One unique scenario for getting a 980ti over a modern graphics card is for playing games over a CRT monitor as it was the last card to support an analog signal through using a DVI to VGA adapter.
Huh I had no idea about that! Not to mention though you could use a DVI-I cable if you wanted for analog signaling if I remember correctly? But I can't think of any CRT monitors that had DVI
also last card supported by windows xp abeit with modded drivers, paired with a creative x-fi and a now cheap cpu like a 4790k you got yourself a beasty retro gaming rig and still very decent modern gaming one.
If you're getting into PC gaming or you have been doing it and wanting a better computer i recommend buying this card 100%, as it is up there with the RTX 3050 which is a decent card aswell, and its alot cheaper than alot of modern cards and you can find a pre-built pc with one too.
Prebuilts with the 980 ti are not common anymore whatsoever. I certainly recommend the 3050 more though due to A. DLSS support, B. Freesync compatibility, and C. Far lower power consumption
Still have a 980ti Corsair Hydro in my daily, great card, keep thinking about upgrading but cant justify it, the card still performs so well. Not sure its a great buy today but if ya have one already then it's a different story.
Dang. Maybe my 980 Ti was a lemon Edit: Er after doing the trade for that Mac Pro it turns out that there was ZERO thermal pads. So no VRAM cooling or, more worryingly, VRM cooling if I remember right after the buddy I traded it to disassembled it.
Very informational video, just bought one of the EVGA overclocked variants for $120. Built a 10700k PC without a GPU and slowly realized waiting for prices to drop that I don't really have the time to game anymore, lol. 980ti seems like a nice, well-built card for CAD, HEVC encoding and the occasional night of Battlefield 1.
Built a second pc for my racing sim out of some spare parts in 2023. Ryzen 2700x and gtx 980ti and its solid. Enjoying even emulating ps3 games is fine. Ive got an evga kingpin edition and havent even attempted an overclock yet
Still running 2 of these in sli after all these years. Thinking about finally upgrading. My vray renders are much more complex today than 7 or 8 years ago so I'm finally having issues with them. Other than that for anything else not 1 problem.
If you want to upgrade you could flip your 980 Tis and grab one or two 1080 Tis. They are about $240 on ebay right now for blower cooler versions. And, a lil teaser, I may have picked up an EVGA ftw3 hybrid 1080 Ti for $140 ;p
just got a steal for a gtx 980 and a Gtx 980 ti, might try sli out since I'm using a 3050 it might actually be a bit better having the extra 2GB Vram. i paid $40 total plus I got a 16gb ram asus sabertooth motherboard p67 with a cooler and CPU! along with a 1tb HDD USB enclosure and an f ton of cables and kvm swithes not a bad $40 pc at all, a Microsoft mouse, bunch of remotes etc.
Cool. I bought the evga hybrid brand new for around $750. Like you I was forced to upgrade when I got a reverb g2. I still have it and it works just fine. I slapped some old parts together and made a 1080 system for the bedroom so me and the old lady can play some silly games together.
Yeah! Of course here what I did end up getting from my 980 Ti was very cool and is an upcoming video. It's partly edited just got tired of dealing with the project as it was, acting up you could say.
I am building a new pc got a motherboard, CPU 13900K, DDR 5 5600, best SSD on the market (but I will be using my old POWER BLOCK THAT HAS 1200 WATTS AND A MSI GTX GEFORCE 980 Ti the GPU I been using for close to 6 years and I will still be using it :D because I HAVE NO MORE MONEY )
Hey though that 13900K means that you'll see framerates that you've not been able to get to before in games that are very demanding on the CPU like in indie games specifically. A great example of this is with my Ryzen 9 3900XT. Paired with a 2080 Ti and playing Avorion I was getting ~70-90fps. Now with my Ryzen 7 5800X3D I get 100-120fps in the same environment. Its seriously game changing. Another example; Crossout was running at ~220 fps before with the 3900XT and now it hits the engine cap of 300 fps at 1080 with a 5800X3D.
@@DimondDoesTech I know the GPU MSI GTX Geforce 980Ti is equel to a 1070 even a bit better if I were to overclock. But I am kind of afraid of doing that as the GPU is still over 5 maybe even 6+ years old and I only cleaned the outside and metal vents but I did not change the thermal paste xD So a bit afraid to overclock. Granted even in usa I usually get about 70 c° sometimes if the game is very insensive and playing for couple hours will go up to 74-76°
@@paulsoaresjr12345678 The 980 Ti doesn't overclock that well anyway and the most extra perf you could get would be 10% if you are lucky. But take it from someone who owns a 2080 Ti, overclocking a GPU SIGNIFICANTLY increases power usage. My 2080 Ti draws 360w with 20% extra power limit over stock when at full load.
