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The GTX Titan X owners thread.

Whoever has a TX and doesn't have a Hybrid cooler is mad in the head!!

Fitted mine and well impressed with the results, running 1526/2000mhz @ 1.250v and the hottest I've seen it get after 2 hours of benching and Witcher 3 is 54c, was just short of getting a stable 1550mhz on the core but one of my tests failed so I stepped it back, probably need a few more volts but this is as far as I want to go.

Going to be running 1500mhz 24/7 I think.

One concern though upon touching the back plate when running 2000mhz on the memory it's hot to touch, it doesn't burn my figures but it's hotter than I'd like.
How can I keep this under control, I'm running my fan at 50% at 50c, I thought having a cool core would help the vrms. Perhaps knock it down to 1900mhz memory?

Will put some pic's up when I get my SP120 on it in the morning.
 
Doing a bit more testing on the heat above, running a much slower O/C of 1300/3500 the back plate is still hot so it's not the clocks making it hot, could it be because my bios is locked at 1.250 volts???
Though surely with a mild O/C it shouldn't be using all these volts, since the bios flash the power limited hovers around 99/101%, no way near the 110% it used to bump along before the bio flash (limit now 120%).

Help, am I safe, does every-one card feel hot above the vrm's? Never bothered touching it before so I'm not sure. It's no way near 100c boiling water temperature, I can keep my fingers on it no problem so I'm guessing it must be somewhere between 70/80c

Edit: Thinking about it my 290X's felt just the same, maybe I'm just worrying.
 
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Playing around with the voltage I notice it doesn't really help when the card is in demanding scenarios.

Running the shadows of mordor bench I got a solid 1.46 ghz with +260 on the core, 270 would crash. I upped the volts by +80 and suddenly the card was boosting up to 1.5 ghz but then also back down as the power level was hit. In the end it didn't add anything to my score.
 
straxusii said:
Playing around with the voltage I notice it doesn't really help when the card is in demanding scenarios.

Running the shadows of mordor bench I got a solid 1.46 ghz with +260 on the core, 270 would crash. I upped the volts by +80 and suddenly the card was boosting up to 1.5 ghz but then also back down as the power level was hit. In the end it didn't add anything to my score.
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Maxwell doesn't really scale well with voltage at all
 
Nvidia have built in a lot of power controls to stop users going OTT and killing the cards and then trying to do a return on the cards under guarantee. ;)
 
Yesterday I had a Witcher 3 session and saw the card throttle back which was interesting. Temp maximum was 51 so must have been due to hitting the 110% power limit.
 
clone said:
I take it you split the hose down the middle to get it like that,if so it looks great :)
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Correct, just run the cut where you can't see it, looks like hell from the otherside though :-)

P.B said:
looks good born to kill.

Have you tried a new bios yet s2kip ?
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Cheers

straxusii said:
Yesterday I had a Witcher 3 session and saw the card throttle back which was interesting. Temp maximum was 51 so must have been due to hitting the 110% power limit.
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This was the problem I had with the standard bios, couldn't maintain a 1400mhz clock on the core in Witcher, would start off and drop after a while to 1340. On the safe air bios I'm running 120% and don't have a problem till I run out of volts at 1550mhz which required more than the locked 1.255volts. I'm happy enough not to push it any further, these cards at 1500mhz are outstanding.
 
It's not the price its the OCD ;), flash it with the safe air bios, should be fine under a Hybrid as it's intended for the stock fan setup, you don't have to overclock it anymore if you don't want.
 
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