Ah, the 980 Ti. I have one myself, it just keeps on giving. This card just won't die, it served me (well, almost, hopefully...) through both GPU price crazes and still kicks ass. Easily one of the best 350 bucks I have ever spent.
Bought mine for 250 few years ago. Sold it for 350 late last year 😂. None the less the card was a beast with a moderate overclock but no longer needed it as i got a new card.
You could straight up by qn upgrade kit and put it on any reference PCB. "First, note that the 980 Ti Hybrid modding kit is available for $100. For users who already own a 980 Ti, the kit can be purchased for boosted performance at a lower cost than the Hybrid standalone"
@@joshuagaona1274 If you mean a jump from a 1070 to a 3070 is a small upgrade you must be joking... That is the way i went and the difference is night and day, could just use more Vram.
@@ivgotballsofsteel4048 I have a GTX 1070ti and I doubt an upgrade would be night and day. On paper maybe, but in practice my card runs everytging you throw at it with at least 1080p 60fps, so the update will be from great to even greater.
@@Tom2404 1080 60 is the bare minimum for a decent pc experience tho lmao. 3070 gives you 1440p maxed out high refresh. so yeah, night and day and then some.
Yes and I don't know how to these people that compare this to other cards getting such low fps on this. Mine Asus GTX 980 Ti strix OC at stock have same performance as rtx 2060. This card is beast but It need good PSU. This card was worth these 250$ that paid for it one month ago. It is great upgrade of mine GTX 970.
@@jakubmad3957 Yeah, I got a 980Ti for my GF's build, also a ASUS 980Ti ROG Strix. It still does well above 100 FPS in most titles except maybe the most demanding ones.
82°C is correct but if you don't like temperature this high, you can try to undervolt it or buy a AIO solution like a 120mm CPU AIO with a Kraken G12, it will be so much cooler that even under full load, I highly doubt the GPU could exceed 40°C.
I am still rocking a MSI 980 TI Seahawk GPU bought in January 2016... 🙄 yes I know just before the release of the 10 series I should have waited but I was excited as this was my first high end build due to a little inheritance from my grandparents... but man what a great card, still allows me to play most of my games smoothly at 1440p other than a few of the newer games I play (Cyberpunk et al). And the Corsair AIO cooler that MSI used for the card is still working fine... touch wood...
That's a pretty smart idea. Original owner probably bought a blower 980Ti and that cooler helped a lot. I wish I bought an aftermarket cooler for my Titan X Maxwell as the blower style cooler suuuucks and it's hard to find one now. Kinda pointless too since I've upgraded to a 2080Ti in 2019
I owned a 980 non TI, the evga hydro copper model in a custom loop. The card itself was a reference design with a tiny clock boost. The thing that made it really fast was flashing the bios and thus removing power and voltage limits. The waterblock held temperatures in check, the power delivery was cooled properly,but as I said, the card was a reference design. I think the TI model was the same, but in not sure there.
I just got a dual fan 980TI, I paid a bit more than you however. I was thinking it'd perform good, but was pleasantly surprised how good it was at 1440p. Keep up the great content.
The EVGA hybrid was just a reference card with a liquid cooler. That's why it fits onto the zotac. In fact it will work on most reference models like the gigabyte tri fan. It was the bios that was modded to get higher clocks
Thanks for posting - I also picked up a 2nd hand EVGA hybrid 980ti this week which came with no box. Had to check clock speeds after this video and they are as per the factory specs so looks like I got a genuine one. Bummed ... :P
Did something similiar with my 1080ti duke. Got a cheap 400 dollar card, slapped a cooler and G12 bracket on. Been a couple years and it still holds up.
EVGA sold aftermarket cooling kits. I bought their Titan X branded ACX one to go on my EVGA 980ti reference card (SC) to match my other ACX EVGA 980ti superclocked (SC). I was assured by SCAN the cooler would fit the card. I used them in SLI in 2015 for some early 4k gaming - monstrous ! The BIOS on the reference had the same clocks but the fan profile was designed for a blower cooler and was there fore mismatched with my other card (I did try software, wasn't great). I NVflash dumped the BIOS from the ACX and wrote it to the Ref card (after backing it up) - fan profiles were then blob on. I finally got annoyed with the unused Ref cooler sitting on my shelf and sold it this year for £42 to some Canadian chap on eBay :-)
A friend of mine also ordered the EVGA kit from a Founders 1070 and rebuilt it .He also had the card installed in his PC up to about 5 months ago until he got his RTX 3080
I used to own a 980 Ti, though it was an air-cooled EVGA model. Sadly, my old power supply thought it was a good idea to short out somehow, and take the graphics card with it. I bought it brand new in 2015, and it lasted me a good 4 years. Used in conjunction with an Intel Core i7 4790K, and 32 GB memory. But due to me having a 4K monitor, it started becoming a bit on the slower side for the games that came out later down the line (if I did not sacrifice resolution) So when it died, I decided to build a brand new rig.