@@DimondDoesTech I know it doesn't overclock to much it also is not recommended to do it so I never did it. But over all I seen many test done and even website show that 1070 is still a tiny bit worse then 980Ti anyway I do want to get a another GPU but just devided that I will save money for a half a year to a year and just buy a 4090. From the point of power and price best option would be a 3080 TI but just going to go for POWER and I think sticking with MSI 4090 would be best otpion. But it will be fun it has been a long time since I build/upgraded my main PC so waiting for parts to arive. Also power no worry have a 1200 watts xD when I build my first gaming and programming rig I maid sure to use some parts that could be used next new build. First time in my life ( fixing and building close to 500 PC + laptops ) I finally get to use RGB in a PC ahahahahahaha
@@paulsoaresjr12345678 Yeah I feel ya there. The RTX 4090 is looking like a good deal for those of whom can afford it, and a 1200w PSU is going to be plenty fine for such a beast! And I don't have barely any RGB in my system, not by choice but by the parts I have bought used or new just as more budget orientated stuff like my RAM.
Yes; Elite Dangerous came out around the same time as the GPU launch. But don't mistake Elite Dangerous Oydessey with the base game and new graphical updates it's had since then. Me? I'm VERY surprised a 980ti Is able to handle Elite well.
Dude for $130 thats literally a STEAL! The 980 Ti performs a decent bit quicker vs the RX 580 and has drivers you can depend on... god damn it AMD... and you can easily flip your RX 580 for $130 if not more
@@ISAK.M Oh yeah the 960 is getting a bit on the old side these days but getting a 980 Ti for 140 euros is an epic deal as well. Although like I said at the end of the video perhaps a GTX 1070 is a better option for the likes of supporting Freesync and AMD's FSR.
@@DimondDoesTech Ditto, had one, then ran two 980's in sli for a bit, (then went to a 2080ti) now they are in the kids machines and fully capable at 1080, for the stuff they like playing; minecraft, fortnite, just cause etc.
Dirt Rally, Elite Dangerous, Shadow of the Tomb Raider, and Crossout are very much GPU intensive. All of these benchmarks were done on my Ryzen 9 3900XT system which has single core performance roughly equivalent to an i9 9900K. These benchmarks were perfectly able to show off the performance potential of the 980 Ti. Even Minecraft can be GPU intensive, at least in VR due to the sheer number of pixels needing to be pushed (something I found out in a video coming soon)
Very jealous. I've never had one of those types of cards for ANY GPU I've had before or since. I've always thought that those hybrid coolers were always a good idea.
I currently have a pc around 6 years old i think that has a 980ti and it kinda sucks rn, I think its pretty old, Im thinking of getting a new pc with a 1060 6gb, is this a good upgrade? if not what is something recommended?
A 1060 6gb would actually be a DOWNGRADE graphics wise. I'd recommend building up a system with a new CPU instead. It's recommend putting together a system with a Ryzen 5 5600 with 16gb of RAM and just throw your 980 Ti inside of that system. You'll have a kickass machine and you won't have to upgrade your GPU
for windows 10 ? naahhhh... for windows XP ? jump on it, last comptible card with modded drivers, and will play every single xp era games in 4K max details 120fps locked. pair it with a 4790k or 6700k, a creative X-Fi for EAX 5.0, 2x4gb of ram for windows 10 dual boot, look no further you got yourself the best xp/pre 2020 build there is.
@@slckb0y65 I mean its not like it would be a big difference using the Titan X over the 980 Ti given they are damn near the same card. I think the only difference you'd see is running older games at high refresh rates at 4K I'd imagine given that the only difference damn near is just VRAM.
@@DimondDoesTech honestly i don't think i ever came close to filling the 6gb on the 980ti and i run pretty much every games at 3840x2160 downscaled to 1080p. you might on more modern games but then you'll run out of GPU power anyway. now tbh i'm yet to get a 4K monitor for that build so i don't know if the 980ti can really output at that resolution and better yet at 120fps under xp.
