The GTX 980 Ti owners thread.

Geeman1979 · 7 Aug 2015 at 16:08

oldestgregg said:
Ah right thats fair enough

Send it back if it boosted over advertised clocks?

razorpakk · 7 Aug 2015 at 16:09

HoF is now available (at least mine has been shipped!).

EDIT: For that price, it might as well be the card to get.

ratters · 7 Aug 2015 at 16:56

razorpakk said:
HoF is now available (at least mine has been shipped!).

EDIT: For that price, it might as well be the card to get.

Think they are my choice i think i just have to go under water never had so much difficulty choosing a gpu.

oldestgregg · 7 Aug 2015 at 17:02

Geeman1979 said:
Send it back if it boosted over advertised clocks?

Eh? Why would he send it back?

Geeman1979 · 7 Aug 2015 at 17:04

oldestgregg said:
Eh? Why would he send it back?

Point is he wouldn't if it was the other way round, that's why.

oldestgregg · 7 Aug 2015 at 17:31

Geeman1979 said:
Point is he wouldn't if it was the other way round, that's why.

I never mentioned sending anything back though bud. Just wanted to know if that was the advertised speeds.

Geeman1979 · 7 Aug 2015 at 17:38

oldestgregg said:
I never mentioned sending anything back though bud. Just wanted to know if that was the advertised speeds.

I know! Was me just having a little dig, on how people would moan if a card ran a pesky 5 to 10MHz under advertised clocks but if boosted well over advertised clocks we'd be cool with it

oldestgregg · 7 Aug 2015 at 17:48

Geeman1979 said:
I know! Was me just having a little dig, on how people would moan if a card ran a pesky 5 to 10MHz under advertised clocks but if boosted well over advertised clocks we'd be cool with it

Ah,should have been obvious as people can always tell when Im joking on the internet

I made a similar point a while back that people complain when a good game is only 6 hours long and say its not worth £40 but if they bought a £40 game and got 300 hours out of it they wouldnt pay more! Slightly off topic but hey!

Geeman1979 · 7 Aug 2015 at 17:53

oldestgregg said:
Ah,should have been obvious as people can always tell when Im joking on the internet

I made a similar point a while back that people complain when a good game is only 6 hours long and say its not worth £40 but if they bought a £40 game and got 300 hours out of it they wouldnt pay more! Slightly off topic but hey!

Lol, you know how it is, no smiley you must be serious. People around here can be easily influenced if not in black & white

setter · 7 Aug 2015 at 17:55

Gerard said:
So far yes, boost to 1380 out of the box ands stabilises at 1367.

Pretty nice even after stabilising, card looks great too. How is it for noise. I know your msi had a weird fan issue si hard to really compare. Enjoy.

machinebummer · 7 Aug 2015 at 18:34

Still getting constant bsods with my MSI Gaming.

I can get it to crash 100% with GTA 5 during a 5 star chase. Usually within around 5 mins I'll get the nvlddmkm bsod

Also looking up at the Police Choppers starts to slow my game down fps down from the 50s to around 15. Not sure if this happens with anyone else's GTA during a chase but not long after that I usually have a crash.

Are Win 10 nvidia drivers generally ok for people? Im considering giving it a try, if not I dont know what else to do.

Jewlario · 7 Aug 2015 at 18:45

machinebummer said:
Still getting constant bsods with my MSI Gaming.

I can get it to crash 100% with GTA 5 during a 5 star chase. Usually within around 5 mins I'll get the nvlddmkm bsod

Also looking up at the Police Choppers starts to slow my game down fps down from the 50s to around 15. Not sure if this happens with anyone else's GTA during a chase but not long after that I usually have a crash.

Are Win 10 nvidia drivers generally ok for people? Im considering giving it a try, if not I dont know what else to do.

I don't understand why you haven't RMA'd this card yet. If it can't run games at stock or even underclocked, it's faulty. Windows 10 won't do anything if you have already tried reinstalling drivers.

Brumboy · 7 Aug 2015 at 18:50

Amazing what adding two fans to the case can do. Temps dropped from around 75 to 60 now with fan speed at 70% and boosting to 1494Mhz in most games.

Witcher 3 & Battlefield 4 I get 70 degrees.

Gerard · 7 Aug 2015 at 18:52

setter said:
Pretty nice even after stabilising, card looks great too. How is it for noise. I know your msi had a weird fan issue si hard to really compare. Enjoy.

Its very quiet, can't really hear it at all. Odd thing about the card and it was noticed in reviews is the ram has no heatsinks, instead its cooled by the air from the fans.

oldestgregg · 7 Aug 2015 at 19:04

machinebummer said:
Still getting constant bsods with my MSI Gaming.

I can get it to crash 100% with GTA 5 during a 5 star chase. Usually within around 5 mins I'll get the nvlddmkm bsod

Also looking up at the Police Choppers starts to slow my game down fps down from the 50s to around 15. Not sure if this happens with anyone else's GTA during a chase but not long after that I usually have a crash.

Are Win 10 nvidia drivers generally ok for people? Im considering giving it a try, if not I dont know what else to do.

Thats all wrong bud. Last night I had 5 helicopters after me in a 5 star chase at night and was getting 60% usage from a single TX @1400p with everything maxed except AA and adaptive vsync on through the NVCP

Sounds like an RMA be be your best option there sadly

iB CoMpL3XiTy · 7 Aug 2015 at 20:01

Got to say I'm very happy with my Palit GTX980Ti.

Temps reaching 64C in a cramped, tiny Lian Li case, card is boosting to 1367mhz at stock and is very quiet.
Also over 50%+ faster than my overclocked 290 PCS+ in Unigine heaven at stock.
No coil whine that I've noticed either.

Chuffed.

machinebummer · 7 Aug 2015 at 20:28

Jewlario said:
I don't understand why you haven't RMA'd this card yet. If it can't run games at stock or even underclocked, it's faulty. Windows 10 won't do anything if you have already tried reinstalling drivers.

oldestgregg said:
Thats all wrong bud. Last night I had 5 helicopters after me in a 5 star chase at night and was getting 60% usage from a single TX @1400p with everything maxed except AA and adaptive vsync on through the NVCP

Sounds like an RMA be be your best option there sadly

Main reason I haven't RMA'd yet is I thought it was a driver problem tbh as the crashes seem very temperamental at times.

I also thought it was fixed for a week as I had only one crash, maybe because I was simply playing less intensive games though.

I just tried GTA again after disabling the Win 10 update in the taskbar and in Windows updates. It was trying to run in the background when I thought Id already disabled it. I managed to play for over an hour with the Cops chasing, I still was getting stuttering down into the 30s 40s (which felt much lower) and GPU usage was down to around 29 however no crash.

I guess your right though I'll contact Overclockers about changing the card again, I just thought Id try a new OS before resorting to that.

Skynet5 · 7 Aug 2015 at 20:57

Yup defo faulty.

Unlucky to get a botchling.

Gerard · 7 Aug 2015 at 23:57

Amazing how gimmicky the zero db fan is, you can't even hear it at idle with the zero db disabled so I'm really struggling to see the point. Yet now that's a selling point. 0_o

razorpakk · 8 Aug 2015 at 00:11

It makes absolute sense.
What's the point of having the fans spinning if it's not needed? Low noise is noisier than zero noise. No power consumption is cheaper than low power consumption.
When not gaming all my case fans are off, for example. Only Cpu cooler is on.