Did you purchase a Titan ?

[lavaheadache]

You can always just sell them with the blocks.

 

[Grooveriding]

You can always just sell them with the blocks.

It's tough finding someone to take everything together I find. This time round I managed to sell both my 680 blocks to one buyer and then one of my 680s to another buyer. Still selling the other one, should be gone as I have a sale pending for it.

I can't take advantage of forums or ebay either because most everyone is from the US and it's a hassle shipping cross-border, so I stick to Canada.

 

[Rvenger]

$949.99 with the V.me coupon. To submit order or not....

 

[lavaheadache]

Groove- I didn't realize you were from up north.

 

[BababooeyHTJ]

I'm surprised that there doesn't seem to be many reports of Titans throttling here. OCN is loaded with effected users.

Here is the EVGA thread.

 

[Grooveriding]

I'm surprised that there doesn't seem to be many reports of Titans throttling here. OCN is loaded with effected users.

Here is the EVGA thread.

A lot more owners on the EVGA and OCN forums. I haven't used my Titans yet, so I cannot comment. I do know if it gets brought up here the nvidia fanboys who don't even own the card will go berserk and derail any conversation about it.

 

[ad3pt7]

I'm probably going to skip out on them. I'm currently running two PNY GTX 670's in SLI. The Titans are awesome cards though. These screenshots of tri and quad SLI are insane by the way, but look awesome lol. The performance must be ridiculous.

 

[Annisman*]

I'm probably going to skip out on them. I'm currently running two PNY GTX 670's in SLI. The Titans are awesome cards though. These screenshots of tri and quad SLI are insane by the way, but look awesome lol. The performance must be ridiculous.

I have found gameplay to be much smoother using my single Titan, than with GTX 670 SLI, though most often my actual fps is lower now.

I am however, much more susceptible to input lag and variances in fps that most people I would imagine.

 

[Majic 7]

No throttling here at stock as far as I can tell. I do hit 80c occasionally in TR but looking at the graphs in precision everything seems to be working as it should. I have seen some reports of stock systems throttling. Haven't oc'd yet, no reason to so far. Fiddled with some settings, custom with FXAA and SSAO and everything else as high as I could get it and got 50 fps with TressFX so it should be pretty stressed. For me it was an upgrade from 580 SLI, more fps and way smoother. Have Skyrim loaded with many graphics mods now with no problems. Maybe it will get more interesting now. Always was my main attraction to it, just too pretty sometimes.

 

[lavaheadache]

I have found gameplay to be much smoother using my single Titan, than with GTX 670 SLI, though most often my actual fps is lower now.

I am however, much more susceptible to input lag and variances in fps that most people I would imagine.

Liar liar pants on fire. Nvidia doesn't suffer from microstutter, you know that

 

[BababooeyHTJ]

A lot more owners on the EVGA and OCN forums. I haven't used my Titans yet, so I cannot comment. I do know if it gets brought up here the nvidia fanboys who don't even own the card will go berserk and derail any conversation about it.

Yeah, thats what happened on hardforum.

 

[AdamK47]

The middle and top cards in my system did hit 80 degrees C during some "stress testing". Didn't see any throttling. This was during many loops of Unigine Valley and Heaven. The fans were not loud at all. My GTX 690s also hit 80s during these same tests.

The power target is set to 105%, temp at 90, voltage at +0, core at +125, and memory at +250.

I'll have more time this weekend to play with these cards.

 

[lavaheadache]

AFAIK the card will throttle as soon as it hits the temp limit. If you are overclocking you must adjust the temp limit and/or the tdp limit to prevent premature throttling.

 

[njdevilsfan87]

The default bios definitely limits the max overclocker in us but honestly it should only affect benchmark guys since they are the crazy's who fight over every last 3dmark point. In the real world there is too much to gain after the 106% limit is reached. As it is I can run my card at 1125 core and 1600 ram (I think) comfortably.

Not entirely sure I can entirely agree there. My GTX 680 gains a solid 15-20% in performance when going from 1100/6000 to 1300/6750 pretty much all around the board in anything I've tested. My memory is kind of dud (only can reach about 6850-6900 before artifacting) but I've pushed my core as high as 1400 before (voltage unlocked). Regardless, I'm getting the most of my GTX 680 so it feels like money better spent.

I'd be pretty annoyed if my Titan was throttling at anything below 1100mhz considering the Kepler architecture looks to be able to handle 1200mhz and beyond relatively well. If I did I'd absolutely return it saying it isn't working as advertised. There's no excuse to have garbage VRMs on a $1000 card.

 

[BababooeyHTJ]

Not entirely sure I can entirely agree there. My GTX 680 gains a solid 15-20% in performance when going from 1100/6000 to 1300/6750 pretty much all around the board in anything I've tested. My memory is kind of dud (only can reach about 6850-6900 before artifacting) but I've pushed my core as high as 1400 before (voltage unlocked). Regardless, I'm getting the most of my GTX 680 so it feels like money better spent.

