NVIDIA to release GeForce Titan

Alright so I have taken out the Superclocked Titan, and moved the OG Titan to the first PCIe slot. I'm still getting "314.09 driver has failed, and has successfully recovered" message. However with only one card in here, it continues loading BF3 after that message and I can still get in the game. With two it would just freeze and I would have to restart my computer.
 
Alright so I have taken out the Superclocked Titan, and moved the OG Titan to the first PCIe slot. I'm still getting "314.09 driver has failed, and has successfully recovered" message. However with only one card in here, it continues loading BF3 after that message and I can still get in the game. With two it would just freeze and I would have to restart my computer.

Is your motherboard's BIOS updated? I used to get some crashes when I updated my GTX 480s to 680s, but once I updated my mobo's BIOS, all was good in the world.
 
Alright so I have taken out the Superclocked Titan, and moved the OG Titan to the first PCIe slot. I'm still getting "314.09 driver has failed, and has successfully recovered" message. However with only one card in here, it continues loading BF3 after that message and I can still get in the game. With two it would just freeze and I would have to restart my computer.

I had SLI problems before, turned out my x16 PCIE slot on my Mobo wasn't working properly or was defective in some way. Either try with the two cards in non x16 PCIE slots or RMA the mobo if possible.

Switching to non x16 ports worked for me, but since my mobo was still under warranty I decided to RMA and get a fully functionaly mobo.
 
Waterblocks installed, hooray! But not without some trouble:

The good - 25C idle, 36C under full load, no more throttling, and able to OC to +100 on the GPU clock (already using EVGA SC cards)

The bad - My MCP655 wasn't able to handle 3 Black Ice GTX 360 rads, my CPU, chipset, and 2 GPUs. The flow was awful, so I had to throw in an old MCP 355 after the third radiator, and now it's fucking cluttered and ugly as hell. The thing is just sitting outside the case ATM.

The ugly - I tried using 2 Bitspower extenders in parallel, but the water just flowed right through them, and didn't even circulate in the card. I had to tear down my loop again just to fix it. And then when I put it back in serial with only one extender, it was leaking like a motherfucker. I think I've got it controlled; been leak testing for 2 hours, and haven't seen a drop. Also, I had fucking butterfingers, and accidentally dropped one card from about 3 inches onto my table. No real damage done, just cosmetic - the plastic surrounding the 4+2pin power connector cracked off. :(

How did it just flow right through them though? I have 2 Bitpower Extenders in parallel as well and water is flowing properly to both cards and temps are generally with 1c of each other. Never seen more than 38c at max overclock on the GPU's. I was terrified about Parallel since I cannot mentally understand how it flows properly, to me it looks likt it would flow right through at least one of the extenders, but Mkenyon assured me it is the best set up and it did work.

I also have the same pump and my flow has been pretty good. I have 3 Rad's, 2 Gpus and CPU in my loop and I have the power of the pump at 3/4 right now. I was debating on getting a dual pump, but I figured my pump would handle it and it does it well.

Sorry you had such problems. BTW...use Afterburner instead of Precision X for your SLI set up. In SLI for some reason it does not feed my 2nd GPU the voltage properly. When tested individually, GPU 1 would hit hte max 1.200v, the 2nd GPU would hit 1.187v. But once I went to SLI, Precision would still feed one GPU 1.200v, but the 2nd would top out at 1.162 which was not enough to sustain even a +100 OC. Switched to Afterburner and boom, both cards are what they should be.

Like all GPU's, some are made different and my good one will hit the 1.200vlimit, the other 1.187v, but like I mentioned testing individually, Precision did great..once SLI is engaged it messed something up.
 
Hey Sk3tch what Motherboard do you have? I have the Asus Rampage IV Extreme and the same processor that you do and am having a horrible time overclocking it. I lost my OC that I originally spent a ton of time working on many months ago, but when I updated the Bios on the Motherboard, I lost the file and I don't remember what I did, but I also had a 4.7ghz on the processor.

If you have the same mobo, do you mind posting or pm'ng me your settings to achieve your overclock?

Thanks!

Sorry for the delayed response. I've been busy geeking out. I'm going through some of the same growing pains as you are...as I've changed some hardware around my CPU is not performing as it was in its previous home. I'm actually backed down to 4.5 GHz/1.46v for now...and I had to use my Corsair H100 in my Scout 2 (interesting mounting challenge, heh) as the CM Hyper 212 Evo just would not sit properly for me. They're great once you get them working but I didn't want to continue to futz with it.