@Ayaan K This was back in 2019, so I decided that now was the time to go AMD again. Current specs are: AMD Ryzen 9 3900X GTX 1080 Ti 32 GB DDR4 @3600 MHz ROG Strix X570-E ROG Thor 850w ROG Helios Mid Tower 5.75 TB storage. (1x M.2, 3x SATA SSD + 1x HDD) I bought mostly top of the line parts at the time, so that they could last for as long as possible Only the graphics card and a few of the drives were re-used from the old build
On my main gaming PC, I still have it with an Intel Core i7-6800k at 4.3 GHz, 16 gb ddr4 ram 3200 MHz ram in quad channel, and for the GPU, I have it with a PNY Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 GPU. Pretty much would've been high end specs for 2016, still holds up well in 2021. I remember after a recent update, Flight Simulator for me seems to run much smoother with less stuttering, even flying over New York City which is pretty graphic intensive. I think the 1080 is one of the cheapest 1080s out there, but at least it is a real 1080 nonetheless.
Bought my 980ti reference back in 2015. I was gonna upgrade to a 3090 but current world events happened. Guess you’ll be hanging on a little while longer old pal.
The hybrid TI is actually a reference 980Ti. It's the reference board and PCB, so power delivery and binning is the same as the founders - the real highend ones from the maxwell gen are the MSI lightning, asus ROG, evga classified etc.
I had done this to my reference Zotac card too. This hybrid kit was available off the shelf to buy. Mine ran at 1500 MHz boost clocks after slapping this kit on. The stock cooler would throttle to 1GHz and 85 degree temps. Even maxed out, the GPU ran at a cool 60 degrees with this kit.
I'm rocking with a ROG Strix 980 Ti right now and given that I'm fine with gaming at 1080p and I've got a reasonably decent CPU (Ryzen 7 2700x), it's serving me pretty well until I try to grab a newer card in November or December. I'd been using a 2070 Super FE up until a few months ago when the secondary market was offering more for that card than I could pass up. So, after getting my old card out of it's box in the closet, a thorough rubbing alcohol bath, some new thermal pads, and a fresh application of Kryonaut paste... now here we are.
i like how you find these cards.. i have a 960 4gb.. but wish i had a 980.... i just am a poor guy though .. but love the vids.. and your sis is cool too ;)
Just bought a cheap 10400f today (like 50€ cheaper than a 3600 and 35€ cheaper than an 11400f) my gpu is the 1660ti (basically a 980ti but with GDDR6) so looking at this was very informative as I should expect a very similar game performance from my gaming pc going forward (before that i was using an fx 8320 which was a hard bottleneck)
I've been using a PNY reference 980 Ti that I got broken on ebay for $100 usd at the beginning of this year, and I can play pretty much anything at 4k with decent framerate, it's a great card still.
G'day Random, There are 2 Original EVGA GTX980Ti Hybrids for sale by the same seller here in Sydney, one is $700AUD Used & the other $800AUD New in Box, so looks like he bought one to have as a spare & never needed it.
Yeah, I was expecting some sort of disaster GPU as well, so I'm glad to hear you at least got a 980Ti. Seems like a really nice card, though water cooling wouldn't be my personal preference. Remember, water and electronics don't mix, and things can go wrong.
I have an EVGA FE version of this card and absolutely love it, even though it might struggle with some title like 7 days to die due to bad optimization, but it is still a very nice card
I bought an MSI GTX 980 Ti back in November 2015. Here in Korea, GPUs are more expensive, so the total cost came out to just a bit over $800 USD. The card has been good, but MAN, that price is difficult to accept.
Yo I actually saw this exact thing in early July. Of course it could just be a completely different person using the same idea, but it's a neat coincidence either way
I have a ASUS GTX 980Ti ROG STRIX and it comes with 1250Mhz core and 7.5k Mhz memory out of the box so that one will have a lot lower even with a OC, maybe 1.1k/7k. Doesn't matter how good the cooling is, you just won't push a Zotac past those numbers. They don't have capacitor quality and VRM's capable enough to match that.
I've been called a monster for how I game! You said about the hum, putting people off, I have my AC aiming right at my PC with the side panel off. So the AC drowns out the fans and I wear noise cancelling headphones. 😂
Good idea, that condensation is gonna kill it. 👌 Meanwhile: my 1990s case with one intake fan on side panel and one exhaust fan on the back keeps my overclocked 1060 and overclocked Ryzen 5 5600x running at a perfectly acceptable temperature in a 24degC ambient room...