@@slckb0y65 Honestly I think that it could do 4K 120 for games in Windows XP given the fact that I did use it for my Quest 2 for modern games (which IS 4K 120 more or less) and it ran most games at ~60fps roughly and those were modern games
One unique scenario for getting a 980ti over a modern graphics card is for playing games over a CRT monitor as it was the last card to support an analog signal through using a DVI to VGA adapter.
Huh I had no idea about that! Not to mention though you could use a DVI-I cable if you wanted for analog signaling if I remember correctly? But I can't think of any CRT monitors that had DVI
also last card supported by windows xp abeit with modded drivers, paired with a creative x-fi and a now cheap cpu like a 4790k you got yourself a beasty retro gaming rig and still very decent modern gaming one.
The reason I'm watching this video! Still using my beloved Trinitron!
my CRT tv has hdmi 😎
Thats actually a really interesting point.
If you're getting into PC gaming or you have been doing it and wanting a better computer i recommend buying this card 100%, as it is up there with the RTX 3050 which is a decent card aswell, and its alot cheaper than alot of modern cards and you can find a pre-built pc with one too.
Prebuilts with the 980 ti are not common anymore whatsoever. I certainly recommend the 3050 more though due to A. DLSS support, B. Freesync compatibility, and C. Far lower power consumption
@@DimondDoesTech 3050 is trash tho literally a 1660 with rtx
@@kath4rsis513 That is true but for some people the fact the 3050 has DLSS is a BIG DEAL. To me its not an extra $80 big deal but still
Still have a 980ti Corsair Hydro in my daily, great card, keep thinking about upgrading but cant justify it, the card still performs so well. Not sure its a great buy today but if ya have one already then it's a different story.
I am gonna buy a gtx 980 ti for a build should I change it or is it worth it
@@JosephMoriya Try find something with more VRam if poss 8gb+
The Gigabyte 980 Ti extreme boost up to 1342 mhz. I still use mine. Great card.
Dang. Maybe my 980 Ti was a lemon
Edit: Er after doing the trade for that Mac Pro it turns out that there was ZERO thermal pads. So no VRAM cooling or, more worryingly, VRM cooling if I remember right after the buddy I traded it to disassembled it.
Watching this on my 980ti. Bought new in 2015 and still rocking until today. Swapped everything else in my pc except for this gpu lmao
Heck yeah! Honestly I would STILL be using a 980 Ti if it wasn't for me delving deeper into VR.
Very informational video, just bought one of the EVGA overclocked variants for $120. Built a 10700k PC without a GPU and slowly realized waiting for prices to drop that I don't really have the time to game anymore, lol. 980ti seems like a nice, well-built card for CAD, HEVC encoding and the occasional night of Battlefield 1.
Oh heck yeah that's a perfect use case for the 980 Ti. You're not playing modern AAA titles or VR games so it'll get the job done just fine
Built a second pc for my racing sim out of some spare parts in 2023. Ryzen 2700x and gtx 980ti and its solid. Enjoying even emulating ps3 games is fine. Ive got an evga kingpin edition and havent even attempted an overclock yet
Oh man you could probably hit 1500MHz on the core of that 980 Ti if you got the kingpin edition! Very nice little sim machine ya got there
Still running 2 of these in sli after all these years. Thinking about finally upgrading. My vray renders are much more complex today than 7 or 8 years ago so I'm finally having issues with them. Other than that for anything else not 1 problem.
If you want to upgrade you could flip your 980 Tis and grab one or two 1080 Tis. They are about $240 on ebay right now for blower cooler versions. And, a lil teaser, I may have picked up an EVGA ftw3 hybrid 1080 Ti for $140 ;p
@@DimondDoesTech Thanks for the tip!
just got a steal for a gtx 980 and a Gtx 980 ti, might try sli out since I'm using a 3050 it might actually be a bit better having the extra 2GB Vram. i paid $40 total plus I got a 16gb ram asus sabertooth motherboard p67 with a cooler and CPU! along with a 1tb HDD USB enclosure and an f ton of cables and kvm swithes not a bad $40 pc at all, a Microsoft mouse, bunch of remotes etc.
@@AshtonGodbout Nice but you can't SLi the 980 and 980 ti. They are completely different.
Cool. I bought the evga hybrid brand new for around $750.
Like you I was forced to upgrade when I got a reverb g2.
I still have it and it works just fine. I slapped some old parts together and made a 1080 system for the bedroom so me and the old lady can play some silly games together.
