

It did prompt us to go looking for ACX 2.0+ information which we will cover in a short while. “Yes you are looking at the impossible made possible, the dream GPU fallen from your slumber and cranking out test rig numbers.” In that fleeting moment you realize you are in GPU Nirvana that mystical place born of hairs standing up on your neck.Īrriving in a Typical EVGA black box there was little on the box to alert us of such a ground shaking mind bending experience inside the box. Copious amounts of RockStar consumed as we listened to that little voice coming from our shoulders. This is one of those times when phone calls were exchanged at odd hours of the night verifying numbers were in line with other cards. Then we see numbers insanely high and move that cup of coffee to a side table away from all hardware and re-run those most familiar tests again and again then switch test rigs and run them yet again as we stare in disbelief. We run a few well known oft used benchmarks that we know the numbers from various models of GPU’s by heart. Then there is that rare time when the photos are done and edited, the information is gathered, tables full of numbers and comparisons are built and ready for digital paper, when we finally fill a test rigs PCI-E 16x slot with the GPU. You can generally beat on one of us with a 3 foot long fence post made out of various GPU’s and we’ll yawn and wonder what flavors the Keurig coffee maker station has today. in every game so far it downclocks exactly 13mhz below the clock i had been running with, AFTER HITTING 63 DEGREES.We are going to take a look at the EVGA GTX 980 Ti SC with ACX 2.0+ Cooling and we feel the need to tell you right up front that it’s hard as nails to impress a hard core reviewer. Power on and 1st strange thing, it wouldn't downclock from 1190mhz to its power saving states below. Started tweaking with it and arrived at max boost 1493mhz with +87v/+110% power/+50 core/+400 mem at 77 max temp/50% fans.Įverything was working perfectly until this morning when in the middle of a MWOnline game i had a sudden driver crash, followed by monitor turning off and me having to reset the pc. Hi, i recently upgraded from a very problematic Strix 970 to a Strix 980 Ti and was quite pleased by the performance, out of the box without any changes it hit a wooping 1414mhz.
