Do u have the fan set to a set speed all the time?
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The GTX 980 Ti owners thread.
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Do u have the fan set to a set speed all the time?
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H55 are a good little pump but I have been running a Zalman LQ315 and it is whisper quiet the only sound you get is at start up just a couple of clicks and a blue LED logo on the water block and you can pick them up for just over 40.00
That what's putting me off getting the EVGA aio, heard a lot of people saying the pump can be loud. Also what's with people saying if I got the g10 I would have to sort out vrm and memory cooling? Does the EVGA hydro include something more that the g10 doesn't?
Has anyone fit the EK block on their MSI 6G? I've got 480mm of rad space cooling a CPU, so I'm thinking of sticking my card under water. However, I think the inlet/outlet may clash with my side panel. I've got around 25mm to spare from the edge of the PCB. Question is, will it be enough?
I have just measured an EKWB inlet/outlet and it is exactly 25mm high so it is going to be a very tight fit.
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Thanks, Kaap. I won't chance it.
Yes, exactly what I was going to post, it's spot on 25mm from the inlet/outlet ports join.
Nice build btw String
Yep its a 3 pin fan run from a motherboard header starts @ 1600RPM (which is almost silent) & goes up to 1700RPM which is quiet. I only sit 1ft away from the PC all I can hear is the whoosh of air no real fan noise from the supplied fans.
Cannot hear the pump either apart from the occasional sound of it pumping liquid around its very quiet on mine @ 100%. I have the pump running from a molex to 3 pin convertor so its always @ 100% which seems silent anyway to me.
If you have an older case design (not one with top,bottom,side,front,back case fans) the key to low case temps seems to be keep the radiator as cold as possible then the liquid keeps the GPU temps very low. As my PC is about 1ft away I am very fussy about noise so spent a lot of money on quiet components. Right now I can hear the whoosh of air more than any case or AIO fans. Its about 95% silent from 1ft away. If I stand 5ft away you can only hear a low sound of air rushing through the case (it has a lot of air vents).
I could make it almost 100% silent from 1ft away by using lower CFM fans but then temps skyrocket from the GPU backplate starts to heat the case up so I went back to the supplied Corsair + NZXT fans as both are very quiet anyway just not 100% silent from 1ft away!
NZXT G10 + Corsair H55 is a good combo (easy to fit as well) if you do not want to go full water its relatively cheap & will knock up to 20C off the GPU temps. Full custom water would be better but cost a lot more.
I still stand by what I said about 4K is marginal on some games with a single GTX 980 Ti @ 60FPS the card starts to thermal throttle around 63C apparently so maintaining that temp on air regardless of ambient air temps is a challenge unless you have a newish case with a lot of case fans.
G10 + H55 AIO seems to be a good solution as it also lowers case temps by 10-15C so your PSU+CPU+Motherboard are a lot cooler as well which can only be good for component life.
Obviously if you do go AIO or Water check first with your GPU manufacturer as some are ok about removing the stock HSF & some invalidates the warranty. MSI are ok with this BTW.
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What you need to understand, is that there are people reading your posts that may take your advice as good, which it is not. You are encouraging people to potentially invalidate the warranty on their card by fitting water cooling. Now, that in itself is not entirely a big issue... we are all capable of making informed decisions about what to do with our hardware.
What I find to be an issue, is your constant refusal to acknowledge that the resolution has no impact on the operating temperature of the card. This is despite this fact being repeatedly pointed out to you by various people. You also refuse to acknowledge that good air flow will not only reduce the heat in the case and by result the GPU, but it will maintain the warranty of the card and also be compatible with any future card (a water block will not).
You had a bad experience with a poor PC case. Just because you water cooled your card to resolve problems it presented, it does not follow that this is the only solution open to anyone else who may encounter issues with heat, or indeed be considering buying a 980Ti and being subsequently put off by your ramblings (particularly people who wish to use the card with a 4K monitor).
You are giving out the impression that a 980Ti must be water cooled by providing flawed anecdotal "evidence". This is simply not the case as most people have installed their cards into their system, on air, with no issues at all.
If what you claim was in any way true, every 980Ti on air would have been RMA'd.
