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Which 980 TI for me ?

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I plan to buy the two cards to SLI to replace my 980's but cant choose I think I have four options.

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-164-GI&groupid=701&catid=1914&subcat=1402

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-283-EA&groupid=701&catid=1914&subcat=1402

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-287-MS&groupid=701&catid=1914&subcat=1402

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=WC-125-TL&groupid=701&catid=1914&subcat=1402

I was wondering if I can SLI the evga hybrids as I already have a H110 in my corsiar 540. Do I have the space to accomadate.

Or perhaps a reference coolers as they are blowers. What are the pros and cons of me doing this, I would like to get a high as game clock as possible.

The last one is just perhaps i just go all water but seems like a bit of hassle for me currently as work wont leave me the time and probably would prefer just and easy install.
 
For SLI, and hassle free times, the evga hybrids will be best by a country mile.

Reference exhaust coolers are nice to a point, and a chunk cheaper, but the top card will get hot and throttle so you won't be doing any decent over clocking with those.

There are also mixed reports and messages about running SLI with non reference exhaust coolers. I currently run ref 780ti in SLI which is the same cooler as ref 980ti. In the past I've run one ref cooled 670 and one acx cooled 670 together. It kind of worked ok but the ref card got way hotter than the other one no matter the config.

Suggestion- You could start with 2 reference ones, see how you go on, and then buy just the evga AIO coolers separately and fit yourself. Demand is way outstripping supply on them though.

EDIT - I'm trying to find out myself, but be careful about buying a non ref card and hoping to fit an EVGA AIO cooler on later. Far as I know custom cards like the MSI gamer and Gigabyte G1 have different pcbs and layout, and it won't work. I'm not 100% though and info is sketchy on which custom cooled cards would work/ fit an AIO cooler.
 
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I would not advise the G1 cards in SLI if you want quiet operation. With two OCd to the max at load it could get quite noisy tbh.
 
So really looking at getting EVGA hybrids or blowers...

Anyone got any idea how i could fit of them in my case?

Ill try to get a picutre when i get home of my current setup
 
I upgraded from 980 SLI to 980 Ti SLI, so I have some experience here - all my cards were reference 'blowers'.

I have an FT02 case where the cards are mounted vertically so temps are similar on both cards.

What I must say is that the fans on 980 Ti reference cards in SLI are loud - quite a bit louder than standard 980's, and personally I don't think the reviews focused on this enough.

Using the stock fan settings in a warm room (20-25'C) the 980 Ti's fans reach around 50-52% speed, and when you have two of them in SLI this is very noticeable. The 980's were nowhere near as loud in SLI.

Keep in mind this is just to keep the cards at their 82-83'C default limit - if you want to keep the temps in the 70's you have to turn the fans up to between 55-60% and the noise simply becomes ridiculous.

I'm not saying you definitely shouldn't get reference cards, I just thought you should be aware that they are quite a step up from the 980's in terms of noise. Maybe a single card isn't too bad, but when you have two of them in SLI with fans running at 52% you definitely notice the noise.

If you play a game that the cards can handle comfortably (with vsync turned on) then the fans might only need to reach 40-45% speed and that is okay, but modern games such as the Witcher 3 (which will eat all the power you can throw at it at higher res settings)) the cards get very hot and very loud.

EDIT - one good thing about the 980 Ti is that overclocking doesn't actually add too much heat (compared to many other GPU's I've used) so you can add 150 or 200Mhz to the clock speeds without the card running much hotter (or the fans getting much faster/louder).
 
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I have a G1 at the moment and although i love the card and its power two would also look very cool, but in practice i would deff not recommend two in a case unless you could pump in some refrigerated air. Im also interested to know if they can be adapted for AIO. However one custom will be fine and one day get the more expensive AIO and drop the custom to the second slot.
 
I had two 980 G1's in SLI since Nov 2014 and they ran pretty cool in SLI (one slot spacing). The top card usually topped out at 78c to 80c on average with a 60% fan speed, the bottom one around 67c to 69c and 45% to 50% or so fan speed, stock boosted to 1342Mhz out of the box.

Now my 980 Ti G1's that I have now returned due to noise ran much hotter, which was to be expected as it's a much faster card. The top card usually topped out at 81c to 83c on average with a 80% to 85% fan speed, the bottom one around 72c to 74c and 65% to 70% or so fan speed, stock boosted to 1354Mhz out of the box.

The 980 Ti G1's sounded like a hoover at full power and it really gave me a headache after 30mins of that, and that was with large over the ear headphones on as well. They never downclocked from the top boost clock though. I was impressed with that considering how hot the card got. This was with an open case as well as with the side panel on and 2x 140mm fan blowing directly on them. On their own each card was pretty good, both topped out at 72c with a 60, 65% fan speed. I would not recommend the 980 Ti G1's in SLI unless they are water cooled.

