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980 Ti

Simplex said:
To each his own. If you have tolerance for noise, it does not bother you, then good for you, by all means buy any card you want and have fun. Just accept the fact that some people have less tolerance for noise, or like it when their rig is nicely quiet even under load (I managed to achieve this using Fractal Define R4 wih 140mm intake and exhaust fans, Macho HR-02 cooler, and Corsair RM750). Nothing wrong with striving for silence, just like there's nothing wrong with ignoring noise if it does not bother you. No need for calling a personal preference to have a quiet rig "an obsession".
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It is when all you see are hate filled posts criticizing and bad mouthing a product for being louder than others. I think it's overreaction in my opinion.
 
Anything over 1200 RPMish is intrusive in my environment.
2000+ RPM squeely blower is just not going to happen.
 
Simplex said:
I agree, I have 780Ti which is 250W card (just like Titan X) and Windforce cooler is able to keep it cool and relatively quiet. My friend has 970 (MSI) and he keeps the card under 80 in full load on RPM below 1000. But 970s TDP is 145W, and 980Ti is back to 780Ti levels with 250W TDP.

Regarding reference cooling on 980Ti, I am looking for reviews on sites which are as noise-intolerant ;) as me. What I found was not optimistic.



Before someone starts raging against the reviewer - remember this is from a perspective of someone who prefers a low-noise system. Nothing inherently wrong with that, just like there's nothing wrong with not being bothered by a noisy rig.
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All that chart says is "load".
No temperatures, no fan speeds.

I said it once and I'll repeat it.....I have two of these, they're both reference, they run at 1400 Mhz boosted and the fans are 65%.
The temp is 70C at that point under full 3D load.
I cannot hear the GPUs running over the ambient noise from my case fans.
 
NickJames said:
It is when all you see are hate filled posts criticizing and bad mouthing a product for being louder than others. I think it's overreaction in my opinion.
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And in their opinion it's a valid criticism, even if expressed too strongly. Many people here are defending reference designs, so it's not like "all you see are hate filled posts".
 
Wow, some real intel!

I have a funny feeling the 16th is when we are going to start seeing some more consistent inventory across the boards for these cards.
 
Q-BZ said:
I have a funny feeling the 16th is when we are going to start seeing some more consistent inventory across the boards for these cards.
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Interesting timing, don't you think?
What a strange uncanny coincidence. It escapes me, but I think there might be something else happening that day.

*shrug*
 
magoo said:
All that chart says is "load".
No temperatures, no fan speeds.
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You removed from my quote the fragment where I quote them stating the fan speeds:
During full-on gaming, the GTX 980 Ti is very audible as its noise output slightly exceeds that of the Titan X. Our Titan X sample runs its fan at 48% (=2300 RPM) and the GTX 980 Ti runs the fan at 50% (= 2380 RPM). Here the GTX 980 Ti is again too noisy, not following the trend.
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This review also provides temperatures:
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/NVIDIA/GeForce_GTX_980_Ti/35.html

I said it once and I'll repeat it.....I have two of these, they're both reference, they run at 1400 Mhz boosted and the fans are 65%.
The temp is 70C at that point under full 3D load.
I cannot hear the GPUs running over the ambient noise from my case fans.
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So you have a loud rig, nothing wrong about that if it's perfectly acceptable to you.
Everyone has his own standard of what he would call acceptable - and this of course can change over time. I remember sharing a room while studying at a university, and my roommate was unable to sleep at night because my rig was too loud for him and it was fine by me - so he begged me to buy a quiet cooler which I eventually did for his sake.
Now I am more noise-conscious, which is not necessarily a good thing, because it limits my buing choices. But once you get used to a silent rig, it's hard to go back to a loud one :)
What is your RPM at 65% fan speed? I assume well over 3000rpm?
 
Once I get home today I need to double-check what % my fans are at during Witcher 3.

I don't know how people are not hearing their References while gaming, perhaps they're playing at 1080p in some game that isn't stressing the card?
 
Simplex said:
You removed from my quote the fragment where I quote them stating the fan speeds:


This review also provides temperatures:
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/NVIDIA/GeForce_GTX_980_Ti/35.html


So you have a loud rig, nothing wrong about that if it's perfectly acceptable to you.
Everyone has his own standard of what he would call acceptable - and this of course can change over time. I remember sharing a room while studying at a university, and my roommate was unable to sleep at night because my rig was too loud for him and it was fine by me - so he begged me to buy a quiet cooler which I eventually did for his sake.
Now I am more noise-conscious, which is not necessarily a good thing, because it limits my buing choices. But once you get used to a silent rig, it's hard to go back to a loud one :)
What is your RPM at 65% fan speed? I assume well over 3000rpm?
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RPM is around 2800 I think, doesn't really matter......I have a dozen 120mm fans for my watercooling and what not, I don't hear the GPUs.
If you are so bent on silence, why don't you simply watercool your cards and CPU?
I'm just waiting on blocks and mine will be under water.

st4rk said:
Once I get home today I need to double-check what % my fans are at during Witcher 3.

I don't know how people are not hearing their References while gaming, perhaps they're playing at 1080p in some game that isn't stressing the card?
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I have my Ti cards in SLi and I use three 24 inch monitors iin Surround.
I run a fixed 65% fan speed and the cards never go over 70C. In most games they are 100% utilized.
 
magoo said:
All that chart says is "load".
No temperatures, no fan speeds.

I said it once and I'll repeat it.....I have two of these, they're both reference, they run at 1400 Mhz boosted and the fans are 65%.
The temp is 70C at that point under full 3D load.
I cannot hear the GPUs running over the ambient noise from my case fans.
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I am assuming your cards don't get that hot because you have two pretty massive cases at least compared to mine. I personally am waiting on either the strix or gigabyte g1 if amd doesnt live up to the hype.
 
