Pharaoh 117
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Thanks.
Still on the fence about the 980 Ti. Maybe I'll wait till the next year.
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Thanks.
Still on the fence about the 980 Ti. Maybe I'll wait till the next year.
If you can wait until next year, just wait to see how Pascal (Nvidia's next big architecture) shakes out.
jim2point0
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3440x1440 + 2560x1440 monitor user here - I've not experienced any of these problems.
I had some flickring on my alternate monitor, but the latest Nvidia drivers fixed that.
Unknown Soldier
Member
Are you using UI embiggening?
jim2point0
Banned
Nope. Never needed it on Windows 7 so I don't know why I'd bother on Windows 10.
Pharaoh 117
Member
Yeah, I think I'll wait. Next year I'm going to buy a 4K display too so I will need the power.
That's enough to power the card and an ultra high end system.
Unknown Soldier
Member
Hmm OK. I'll try turning off UI embiggening before I report the bug to Nvidia.
I need UI embiggening on a 4K display to see anything.
digitalrelic
Banned
First run on Firestrike with my 980Ti's in SLI:
http://www.3dmark.com/fs/5545946?_ga=1.126629325.1373233084.1426383991
http://www.3dmark.com/fs/5545946?_ga=1.126629325.1373233084.1426383991
therealminime
Member
Hmm I'm at 1440p and haven't had a single issue.
PlayALLtheGames
Banned
Went with the MSI, as I had a good experience with the 780 Twin Frozr and the reviews were positive. Very happy with that decision.
Before I could use it: the back of my case was too short. No rotary tool and it's late at night, so I said fuck it, undid all the cable management and pulled out cables so I could slide the tray out and plug in. Stock performance amazing, as I expected. 78.4% ASIC.
Ordered rotary tool at 1am for delivery same day (fuckin Amazon!). First cut was ugly as hell but I cleaned it up. Card now slides in and out easily. Redid the cable management.
Looks great in the case, day and night
First run. Stock BIOS with slight overclock. Think it was +132 core and +295 memory.
Flashed with custom BIOS: 1.237v, 134% power limit, 375W, and aggressive fan profile.
Second run
Third run. Lower overall but higher graphics:
Few more tests and it looks like I've hit the ceiling right there. Fucking +700 on memory! Max temps upper 70s in FireStrke and low to mid 70s in games at load.
Now I can max GTA V, Witcher 3, Arkham Knight, Project CARS, Far Cry 4, and it's fucking great. Enabled DSR to play at slightly higher resolutions in those more demanding games and much higher in less demanding ones like Mortal Kombat X (3840x2400) and Payday 2 (4434x2771). Silky smooth. Fuck yes.
Great card; would recommend.
Before I could use it: the back of my case was too short. No rotary tool and it's late at night, so I said fuck it, undid all the cable management and pulled out cables so I could slide the tray out and plug in. Stock performance amazing, as I expected. 78.4% ASIC.
Ordered rotary tool at 1am for delivery same day (fuckin Amazon!). First cut was ugly as hell but I cleaned it up. Card now slides in and out easily. Redid the cable management.
Looks great in the case, day and night
First run. Stock BIOS with slight overclock. Think it was +132 core and +295 memory.
Flashed with custom BIOS: 1.237v, 134% power limit, 375W, and aggressive fan profile.
Second run
Third run. Lower overall but higher graphics:
Few more tests and it looks like I've hit the ceiling right there. Fucking +700 on memory! Max temps upper 70s in FireStrke and low to mid 70s in games at load.
Now I can max GTA V, Witcher 3, Arkham Knight, Project CARS, Far Cry 4, and it's fucking great. Enabled DSR to play at slightly higher resolutions in those more demanding games and much higher in less demanding ones like Mortal Kombat X (3840x2400) and Payday 2 (4434x2771). Silky smooth. Fuck yes.
Great card; would recommend.
jim2point0
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First run on Firestrike with my 980Ti's in SLI:
http://www.3dmark.com/fs/5545946?_ga=1.126629325.1373233084.1426383991
Uhhhh.... wut? Your clocks must be crazy because mine are boosting to 1520mhz core and +700 memory and I'm not getting anywere close to that graphics score.
Can you run that without SLI? Or maybe Firestrike ultra?
For reference, my best normal firestrike SLI run:
And single card:
digitalrelic
Banned
"Uhhhh...wut?" really bad score, or "Uhhhh... wut?" really good score?
Without SLI i'm getting a little over 17K for my score.
jim2point0
Banned
I edited my post. It's way higher than mine. Whats the graphics score in single card mode?
I wish I knew how to do this.
