How do I change fan speeds? Need help with new 980 ti

computerman1234 · Jul 23, 2016

I got a nice new GTX 980 Ti, but due to its reference design, it is quite loud. I saw on a video once that there is a way to make the fan go off when not under load. How might I go about doing this, or is this only for non-reference cards?

I haven't overclocked it yet. How much of an overclock would you recommend? Don't mind about temperatures really, as long as it's getting good performance.

Speaking of performance, it's lacking. This is most probably down to my CPU bottle-necking it severely. I have a FX 6300. Any way this can be improved without buying a new CPU and Mobo?

Thanks in advance.

anti-duck · Jul 23, 2016

You should be able to adjust the fan speed with something like MSI Afterburner or EVGA PrecisionX, you won't be able to turn the fan off at all though.

An FX 6300 and a 980 Ti just isn't a good combination unfortunately, no matter what you do short of getting some liquid nitrogen and overclocking all cores to 9GHz, isn't going to work, your FX 6300 is always going to limit the potential of your 980 Ti. You can slightly mitigate the 'bottleneck' by overclocking your CPU.

krells · Jul 23, 2016

You won't be able to turn the fan off but you can create a custom fan profile with msi afterburner. As far as overclocking getting the boost clock in the 1300mhz range would be a normal result.

The 6300 will hold you back. Overclocking it might help a bit but still won't see the full potential of the card.

JackNaylorPE · Jul 23, 2016

1. The fan cutoff feature was introduced by MSI back in 2008 and since picked up by many other AIB partners. It is not available on reference cards

https://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/NVIDIA/GeForce_GTX_980_Ti/35.html

Idle temperatures are fine; idle-fan-off would have certainly been possible. Under load, the card reaches its thermal limit of 84°C after a minute of gaming or so, which will cause it to lower Boost clocks, and, as such, performance.

2. Use MSI Afterburner to control fan speeds.

3. You can overclock, but as you can see from the quote above, the card is already throttling at stock speeds. I'd start w/ the settings below

http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/nvidia_geforce_gtx_980_ti_review,36.html

With AfterBurner we applied the following settings:

Temp Target 85 Degrees C
CPU clock +250 MHz
Mem clock +400 MHz
Voltage + 87Mv
FAN RPM Auto (but 70% recommended which is noisy)

computerman1234 · Jul 23, 2016

JackNaylorPE :

1. The fan cutoff feature was introduced by MSI back in 2008 and since picked up by many other AIB partners. It is not available on reference cards

https://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/NVIDIA/GeForce_GTX_980_Ti/35.html

Idle temperatures are fine; idle-fan-off would have certainly been possible. Under load, the card reaches its thermal limit of 84°C after a minute of gaming or so, which will cause it to lower Boost clocks, and, as such, performance.

2. Use MSI Afterburner to control fan speeds.

3. You can overclock, but as you can see from the quote above, the card is already throttling at stock speeds. I'd start w/ the settings below

http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/nvidia_geforce_gtx_980_ti_review,36.html

With AfterBurner we applied the following settings:

Temp Target 85 Degrees C
CPU clock +250 MHz
Mem clock +400 MHz
Voltage + 87Mv
FAN RPM Auto (but 70% recommended which is noisy)

How do you change the voltage? It seems to be locked.

Also, when I change the memory speed and click the tick, it goes right back to zero. Any ideas?

computerman1234 · Jul 23, 2016

anti-duck :

How many more FPS would you say I could get if I had a newer i5 or i7, at 1080p?

JackNaylorPE · Jul 23, 2016

computerman1234 :

You need to go to settings panel and check the box that says "unlock voltage control"

Did you hit "apply"

As for the CPU ....

http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/core_i7_6700k_processor_review_desktop_skylake,16.html

computerman1234 · Jul 24, 2016

JackNaylorPE :

Since I'm not going to be achieving the full potential of my 980 ti, would it be a good idea to underclock, so to save electricity and would this affect performance greatly?

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