I now have 2x MSI GTX 980 Ti Gaming 6G instead and what a hell of a difference in fan noise, even at 60% they are so quiet I can't hear them over my case fans, even at 100% fan speed on both, they sound like my 980 Ti G1's at 60%. I am extremely impressed with the MSI cooler.

For my next GPU I will 100% buying an MSI GPU with this cooler again.
 
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I had two 980 G1's in SLI since Nov 2014 and they ran pretty cool in SLI (one slot spacing). The top card usually topped out at 78c to 80c on average with a 60% fan speed, the bottom one around 67c to 69c and 45% to 50% or so fan speed, stock boosted to 1342Mhz out of the box.

Now my 980 Ti G1's that I have now returned due to noise ran much hotter, which was to be expected as it's a much faster card. The top card usually topped out at 81c to 83c on average with a 80% to 85% fan speed, the bottom one around 72c to 74c and 65% to 70% or so fan speed, stock boosted to 1354Mhz out of the box.

The 980 Ti G1's sounded like a hoover at full power and it really gave me a headache after 30mins of that, and that was with large over the ear headphones on as well. They never downclocked from the top boost clock though. I was impressed with that considering how hot the card got. This was with an open case as well as with the side panel on and 2x 140mm fan blowing directly on them. On their own each card was pretty good, both topped out at 72c with a 60, 65% fan speed. I would not recommend the 980 Ti G1's in SLI unless they are water cooled.

I now have 2x MSI GTX 980 Ti Gaming 6G instead and what a hell of a difference in fan noise, even at 60% they are so quiet I can't hear them over my case fans, even at 100% fan speed on both, they sound like my 980 Ti G1's at 60%. I am extremely impressed with the MSI cooler.

For my next GPU I will 100% buying an MSI GPU with this cooler again.
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What clock speed do they run at ? roughly boosted that is, cheers.
 
Straight out of the box one boosted to 1329mhz, the other 1354mhz.

The G1's I returned boosted I think to 1329mhz and 1342mhz.
 
Out of the box, in a hot room of 25c, case 27c, the card with the fans off were idling at 38 to 40c.

At load and everything running automatically no overclocks. Individually both cards topped out at around 70 to 72c with a around 60% fan speed I think it was. In SLI the bottom card stays around 73c with a fan speed of around 69%, the top card 80 to 83c and a 80 to 85% fan speed, depends on how demanding the game is really.

The fan speeds do sound high but the fans top out at 2300rpm at 100% and at that speed they sound like the G1's at around 65%. They really are quiet fans.

The fans should be almost silent at even 60% but this will depend how loud you case is. Out of all the GPU's I have had over the years these MSI ones are the quietest I have ever owned.

I have since tweaked the BIOS so that the fans don't switch off and now run at 15% (660rpm) and in a 22c room, case temp 24c, the idle temps are around 28c to 29c on both. I even added 30mhz extra to the slower boost card so that it matched the higher one which hasn't affected the temps at all. They now both boost to 1354mhz, but both tend to stick to around 1342mhz when gaming.
 
Cheers for that seems MSI gaming or EVGA hybrid will just have to check space in case.

Annoyingly the MSI gaming is out of stock now.
 
Radeon123 said:
I had two 980 G1's in SLI since Nov 2014 and they ran pretty cool in SLI (one slot spacing). The top card usually topped out at 78c to 80c on average with a 60% fan speed, the bottom one around 67c to 69c and 45% to 50% or so fan speed, stock boosted to 1342Mhz out of the box.

Now my 980 Ti G1's that I have now returned due to noise ran much hotter, which was to be expected as it's a much faster card. The top card usually topped out at 81c to 83c on average with a 80% to 85% fan speed, the bottom one around 72c to 74c and 65% to 70% or so fan speed, stock boosted to 1354Mhz out of the box.

The 980 Ti G1's sounded like a hoover at full power and it really gave me a headache after 30mins of that, and that was with large over the ear headphones on as well. They never downclocked from the top boost clock though. I was impressed with that considering how hot the card got. This was with an open case as well as with the side panel on and 2x 140mm fan blowing directly on them. On their own each card was pretty good, both topped out at 72c with a 60, 65% fan speed. I would not recommend the 980 Ti G1's in SLI unless they are water cooled.

I now have 2x MSI GTX 980 Ti Gaming 6G instead and what a hell of a difference in fan noise, even at 60% they are so quiet I can't hear them over my case fans, even at 100% fan speed on both, they sound like my 980 Ti G1's at 60%. I am extremely impressed with the MSI cooler.

For my next GPU I will 100% buying an MSI GPU with this cooler again.
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Do you run these MSI GTX980Ti gaming at stock or OC?

**just saw your have already replied :P
 
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