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Exactly. He's comparing a game @ 1080p with the same game @4K, no doubt with Vsync enabled. He then sees the card 20C higher @4K and thinks the card can't handle 4K.
And he thinks he's dishing out sound advice based on that train of thought.
Exactly. He's comparing a game @ 1080p with the same game @4K, no doubt with Vsync enabled. He then sees the card 20C higher @4K and thinks the card can't handle 4K.
And he thinks he's dishing out sound advice based on that train of thought.
"Guys look when the gpu is running at a third of the load it runs cooler."
But seriously i have run a reference design and now an evga scx+ at 4k in an itx rig, it gets loud and hot but it works fine and what do you expect for an overclocked power hungry 250-280w card.
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Exactly. He's comparing a game @ 1080p with the same game @4K, no doubt with Vsync enabled. He then sees the card 20C higher @4K and thinks the card can't handle 4K.
And he thinks he's dishing out sound advice based on that train of thought.
Yeh if uve got vsync off and all frame limits off then there shouldnt be any difference between resolutions unless there is a bottleneck somewhere.
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That advice is particularly for reference card users, as they do not come with heatsinks on the vrms which can get very hot, especially when ocing hard (100c+). Many aftermarket cards come with a heatsink already fitted to the vrms.
The Zotac amp! has a heatsink on the vrms already. I'm not sure if the G10 fits perfectly on the Zotac amp! so you can research that. The MSI 6G is made for it, no shim needed, plate/heatsink covering the memory and vrms. I don't think there is any heatsink on the amp! Vram. The vram doesn't get critically hot if you're not ocing the memory hard so you can get away with that a bit.
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Sorry for the late reply, i've not been around to test them yet. I did do a couple of benchmarks with Heaven.
Stock volts and with a +200 on the core and +245 on the memory they're into the 70's.
If i up the voltage they hit the 80's but to be honest i don't really need them doing more than 1354 boost at 1440p 144Hz is fine for most games.
I may have a bit of a tweak with the voltage and see if i can eek a little more out while keeping the temp around/below 80c and having the fans at a reasonable sound level.
All in all they're not bad but not particularly brilliant either.
The differing voltages on each card in SLi is annoying though, i'm amazed this still isn't sorted.
Soldato
You know you can tweak the overclocks and the voltages will synchronise?
Soldato
I'll have to look into it. Been a while since I've mucked around with SLi.
Any decent info about save me having to trawl through page after page as i'm off work in 30 mins.
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Underclock the primary card by around 0-30 Mhz than the secondary. You'll have to test to see, but example :
GPU0 : +125
GPU1 : +130
Voltage not the same?
GPU0 : +120
GPU1 : +130
And repeat. Keep dropping by 5Mhz until they sync. Should be no more than 30Mhz lower. The voltages will sync and strangely, the core clock won't be 25Mhz apart either... maybe 1Mhz.
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Thanks for clearing that up. I've got the reference 980ti so would need vrm/memory plate. Where has the corsair bracket for the 980ti/tx dissappeard to? It was meant to be on sale by now but all I can find is the AMD & NV 780 versions of it. It's on the corsair website but doesn't that ship from USA?
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Just changed my H220-X and fan placement and temps have dropped around 6C across the board! System looks cleaner too, am chuffed.
anyone with an EVGA SC+ card?
I'm having trouble getting mine stable over 1400 clock with +300 to memory. I'm tending to not let it go over 80c because the fans are too loud.
wondering if I should be messing around with voltages or be happy with what i've got?
playing 1400p witcher 3 everything ultra, hairworks off and getting 45-50fps in built up areas. not sure if this is right?
also playing diablo 3 at the same res, getting a lot of weird stuttering and the fps says 15 sometimes when it's clearly way above that. not sure if that's something to do with the card or my system but it's really annoying.
I'm having trouble getting mine stable over 1400 clock with +300 to memory. I'm tending to not let it go over 80c because the fans are too loud.
wondering if I should be messing around with voltages or be happy with what i've got?
playing 1400p witcher 3 everything ultra, hairworks off and getting 45-50fps in built up areas. not sure if this is right?
also playing diablo 3 at the same res, getting a lot of weird stuttering and the fps says 15 sometimes when it's clearly way above that. not sure if that's something to do with the card or my system but it's really annoying.