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The GTX 980 Ti owners thread.

My MSI 6G has also been hitting 81c should I be worried? Its mainly only in the Witcher and GTA. Batman and others are around 75c?

My case is the Phanteks Enthoo Pro Mid Tower, with only the back and front case fans. I haven't even touched any Overclocking just using the MSI app and it auto clocks from around 1380 to around 1418. Should I get another fan in there?

Also my ASIC is 85.2% Not sure what this means exactly?
 
machinebummer said:
My MSI 6G has also been hitting 81c should I be worried? Its mainly only in the Witcher and GTA. Batman and others are around 75c?

My case is the Phanteks Enthoo Pro Mid Tower, with only the back and front case fans. I haven't even touched any Overclocking just using the MSI app and it auto clocks from around 1380 to around 1418. Should I get another fan in there?

Also my ASIC is 85.2% Not sure what this means exactly?
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Its hard to say. they sound hotter than other reports...mine hasnt hit more than 75 fully stressed in games and on firestrike with a +150 +300 oc.
 
machinebummer said:
My MSI 6G has also been hitting 81c should I be worried? Its mainly only in the Witcher and GTA. Batman and others are around 75c?

My case is the Phanteks Enthoo Pro Mid Tower, with only the back and front case fans. I haven't even touched any Overclocking just using the MSI app and it auto clocks from around 1380 to around 1418. Should I get another fan in there?

Also my ASIC is 85.2% Not sure what this means exactly?
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There is a view, and I believe it to just be a view, that the higher the number the better at overclocking a GPU is. It also suggests that higher the number the less voltage is required.

I'm a novice WRT this, but many sight poor OC on high ASIC chips...so there are many other things at play that determine your over clock.

Mine is 70.3. I can add +150 to the core +300 to the mem. And have benched for hours. I can play BF4, Tomb Raider etc endlessly...but start pCARs and I can crash...take my OC off...and it crashes much less.
 
Also,

At stock my MSI gaming says in GPU-z the clock is 1140, with a boost to 1228.

I shove on my +100 in AB. And the clock says 1240 with a boost to 1328.

Fact is this card just boosts up to 1428-1441. So why does it boost itself so much?????

The spec on the OcUK site for the MSI Gaming is:

- Core Base Clock: 1178MHz
- Core Boost Clock: 1279MHz

I don't get it. Why out of the box is GPU-z reading lower than it should be as advertised?

I have the gaming app installed...I pressed a button on it once and then thought it was rubbish...wonder if that is related to it?.

Ok. yeah you gotta use the Gaming App to set the OC and that sets them to the advertised speeds. Weird. Why not just have the default set as advertised? Well back to Afterburner.
 
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lnoton said:
There is a view, and I believe it to just be a view, that the higher the number the better at overclocking a GPU is. It also suggests that higher the number the less voltage is required.

I'm a novice WRT this, but many sight poor OC on high ASIC chips...so there are many other things at play that determine your over clock.

Mine is 70.3. I can add +150 to the core +300 to the mem. And have benched for hours. I can play BF4, Tomb Raider etc endlessly...but start pCARs and I can crash...take my OC off...and it crashes much less.
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Cheers Inoton

Yea Im a complete novice when it comes to OC'ing and this is my first green card in years. I think I was having a few crashes because I was hitting 83c which I noticed is the limit on AB.

I've turned it to 85 which highred the Power Limit to 102. I'm scared to touch anything though really!
 
machinebummer said:
Cheers Inoton

Yea Im a complete novice when it comes to OC'ing and this is my first green card in years. I think I was having a few crashes because I was hitting 83c which I noticed is the limit on AB.

I've turned it to 85 which highred the Power Limit to 102. I'm scared to touch anything though really!
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I have my powerlimit @ 109 and temp limit at 85.

These are non-ref cards, so do you have enough heat going through your case? Have you turned on the custom default fan profile and move the blocks to the left a little to make it more aggressive?
 
lnoton said:
Fact is this card just boosts up to 1428-1441. So why does it boost itself so much?????

The spec on the OcUK site for the MSI Gaming is:

- Core Base Clock: 1178MHz
- Core Boost Clock: 1279MHz

I don't get it. Why out of the box is GPU-z reading lower than it should be as advertised?
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1279 is your guaranteed min boost clock :)
 
mine says the exact same boost number in gpu-z it's probably a fixed value read from the cards bios. (tool tip says it's the default boost without any overclocking)

nvidias GPU boost 2.0 auto overclocks the card until the card reachs a safe voltage limit or temperature limit
http://www.geforce.com/hardware/technology/gpu-boost-2/technology
GPU Boost 2.0 also offers improved user-control for desktop GeForce GTX GPUs, who can tweak the Boost behavior by increasing or decreasing the Temperature Target with third-party software. This lets desktop GeForce GTX over-clockers decrease the maximum temperature, speed, and noise output of a GPU when working or playing older games, and to ramp everything up to max when playing the likes of Metro: Last Light.
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so it's it's to hot for you and you want less overclocking just use a third party app to change the temperature target to a lower setting.
googling suggests the temp target is 85c

guess thats makes sense then for my gtav last night to reach 85c with 80% fan speed

Conclusion: 85c is perfectly fine safe temp, any higher and the card will simply not overclock itself to maintain 85c
if your card is stock clocks and >85c start to worry

I guess what msi are doing is simply guaranteeing the card will auto over clock to at the very least 1279MHz
 
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The video rending speed on a 980 ti compared to a 780 ti is literally night and day in comparison. Really surprised how much faster it is. Real world performance wise, using cyberlink powerdirector 13 (openCL), around 250% faster lol.
 
Cards actually adjust boost at 62c and again at 72c you can test this by forcing 100% fan or being quick. Usually adjusts by 1 boost level each time and drops volts by 1 as well if it can to maintain temps. You can only stop this by keeping temps below this.
 
Hi guys and girls.

Just got my MSI 6G, this thing is super quiet and is destroying games. Although i am only using a 1080p monitor at the moment (might get the new Asus one when its out).

Going to be honest, i know nothing about overclocking so any tips would be appreciated.
 
Retro89 said:
Hi guys and girls.

Just got my MSI 6G, this thing is super quiet and is destroying games. Although i am only using a 1080p monitor at the moment (might get the new Asus one when its out).

Going to be honest, i know nothing about overclocking so any tips would be appreciated.
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you can use dsr though http://www.geforce.com/hardware/technology/dsr/technology
overclocking basics
Just let the card oc itself as normal but change the parameters to suit you
 
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