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The GTX 980 Ti owners thread.

beasty54 said:
Got my second zotac amp extreme 980ti today along with new motherboard and case, unfortunately despite reading some reviews saying I could fit triple cards in the first 2 pci express slots, there's simply no room for any air to move, I guess they forgot to mention ONLY reference cards that blow the air out the back. What I'm really disappointed in is that i called overclockers before my order shipped and they told me themselves that my motherboard would be OK running 2 amp extremes so I let the order ship ??? I've now got £1200 worth of graphics cards sitting here and a 4k monitor that I can't really use properly. I'm wondering where I now stand with the cards as I don't want to have any money deducted if I send them back since they are both opened.
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I will buy them off you for £300 :)

I am sure you will be fine, in my experience OCUK will advise of DSR which allows you to visually inspect the items, and that they can deduct up to 25% of the value of the cards. In actuality unless you are taking the mickey, which clearly doesn't seem like the case here, they will just refund you full value with no issue.
 
marcus2704 said:
I will buy them off you for £300 :)

I am sure you will be fine, in my experience OCUK will advise of DSR which allows you to visually inspect the items, and that they can deduct up to 25% of the value of the cards. In actuality unless you are taking the mickey, which clearly doesn't seem like the case here, they will just refund you full value with no issue.
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I've done as advised above and posted in the other forum.

I don't really want to have to send these 2 cards back and order 2 more (first card is only 9 days old) as I originally sent back a reference card, i don't suppose im going to have a choice though. On this occasion it's definitely not me just changing my mind as i love the zotac card, it's just now no good after taking advice over the phone from overclockers. I could obviously go back to just 1 card but then my 4k monitor is no good so ill either need to send back 2 cards or 1 card and a monitor. :mad:
 
setter said:
It is a very rigid card, backplate is quite solid too. No issues with card sag here. Unlike one of my old 780's.
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Looking at other reviews, the db rating between reviews is laughable, one review had it at 37db under load but the card was "noisier than he hoped for".

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/MSI/GTX_980_Ti_Gaming/29.html


The asus strix is really catch my eye currently, just have to wait until prices get to a more sane level, in america the msi gaming 6g costs more than the strix, yet somehow over here with retailers digging the elbow in the strix is substantially more than the msi card. :rolleyes: *insert supply and demand, exchange rate rhetoric".
 
beasty54 said:
I've done as advised above and posted in the other forum.

I don't really want to have to send these 2 cards back and order 2 more (first card is only 9 days old) as I originally sent back a reference card, i don't suppose im going to have a choice though. On this occasion it's definitely not me just changing my mind as i love the zotac card, it's just now no good after taking advice over the phone from overclockers. I could obviously go back to just 1 card but then my 4k monitor is no good so ill either need to send back 2 cards or 1 card and a monitor. :mad:
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You already had one, knew how large it was and should have been able to deduce how much space there was surely?

In any case, have you actually tried running them together to see what temps are like, or are you assuming they won't be ok?
 
eyetrip said:
You already had one, knew how large it was and should have been able to deduce how much space there was surely?

In any case, have you actually tried running them together to see what temps are like, or are you assuming they won't be ok?
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Triple fan coolers tight to each other will be a headache, even with slots between them the top card gets hotter because obviously heat rises up to its fans.
 
Just ordered the Zotac reference card from my favourite OCUK competitor :D

Looking forwarded to trying it out and having GEFORCE GTX in green lit up inside my crappy Corsair case!
 
eyetrip said:
You already had one, knew how large it was and should have been able to deduce how much space there was surely?

In any case, have you actually tried running them together to see what temps are like, or are you assuming they won't be ok?
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Yes I did already have one and I knew it would be tight as hell. I'll be honest and say I probably should have known better but when I actually ordered I wasn't aware I couldn't use the bottom pcie slot as im new to pc gaming, so after checking the gap between slots 1 and 2, i rung overclockers to see if I should cancel my order, I was told it would be fine.
I haven't actually tried running them both together, didn't think it would be a good idea.
 
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beasty54 said:
Yes I did already have one and I knew it would be tight as hell. I'll be honest and say I probably should have known better but when I actually ordered I wasn't aware I couldn't use the bottom pcie slot as im new to pc gaming, so after checking the gap between slots 1 and 2, i rung overclockers to see if I should cancel my order, I was told it would be fine.
I haven't actually tried running them both together, didn't think it would be a good idea.
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Return one of them under DSR and put it down to experience.
 
beasty54 said:
But then I'm stuck with a pointless £450 4k monitor, I guess I wouldn't be so annoyed if overclockers hadn't advised me that it would be fine.
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As I said before, the best solution (despite the hassle that will last a week) is to send both back (they are both less than 14 days old I'm guessing, so you can return them without question) and either get two reference cards, to use with AIO coolers (even the Evga one if it's available), or get 2 980ti hybrids (either EVGA or Inno3D).

Almost no expenses but better performance, noise and temps. If you're spending so much, do it right :p

On the Single card side, 2 weeks in still loving my Zotac Extreme, extremely quiet rocking 1500/8000 in Gta online.
 
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beasty54 said:
But then I'm stuck with a pointless £450 4k monitor, I guess I wouldn't be so annoyed if overclockers hadn't advised me that it would be fine.
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A single 980ti is hardly pointless with 4k. It plays games fine.

To be fair Gibbo always says quite often reference cards are the best ones for SLI and it has been said quite often by other forum members too. Must have been a right numpty who told you that.
 
beasty54 said:
But then I'm stuck with a pointless £450 4k monitor, I guess I wouldn't be so annoyed if overclockers hadn't advised me that it would be fine.
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No problem returning them within 14 days, I returned my 2 MSI 980ti's with no hassle and full refund, I sent next day delivery and by 10am the next day I received a full refund :). I just explained they didn't cool as well as I'd hoped and decided I wanted to do a custom loop so needed to get 2 references instead. Get 2 hybrids :). Or do a small loop.

And yeah reference cards are better for SLI cooling wise my EVGA 980Ti's get to 78c on bf4 whereas my old MSI 6g 980Ti's were mid 80s. But the msi's are far quieter. I also run my EVGAs with a higher clock for when my wc stuff arrives next week. Now just to wait :(.
 
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