Matrix 980 ti

Sativa

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Hi all.

I am unsure about the results below. I have not changed anything and its "out the box" except turned to its OC mode as advertised of 1216/1317 and adjusting the fan speed. If fans are left on auto the card reaches around the 75c mark but the overall max boost is lower.

In order to keep the card below 70 I need to have the fans turned up to 70% is this right? I thought the cooler on this card was meant to be good. I have a 360 aio taking care of the CPU and this tops out around 40/45 on stock.

I have 3 intake fans and 1 rear although these are not controllable along with the 3 aio fans which are controllable and i have been playing with the speed of these.

Case is h440 tried with and without the front / top though it becomes rather loud with theses off.

Also the card only has a 69.1 asic score is this not a little low for a £650 card? And the memory is a different brand to the Oc3d review whys that? Mine says samsung and the review had hynix. Also how do i set the speed to be default as mine says 1190/1291

What i am concerned about is if im at 70% fan speed already for 70c then really this is not leaving much room for an ovc on top. As i do not want a card running at 80/90% fan speed.

The whole point of buying this card and spending over the odds was for its "good" cooling and out of box speeds with it being classed as a good overclocker too but as yet I have not touched a thing and I am almost running the fans at full speed.

Tested with a game for one hour rather then benchmark

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75°C for an air cooled 250W TDP card in an enclosed space is quite impressive. As long as it stays below 80 it will run at it's highest possible boost clock so getting it to run cooler really won't benefit much and will probably just make your rig louder.

Samsung memory is generally superior to Hynix so that really is nothing to complain about either ;)

JR
 
Below 70c for any GPU is a tall order dude.

Its really not needed tbh.

Forgive me for being dumb here but when loading GPUZ what is the best readings to monitor. the standard view as gupz loads or click everything to AVG or MAX and use theses.

I do have 4 fans I have no clue as to what there doing. Which I am gonna have to change. and after my drama with the CPU I am watching everything like a hawk right now.

Your gpuz in the review had the OC speed as default how did you achieve this?
 
75°C for an air cooled 250W TDP card in an enclosed space is quite impressive. As long as it stays below 80 it will run at it's highest possible boost clock so getting it to run cooler really won't benefit much and will probably just make your rig louder.

Samsung memory is generally superior to Hynix so that really is nothing to complain about either ;)

JR

What about its PP asic score.. If this even matters? Though its rather low for there top end card.. NO?

I am just being OTT with everything right now and trying to get a profile set up as every time I am wanting to play a game iv have about 4 different programs open and keep switching back and forth monitoring everything.
 
asic score is like the cpu silicon lottery. you dont have any higher odds than anybody buying a 960 or 950. its just luck of the draw.
 
Like others have said, 75C with the fans on auto isn't too shabby, only worry about it if you decide to start overclocking or if the heat build up in your case.

Your ASIC quality is about average to be honest. My stock reference 980Ti's have low ASIC (62.9% and 66.4%, see image below) and it took a BIOS flash with extra volts and watercooling to get them to sing. Afterburner is my method of persuading them even further :).

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JR, I always thought that Hynix was better memory than Samsung?
 
Like others have said, 75C with the fans on auto isn't too shabby, only worry about it if you decide to start overclocking or if the heat build up in your case.

Your ASIC quality is about average to be honest. My stock reference 980Ti's have low ASIC (62.9% and 66.4%, see image below) and it took a BIOS flash with extra volts and watercooling to get them to sing. Afterburner is my method of persuading them even further :).

JR, I always thought that Hynix was better memory than Samsung?

your cards have an overclock higher then my stock but your fan speed tops out at 50% each. Also u have stock reference cards, i paid the top price for asus flagship card, I want better then average else i could have saved my self £150

I could understand the high fan speed if i had overclocked further on top of the stock speeds but if i add anymore heat from the graphics card via overclocking, i will be in the 80 - 90% leaf blower range and the heat will be more then what it is now.
 
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your cards have an overclock higher then my stock but your fan speed tops out at 50% each. Also u have stock reference cards, i paid the top price for asus flagship card, I want better then average else i could have saved my self £150

I could understand the high fan speed if i had overclocked further on top of the stock speeds but if i add anymore heat from the graphics card via overclocking, i will be in the 80 - 90% leaf blower range and the heat will be more then what it is now.

I did say they were watercooled, or more accurately hybrid :), hence the fan speed (which is only that high due to benching, usually only 30%).

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You have by no means got a runt of a card, just drawn the medium of straws.

If you're feeling brave, take off the cooler and replace the thermal paste with something better and more carefully than the OEM. If it's anything like my reference cards who's method was the envy of Polyfilla, you may lower your temps a bit.
 
So i downloaded heaven benchmark and have been running this.

Custom
Dx11
Ultra
Extreme
x8
full screen
1920/1080

Power at 110 temp locked to 80c

+10 from OC mode. Fans set at 70 no temp higher then 73C in Heaven I have run from stock speeds through to the OC mode and then below. But do not need them scores so the program has been run more then the three below.

1226/1800/1327
Fps 97.8
Score - 2465
Min - 31
Max - 198

1236/1800/1337
FPS 98.5
Score - 2481
Min -34.4
Max 203.1

1246/1800/1347
FPS 98.7
Score - 2487
Min - 34.3
Max - 202.1

I then increased this up +10 again and its now showing +66 in GPU-tweak. This so far is the only option I have touched other then locking the fan to 70% The memory had always at been 3600 in every test up till this point, but with the increase of +10 to +66 i started the program again and the memory has now dropped from 3600 to 3304 and also the card did not turn red and stayed yellow when i started the test nor did the temperature rise. 40-50c

No full load
FPS 47.9
Score -1206
Min - 26.3
Max 96.3

Now when i set GPU-Tweak back to default Oc speed the memory does not change back to 3600 when i load heaven.

I was going to keep pushing 10 till this crashed or it became clear there where artifacts up till this point nothing had jumped out to say something was wrong. How do I get the memory back to 3600 so i can continue or is that the sign?

Or is it a case of now I have to start jumping the memory up before i can start with the Core again?
 
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+10 what?

10mhz Sorry forgot to add that part. Your see each test run was +10 each time while everything else was left at the stock oc mode default. I am using Gpu tweak as unsure how to transfer the stock OC mode to msi afterburner.

1216/1800/1317 < the Stock OC mode.
1226/1800/1327
1236/1800/1337
1246/1800/1347

Once I got to

1256/1800/1357

this is when the memory dropped from 3600 to 3304 in the heaven test.
 
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