The GTX 980 Ti owners thread.

TooTay · 13 Jul 2015 at 18:27

Gibbo said:
I know for a fact Gigabyte G1 have a plastic film on the fan cover like you mention. So at somepoint that card has being used. Send it back to us or wherever you got it from.

Drop a post in CS forum and link them to my reply here if it is from us as I know for a fact Gigabyte cards have the film on fan shroud.

My card I got from Gigabyte was brand new and even though the box/static bag was not sealed the fan cover did have a plastic film.

Your static bag also looks like it had a fight with Mike Tyson, looks used for sure.

OK I will drop a post in the CS forum then, thanks for confirming that information Gibbo.

Skynet5 · 13 Jul 2015 at 20:02

My OC has me hitting the powerlimit every now and again.

Demanding session in pcars show 5 spikes of hitting the limit. This results in a momentary downclock of 9mhz.

Is this a problem from a longevity perspective?

Dirk Diggler · 13 Jul 2015 at 20:04

Gibbo said:
I know for a fact Gigabyte G1 have a plastic film on the fan cover like you mention. So at somepoint that card has being used. Send it back to us or wherever you got it from.

Drop a post in CS forum and link them to my reply here if it is from us as I know for a fact Gigabyte cards have the film on fan shroud.

My card I got from Gigabyte was brand new and even though the box/static bag was not sealed the fan cover did have a plastic film.

Your static bag also looks like it had a fight with Mike Tyson, looks used for sure.

I've just opened my G1 Gaming and it's the same. Box flap was open, static bag wasn't sealed and no film on the fans.

What's going on man, are there lots of returns on these? :mad:

RanxZy · 13 Jul 2015 at 20:17

String said:
I've just opened my G1 Gaming and it's the same. Box flap was open, static bag wasn't sealed and no film on the fans.

What's going on man, are there lots of returns on these?

I've seen more complaints of coil whine from G1 owners than any other model to be honest, but that could be amplified because they are very popular cards. Does seem to be a lottery though as some people get absolutely no whine.

Dirk Diggler · 13 Jul 2015 at 20:24

RanxZy said:
I've seen more complaints of coil whine from G1 owners than any other model to be honest, but that could be amplified because they are very popular cards. Does seem to be a lottery though as some people get absolutely no whine.

It might not just be coil whine. The fans look misaligned, they are all sitting around 10-15mm lower at one end than the other. Could someone confirm if this is normal?

I really don't fancy powering this card up until I'm sure.

DIABLO · 13 Jul 2015 at 21:22

Dude the pictures are so huge i can't see ****.

JediFragger · 13 Jul 2015 at 21:25

String said:
It might not just be coil whine. The fans look misaligned, they are all sitting around 10-15mm lower at one end than the other. Could someone confirm if this is normal?

I really don't fancy powering this card up until I'm sure.

Images are huge, so you can see properly.

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Need bigger pics.....

Dirk Diggler · 13 Jul 2015 at 21:37

Man, they were huge!

I've edited the post. Can you see what I'm talking about with the fans?

oldestgregg · 13 Jul 2015 at 21:37

lnoton said:
My OC has me hitting the powerlimit every now and again.

Demanding session in pcars show 5 spikes of hitting the limit. This results in a momentary downclock of 9mhz.

Is this a problem from a longevity perspective?

Ive OC'd my TX to 1450mhz and I get a lovely pattern of up and down lines in the power limit graph. It fluctuates between 1430 and 1450 in crisis 3 under constant load but its not a problem

savagesam117 · 13 Jul 2015 at 21:42

I see what you mean. Do they touch when you spin them? Or can you pop them into place?
If not, I'd just power it up. I'm sure they would be fine.

arknor · 13 Jul 2015 at 21:43

varkanoid said:
yeah but is that because its available.

no gtav with 8gb ram and 2gb page file windows was wanting to close gtav.exe to free memory.

8gb is the minimum for gaming now

JediFragger · 13 Jul 2015 at 21:46

arknor said:
6gb is the minimum for gaming now

Fixed

RavenXXX2 · 13 Jul 2015 at 21:47

arknor said:
no gtav with 8gb ram and 2gb page file windows was wanting to close gtav.exe to free memory.

8gb is the minimum for gaming now

8gb is min for badly optimized console ports.

mmj_uk · 13 Jul 2015 at 21:49

I've been running 16GB for years already, surprised any serious gamer is still running 8GB today.

Skynet5 · 13 Jul 2015 at 21:55

Just get 16 cos it cost peanuts relatively...and then we don't need to talk about it either.

Skynet5 · 13 Jul 2015 at 22:00

oldestgregg said:
Ive OC'd my TX to 1450mhz and I get a lovely pattern of up and down lines in the power limit graph. It fluctuates between 1430 and 1450 in crisis 3 under constant load but its not a problem

Cheers mate. 1452 is my stable oc it appears. Keep it under 68 and I don't get any reduced boost due to temps (if I do its -13mhz)..but the odd powerlimit hit knocks clock down 9mhz. But that is just.spikes.

Razor Time · 13 Jul 2015 at 22:03

lnoton said:
Just get 16 cos it cost peanuts relatively...and then we don't need to talk about it either.

setter · 13 Jul 2015 at 22:07

lnoton said:
Cheers mate. 1452 is my stable oc it appears. Keep it under 68 and I don't get any reduced boost due to temps (if I do its -13mhz)..but the odd powerlimit hit knocks clock down 9mhz. But that is just.spikes.

I thought that 85c was the temp limit on all 980ti cards?

Skynet5 · 13 Jul 2015 at 22:09

Yup. But it will down clock 13 mhz at roughly 67. Then another 13 at 78 people say.

I've not seen my temps above 75 yet. Lots are sighting thus "feature".

You not noticed it setter? Maybe not all cards are equal but my googling suggests its a bios feature which can be altered by flashing.

setter · 13 Jul 2015 at 22:14

Nothing yet as I've yet to see the card above 65c in games. But then I'm using the same 1-1 fan profile I had on my 780's. Only difference being that this card is so much quieter.