Strix sux unless u want to wc. Normally voltage unlocked.
MSI G1 Gaming.. looks good atm.

Zotac Amp Extreme temps are insane. U guys can check it out on the 11th.

Very low noise. Almost cannot hear if auto

Strix voltage if its like 980 is unlock.

yup. insane temps and very silent on auto. Seriously so close to WC.

The best part this card doesnt have the bug that reference card throttle has. reference card throttles around 13-26mhz at 65. This card throttles based on PL/Temps. And till date havent seen it hitting the pl yet.

Heard tommorow some brands got voucher rebates.

600ppl. Hope to make it. Lost in the crowd.

Got the asus sli bridge for second rig. Upgrading its ssd while at it. Cheap man. Massive drop in prices from corsair
Decided main rig will get evga pro v2 bridge. Currently using evga pro v1 on it.

Some Zotac 980ti Amp Extreme Results

4770k@4.5ghz
Maximus VI Hero
Corsair Vengeance Pro 2400 CL11 2x8gb
Zotac 980ti Amp Extreme Single/Sli - 1468(+64)/4100(+500) @1.156/1.175v ( Stock Voltage/Stock Fan)
Nvidia 353.38 Driver. 3dmark Validation link below screenshots.
Windows 8.1



There was no throttling so didnt bother with pl and fan adjustment.

Will post later oveclock for overvolt results. Max voltage is 1.243v

This post has been edited by cstkl1: Jul 13 2015, 01:37 AM

Its from steam btw. Bro use one np. Second one just keeping it atm.

No problem as it works. No issue.

Squeeze how?? Amd with credit terms n nvidia with cash terms??
Its just will backfire on amd. Just on sales/order nvidia will exceed amd.

Go for it.
970 is a good card.

980ti kingpin
The prices are based on asic.

Asic 80+ usd 1049.

Dont always assume what u learn from one generation of cards is true.

Already told u. Tx n ti is all about the asic from day one.
Even kingpin stated it. I stated ir from day one.
1.24v under 65c
60%-1405
65-1456
70-1506/7
75-1558
80-1608
Benching u can push 50-75mhz more

Secondary is the pll between vram mem controller with the gpu
Third is power delivery n the ability of the gpu to scale with voltage subject to pll voltage as well.
Kingpin cards suppose to fix second n third.

Anyone who clock ure cpu...the second part is common knowledge.

Switching frequency is important also between both vram n gpu. It keeps scaling in check

I nvr dove into previous gen asic but i am gonna assume some domt understand how important 2&3 is. Only cards like hof/matrix/kingpin/lightning u have some control on 2&3.

Reference card luck of the draw on all three. But generally if u have a card that high asic with high vram clock.. Ure good.

Gsync .. Vrr is not crap dude. U got to try it to understand it

Doubt pascal flagship can do that. Generall ure gonna need 2x performance of a Tx. Since each gen is about 40-50% gain.

So we are two gen away. Volta will be it.

Skylake interesting part is nvme. Only reason to upgrade.
Ddr4 hasnt matured to 8gb density sticks at 4800 c18-c21. No news on dp 1.3.
usb c currently in its infancy.

Z170 is bound to have more dmi issues with the pch. Z87/z97 has tons of issues already.

haswell benefit

if u want more
faster encoding via the huge dmi bandwidth.
sata 3 native ports
usb 3 ports

skylake benefits
NVME ssd
native usb 3.1 ports ( not sure just assuming at this point)

skylake still deciding should i go nvme. definately no obvious gain other then watching ssd benchmarks.
zero benefit on gaming to be honest.

usb 3.1 seriously is there any device out there thats taking advantage of its direct access to dmi gen 1 speeds??

nvlink its not something ure gonna see beneficial on daily commercial gaming setups.
it will how ever open up to a possible octa titan pascal. also with such tech i am pretty sure nvidia has solve some multi gpu scaling here.
also interesting part about nvlink is .. the ability of gpu to access ram and vram of the other gpu directly if i am not mistaken.
the tech is gonna solve current issues with multi gpu.

This post has been edited by cstkl1: Jul 27 2015, 10:30 PM

Moogle Stiltzkin
Well depending task but generally clock to clock

haswell DC has 10% single thread gain
Skylake has around 5 percent to haswell.

so 15.5% faster. Also comparing ivybridge to haswell is unfair as it depends on the task. Things like avx/avx2 encoding .. haswell is about 20-30 percent faster.

Skylake real benefit is the 20 pcie lane. So u can run sli with nvme. Also now mobile gpus can have either sli or native 16x single gpu with m.2 pcie ssd.

The cons is ddr4 is too immature. Any platform that has ddr3/ddr4 dimm slots.. dont expect too much from it. Same like p55.
DDR4 atm too immature. Generally i hoping for 4800 CL18-21

but expect rams to evolve slower this time since most rams in the world nowadays is either micron, samsung or sk hynix.
The later two seems to be concentrating on die stacking.


This post has been edited by cstkl1: Jul 28 2015, 10:09 AM

Waiting for ti users to flood with vram swapping issues with w10.

Third quote is correct.

Intel wont have the codes written unto the fpga.
N nvidia coding is different for each panel which itself has a qc line for rejection.
Come to think it.. Lol is freesync minitors mixed with the rejected panels that couldnt pass gsync test??

Min fps.

That where the smoothness differ

Same as ppl telling 1600ram vs 2400mhz or 8gb vs 16gb

Ti with the 6gb vram paired with 2400 16gb ram..
Min fps is where it shines vs a 970 sli setup

I tested my tb overclocked 1300/8000 vs single tx sli.Its the smoothness advantage of tx. Benchy numbers tb sli wipes the floor with a single tx.

This post has been edited by cstkl1: Aug 28 2015, 12:17 PM

Think wont work with nvidia
Nvidia tends to do alot of firmware n architecture thingy.
Hence y lower overhead on cpu before from driver.

So thats y why u see on their roadmap theres unified mem/virtual mem etc.

Dx12 feature set etc was done really quickly n i am pretty sure it threw some wrenches into nvidia roadmap plans. Since nvidia tends to do two gen forward r&d

This post has been edited by cstkl1: Aug 28 2015, 12:56 PM

That event. Will still be about gsync, dx12, etc same as 980ti event.