Anyway - if you still need settings help, glad to give you assistance. Although there is this specific guide from ASUS that you can use for your board. It's pretty comprehensive and probably better than I can explain due to the pics/etc. I own a RIVE but I am using an ASUS P9X79 Pro in my current build. They're mostly the same as far as BIOS options go, anyway...so that guide applies.

Sweet! Who has more fun, you or your son?

Haha... debatable.

Clearly the dinosaurs are for Sk3tch while his son plays on the BenQ setup.

Exactly...although he has been "downgraded" to a hand-me-down laptop from my Mom. Everyone suffers in the sk3tch household due to my paring back from 3 beefy systems. :)

Damn. Pics?

Here's an image of my completed build:

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I had to mount the H100 radiator topside, heh (don't worry the two internal fans are blowing upwards, that third fan - mounted externally - is kinda just for the hell of it):

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More pics and specs here. It's not too fancy...but I'm in love with this CM Scout 2 case. It just rocks through and through. It's heavy as F but very portable with that handle. I'm psyched for the next LAN party. And yeah, as I stated before - finally I am experiencing BF3 MP nirvana.
 
Man, Crysis 3 is a beast. It ran like ass at 1080p/120hz with my GTX 690/3820 @ 4.5GHz and it still kinda has a bit of jank to it with 3x Titan/3930k @ 4.7GHz at the same resolution. Incredible looking game...but wow.

Have you tried running it with 2 x titans at 1080p? can you get a constant 60 fps with that?

I would love to take my system to PDXlan, its a Falcon Northwest Mach V that I completely re-did. Custom painted by a Porsche Concourse paint shop done in Lamborghini Grigio Telesto , custom Solar Matte black powder coating for entire interior, all sleeving done by Martin at www.psychosleeve.com with MDPCX shade 19 sleeving. Just need to get two Titans as I am running one EVGA FTW plus sig 680 4gb.

Also have installed on the front door a real matte black Lamborghini bull emblem off the SV ;)

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Water cooled mobo and processor (i7 980x at 4.5ghz) tubing sleeved with MDPCx black and matte black bitspower fittings, 180mm rad and two 180 mm silverstone fans, one under the graphics card, one on top of rad in pull config.

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Just got two 480 gb Hyper X ssd's, put in Raid 0, random read is a horrible 460 but sequential is 660 which is still bad but the Marvell SATA3 can't go much higher on the X58 mobo

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Have you tried running it with 2 x titans at 1080p? can you get a constant 60 fps with that?

I have not. I honestly am not that into the game at this point. I am sure you can find benches for Crysis 3 with 2-way SLI Titans online pretty easily. With 3-way SLI Titans I'm definitely over 60 fps it's just that it's got jank because I'm on a 120hz monitor and there's a decent amount of fps fluctuation. As has been previously posted - the game looks to be CPU bound. Not sure where else to go there...as my CPU was a 6-core 3930k running at 4.7 GHz in my Crysis 3 tests.

EDIT: wow, beautiful Blackvette94!
 
I have not. I honestly am not that into the game at this point. I am sure you can find benches for Crysis 3 with 2-way SLI Titans online pretty easily. With 3-way SLI Titans I'm definitely over 60 fps it's just that it's got jank because I'm on a 120hz monitor and there's a decent amount of fps fluctuation. As has been previously posted - the game looks to be CPU bound. Not sure where else to go there...as my CPU was a 6-core 3930k running at 4.7 GHz in my Crysis 3 tests.

EDIT: wow, beautiful Blackvette94!

Thank you :) Once install the two Titans I will pull out the SLR for some nice pics heh :) The iphone 5just cant show how incredible the painjob is, it was wet sanded and has no orange peel so the clarity of the reflection is impeccable :)

BTW, how is the acoustics on the Titan? You feel they are louder then your previous 680's? Mine isn't loud but its the sig editon which shares similar vapor chamber to the titan. If I can't play Crysis 3 smoothly at 1080p with two titans... that will be a bummer

This was my previous build, its a full murderMod Silverstone tj07 . Which do think looks better, this or the Lambo build I did?

