Zotac 980ti AMP! Extreme not working properly

well there was a issue with the latest NVidia drivers but I thought I affected 10 series cards [seemed to cause cards not to boost] . I still use old 255.82 driver with my 980ti ??

fire strike will max the voltage to the limits that's a v- bios set thing . so don't be too alarmed by that from it or any ''stress'' test

this maybe odd ''I noticed that my temps were idling at 52deg C @ 1400RPM '' with the 900 cards having that -0- fan thing where the cards fans may not come on in till say up to 60c , but yours is spimnning at 14000 ??

about all you can do is test the card in another system [with different drivers to test with ] to see if it does the same or not if not may need to look at something like maybe your PSU is not any longer delivering stable power to the card ??


first 5 or 6 reviews from here show died in less then a year ??

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814500379

''My concern is, why is still showing GPU VOLTAGE LIMIT REACHED on GPUShark'' [never used it and first time I ever heard of it , must not be too poplar a tool ]

but the bios for it claims Board power limit Target: 390.0 W Limit: 435.0 W [that's pretty excessive and I feel zotac trys to over do things on there cards that's asking a heck of a lot of a out of the box card everyday use to me ??] that's 36 amps just for the card on a psu's 12v rail just for the card at full load a 750w psu should be 62 amps at the 12v+

https://www.techpowerup.com/vgabios/173848/zotac-gtx980ti-6144-150602

my 980ti is only rated for 275w ??
https://www.techpowerup.com/vgabios/179138/evga-gtx980ti-6144-151104

''My PSU is the Corsair 750i and everything seems to be working fine from it so I would rule it out''

even the best of something can fail ? then say maybe the voltage limit is not due from the card and maybe the psu is not providing the voltage needed anymore ?

then if not I guess you can be down to a RMA of the card and hope the replacement is working back as correct ?

thing is with out a backup or test computer /parts that you can try the card in and see you just guess with out some kind of process of elimination


I wonder though the stress put on everything in the build to maintain that Board power limit Target: 390.0 W Limit: 435.0 W long term hours of gaming at full load ??

I don't know ? if you feel it something gone out on the card then I guess try a RMA and hope the new replacement card works as expected . if not then you looking at something else like the psu or maybe the boards slot , vrm's or maybe software ?

give any system specs or screenshots you feel is worth looking at maybe something will pop up form that

should not matter where you bought it from zotac warrantee should be under a global policy ? just getting it to them and back from where you live maybe the biggest issue [customs -tax- shipping fees ,ect... ] if you had to send it to say UK

see things as this from your area ?

http://www.abudhabicityinfo.com/news/pr_P788N1E8CASR2JMV00A3HHT1L82Q4P8B.aspx


you could try and use hwinfo64 and run it in the background when testing and look at any min-max readings like psu gpu and all that shows to se if anything looks out of whack ?

[examples from mine after a benchmark run to see min and max useages ?]

http://imgur.com/AvRnRgU

http://imgur.com/N4V6t5Q

http://imgur.com/Ak24Pbi

or like gpu-z shows where the card was hitting its power limits

http://imgur.com/YDTq3pV

my card running valley bench and gpu-z render test at the same time

http://imgur.com/CpI1F2t


too bad you don't have a buddy with I nice gaming rig to test your card in .

''1.274V '' well that can be set by the manufacture in the cards bios should be no big deal

heres what I don't like you got that higher voltage but you not gaining anything from it if all your card is boosting is 1253 ?? my card stock as you can see boosts to 1354 my card is speced for 1140 /1228 boost ? [evga 980ti hybrid ]

look at this screen shot ?

https://www.bjorn3d.com/2015/08/zotac-gtx-980-ti-amp-extreme-the-fastest-980-ti-available/

http://www.legitreviews.com/nvidia-geforce-gtx-980-ti-video-card-roundup-asus-msi-and-zotac_176648/11

notice from legitreview the lower voltage and higher boost and all ?

then I don't know what bios flashing you did or what went on there .

don't know ? may want to dig into that RMA and try a replacement card ? just be sure you flash the original bios back

or try the same from the card legitreviews amp extreme has on it ? [84.00.36.00.61 ??

https://www.techpowerup.com/vgabios/?architecture=NVIDIA&manufacturer=Zotac&model=&interface=&memType=&memSize=&did=10de-17c8--&since=

wow that thing sucks some power . almost 352w max draw and only 1400mhz clock ? my card at 1400mhz gets up to 265w if I recall .. got to say that 68c looks nice for a air cooled card for sure ,sweet .

your voltage in that shows 1.193 not that 1.274V you reported but when I run my cards overclock I do have that bumped up to 1.2?? v as well .

your screen shots look good to me I think its giving you that Voltage limit has been reached message just because , all that is set in the cards bios and it triggers that when you get like with in 5/10% of the bios set limit .

looks to me like your card is doing a good job just that higher GPU power of 350w but you got a ''aftermarket custom '' pcb card as well mmy card is a reference pcb card so that's something zotac just bumped up to a higher limit .


in this screen shot here did it not finish or what ? [where it seemed to take a nose dive ]

https://s13.postimg.org/woqt8isaf/Stress_test_2.png

now I do know with my card I could not pass that test unless I opened like afterburner ] and just used the voltage % slider and put it up to 110% .

see at stock it was hitting the power limit but adding that 10% buffer kept that ''down clock'' event in check .

see that NVidia GPU boost 2.0 is funny

another thing I thought was odd from that screen shot is when the FPS dropped at that point under the temp graph you see your blue line got cooler but that other line [red / cpu ? ] got hotter ???