I am also waiting for the upcoming offer from AMD but I am worried about Crossfire stability as I intend to run two video cards at 4K.
 
Increased my cpu by 100mhz to 4.6 and got this: Cards are at 1545/8000 in SLI.

firestrike extreme: 17407
http://www.3dmark.com/fs/5061028

Increased my score by only 30 points for 100mhz :(. These tests are heavily weighted on the graphics scores big time. Not really sure why they bother to test physics etc if thats the case.
 
As far as I know the scores are equally weighted, but with there being two graphics tests to one physics test the average score is going to be influenced more heavily by the graphics score.

I'm jeally because my non-OC i7-4770 can only muster a 10,600 physics score.
 
Confirmed (unless somebody is trolling us hard). Underspecced 4GB on Fury/Fiji, overspecced 8GB on 390(X) (rebadged 290(X))
 
Simplex said:
Confirmed (unless somebody is trolling us hard). Underspecced 4GB on Fury/Fiji, overspecced 8GB on 390(X) (rebadged 290(X))
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Does this concept even exist? :p


Be interesting to see the respective price points on those.
 
Q-BZ said:
Does this concept even exist? :p


Be interesting to see the respective price points on those.
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It's already been leaked that the 390X retails for $449 US at Best Buy since they received shipments yesterday. After BB and aftermarket markup I would guess that would mean an MSRP of around $380 - $400.
 
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Kingpin or Bust..... I guess it might be heavy plus it has three power plugs two 8 and one 6.... I figure the dual bracket will prevent it from bending.
 
st4rk said:
Once I get home today I need to double-check what % my fans are at during Witcher 3.

I don't know how people are not hearing their References while gaming, perhaps they're playing at 1080p in some game that isn't stressing the card?
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My 980 Ti gets to about 50% fan speed in Witcher 3, but I can't hear it with headphones on. I think most people with noise complaints need to just turn their volume up. :)

I would consider myself pretty noise sensitive and can understand wanting a near-silent rig when idle, but during games I don't get how it is an issue. Maybe I'm just missing something.
 
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Asus DirectCU III Strix at only 535 RPM @ 72°C! That's very efficient.

In comparison, Gigabutt G1 fans runs at around 1760 RPM to achieve 69°C---based on the Guru3D review!
 
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seanclayton said:
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Asus DirectCU III Strix at only 535 RPM @ 72°C! That's very efficient.

In comparison, Gigabutt G1 fans runs at a way higher RPM and achieves 69°C based on the Guru3D review!
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Card is clocking down. Most probably it is around ~1750 fan speed considering the difference between max speed and average speed.
 
Thats more like it. I have 780Ti which is 250W like 980Ti and windforce needs around 2500rpm to keep the card around 80 degrees under load. And that is on a modified fan profile that lowers the default fan speed.

EDIT: I think you cannot compare rpms of fans on completely different types of cooling.
 
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that isn't the whole story.. 72C load at the moment of the pic.. still 76C max load but agree the fan curve of strix are extremely low.. which i don't necessarily like it..
 
Which video is that?

It's as hot as 780Ti while being much faster on the same 28nm node so it's an achievement in my book. Also still cooler than Radeons :)
 
how cooler the card is depend really on the noise tolerance of each person.. a aggressive fan curve can really show a very cool 980TI.. as manufacturers actually favor low noise over all other things.... but given the huge differences between a 780TI and 980TI its clearly a great achievement..
 
PiERiT said:
My 980 Ti gets to about 50% fan speed in Witcher 3, but I can't hear it with headphones on. I think most people with noise complaints need to just turn their volume up. :)

I would consider myself pretty noise sensitive and can understand wanting a near-silent rig when idle, but during games I don't get how it is an issue. Maybe I'm just missing something.
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So we should blow our ears off to cover the fan noise? :p

I game with headphones and even the slight noise of my 970 MSI gaming 4G card bothers me in game sometimes. And also the noise of my Gigabyte Windforce X3 GTX 670 before that. Both are very quiet cards don't get me wrong but there is no way I am going back to reference cards. I will probably have to live with a bit more noise if I go for a 980 ti rather than wait for Pascal but I'm sure there will be non-reference models that run reasonably quiet (if there aren't already, I haven't really looked).
 
kalston said:
So we should blow our ears off to cover the fan noise? :p
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I think my volume is only at 10%, and I have open headphones, and I can't hear anything but the game when playing. I can definitely hear the thing if I take my headphones off, though.

Case proximity may play a part too... mine is a few feet away.
 
4.5 GHz 5930K, Ref EVGA 980 Ti, http://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/details.php?id=7ekkm

Fire Strike Extreme (stock cooler, stock BIOS):

CORE/VRAM | SCORE | URL
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1215/7000 | 7894 | http://www.3dmark.com/fs/5081132
1215/8000 | 8113 | http://www.3dmark.com/fs/5081230
1440/8000 | 8998 | http://www.3dmark.com/fs/5081395
1500/8000 | 9233 | http://www.3dmark.com/fs/5081496

Compared to my 980 K|NGP|N @ 1600/8000:
http://www.3dmark.com/compare/fs/5081496/fs/4963339

About 25% increase going to 980 Ti over a 980.
 
PiERiT said:
My 980 Ti gets to about 50% fan speed in Witcher 3, but I can't hear it with headphones on. I think most people with noise complaints need to just turn their volume up. :)

I would consider myself pretty noise sensitive and can understand wanting a near-silent rig when idle, but during games I don't get how it is an issue. Maybe I'm just missing something.
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my 980 TI hits 90% fan speed, and still cannot hear it with my headphones on playing any sort of game.
 
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