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Ha, tough to choose, man...that's one thing I will say about water - the builds are always LEAGUES cleaner than air. Looks real tight.

Acoustically, the 3x Titans sound the same as 1x 690. Then again, I game with headphones - so there may be a difference there but I can't tell.
 
Holy shit at the rigs on this page. Man, am I jealous!

I go for broke on my taxes each paycheck. Come April, I usually am somewhere between owing $500 and getting back $500. If I break even, I'm a happy camper. Just did 'em yesterday, and I'm walking away with a cool $600 in my pocket that I wasn't expecting. It's going to the "New Haswell Build Fund" for this summer... but I don't think there's any way I could be even half as extravagant as some of you guys.

EDIT: Yeah, the Murder is fucking gorgeous. Awesome mod, for sure.

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Looking at this pic:

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First off, that's some badass gear. But I have to ask - how the hell do those things stay cool? I have okay cooling in my case - nothing grand, but also far from abysmal. Even with my fans cranked up, my 5870 always ran about 75c, and my 570 runs 80c. With those Titans right on top the PSU and choking for air, I would think they would greatly exceed the temps I get. Granted, they're newer and more efficient... but still...
 
Upgraded the BIOS and the problem went away...with one Titan at least.
Try reseting your CMOS if you have problems again(it will reset your settings/overclock, but you can still load a previously saved profile with the overclocked settings).
 
But I have to ask - how the hell do those things stay cool? I have okay cooling in my case - nothing grand, but also far from abysmal. Even with my fans cranked up, my 5870 always ran about 75c, and my 570 runs 80c. With those Titans right on top the PSU and choking for air, I would think they would greatly exceed the temps I get. Granted, they're newer and more efficient... but still...

Ever since the 6xx series (Kepler GK104) the 3-way or 4-way "sandwich" on air is not much of a concern temp-wise. They perform just about the same as a standalone card - maybe 5 degrees C hotter. It's really not bad at all. These Titans (Kepler GK110) are designed to be in a cramped space. That's one reason NVIDIA dropped them - for SFF PCs.
 
Its not just the price tag, the increase in power compared to a 680 its pretty slim. For that money I would be expecting 80%+ not what its giving. To be fair, the Titan is not doing very well either on the newest games. Crysis 3 and 2500x1600 is killing it as well. We need a new generation now!

Ehh, to be fair the situation now is better than years past. When the OG Crysis came out you practically needed 8800 Ultras in 3-Way SLI to get it somewhat playable at 1920x1200. The fact that a single Titan can run Crysis 3 at 2560x1600 at 30fps sustained 90% of the time is pretty good...
 
How did it just flow right through them though? I have 2 Bitpower Extenders in parallel as well and water is flowing properly to both cards and temps are generally with 1c of each other. Never seen more than 38c at max overclock on the GPU's. I was terrified about Parallel since I cannot mentally understand how it flows properly, to me it looks likt it would flow right through at least one of the extenders, but Mkenyon assured me it is the best set up and it did work.
I don't know how it decided to flow right through the connectors, but the first time I booted up after a leak test, my cards were idling at 45C, and 36C, which set off an immediate red flag. I started Heaven 4.0 for 2 seconds, and they jumped up to 60C, so I turned off my system, and started to troubleshoot. Once I went into serial mode, I got the proper temps.

Hawk269 said:
I also have the same pump and my flow has been pretty good. I have 3 Rad's, 2 Gpus and CPU in my loop and I have the power of the pump at 3/4 right now. I was debating on getting a dual pump, but I figured my pump would handle it and it does it well.
I've been using this MCP655 through 3 builds, and for almost 4 years. I'm guessing maybe it's just not pumping the way it did when I first bought it. I'll probably pick up a second one sometime soon, just so I have a spare in case this one breaks.

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Sorry you had such problems. BTW...use Afterburner instead of Precision X for your SLI set up. In SLI for some reason it does not feed my 2nd GPU the voltage properly. When tested individually, GPU 1 would hit hte max 1.200v, the 2nd GPU would hit 1.187v. But once I went to SLI, Precision would still feed one GPU 1.200v, but the 2nd would top out at 1.162 which was not enough to sustain even a +100 OC. Switched to Afterburner and boom, both cards are what they should be.

Like all GPU's, some are made different and my good one will hit the 1.200vlimit, the other 1.187v, but like I mentioned testing individually, Precision did great..once SLI is engaged it messed something up.

