GTX 980 Club - Overclocking - Benchmarks!

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  1. PhazeDelta1

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    Jeez. Nice overclocks on stock voltage. :D
     
  2. Vipu2

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    I didnt read this thread yet so im just gonna ask fast, is there coil whine or any other bad stuff in there 980 versions?
    There is so much QQ about 970 that im thinking to buy 980 instead if there is no coil whine and all other crap.
     
  3. Ti3Kob

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    When I did buy my 2133 sticks, they were the exact same price as 1333/1600/1866/2000 sticks (I mean not even one euro more), and that was a few years ago. These days 2400 sticks are now the same price as 2133 so I don't see why anyone would buy lower than 2400 right now. That's true in my country at least, probably not in the US.

    Also, talking about the price today in here, anything from 1333 to 2400 with acceptable timings (for 2x4GB) costs ~75€ (~95$). Anything lower than that are value sticks or have crap timings, lowering the price by up to 5€ at max for the same amount of RAM. Between 1600 C11 for ~70€ and 2400C10 for ~75€, I think the choice is easy and well worth 5€ more.
     
  4. schoolofmonkey

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    How's this for a quick and dirty OC on stock reference cooler.
    ASIC rate of 66%

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  5. Emille

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    I decided to see if I could increase the speed of my card as I never actually tried for higher, I just stopped when it exceeded my expectations.
    I slapped another 100mhz on the memory in MSI, for a +200mhz effective boost.

    I increased the core another 25 but no go. Given that I pass 30+ minutes of heaven with +250 core and +500 memory ( 1000 effective ) I'm not going to waste time bringing the core closer to instability for another 15-20mhz.

    I will run a bench at current clocks.

    I got 0.4 frames and 10 points less than the last poster with +20mhz on the core

    I am using 344.11 driver, what driver are you using?

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  6. AdamK47

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    Bought these right on release day at Micro Center. They had four GTX 980s and I bought all four.

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  7. Emille

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    Nice, I just worked out that my dream stereo with all Monitor Audio Gold series speakers would cost $20,520...give how much you seem to have, can I borrow some?
     
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  8. D4rKy21

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    not al motherbords are running stable above 1600, let alone 2400 mhz, i dont want to take the risk and either the minimal performance u gain.
     
  9. Ti3Kob

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    Nothing stops you from running 2400 sticks @ 1600 MHz. You'll even almost certainly be able to run them with much tighter timings than equally priced lower speed kits, effectively boosting read speeds and latency as a bare minimum.
    I don't see any "risk" there apart from limiting the performances of an hypothetical CPU upgrade (before moving to a DDR4 platform) when you realize you paid old tech for the same price as retro-compatible newer tech.

    By the way, motherboards don't have much to do with it anymore as the memory controller is integrated in the CPUs for some time now. My old SB can take 2400 just fine like my crappy Pentium G3258 so I'd be surprised if an i5/i7 Ivy or Haswell couldn't.

    If you have to pay much more for 2400 vs 1600 I can understand for sure, but for the same price there's no point to even think about it :p
    Now, I don't know how it is in your country.
     
  10. D4rKy21

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    They pretty cheap but anything above 1600 [on my board] is an overclock, 1866 can just be done but higher cause instability problem i think, and i dont want to mess to much with timing to get a bsod here and there.
     

  11. cowie

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    I just got a msi gamer card hope its software write ic's because I did not see a hard mod for it and don't think its reference
     
  12. Ti3Kob

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    Not a tweaker then. I can understand.
    Still, running 2400 sticks @ 1600 with just low CAS is pretty easy and requires very little tweaking and time :p
    Though as I said, the memory controller is now integrated to the CPU. You may/will need to use higher IMC voltage ("VCCIO" in most bioses) to enable higher RAM frequencies, tighter timings, or even to just use more sticks stably.
    RAM tweaking is pretty easy these days if you're not trying to break world records. SDR and DDR2 were less friendly beasts.
    It does indeed take time to validate when you're fine tuning, but isn't it the power user's game ? :D

    I understand your fear if you're not too comfortable with tweaking so I'll stop trying to convince you ;)
    I can't live without tweaking and pushing everything as far as I can, so my point of view is most likely biased anyway.
     
  13. Veteran

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    Not really, when you enable XMP it doesnt matter if its 1600 or 2133 or 2400mhz.. And you dont need to adjust anything, except if you're going for some extreme cpu OC and cpu memory controller starts to "fail" and needs 1-2 voltage adjustments.
     
  15. Veteran

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    Xmp profiles work but they also use un-neccessary voltage, your better off using a manual offset for the best efficiency while undervolting and overclocking at the same time without wasting any voltage. Takes less volts to become stable this way than xmp which will in the long run give you a bigger oc. This method is not noob friendly were xmp is noob friendly and its quicker from the offset......pardon the pun.:)
     

  16. cowie

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    I know this is not the place but you can get a 780ti for $439-$413 at newegg
     
  17. ---TK---

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    Yeah saw that,resale value dropped accordingly. But am keeping mine anyways.
     
  18. kayaknate

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    Only card I could find in stock was the MSI 980 Gaming. Usually get EVGA. Anyone gotten this card in and been able to OC as well as all the EVGA posts? Hoping I didn't make a mistake not waiting to find an EVGA card.

    My MSI should get here tomorrow. Will post results.
     
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  19. DStealth

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    Just a quick test of reference980
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  20. beeswax

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    It overclocks like a champ, 1542MHz is where I got to.
     

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