I waited for it for weeks and then I ended up buying a new case and parts to build a custom loop.
digitalrelic
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jim2point0
Banned
Damn. My single cards are scoring higher, but your scaling crushes mine. Processors make a huge difference in SLI. I gotta drop this 3770k.
We'll see what happens after Pascal arrives.
We'll see what happens after Pascal arrives.
When you say "with ease" I'm thinking Source-games level of performance (110fps, absolutely maxed). What you described isnt that.
Newegg has the option to backorder (which I don't know how it works really)
And someone from evga said they'll have some good quantity next week
Pretty good stock means you will have no more than 60 seconds (from the time the buy button goes live) on EVGA.com and probably around 5 minutes on 3rd party retailers. It's crazy out there.
Auto_aim1
MeisaMcCaffrey
Argh, I'm getting 15.5k on Firestrike 1.1 with default clock speeds. I hope that isn't low.
http://www.3dmark.com/fs/5539851
Also if anyone is on Win 10, does GPUZ show CUDA unchecked?
http://www.3dmark.com/fs/5539851
Also if anyone is on Win 10, does GPUZ show CUDA unchecked?
ClaptoVaughn
Member
Better than mine. For some reason, even overclocked to almost 1400 mhz, my card gets a graphical score of 18,625. I'm thinking there might be something wrong with the thing.
Do you guys leave it on auto select in the Nvidia control panel for Physx?
If you're clocks are set higher than the card can handle you might actually hurt performance. Gotta find the sweet spot.
Shit man! that's crazy. I have some other parts waiting to be installed alongside the 980 ti hybrid... I just want to buy it now!
Edit: Just how often do these people hit refresh?
therealminime
Member
I am fairly new to Firestrike and overclocking in general. I only really started messing with it all in the last 6 months or so. I figured I'd post my results, I think these are in line with where they should be with a little OC on my single card. Obviously my CPU (hurry skylake!) is holding things back a touch, but I'm not too concerned.
http://www.3dmark.com/fs/5546897
http://www.3dmark.com/fs/5546897
Works fine on mine. Been on Windows 10 for a month now running 3Dmark through Steam
jim2point0
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Your CPU won't really hurt the graphics score until you get into SLI apparently. A better CPU will improve SLI scaling it seems. But your card is definitely putting out what I would expect from a modest overclock. You should be happy with that
To get over 21,000 graphics you need to hit the memory OC pretty hard and get an above average core clock.
IMACOMPUTA
Member
I love that case. What's it called?
jim2point0
Banned
353.62 seems to have broken DSR for me. I can't see my additional resolutions in-game and I can't switch to them from my desktop....
EDIT: A DDU clean + fresh driver install fixed it. Turned off the automatic thinger...
EDIT: A DDU clean + fresh driver install fixed it. Turned off the automatic thinger...
PlayALLtheGames
Banned
It's an Antec Skeleton.
therealminime
Member
Your CPU won't really hurt the graphics score until you get into SLI apparently. A better CPU will improve SLI scaling it seems. But your card is definitely putting out what I would expect from a modest overclock. You should be happy with that
To get over 21,000 graphics you need to hit the memory OC pretty hard and get an above average core clock.
Thanks for the clarification and info.
I think I'm happy with my overclock settings, they give me a good little boost (average of about 5 more frames) and are seemingly rock solid. I just spent half an hour flying around The Witcher 3 at 5120x2880 with hairworks maxed out and was unable to get any crashes, or above 75 degrees which is good considering my rig is only air cooled and could probably have better airflow too.
Unknown Soldier
Member
Yeah okay, so the problem isn't with UI embiggening, it's with refresh rate. This bug is weird. If I set the refresh rate to 30 hz, the weird seizure-inducing flickering and mouse cursor corruption goes away. If I set it to 60 hz, it comes back. Sometimes Nvidia drivers baffle me. I hope they figure this bug out and fix it soon because it makes using the Windows desktop a seizure-inducing experience.
BlurredNotions
Neo Member
I can't decide between the ASUS, MSI, Gigabyte and Palit.
The Palit Super Jetstream is the only 3 slot card (better cooling performance?), but has "only" one 8-pin and one 6-pin power connector, whereas ASUS, MSI and Gigabyte feature two 8-pin connectors. I don't know if that makes any difference.
I love the way the Palit looks. But at the end of the day, what I want and need is performance. OC potential would be nice too.
If anyone could shed light on this "problem" of mine, I'd highly appreciate it.
The Palit Super Jetstream is the only 3 slot card (better cooling performance?), but has "only" one 8-pin and one 6-pin power connector, whereas ASUS, MSI and Gigabyte feature two 8-pin connectors. I don't know if that makes any difference.
