1080 envy made me finally check what the alternate bios button on my 980ti would do.

[Ferzerp]

I have a Gigabyte Waterforce and have never plugged in the third power connector or pushed in the little button. I did today. This was the result. Not bad.


http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/12480206

 

[guskline]

WOW Ferzerp, that is Crankin!

 

[iiiankiii]

1600mhz!! That's a golden chip. Nice one.

 

[IEC]

That's a fantastic OC. You can easily wait for 1080 Ti now

 

[garagisti]

That's a fantastic OC. You can easily wait for 1080 Ti now

Anyone with a little sense and a top end last gen card from either company should wait for the big chip. Of course some here will tell you that you're better off burning loads money. Between this and 1080ti/ Vega one would easily lose more than $500 if buying a 1080 in between. That's a whole second graphic card right there.

 

[garagisti]

I have a Gigabyte Waterforce and have never plugged in the third power connector or pushed in the little button. I did today. This was the result. Not bad.


http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/12480206

Please post a picture of your humble rig too

 

[guskline]

Anyone with a little sense and a top end last gen card from either company should wait for the big chip. Of course some here will tell you that you're better off burning loads money. Between this and 1080ti/ Vega one would easily lose more than $500 if buying a 1080 in between. That's a whole second graphic card right there.

My GTX 1080 is being bought with the idea that the GTX 980TI SC will replace the 2 R9 290s in my 4790k rig and the 1080 will replace the 980TI in the 5960x rig.

Tired of "waiting" for big Vega.

 

[Ferzerp]

The default bios lets it go to 1515Mhz. I ended up swapping it back. However, the other bios was interesting. It seemed to double the power cap. The OC tool could only set it to 100%, but it never went over 50% with it on. It also upped the voltage a bit and extended the allowed range for voltage OC. I may mess with the other bios again when I have more time. I didn't realize it was basically going to remove the power cap though. Temps were still fine with it.

I bought the card originally because I wanted something quiet. Amusingly, right now I am mostly replaying the Witcher 3, and am frustrated that I have to leave hairworks off. As far as the request for pictures, it's nothing special really. Just the items listed there with an H110i cooler. I'll take one tomorrow if really wanted, and you guys can cringe at how tightly the GPU cooler lines are bent, but that was the only way to get the radiator lines on the bottom and with them on top, it gurgles.

 

[garagisti]

My GTX 1080 is being bought with the idea that the GTX 980TI SC will replace the 2 R9 290s in my 4790k rig and the 1080 will replace the 980TI in the 5960x rig.

Tired of "waiting" for big Vega.

You sir, are not even ordinary amongst us enthusiasts.

Happy hunting, well if you're playing FPS that is.

BTW, isn't 290CF more powerful than a single 980ti? Well, when it works that is, even with poor scaling.

 

[garagisti]

The default bios lets it go to 1515Mhz. I ended up swapping it back. However, the other bios was interesting. It seemed to double the power cap. The OC tool could only set it to 100%, but it never went over 50% with it on. It also upped the voltage a bit and extended the allowed range for voltage OC. I may mess with the other bios again when I have more time. I didn't realize it was basically going to remove the power cap though. Temps were still fine with it.

I bought the card originally because I wanted something quiet. Amusingly, right now I am mostly replaying the Witcher 3, and am frustrated that I have to leave hairworks off. As far as the request for pictures, it's nothing special really. Just the items listed there with an H110i cooler. I'll take one tomorrow if really wanted, and you guys can cringe at how tightly the GPU cooler lines are bent, but that was the only way to get the radiator lines on the bottom and with them on top, it gurgles.

what resolution are you playing at that you have to remove hairworks? i thought that the 980ti could easily push the 1440p with almost everything on in the Witcher 3. some people here especially bought a Nvidia card to play that (and 2-3 others) game as it is inflicted by gameworks. I'm surprised that you with a 1500mhz+ card aren't able to push that everything in witcher 3. Are you possibly missing some patches or something?

 

[guskline]

garagisti. for my 65th birthday in April I received a number of Newegg Gift cards which allowed me to get the GTX 1080. I was originally going to wait for Vega next year but frankly Pascal was such a good chip I decided to make the move now. My goal has always been to run single FAST gpus in each system.

Yes the CF 290s are slightly faster than the 980TI but not by much. The Single GTX 980 TI SC is MUCH smoother and has 6G Vram vs the 4G of the 290s.

Don't get me wrong, the 290s have served me well and AMD has really ramped up efforts to release CF profiles but some recent games (DOOM) don't support CF/SLI so I decided to make the move.

 

[Ferzerp]

what resolution are you playing at that you have to remove hairworks? i thought that the 980ti could easily push the 1440p with almost everything on in the Witcher 3. some people here especially bought a Nvidia card to play that (and 2-3 others) game as it is inflicted by gameworks. I'm surprised that you with a 1500mhz+ card aren't able to push that everything in witcher 3. Are you possibly missing some patches or something?

I play at 3440x1440. I have most everything on ultra, etc. Hairworks is just the easy target to turn off. I get 55-75 fps depending on the area.

 

[thetuna]

Ferzerp, you might want to try the "no hairworks on Geralt" mod.
It does what it says on the tin and only applies hairworks to creatures (on Geralt it looks super sketchy anyway).
I have a 290x and I'm getting a steady 55fps at 2560x1440 with hairworks ON.
For some reason, there is a huge performance hit for his hair.