I am actually curious if there's any AIB ever going to come out with extra huge VRAM (12GB) version of 980TI just like what they being doing previously. It shouldn't be much of a PCB design problem since they can simply mimic that of TitanX.

Techpowerup questioned MSI's configuration of going dual 8 pins but didn't really tweak the power limit of the card.
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/MSI/GTX..._Gaming/28.html

This post has been edited by Human10: Jul 10 2015, 12:07 AM

Wow, that's indeed insane.

Seems like Zotac's humungous 2.5 slots cooler pay off at last.

I find it ridiculous. The price almost on par with 5820k already...

It will be one of the most rare CPU in the market in future. Skylake is around the corner, it will only be useful for those who readily had H97/Z97 mobo. But again high chances are those people already had Haswell (refresh) CPU and won't consider upgrading anytime soon. Now with this insane price, not much new end consumers will opt for them. There's also news that OEMs will skip Broadwell and directly to Skylake.

So in short, it will be one rare "pokemon".

But hey, cheapest LGA2011V3 is a Hexacores, while the 1.4k i7 is still a Quadcores.

Mobo wise, LGA2012V3 is expect to last at least another year, while H97/Z97 pretty much EOL by this year end.

If you are rich enough to invest on high end i7 (consumer) and Z97, the Haswell-E combination is just marginally pricier while significantly more "future proof" as compared to the consumer counterpart.

You sure the ports on both GPU and monitor are functional?

You changed to the correct input on monitor?

This post has been edited by Human10: Jul 16 2015, 04:40 PM

Try return it and change another cable then see how.

Dat 8+8+6pins connectors

The stock cooler looks a little underwhelming if the card really drew over 400W of power...

This post has been edited by Human10: Jul 16 2015, 05:39 PM

If you hadn't have a 970 or the mobo don't have good SLI support, I will always suggest single 980TI.

The best 970 SLI can scale is just slightly better than 980TI, while having 2.5GB less effective VRAM.

Price wise, they are pretty close together too.

Games? Drivers version?

Honestly, Nvidia do release buggy drivers from time to time, install back older driver sometimes more stable and better performance.

Card?

Cause 353.30 is pretty stable for me on GTA V.

Hmm, seriously no idea, driver should be fine and the card had being around for such long time, hadn't heard such problem for the particular card.

The worst is try on a clean copy of windows + drivers.

This post has been edited by Human10: Jul 25 2015, 11:06 PM

Do try a clean install.

The idle fanless mode had being around with some models of GPU by Asus, MSI, EVGA and may be more since the release of 970/980.

Nothing much to worry about, its just manufacturers are confident with the passive cooling of the heatsink and tweaked the VBios to so. You can manually flash a custom vbios to fix your own fan profile. But again afterburner is the safer mode since they only deal with software instead of bios.

I guess it won't be anytime sooner than 3 years.

By then, 980TI's performance probably just on par with the xx50 or xx60 series, LOL.

But with the performance of 960, you probably will be suffer from low unplayable FPS before you able to utilise the 4GB fully, LOL.

Even my 970 is short in raw power to drive settings over 3GB VRAM.

I welcome big VRAM for 2 cases, mods and multicards. Else it's like paying extra for something you don't know when have the chance to be used.

This post has been edited by Human10: Sep 9 2015, 06:44 PM

Anything unnecessarily mandatory = bad.

Also, got once or twice, the auto driver update by GFE caused my system to go haywire.

Manual install/update still my preferred choice.