now I aint too hip on skylake and I have seen guys have issues and after replacing everything but the CPU and as last ditch RMA there skylake COU back to intel and found that was there issue all along [long shot / opinion of what I seen and read ] so I drawed a conclusion that theres a risk of getting a not so good skylake cpu .

you see how stable mine stayed

http://imgur.com/Ak24Pbi


now one thing you did not add was this screen shot of how your psu voltage on the 12v when the card was at full load

http://imgur.com/AvRnRgU



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that sounds right when the voltage [at stock] comes with in say 95% of 1.193v the card due to NVidia gpu boost 2.0 as part of how the cards v-bios is

it will start to throttle . with that slider bumped up to say 110% that adds a bit more head room so the with that the card can go up to say it 100% of stock set voltage

I ran firestrike with my overclock profile closest to what your card is [notice I bumped my voltage to 1.230v]

http://imgur.com/kpno2wn

another thing I noticed is how much higher your cards memory stuff is compared to mine [ I'm using regular firestrike for 1080 @60hz [default] not the extreme or ultra ] that may make a difference as well between us ??


heres the thing Im guessing

seeing how your card just drops out as it is from one of your first screenshots and this last one you posted it looks to me your card is not able to hold the factory overclock and is kicking the card to a failsafe ?

it looks like when you do a bad overclock and run a bench/ stress test and the card crashes on it to a failsafe to prevent the card from damage ..

heres what I would try use the NVidia debug mode and with it on run another test and see if your card stays stable all the way ?

http://www.evga.com/support/faq/afmviewfaq.aspx?faqid=59594



dude I just don't know I ran at stock with that graph and don't look right ?? its all over the place up and down , I stay stable no drops during the bench run ? not be 90fps then drop to 17, it all stays constant through out ??? each one of my ''dips'' corresponds each time the firestrike test changes gpu test 1 then test 2 then physics then combined tests ??

http://imgur.com/OufJXAm

in a bit i'll redo that, but I will run the stress test part and see .............

well passed and only drop you see is when the test was over and the time it took to screen shot it ?

http://imgur.com/9p6QuyK

I guess try for that RMA ? maybe the card developed a bad part on it like a voltage regulator or its getting hot or mis reading the sensor that controls it

overall your car kinda looks good nice clocks good temps [68c is nice for a air card and its not like you live in the arctic tundra ,lol...]

I guess just sems like something went haywire with the cards voltage control ?? that's the best I can tell you ..

just for fun why not try this driver out ??

win-10 [I guess you got 10?]

http://www.nvidia.com/download/driverresults.aspx/90500/en-us

win-vista-8.1

http://www.nvidia.com/download/driverresults.aspx/90494/en-us

or something older / different jut to see if its not another NVidia broke something as they have been , but 355.82 iis what I use with win-7 [ seems NVidia has struggled with drivers fix one thing brake something else??]

OUCH!!!! I guess like I helped a guy over there with his card and we look at all the manufactures and where they got rma centers seemed like MSI had then more local located in a region ??

so that helped hi on whos card to try to buy so if it went bad he did not have to pay shipping around the world or customs taxes ??

maybe something you should look in to next time , just a thought to ponder

it all ways says notebook no matter msi product I use to find out ?

https://us.msi.com/page/service-location/

AAE-JUMBO
Jumbo Electronics Co. Ltd (LLC)
Address: Jebel Ali Industrial Area 2, Plot No. B136, 7th Interchange
PO Box 3426,Dubai, UAE
TEL: +971 4 884 9074 EXT 435
FAX: +971 4 8849 796

I guess you could call them just for fun and see what they really do if you did have a MSI card ??

post back after you get the replacement card on how things go with it

I guess like evga you would have to send it to the EU ?? $$

http://forums.evga.com/EVGA-Warranty-Dubai-m2503629.aspx

they sure don't like to give up any real info on any of that then looks like its all dealer location thing not manufacture handled ..

well my card would not pass the firestrike stress test at first I was scratching my head as well but I opened up evga precision x and slid up that slider to 110% [nothing else ] and re ran the stress test and it passed , but funny is now after doing that I put it back to default [stock] and it still passes with out the power limit increase when it would not before ?????? crazy

well I guess it looks good , and run it and enjoy. I like to say these 900 cards can be ''funny''

good luck

for fun?

http://imgur.com/oXBQD9B

http://imgur.com/BLA7QfW


one more thing I was thinking about was that GPU power from one of your screen shots showing almost 352w

https://s13.postimg.org/vnqkjebav/stress_test_1.jpg

figure your psu and the card needs a pci-e slot power at 75w then 2 8-pin from the psu at 150w each that's 375w

pci-e slot = 75w 6-pin psu = 75w 8 pin psu = 150w

that's getting close and I would guess your PSU or any PSU would have to be spot on to hold up

I don't see how zotac figured up all that like I showed from here ?

https://www.techpowerup.com/vgabios/173848/zotac-gtx980ti-6144-150602

Board power limit
Target: 390.0 W
Limit: 435.0 W
Adj. Range: -74%, +12%


the cards target power is more then the pci-e slot and 2- 8 pin psu can even deliver then add that +12% ?????

maybe I need to get that better explained to me . seems like the card would need a added 6-pin at 75w on top of thee rest to meet that demand ??

maybe like said here ??

''PCIe-PEG Specs state 75w for 6 Pin, and 150w for 8Pin.

Though, a PCIe 8pin connector has the same number of 12v wires (3) and just 2 more ground wires than a PCIe 6pin connector. So right there, theoretically, a 6pin could provide 150w

'http://www.jonnyguru.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-7212.html