The GTX 980 Ti owners thread.

arcon33 · 21 Sep 2015 at 15:40

KillBoY_UK said:
Just the blower sadly

Luckily I can use Asus on board fan controller software which has been good upto now for the radiator fan and set the blower to a decent curve to keep it quiet

Winnter · 22 Sep 2015 at 06:12

Whats a decent PSU for 980TI SLI? Can i make do with 1000watt? or do i need a 1300watt? thanks

Mariusz · 22 Sep 2015 at 06:18

Winnter said:
Whats a decent PSU for 980TI SLI? Can i make do with 1000watt? or do i need a 1300watt? thanks

For a single card or sli? How far do you plan to overclock? My rig in sig uses approx. 400 in games at stock, with the card overclocked with custom bios it pulled around 520 watts from the wall this was with cpu still at stock even with an overclock on cpu you should be fine with a 1000 watt PSU

A 850w SuperFlower or Evga unit would do you proud.

(Note; Wattage figures are from the Corsair link software).

Winnter · 22 Sep 2015 at 06:28

Mariusz said:
For a single card or sli? How far do you plan to overclock? My rig in sig uses approx. 400 in games at stock, with the card overclocked with custom bios it pulled around 520 watts from the wall this was with cpu still at stock even with an overclock on cpu you should be fine with a 1000 watt PSU

A 850w SuperFlower or Evga unit would do you proud.

(Nkte; Wattage figures are from the Corsair link software).

It would be for SLI my CPU is allready overclocked to 4.5ghz,
So i want to keep my GPU overclock at 240+ on the core. I was going to buy this one EVGA SuperNova G2 1300W '80 Plus Gold' Modular Power Supply

Joe! · 22 Sep 2015 at 06:33

With a 3570 I'd imagine a 1000W is fine, gold/platinum EVGA/SuperFlower. With a heavily overclocked X99 CPU I'd be a bit worried and probably get 1200W myself... But I'd rather have more wattage than not enough!

The PSU you suggested will be more than enough even if you planned to get a heavily overclocked 5820k/5930k/5960x in the future.

Winnter · 22 Sep 2015 at 06:38

Ok thanks for your help guys.but i think i might go for the EVGA SuperNova G2 850W '80 Plus Gold'
As im not planning to go SLI this year,it might not be even next year, So i think a 850w will do me fine.
thanks for your help :-)

Arcane · 22 Sep 2015 at 09:17

varkanoid said:
The other issue with the Kraken is no VRM heatsinks. The fan blowing on them is not really enough.

If you get a G1 you can keep the vrm plate on it, 4 screws and the hsf is off, the kraken is spot on but you have to pay the extra initially. My SLI temps haven't gone over 54 for the bottom card using them.

Mariusz · 22 Sep 2015 at 09:49

varkanoid said:
The other issue with the Kraken is no VRM heatsinks. The fan blowing on them is not really enough.

Agreed, I bought small aluminium sinks to help keep my vrm's cool when I had a Kraken on my Titan Black. Worked great, just make sure they stick properly

Joe! · 22 Sep 2015 at 16:08

Winnter said:
Ok thanks for your help guys.but i think i might go for the EVGA SuperNova G2 850W '80 Plus Gold'
As im not planning to go SLI this year,it might not be even next year, So i think a 850w will do me fine.
thanks for your help

I'm currently using a gold 850W with a 5820k overclocked to 4.5GHz and a G1 Gaming 980Ti overclocked to 1520/2000, and it's doing fine, so good choice!

andybird123 · 22 Sep 2015 at 18:12

An 850w would probably be fine for SLI tbh, I have sli at 1480mhz and it doesnt draw much over 800 at the wall, so that'd be about 750 at the rails

Angst · 22 Sep 2015 at 18:58

The reference cooler can get annoyingly loud, i contemplated selling at switching to a custom cooled model but the cost was too much to eat.

Joe! · 22 Sep 2015 at 19:01

andybird123 said:
An 850w would probably be fine for SLI tbh, I have sli at 1480mhz and it doesnt draw much over 800 at the wall, so that'd be about 750 at the rails

What CPU do you have?

RanxZy · 22 Sep 2015 at 19:15

varkanoid said:
The other issue with the Kraken is no VRM heatsinks. The fan blowing on them is not really enough.

It really depends on the model, the MSI 6G has factory fitted heatsinks on the vrms directly under the Kraken fan already so it works really well.

uscool · 22 Sep 2015 at 19:26

Joe! said:
I'm currently using a gold 850W with a 5820k overclocked to 4.5GHz and a G1 Gaming 980Ti overclocked to 1520/2000, and it's doing fine, so good choice!

what settings you have for that overclock for the G1 ?

Thanks

Joe! · 22 Sep 2015 at 20:25

For benching or for gaming?

uscool · 22 Sep 2015 at 20:36

Joe! said:
For benching or for gaming?

gaming

Joe! · 22 Sep 2015 at 20:40

I have it at +126MHz on the core and +496 on the memory (Afterburner). I had to drop the memory down to +296 because GTA started acting funny with it though.

uscool · 22 Sep 2015 at 20:49

Joe! said:
I have it at +126MHz on the core and +496 on the memory (Afterburner). I had to drop the memory down to +296 because GTA started acting funny with it though.

funny you should mention that, i also play GTA5, after 2 hrs it of playing gave direct 3d error, i use OC guru, whats the memory speed total ?

i myself have core 120mhz which gives 1500mhz boost and doesnt dip, but still playing around with memory

thanks

Joe! · 22 Sep 2015 at 20:56

Does OCGuru report your memory as 1750MHz, 3500MHz, or 7000MHz at stock?

Respectively mine was reported at the following (at +296): 1975MHz, 3950MHz, or 7900MHz.

Afterburner reports the middle number, and GPU-Z reports the first number, not a clue what OC Guru reports.. It's pretty confusing so I don't blame you for not being up to speed

razorpakk · 22 Sep 2015 at 20:58

Oh my, is my HoF done for?
After a reboot the vga light didn't come on for about ten seconds, then it started showing artefacts.

It also crashes after ten minutes of gaming (happened before the artefacts three times today).