstalling the monitor drivers.

Also would anyone recommending using the gigabyte OC guru over afterburner for oc'ing?

arknor · 30 Jun 2015 at 23:14

is it just after burner with a reskin and less features?

setter · 30 Jun 2015 at 23:17

Its gigabytes own card software, id just go with afterburner as I find it to be easy to use. And has so many other features.

Hiijinx · 1 Jul 2015 at 00:12

@ Mof

Just found this about the Phillips monitor from another PC forum.
Will let you know if my new cable fixes it or not tomorrow - would appreciate the same

I did have a couple of minor hiccups I don't mind sharing. First I couldn't get it to sync at 60Hz. I set the OSD to 1.2, re-checked that the GPU was compatible, and even the driver listed it as a supported rate, but if I chose it the resolution got lowered to compensate. Every indication was that it was a bandwidth problem. I was using an old DP cable from monoprice made before the 1.2 spec existed, and it was either 12' or 15' long. I ordered a new 6' "premium" DP 1.2 cable from monoprice and it just arrived this morning. Synced right up at 60Hz no problem!

machinebummer · 1 Jul 2015 at 00:17

Is a G1 one of the best ti's around? I don't plan to overclock much but I may go SLI in a few months, would this be the wrong card to get if I did?

Thanks

mof · 1 Jul 2015 at 00:22

Hiijinx said:
@ Mof

Just found this about the Phillips monitor from another PC forum.
Will let you know if my new cable fixes it or not tomorrow - would appreciate the same

Thanks. Will do.

EDIT: I bought a new cable and it worked too! Still don't understand why a cable would work one day and not the next like that.
EDIT2: 26/07/15 The problem keeps coming back with the new cable. Unplugging it from the graphics card and or monitor and reconnecting the cable seems to reset the problem and allow you to choose the right resolution and refresh rate.
If anyone else gets this problem try this before getting a new cable because it might be a waste of money.