Yeah! Of course here what I did end up getting from my 980 Ti was very cool and is an upcoming video. It's partly edited just got tired of dealing with the project as it was, acting up you could say.
Your videos are of surprisingly good quality and very entertaining ! Keep up the great work :)
Thanks!
I'm using this card for MWII, gets me around 80's on small maps and 60's in groundwar,
high 50's in WZ2.0 @1080p
Hell yeah man! MWII is pretty demanding from what I've seen but it's cool to see that the 980 Ti still is holding up ok against the test of time.
In wz1 this card (strix) gets me 120fps with 10850k.
Still using a 980ti today. Works fine for me.
I am building a new pc got a motherboard, CPU 13900K, DDR 5 5600, best SSD on the market (but I will be using my old POWER BLOCK THAT HAS 1200 WATTS AND A MSI GTX GEFORCE 980 Ti the GPU I been using for close to 6 years and I will still be using it :D because I HAVE NO MORE MONEY )
Hey though that 13900K means that you'll see framerates that you've not been able to get to before in games that are very demanding on the CPU like in indie games specifically. A great example of this is with my Ryzen 9 3900XT. Paired with a 2080 Ti and playing Avorion I was getting ~70-90fps. Now with my Ryzen 7 5800X3D I get 100-120fps in the same environment. Its seriously game changing. Another example; Crossout was running at ~220 fps before with the 3900XT and now it hits the engine cap of 300 fps at 1080 with a 5800X3D.
@@DimondDoesTech I know the GPU MSI GTX Geforce 980Ti is equel to a 1070 even a bit better if I were to overclock. But I am kind of afraid of doing that as the GPU is still over 5 maybe even 6+ years old and I only cleaned the outside and metal vents but I did not change the thermal paste xD So a bit afraid to overclock. Granted even in usa I usually get about 70 c° sometimes if the game is very insensive and playing for couple hours will go up to 74-76°
@@paulsoaresjr12345678 The 980 Ti doesn't overclock that well anyway and the most extra perf you could get would be 10% if you are lucky. But take it from someone who owns a 2080 Ti, overclocking a GPU SIGNIFICANTLY increases power usage. My 2080 Ti draws 360w with 20% extra power limit over stock when at full load.
@@DimondDoesTech I know it doesn't overclock to much it also is not recommended to do it so I never did it. But over all I seen many test done and even website show that 1070 is still a tiny bit worse then 980Ti anyway I do want to get a another GPU but just devided that I will save money for a half a year to a year and just buy a 4090. From the point of power and price best option would be a 3080 TI but just going to go for POWER and I think sticking with MSI 4090 would be best otpion. But it will be fun it has been a long time since I build/upgraded my main PC so waiting for parts to arive.
Also power no worry have a 1200 watts xD when I build my first gaming and programming rig I maid sure to use some parts that could be used next new build.
First time in my life ( fixing and building close to 500 PC + laptops ) I finally get to use RGB in a PC ahahahahahaha
@@paulsoaresjr12345678 Yeah I feel ya there. The RTX 4090 is looking like a good deal for those of whom can afford it, and a 1200w PSU is going to be plenty fine for such a beast! And I don't have barely any RGB in my system, not by choice but by the parts I have bought used or new just as more budget orientated stuff like my RAM.
Yes; Elite Dangerous came out around the same time as the GPU launch. But don't mistake Elite Dangerous Oydessey with the base game and new graphical updates it's had since then. Me? I'm VERY surprised a 980ti Is able to handle Elite well.
Wellllll this was shot before Horizons had come to VR so it technically still was the base game in this video.
@@DimondDoesTech Oh shoot, my bad. I forgot that you were playing in VR 💀
I still owned mai gtx 980.
Heck yeah!
Should i buy at 12.5kinr.(156USD) Msi 980ti gameing
6.9 Tflops one?or wait for next gen? any suggestion. I am just a casual gamer.
Thats a pretty good deal. I'd say go for it!
I have an RX 580 but a friend said he can sell me his 980 ti founders edition for $130. Good idea?
Dude for $130 thats literally a STEAL! The 980 Ti performs a decent bit quicker vs the RX 580 and has drivers you can depend on... god damn it AMD... and you can easily flip your RX 580 for $130 if not more
Yes I bought mine for 140€ and I went from a shitty 960 2GB to a glorious 980 Ti and the increase in performance is massive. Totally worth it
@@ISAK.M Oh yeah the 960 is getting a bit on the old side these days but getting a 980 Ti for 140 euros is an epic deal as well. Although like I said at the end of the video perhaps a GTX 1070 is a better option for the likes of supporting Freesync and AMD's FSR.