I'd be pretty annoyed if my Titan was throttling at anything below 1100mhz considering the Kepler architecture looks to be able to handle 1200mhz and beyond relatively well. If I did I'd absolutely return it saying it isn't working as advertised. There's no excuse to have garbage VRMs on a $1000 card.

Yeah, thats kind of the way that I feel at the moment. My card can't maintain 1100mhz due to the throttling issues.

 

[lavaheadache]

Not entirely sure I can entirely agree there. My GTX 680 gains a solid 15-20% in performance when going from 1100/6000 to 1300/6750 pretty much all around the board in anything I've tested. My memory is kind of dud (only can reach about 6850-6900 before artifacting) but I've pushed my core as high as 1400 before (voltage unlocked). Regardless, I'm getting the most of my GTX 680 so it feels like money better spent.

I'd be pretty annoyed if my Titan was throttling at anything below 1100mhz considering the Kepler architecture looks to be able to handle 1200mhz and beyond relatively well. If I did I'd absolutely return it saying it isn't working as advertised. There's no excuse to have garbage VRMs on a $1000 card.

But the card is working as advertised. At what point did they promise you overclocks and boost speeds that didnt throttle?

 

[njdevilsfan87]

But the card is working as advertised. At what point did they promise you overclocks and boost speeds that didnt throttle?

From what I've read off OCN, it seems like GPU Boost 2.0 is borked at this time. I remember reading something about how lowering (or leaving the fan auto) and letting card get hotter actually allowed for higher clocks and less throttling.

Also, Nvidia marketted GPU Boost 2.0 to be better for overclockers, and right now it looks worse than GPU Boost 1.0. At least on the GTX 600s, if you set the maximum power target, and voltage, you got a stable a clock in 3D applications if the GPU stayed under 70C. Titan throttled under water for someone at OCN...

 

[Annisman*]

Liar liar pants on fire. Nvidia doesn't suffer from microstutter, you know that

Obviously you are just kidding, but seriosuly, my fps are lower, but my gameplay is smoother, I don't have any science to back it up, just user experience.

 

[DooKey]

I can confirm that at least for me MSI Afterburner seems to have stabilized my OC compared to Precision X. I can hold 1110 and 1150 for my SLI cards running the Valley benchmark for extended periods without downclocking or crashes. With Precision X I was having crash problems at the same settings. I also run a custom fan profile and my cards are currently running 74c with the fan speed at 71%, voltage is +.21 and core is +110, mem is +200. The only thing I see is one card is running 1.162v compared to 1.175v on the second card and the lower voltage one sometimes drops to 1.150v. Other than that things are very stable now from a core speed and crash perspective.

 

[ad3pt7]

I have found gameplay to be much smoother using my single Titan, than with GTX 670 SLI, though most often my actual fps is lower now.

I am however, much more susceptible to input lag and variances in fps that most people I would imagine.

Really? That's cool. I'm really happy with my two 670's at the moment, but I was really impressed at the FPS performance with one Titan. Some games don't seem to be optimized very well for SLI which sucks sometimes.

 

[BababooeyHTJ]

From what I've read off OCN, it seems like GPU Boost 2.0 is borked at this time. I remember reading something about how lowering (or leaving the fan auto) and letting card get hotter actually allowed for higher clocks and less throttling.

Also, Nvidia marketted GPU Boost 2.0 to be better for overclockers, and right now it looks worse than GPU Boost 1.0. At least on the GTX 600s, if you set the maximum power target, and voltage, you got a stable a clock in 3D applications if the GPU stayed under 70C. Titan throttled under water for someone at OCN...

There seems to be two different issues. One the crazy throttling that some people are seeing, like myself.

The other is any fan speed above something like 68% causing the card to downclock one bin. That one appears to be happening on GTX680 as well. So thats just a mild driver issue that I'm sure will be fixed soon.

 

[Will Robinson]

I'm surprised that there doesn't seem to be many reports of Titans throttling here. OCN is loaded with effected users.

Here is the EVGA thread.

Wow,there's some unhappy users in that EVGA thread.
Looks like Titan isn't all it's made out to be.

 

[blackened23]

Nvidia is aware of it apparently:

Nvidia is aware of these throttling issues. I have fowarded your issue to our Product Management team that is working with Nvidia to try and resolve this issue. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact us via email or by telephone.

Best Regards,

EVGA

From EVGA support (found this on another board)

 

[notty22]

Here is the 1 of 2 complaints on Nvidia's customer care Twitter.

NVIDIA Customer Care ‏@nvidiacc @bababooeyhtj We're looking into the reports of Titan throttling issues.

 

[tweakboy]

Solid 1k on a video card,, coughs,, I will wait until Titan 2 comes then grab 1 . hee