Drivers crashing with new 980ti Kingpin

[radeson]

Hello all,
I just bought a brand spanking new 980ti K|INGP|N. It is an absolute beast. I have had it OC'ed to 1595 in firestrike. I have not however got it to finish the entire thing with anything over 1555mhz. I keep getting driver failure in game and in benches. It will randomly fail in multiple games with 100+ GPU clock offset with a boost of 1530. I can play for hours with no crashes and it just black screens for a couple of seconds and I get a notification that Nvidia drivers have failed. I am using 353.62 as Have read that it is more stable for OC. I did notice less crashing with this driver as opposed to the most recent. i am wondering if anyone has any advice??

I have an EK acetal waterblock on it and the temps max out at 43c. Soo, is this a driver issue or what am i doing wrong? Also I have the below listed rig OC'd to 4.375ghz with RAM @ 3000mhz.... I got a bad sample so i have voltage @ 1.32.... Dont know if this info is relevant or not.

Please help

 

[xorbe]

Everything has a limit. As long as it doesn't have problems at default clocks, it's fine. Nobody guarantees overclocking.

 

[radeson]

Everything has a limit. As long as it doesn't have problems at default clocks, it's fine. Nobody guarantees overclocking.

Not what I'm trying to hear for a $900 "overclocking" card

 

[LuckyB1]

Which bios are you using ? There's 3 bios on the card. You may need to use the OC mode bios to move to a higher overclock.

 

[Teizo]

Not what I'm trying to hear for a $900 "overclocking" card

Not that you are not aware as you are right in saying this, but there is a limit on how much you can do on air irregardless of the specialization of the card. To be honest, that card is not really designed to be overclocked on air. It still should overclock well on air, obviously, but you have to temper your expectations a little if keeping the stock cooler.

 

[guskline]

I have my GTX980TI SC under water with the same block but 1595 on the core???? Probably too high. 1555 is nothing to sneeze at! I can't go much over 1500.

 

[guskline]

Not that you are not aware as you are right in saying this, but there is a limit on how much you can do on air irregardless of the specialization of the card. To be honest, that card is not really designed to be overclocked on air. It still should overclock well on air, obviously, but you have to temper your expectations a little if keeping the stock cooler.

Teizo, he has it under water.:thumbsup:

 

[cmdrdredd]

Sounds like you reached the limits of that particular sample.

 

[radeson]

Hello all,

I Just did a fresh install of windows 10 pro this past weekend. I HAD windows on a 4-way RAID0 before. So, I broke up the RAID and put windows on its own SSD, outside of the RAID. Also, before this, I wasn't able to install ASUS AI suite III on Windows 10 until now.

Some of the problems I was having overclocking have disappeared. I have been able to keep a 1530 boost clock stable with a +100 offset to core. I also was able to get on the top 100 for FireStrike ultra (1 GPU list [see #94; "Antibiotic"])

The drivers have crashed on me in benches, but not in game at anything under 1530 boost. The #94 on the FireStrike Ultra was with a +125 offset to the core and +452 offset to the VRAM. Which boosts to 1555 Mhz. With default voltage. "OC" BIOS. 22c Ambient. Max 43c under load. I have 2 koolance 450s pumps in series running Koolance WB on CPU. I have 1x 360mm, 1x 140mm, 1x 120mm rads, with the CPU and GPU between them and the 140mm in the middle. My CPU is 4.375 Ghz @ 1.325v (bad sample), with 3000 Mhz XMP.

To answer above question about which BIOS I am running. I am running the "OC" Bios.

Thank you all for the help. If you have any suggestions, please shoot them my way. I am still learning new stuff everyday.


UPDATE:
I just hit 1570Mhz all the way through Firestrike Ultra. I hit #78 On the "1 GPU list" with 5339.... (KBOOST Enabled; 150% power target: Overboost, Overvoltage @ 1200mV; +140mhz Offset core; +452 VRAM.

 

[xorbe]

You should be on OCN forum, they are "bench life".

 

[Teizo]

Teizo, he has it under water.:thumbsup:

<Homer Simpson.....DOH!>

He didn't mention it in his post, and I didn't see it in his sig. Well, what I said was true even though it didn't apply to him I reckon LOL

 

[guskline]

<Homer Simpson.....DOH!>

He didn't mention it in his post, and I didn't see it in his sig. Well, what I said was true even though it didn't apply to him I reckon LOL

No problem Teizo. Water cooling does allow you to crank it up some but the GTX980TI is an excellent OCer even air cooled!