What did you upgrade to after the 980ti?
An RTX 2080 Ti :p
@@DimondDoesTech nice.
Rtx 3090 then my pc has burn ;-;
@@DimondDoesTech Ditto, had one, then ran two 980's in sli for a bit, (then went to a 2080ti) now they are in the kids machines and fully capable at 1080, for the stuff they like playing; minecraft, fortnite, just cause etc.
Most of the games that you've played was cpu intensive and didn't show any kind of performance showcase of how powerful the 980ti are. Dislike
Dirt Rally, Elite Dangerous, Shadow of the Tomb Raider, and Crossout are very much GPU intensive. All of these benchmarks were done on my Ryzen 9 3900XT system which has single core performance roughly equivalent to an i9 9900K. These benchmarks were perfectly able to show off the performance potential of the 980 Ti. Even Minecraft can be GPU intensive, at least in VR due to the sheer number of pixels needing to be pushed (something I found out in a video coming soon)
I have the hybrid version that I bought for $150 a couple months ago.
Very jealous. I've never had one of those types of cards for ANY GPU I've had before or since. I've always thought that those hybrid coolers were always a good idea.
I just got one for 43usd
@@solvekit HOLY S***! YOU STOLE THAT ONE! That is a CRAZY good deal!!!
@@DimondDoesTech temps are amazing and I only have a small oc of 1396mhz on core
@@solvekit how did you get one for that? That’s an absolutely amazing deal.
i use my gtx 980 sc from 2013 till today lol
Depending on what you do and what you play, a GPU that old still suits most people pretty dang well even today
@@DimondDoesTech true , i'm ok with 1920 x 1080 and apex
Will buy this kind of card for $160 is it a good deal?
If it works then by golly that is one hell of a deal!!
I currently have a pc around 6 years old i think that has a 980ti and it kinda sucks rn, I think its pretty old, Im thinking of getting a new pc with a 1060 6gb, is this a good upgrade? if not what is something recommended?
A 1060 6gb would actually be a DOWNGRADE graphics wise. I'd recommend building up a system with a new CPU instead. It's recommend putting together a system with a Ryzen 5 5600 with 16gb of RAM and just throw your 980 Ti inside of that system. You'll have a kickass machine and you won't have to upgrade your GPU
Yes gtx 980ti is powerful than gtx 1060 6gb
Is it worth to use my 980ti pny for my gaming build??
Heck yeah! Like I showed in the video, the 980 Ti is still a perfectly fast and good card for gaming still
is 400W EVGA enough for a normal 980?
I'd go 650w
Depends on what other parts you have. Could work good with a low tdp cpu.
would you sell it
Already sold my friend. It was traded to get my cMP 5, 1
Ill stick with ny 7900gtx
Ay thats a good GPU from the time period
for windows 10 ? naahhhh... for windows XP ? jump on it, last comptible card with modded drivers, and will play every single xp era games in 4K max details 120fps locked.
pair it with a 4790k or 6700k, a creative X-Fi for EAX 5.0, 2x4gb of ram for windows 10 dual boot, look no further you got yourself the best xp/pre 2020 build there is.
You bet! However is the 980 Ti really the best card? Can you not use the Titan X on XP?
@@DimondDoesTech hmmm that i must admit i don't know, it might indeed be possible with modded drivers, don't have one on hand unfo :/
@@slckb0y65 I mean its not like it would be a big difference using the Titan X over the 980 Ti given they are damn near the same card. I think the only difference you'd see is running older games at high refresh rates at 4K I'd imagine given that the only difference damn near is just VRAM.
@@DimondDoesTech honestly i don't think i ever came close to filling the 6gb on the 980ti and i run pretty much every games at 3840x2160 downscaled to 1080p.
you might on more modern games but then you'll run out of GPU power anyway.
now tbh i'm yet to get a 4K monitor for that build so i don't know if the 980ti can really output at that resolution and better yet at 120fps under xp.
@@slckb0y65 Honestly I think that it could do 4K 120 for games in Windows XP given the fact that I did use it for my Quest 2 for modern games (which IS 4K 120 more or less) and it ran most games at ~60fps roughly and those were modern games
Yeehaw! AMD for life