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MSI GeForce GTX 980 Ti Gaming 6 GB

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When I said daft I meant it as a joke, you don't need to take dust filters out, let alone the top cover.
The temps you are seeing are not normal for the airflow you have, the problem is not the case.

An MSI 6G user, on on another forum, posted the temp with his card (after 15 minutes of unigine heaven in loop like mine).
At stock his card get 76°c at 73% fan speed.

I have the impression that the top fans are smothered by the cover... the grid on it is dense and the distance from the fans isn't optimal.
I'm thinking to change side 200mm fan with a pair 140mm fans, more "aggressive", to push more fresh air and push out more hot air... would you recommend it to me?
 
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Without removing the cover, but removing the dust filter I get 76°c at 73°% fan speed (stock)...
It's 2°c colder with less 4-5% fan speed!
It's amazing how the physics win always, the side fan (and the air flow) was smothered from the dust filter.
 
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Is there a way to change the LED light color on that graphics card?
or a mod that could do the trick?

what about the msi 2way sli LED bridge?
 
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Any discoveries you guys make that help lower the temps on this card, please share thank you :)
 
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@W1zzard

What was your fan profile for the test ?
I see you got 75c load temps. is that with fans @ auto or?
 

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I always test with fans on auto
 
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Any discoveries you guys make that help lower the temps on this card, please share thank you :)
Good airflow in case and enough space arround graphic card.

If that is not enough, you can think about changing cooler to Accelero / Morpheus.
 

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Hi all,

First post but long time follower here. I purchased the MSI gtx 980 TI gaming. First card I have ever had with atrocious coil whine. I RMAd it, got a second one in... Same exact issue. The coil whine is most noticeable on high FPS bench marks (like included kombuster software)... But also noticeable at 60 fps on certain games.

Am I just really unlucky or do most have this coil whine? Getting ready for RMA #2...
 
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That's very bad luck. My MSI 980Ti Gaming has no whine. My previous MSI Gaming 970 didn't either. Maybe you'd have better luck with a different brand though. Two times in a row would have me looking elsewhere.
 

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Just put my MSI 980 Ti Gaming in my rig and downloaded the drivers. I tested the 980 Ti right out of the box on Heaven 4.0 with highest settings at 1080p for four runs and it averaged 64% faster than my MSI 970 GAMING at the same settings. :) Of course that's just one test and real world gaming will vary. No coil whine.

In case anyone is wondering why I upgraded from a 970 to a 980 Ti Gaming the reason is that the 970 was just a stopgap measure. I got in a hurry to upgrade my monitor to a 1440p a while back and the 680 2GB card that I had before the 970 just wasn't enough.
 
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Just put my MSI 980 Ti Gaming in my rig and downloaded the drivers. I tested the 980 Ti right out of the box on Heaven 4.0 with highest settings at 1080p for four runs and it averaged 64% faster than my MSI 970 GAMING at the same settings. :) Of course that's just one test and real world gaming will vary. No coil whine.

In case anyone is wondering why I upgraded from a 970 to a 980 Ti Gaming the reason is that the 970 was just a stopgap measure. I got in a hurry to upgrade my monitor to a 1440p a while back and the 680 2GB card that I had before the 970 just wasn't enough.

Can you run some tests in Unigine Valley so I can compre? My MSI 980Ti tested 53% faster than my MSI 970 at equal clock speeds in Unigine Valley. :)
 

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Can you run some tests in Unigine Valley so I can compre? My MSI 980Ti tested 53% faster than my MSI 970 at equal clock speeds in Unigine Valley. :)

I've never used Valley before but I put the settings on what is listed on the Valley benchmarks thread

Preset: Custom
API: DX11
Quality: Ultra
Stereo 3d: Disabled
Monitors: Single
Anti Aliasing: 4X
Full screen: yes
Resolution: 1920x1080

i5 3570k @ 3.4 GHz

Did a few of runs with nothing overclocked except the MSI factory OC that the card comes with out of the box and averaged 100.6 FPS and 4208 Score. Seems a little low based on some of the scores I saw on the Valley thread but with overclocking GPU/CPU it would be better. GPU-Z said the core was running at 1367 MHz during the test.

What was your score?
 
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With those same settings:

Score: 5330
Avg: 127.4

i7 5820K @ 4.3Ghz
980Ti @ 1250/1925
 

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ouch! I don't understand this unless my CPU isn't able to feed my 980 Ti fast enough in Valley 1.0 My 970 and 980 Ti Heaven 4.0 benchmarks were inline with scores from others members.
 
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I think it's mostly the clock speed of your CPU @ 3.4Ghz. Do you plan to overclock it at all?
 

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I think it's mostly the clock speed of your CPU @ 3.4Ghz. Do you plan to overclock it at all?

I only use my desktop for gaming and so far I haven't needed to OC. I don't play RTS games anymore and I haven't played any of the newer games from 2013 and up. I had intended to do a new build on Skylake but I'm thinking it's not really worth it over the Ivy Bridge that I have now. I will most likely wait on 10nm Cannonlake some time next year to do a new build. When I get into some of the newer games I will probably need to do a medium OC and I will do it then.
 
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Hey W1zzard I can confirm that my Brand new Geforce 980 TI Golden Edition has Power limit of 109% while running on EVGA SuperNova 1000 Platinum2
 
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Is the 120% bios for this card in the database? if so which one is it. My card is pretty good 1504core at +87 it is water cooled so temps are fine. just fancy trying the 120% bios.
 
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