I haven't had a problem so far in Precision, but I downloaded Afterburner anyway, just to give it a shot. I don't see an option in here for overvolting, like you can in Precision (+38mV).
 
I don't know how it decided to flow right through the connectors, but the first time I booted up after a leak test, my cards were idling at 45C, and 36C, which set off an immediate red flag. I started Heaven 4.0 for 2 seconds, and they jumped up to 60C, so I turned off my system, and started to troubleshoot. Once I went into serial mode, I got the proper temps.


I've been using this MCP655 through 3 builds, and for almost 4 years. I'm guessing maybe it's just not pumping the way it did when I first bought it. I'll probably pick up a second one sometime soon, just so I have a spare in case this one breaks.

Did you put the in & out tubes on the same side of the cards ? that would make the water go right through them when they're connected parallel ...

by the way here is a nice visualization of how parallel works compared to serial


single 655 should have enough throughput to run it safely, but a second pump never hurts :) have you got a flowmeter ?

@Blackvette94 that's quite an impressive project ! But why did you switch from the MurderMod? If I come across a cheap TJ07 I'd definitely buy it for a summer project ... so much nice modular parts available
 
Did you put the in & out tubes on the same side of the cards ? that would make the water go right through them when they're connected parallel ...

by the way here is a nice visualization of how parallel works compared to serial



single 655 should have enough throughput to run it safely, but a second pump never hurts :) have you got a flowmeter ?

@Blackvette94 that's quite an impressive project ! But why did you switch from the MurderMod? If I come across a cheap TJ07 I'd definitely buy it for a summer project ... so much nice modular parts available

Nah, I'm not that dumb. :P Inlet was top left port of the first card, and outlet was the bottom right of the second card. My last two builds were also both parallel -- one with the 3-way SLI waterblock bridge from EVGA, the other with just 2 pieces of tubing and 4 compression fittings. I was a bit mystified, but I got it figured out, so I'm not too concerned about it.
 
Not that ASIC quality is really that important - but what are you guys getting with your Titans? Mine are all in the 60% range! Crazy low compared to my past 680s. I wonder if they're having problems with the yields in comparison?

To check, download GPU-Z and right-click on the top left: select "Read ASIC Quality..."
 
This is fucking gorgeous. 9.9/10. (needs nickel pipes instead of tubes)

Gotta love that Psychosleeve, I still have a red/white set. I'm looking to try my own hand at it this time around, but I have a feeling I'll end up getting him to do my mobo, molex, and SATA power connectors.
 
Not that ASIC quality is really that important - but what are you guys getting with your Titans? Mine are all in the 60% range! Crazy low compared to my past 680s. I wonder if they're having problems with the yields in comparison?

To check, download GPU-Z and right-click on the top left: select "Read ASIC Quality..."

Primary card is at 83%, secondary at 64.9%
 
Sethos, you need to make a GIF of someone making it rain, but replace the bills with Titans. The text should read "NeoGAF PC Community".
 
Sethos, you need to make a GIF of someone making it rain, but replace the bills with Titans. The text should read "NeoGAF PC Community".

Meh the whole Titans are so expensive is so overexagerated i'm paying nearly as much as Titan costs for 6 months at my university.
 
Sethos, you need to make a GIF of someone making it rain, but replace the bills with Titans. The text should read "NeoGAF PC Community".

I can't even picture that GIF in my head, Making it rain, like a dance? The text after the started raining? Are we talking about a random real dude, animated character? What is the meaning of life?

All crucial questions.
 
@Blackvette94 that's quite an impressive project ! But why did you switch from the MurderMod? If I come across a cheap TJ07 I'd definitely buy it for a summer project ... so much nice modular parts available

You can't go wrong with Charle's modded Tj07!!! I really enjoyed it! He is getting ready to launch the muderbox mkII www.murderbox.com



This is gorgeous. 9.9/10. (needs nickel pipes instead of tubes)

Gotta love that Psychosleeve, I still have a red/white set. I'm looking to try my own hand at it this time around, but I have a feeling I'll end up getting him to do my mobo, molex, and SATA power connectors.


Thank you!!! I worked hard on both builds, just didn't leave anything left on table. I have to say that the tj07 was harder to work with overall. Both look much better in person then the crappy photos I took.

