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The GTX 980 Ti owners thread.

I got an MSI 970 that I bought brand new from OcUK which certainly looked like it had been opened. It had 61% ASIC. Not making any accusations, just saying it's definitely possible. Also, don't OcUK sell binned CPUs at a premium? Which means they are taking the good chips out of circulation and reducing he chance of you getting a good chip at the normal price, right?
 
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In my experience not so. My Classified had high ASIC my HOF low. Both clocked amazing. Its a silicon lottery in terms of ASIC and overclocking. Vince is actually on about 980 not 980 Ti but in my experience the same applies.

EVGA are always shrink wrapped yes. Other brands are not.

Keal whats your experience with 980?? How many you test???
 
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kael13 said:
http://forums.evga.com/STATEMENT-BY...LE-WITH-VOLTAGE-NO-MATTER-BRAND-m2362059.aspx

Well Kingpin has said that high ASIC 980Tis make a difference.

Also, if your card box isn't shrink wrapped, someone's been through it.
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My msi gaming card wasn't shrink wrapped, if you are talking about the box. It did have a sticker/ film on the graphics card I had to remove though. I don't think it's a return though as has no coil whine and asic of 78.8 and don't think anyone would send that back? As said, the box wasn't sealed up though.
 
mattyc1977 said:
My msi gaming card wasn't shrink wrapped, if you are talking about the box. It did have a sticker/ film on the graphics card I had to remove though. I don't think it's a return though as has no coil whine and asic of 78.8 and don't think anyone would send that back? As said, the box wasn't sealed up though.
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yea no one would send that back so I guess it's normal for no seal with msi.
unless someone was cherry picking and found one higher than 78 :P

probably not many cards above 80% I'd imagine
I got an MSI 970 that I bought brand new from OcUK which certainly looked like it had been opened. It had 61% ASIC. Not making any accusations, just saying it's definitely possible. Also, don't OcUK sell binned CPUs at a premium? Which means they are taking the good chips out of circulation and reducing he chance of you getting a good chip at the normal price, right?
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well your 1% worse than me :D

your max boost from the drivers must be almost identical to mine around 1290-1306mhz then?
 
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Having received a second 980Ti G1 after requesting an RMA to return my first due to coil whine, it seems that the ASIC scores don't align here either.

My first card (with loud coil whine) could run stable at 1500MHz core and 7900MHz memory, with a 79.4% ASIC score.

This second one capped out at 1522MHz core, and I'm currently at 8100MHz on the memory and still going. This one has a 73.4% ASIC score.
 
Hi there

Simples:
High ASIC score = Higher boost clock out of box
Lower ASIC score = lower boost clock out of box but still at or above advertised speeds.

Overclocking = ASIC score means absolute nothing, all down to silicon which you can not tell by ASIC score.

My best clocking 980 which ranged 1580-1620 on air was something low like 68%.

Anyone who bins for ASIC scores is an absolute noob who clearly knows nothing in the arts of overclocking and I think 8 Pack knows more about overclocking than most, did not achieve world no.1 status by being a nooob. :)
 
So, with a reference 980ti @ 1450 boost clock +10% power (But some throttling at times due to power/temp I believe) - how much of a gain should I expect from putting them onto the EVGA AIO cooling solution instead?.

The temps should drop from my existing 70 load (more aggressive fan profile & good air flow in case) but will I get much more out of the core clock?, also how much gain should be expected by upping the volts in MSI afterburner from the default values?.

Apologies if some of these are daft questions, just while we have some experts here I'll defer to people with more experience (other websites have conflicting information).
 
I recently took out my ASIC 69% card and my 73% does boost higher. It goes to 1327Mhz without issue in games and benchmarks.

The second card tops out at 1290Mhz, and in SLI both cards stay at 1290Mhz.

Both will a decent amount above the 1190Mhz EVGA advertises though. :D
 
Just got my MSI 6G replaced and it's even cooler by 12c at load. Think the other one was faulty or something. I was wondering whether I should be worried with 87c load at 100% fan speed..
 
se_vietboi said:
Just got my MSI 6G replaced and it's even cooler by 12c at load. Think the other one was faulty or something. I was wondering whether I should be worried with 87c load at 100% fan speed..
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That's far too hot - good to get it relpaced, I'm running a reference overclocked TI @ 70c @ 65/70% fan speed about during benchmarks.
 
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Just got my MSI 6G replaced and it's even cooler by 12c at load. Think the other one was faulty or something. I was wondering whether I should be worried with 87c load at 100% fan speed..
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target temp by default for msi seems to be 83c according to afterburner (might actually be lower in the bios and 80c(

if your card gets hotter than that it will stop boosting and may even throttle to below the guaranteed boost.

I suspect your old cooler was poorly fitted

it sounds similar to a windforce 280x I rma'ed for the msi version.

windforce was 100% fan under load and silly temps like high 80s on stock clocks and vaults

put me right off gigabyte since it was noisy as hell and was meant to be one of the quieter 280s
 
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That's far too hot - good to get it relpaced, I'm running a reference overclocked TI @ 70c @ 65/70% fan speed about during benchmarks.
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Indeed. Fans on auto and Heaven been running for 30mins max temp 74c with core at 1464 and memory 8000. Asic quality 73%. Volts on stock (1.18v) and power limit 109%.

Old card fans on max 87-88c with core 1450 and memory 7900. Asic quality 77%. Volts 2.12v and power limit 109%.
 
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Indeed. Fans on auto and Heaven been running for 30mins max temp 74c with core at 1464 and memory 8000. Asic quality 73%. Volts on stock (1.18v) and power limit 109%.

Old card fans on max 87-88c with core 1450 and memory 7900. Asic quality 77%. Volts 2.12v and power limit 109%.
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These cards love a side case fan pulling air away from the card if you have that ability ;)

knocked 10c even off my idle temps compared to a side fan pushing air towards the gpu

from 0 fan and idling in the mid 40s to 0 fan and idling in the mid/low 30s
 
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