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The GTX Titan X owners thread.

TItan fail

Well, take me off the roll of honour chaps, my Titan X is going back :(

To cut a long story short, either my card has a low level fault, or it just does not 'get on' with my system.

Bit more details.....

Some of you may have seen a few posts in this thread from me about about some games hard locking up my rig and having to physically turn off and on again. Well I spent the whole weekend pretty much trying to root out the problem. I even did a non destructive reinstall of windows 7 to be sure. Still didn't fix it. About 3 or 4 games would randomly hard lock my system, always on loading/ level load, or on exit. 3d mark fire strike extreme also locked up, usually loading test 2, again not always, but randomly.

Tried everything I could think of. Ran with no overclock. Same. Took out card, reseated, changed power supply cord inputs. Same. Tried latest drivers, totally cleaned out using DDU, tried older drivers. Same.

My power supply is a superflower 1000w platinum by the way. A very very good psu.

To be doubly sure I took out the TX and popped back in both my 780Ti in SLI and tested all day yesterday. Not one issue! Ran flawlessly, just as they did before I got the TX. AND NO LOCKUPS!

So, if my system can happily run my 780Tis in SLI, with TWICE the power draw and system 'stresses' of one TX, I can only conclude that something is wrong with my TX. The weirdest thing is these hard locks only ever happen on loading or exiting games or benchmarks. Never during actual gameplay or full on GPU high usage situations.

It's a gigabyte card by the way, and the only other faulty GPU I've ever owned has been a gigabyte. Make of that what you will, but I'm sending it back and going back to my trusty 780Tis for the foreseeable future and will reassess in about 6 months time I think.
 
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wunkley said:
Well, take me off the roll of honour chaps, my Titan X is going back :(

To cut a long story short, either my card has a low level fault, or it just does not 'get on' with my system.

Bit more details.....

Some of you may have seen a few posts in this thread from me about about some games hard locking up my rig and having to physically turn off and on again. Well I spent the whole weekend pretty much trying to root out the problem. I even did a non destructive reinstall of windows 7 to be sure. Still didn't fix it. About 3 or 4 games would randomly hard lock my system, always on loading/ level load, or on exit. 3d mark fire strike extreme also locked up, usually loading test 2, again not always, but randomly.

Tried everything I could think of. Ran with no overclock. Same. Took out card, reseated, changed power supply cord inputs. Same. Tried latest drivers, totally cleaned out using DDU, tried older drivers. Same.

My power supply is a superflower 1000w platinum by the way. A very very good psu.

To be doubly sure I took out the TX and popped back in both my 780Ti in SLI and tested all day yesterday. Not one issue! Ran flawlessly, just as they did before I got the TX. AND NO LOCKUPS!

So, if my system can happily run my 780Tis in SLI, with TWICE the power draw and system 'stresses' of one TX, I can only conclude that something is wrong with my TX. The weirdest thing is these hard locks only ever happen on loading or exiting games or benchmarks. Never during actual gameplay or full on GPU high usage situations.

It's a gigabyte card by the way, and the only other faulty GPU I've ever owned has been a gigabyte. Make of that what you will, but I'm sending it back and going back to my trusty 780Tis for the foreseeable future and will reassess in about 6 months time I think.
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Somewhat worrying.

I put a Titan X in on Thursday last week. I had my first lockup in a very long time indeed last night. It was in Farcry 4 although it was during gameplay. I haven't had lock-ups in anything else so far and I put it down to either bad luck or the graphics driver.
 
DragonRR said:
Somewhat worrying.

I put a Titan X in on Thursday last week. I had my first lockup in a very long time indeed last night. It was in Farcry 4 although it was during gameplay. I haven't had lock-ups in anything else so far and I put it down to either bad luck or the graphics driver.
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Hmmm. Interestingly one of the games that hard locked for me was Far Cry 3 (I don't have 4 yet).
As mentioned it's always on loading/ level load for me though, never in actual gameplay.
 
wunkley said:
Well, take me off the roll of honour chaps, my Titan X is going back :(
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There's a hotfix available which is supposed to fix crashing in some games.

While not being an official beta driver release, you won't find the new Geforce 350.05 driver via Nvidia's usual driver release support pages, but it still brings some important crash fixes in case you are playing some of those new games, including Battlefield: Hardline and Dragon Age: Inquisition.
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Quartz said:
There's a hotfix available which is supposed to fix crashing in some games.
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I tried that driver fella, still no good. (I don't have either of those specific games that this hotfix is for either).

I'm going to do a bit more testing with my 780Ti's later on today just to be sure that my sytem is all good and as it was. If all is good with my 780Ti's then the TX is going back I'm afraid.

I have no time or inclination to try and troubleshoot hard lockups like this. The whole point I was dumping SLI and going one fast card was to make things more simple. The irony :)

On another note, now I've had this issue and some time to think about my TX purchase, I'm not sure it was the wisest move anyway. Although it's a superb card and very powerful for a one card solution, it's still not technically as powerful as my Ti's in SLI.

And even games that were causing issues with SLI and gsync for me (micro stutter etc), if I run them on one 780Ti the performance is still very good. For example, Far Cry 3 is a particular game I'm trying to play at the moment. It has microstuuter with SLI unfortunately and no amount of tweaking fixes this, nor does Gsync smooth out SLI stutter/ microstutter (in fact it exacerbates it). On one moderately overclocked TX it runs beautifully smooth between 75fps and about 110fps, mostly at around 85-90fps I would say. With one of my 780Ti's and a very mild overclock it runs around 60-65fps most of the time (exact same settings, same res etc). And it's beautifully smooth with gsync. If I didn't have an fps counter in the top left, I would not know the difference between running it on one TX vs one 780Ti.

And of every game I own only one has the potential to 'need' more than 3GB Vram at 1440p that I game at. That's Shadow of Mordor, and only with the ultra texture pack. And I can genuinely barely tell the difference between these 'ultra' textures and the next ones down. Is shadow of Mordor with slightly better textures worth £900 to me? Nah.
 
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