Martin does an amazing job and is a pleasure to work with :) He did the sleeving for both of my builds and I was beyond pleased with his work.

I miss the murderMod TJ07 ... seeing that everyone likes it more then the current Lambo build I worked hard on makes me kinda bummed :/
 
Not that ASIC quality is really that important - but what are you guys getting with your Titans? Mine are all in the 60% range! Crazy low compared to my past 680s. I wonder if they're having problems with the yields in comparison?

To check, download GPU-Z and right-click on the top left: select "Read ASIC Quality..."
86 and 66. Since I'm on water, I want a lower ASIC, I guess. Both of my cards are performing about the same -- boosting at about 1228 mhz, 35 and 36c under load.
 
If I didn't swap vid cards several times per week for testing purposes I would happily drop $1200 on that sexy beast.
Time for a test bench. That Murderbox MKII can be your main stable workstation to post test results from.
Ohh, sounds time consuming - I might look into it :P
Might be time consuming, but this could be the most valuable GIF on the internet. Immediate picture response to hate, or thinly veiled insults of PC gaming on GAF.
 
Might be time consuming, but this could be the most valuable GIF on the internet. Immediate picture response to hate, or thinly veiled insults of PC gaming on GAF.

...and any other PC gaming forum. The hate is strong. Everyone that bought a Titan is a dumbass and has too much money.
 
...and any other PC gaming forum. The hate is strong. Everyone that bought a Titan is a dumbass and has too much money.

I certainly don't need one for the setup I'm running, but it would be cool to have one. I mean, what other card is in a supercomputer? :p
 
mkenyon/et al. - any opinions on the ASUS VG278/VG248 144hz panels? Thinking of "upgrading" from my BenQ XL2420T* 120hz...

I can give my opinion in about a week. I ordered it for $265 (Total. No shipping or taxes) from B&H, but it is backordered. Supposedly they're getting more in on Thursday though.
 
mkenyon/et al. - any opinions on the ASUS VG278/VG248 144hz panels? Thinking of "upgrading" from my BenQ XL2420T* 120hz...

BenQ XL2420T and TX are the best monitors I've ever seen. Other than the higher refresh rate, what makes the ASUS a worthy challenger?
 
BenQ XL2420T and TX are the best monitors I've ever seen. Other than the higher refresh rate, what makes the ASUS a worthy challenger?

It's new and shiny. :) I'll stick with what I have then. Ha. Thanks. Sometimes I get upgrade-itis...but hey, it helps your stock price!
 
Sk3tch, this may not be your area of interest but have you done any downsampling / custom resolutions on that monitor? Still looking into buying one, for kicks but I need to to do some proper downsampling. Thinking 3840x2160 ( At 30Hz or something like that ).
 
Sk3tch, this may not be your area of interest but have you done any downsampling / custom resolutions on that monitor? Still looking into buying one, for kicks but I need to to do some proper downsampling. Thinking 3840x2160 ( At 30Hz or something like that ).

I have not - you mean with all three monitors? I don't own the ASUS - I own Acer GD235hz monitors and BenQ XL2420T* monitors.

In other news - user-modded BIOS have been going up on Overclock.net and I guess they've had great success! I've summarized everything here if you guys want the quick and dirty lowdown. It includes the BIOS files you need and the flash utility, along with links to the original posts/threads.

As always - USE AT YOUR OWN RISK! :) And no, I have not used them, yet...SLI and custom BIOS = "wait and see."
 
BenQ XL2420T and TX are the best monitors I've ever seen. Other than the higher refresh rate, what makes the ASUS a worthy challenger?
Lower input lag. I think it's something ridiculous like 1 or 2ms. With lightboost, these panels (same ones used in the new BenQ 144Hz monitors) apparently have CRT like smoothness of motion.
mkenyon/et al. - any opinions on the ASUS VG278/VG248 144hz panels? Thinking of "upgrading" from my BenQ XL2420T* 120hz...
It is the new hotness. If you are familiar with Callsign Vega, he actually bought a few of these and then replaced the matte cover with gloss. The finished product was absolutely gorgeous. The matte finish is the only drawback, but the smoothness of motion and input lag is second to none.
 
Worthwhile to upgrade? I think I'm already going to be dumping two BenQ XL2420T's...so I guess it wouldn't hurt to just go all out...argh. Damn this hobby... ;)
 
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