I love the way the Palit looks. But at the end of the day, what I want and need is performance. OC potential would be nice too.
If anyone could shed light on this "problem" of mine, I'd highly appreciate it.
lordfuzzybutt
Member
The 8&6 pins of the palit means the maximum power it can draw is less than what the other cards can with 8&8 pins can. This may mean a bigger limit to OC potential. This, however, is not really a very big problem as some of the reviews found as the palit seems to oc just as well as the others in most cases, only slightly worse in some.
Out of the box, it has the lowest core clock oc and no mem clock oc. This obviously makes it the slowest card out of the bunch but by a very small, insignificant margin.
My palit has around 19500 firestrike score out of the box. A 100mhz oc on core pushed it up to around 20200. I haven't really tried to push it to the max yet though.
The card at max load goes up to 70 degrees, and not very loud.
The reason I went with palit is because it is much cheaper than the others are where i am, so it makes it the best value one.
So just go with whatever is the best value for you. Performance may vary but it won't be in any way significant enough to think about.
Id look at the price, tempes, and how much factory overclock they get out of the box.
jim2point0
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I don't think any of these cards really guarantee more overclocking potential. Even the Classifieds can fail to break 1500mhz on air (but these are meant to be run on water\LN2).You're going to be subject to the silicon lottery no matter what.
PHOENIXZERO
Member
The power requirements take into count that stuff and generally over compensate for people who might have shitty, poorly efficient power supplies so as long as you have a good PSU it should be fine.
lordfuzzybutt
Member
Theoretically though, maximum power draw is a limit.
But yes, in this case, the lottery is what counts. The difference in anything else is too small to consider.
I don't know if this is the right thread to ask for help but it seems to be the de facto 980Ti OT so I'll give it a shot.
I picked up an MSI Ti yesterday and I'm having some trouble with how it's rendering non-game graphics. Games look fine to me, awesome even, but I'm having some trouble with how it's rendering other graphics. I'm pretty new to this and this is my first ever GPU swap (switching from an MSI 780), so I'm confused as to why it's doing this and I'm probably making some rookie mistake here...
I tried to capture two screenshots to illustrate, one rendered at home with the Ti and one rendered at work with the shitty onboard graphics: my computer and work laptop.
Why is the Facebook logo a blurry mess on my machine?
I picked up an MSI Ti yesterday and I'm having some trouble with how it's rendering non-game graphics. Games look fine to me, awesome even, but I'm having some trouble with how it's rendering other graphics. I'm pretty new to this and this is my first ever GPU swap (switching from an MSI 780), so I'm confused as to why it's doing this and I'm probably making some rookie mistake here...
I tried to capture two screenshots to illustrate, one rendered at home with the Ti and one rendered at work with the shitty onboard graphics: my computer and work laptop.
Why is the Facebook logo a blurry mess on my machine?
lordfuzzybutt
Member
Have you tried to use DDU to wipe the driver and reinstall?
I did use DDU to prepare for the new GPU using its "clean and shut down" function, but now I'm stuck at work and can't try any new things for the rest of the day. I will try it but that sounds strange to me, how can a driver install fail in this very oddly specific way?
(Having to go to work when you're in the middle of trying to solve a problem at home is the worst thing! I can't focus on my menial job tasks at all...)
lordfuzzybutt
Member
Now that I have time to take a closer look at your 2 screenshots, I cannot see much difference at all, the image compression doesn't help either. So not sure what the problem is.
But either way, it doesn't hurt to use DDU to wipe everything and reinstall again.
I sometimes run CCleaner after DDU and before driver installation too.
The Facebook logo in the bottom left, you really don't see one as blurry and ill-defined and the other as sharp and crisp? That's not the image compression ruining the blurry one, it's the problem I'm trying to illustrate. That blur is actually exactly how it looks on my screen...
lordfuzzybutt
Member
Yeah, now I see it. I was concentrating on the image above.
That is most likely driver problem. So yeah, just try again with DDU.
EatChildren
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alright lets do this
EatChildren
Currently polling second in Australia's federal election (first in the Gold Coast), this feral may one day be your Bogan King.
0.1.1.2.3.5.8.13.21.34.55
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processor may be holding you back.
i've started to notice my 2600k starting to sweat under heavy benchmarking.
jim2point0
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I didn't think your CPU could affect the graphics score at all with a single card.
Is that the stock settings with no additional OC? Because then that graphics score would be inline with what most of these cards get out of the box.
Is that the stock settings with no additional OC? Because then that graphics score would be inline with what most of these cards get out of the box.
EatChildren
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Figured it was the i5.
And stock MSI OC settings. As in, I've added none of my own.
And stock MSI OC settings. As in, I've added none of my own.