Not sure if they made them back then, but there are kits from EVGA to make your card a hybrid card. They are made to be used with EVGA cards obviously, but I'm sure they work fine on a couple other models. edit: scrolled and saw someone posted this basically. anyways hello
I have an Asus 980ti and swapped the cooler out for the g12 nzxt bracket and fan with a 120mm aio and it dropped temps a good amount but also noise. Very good option for these cards. I have the aio already and payed £10 for the bracket
Have been using a 980 Ti since 2015 and it definitely has been worth the money. Currently gaming at 1440p or 2160p still goes allright, it can definitely still run most games at 1440p/60. Currently playing snowrunner which it also beasts through at 1440p ultra. But i am looking for a replacement that can pump all my games up to 4k, so 3080 or 6800XT, probably going to bite the bullet on a model that is around €1200 quite soon, or cheaper if possible of course..
the fact that it was running RE8 better than my 1060 3gb should tell you a lot. that’s still a great little card, and the VRAM is doing all the heavy lifting lol.
I still got my RX 480 8gb card and it still kicks almost every games ass at 3200x1800 with HDR with mostly high settings. Death stranding looks AMAZING!
I had a 980Ti Hybrid briefly last year, got it for £150 (remember when you could get a 980Ti for that much? lol) for my second PC when my boyfriend was using my main one. Paired with a 3570k with a heavy OC it was a 1440p beast considering the age. Still wish I never got rid of it
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It always surprises me that even graphics cards that are now 6 years old can still perform almost as good as cards from today. It makes you wonder why we all need to keep upgrading all the time. I benchmarked my 1080ti with my RTX 3070 and, to be honest, there was very little in it and yet the RTX 3070 cost me £500 more!
I own the Titan X from that Generation, so a 980ti+ if you will. And it still works well. Borrowed it to a friend until we can finally grab a hold of any newer card...
Have an EVGA 980ti classified in my main rig. But overall my computer doesn't run very well sadly, and i have huge problems figuring out, what exactly is wrong. Every 30-60 minutes, my computer "hangs" for like half a second. Like a hickup. I tested everything from cpu, to graphics card, ram but cannot find the problem. I even changed my mainboard but the problems are still there. If these hickups would be the only problem, i wouldn't mind, but i also have problems that games suddenly close or that i get bluescreens. System is a Ryzen 2700x, 32gb Corsair Vengeance rgb ram 3200mhz and an asus crosshair vi hero x370 board. Iam thankful if maybe you have any idea what else i can test out. Thx for your videos and keep up the good work man!
Thats pretty good. These reference cards werent able to get that high. Most did 1475-1500. I could only get mine to do 1525 during a 3dmark pass with the coolant cool. Other than that, ran mine at 1490.
@@Jaymobe07 Huh? How? I had a ASUS 980Ti ROG STRIX and it could barely hit 1.45k/7.5k and that's leagues aboves any Palit or Zotac offerings. Somehow me thinks someone is making up numbers here. If you said 1250Mhz or something I would have believed you, but 1525? I find that extremely difficult to believe especially from Palit, which, along with Zotac are the bottom of the barrel when it comes ot AIB's
If the pcb of the Zotac and the EVGA is the same, you can flash the EVGA BIOS and get better clockspeeds. I have a chinese gtx1080 which had a turbo cooler. I swapped it with EVGA SC cooler, flashed it and showed up as EVGA GTX 1080 SC, also had the performance to back it up
I was 100% expecting a GTS 450. :D
I was expecting a GT 710
@@copy.4123 I could not say that because of 144p🤣
"Wish" flashbacks 0.0
No G 100
geforce 9400 gt
Why Steven that is once top of the range EVGA Hybrid GTX 980 Ti graphics card
30 second ago 😳
this is pretty cool though! :D
Big fan mate 🔥🤗
😂
hey jack how are you buddy
The 980ti is such a good card. I wasn’t expecting this story to have such a happy ending.
A good scam haha
Only thing holding this little beast back is its maxwell architecture.
its comparable to 1070
And all I can find in the us is those scam gts 450 card and 980s going for 300ish
@@R3TR0J4N nah more like gtx 1060 6gb
I'd say this is a 144p picture, if you ask me.
RUclips is calling it a "quality unavailable" picture to me... A phrase I now want to use more often...
@@fatrobin72 same here I am also unable to change resolution 😐
Same
Reload to fix it.
Same, might aswell watch this on a crt
Ah, the 980 Ti. I have one myself, it just keeps on giving.
This card just won't die, it served me (well, almost, hopefully...) through both GPU price crazes and still kicks ass. Easily one of the best 350 bucks I have ever spent.
Still a beast!
Bought mine for 250 few years ago. Sold it for 350 late last year 😂. None the less the card was a beast with a moderate overclock but no longer needed it as i got a new card.
Is it msi or asus or evga ?
I got mine for $200.
Both GPU price crazes? I've only been paying attention to this recent one, what do you expect to happen to prices going forward?
You have to give these guys kudos for their engineering and flat-out chutzpah! Nicely done!
Yeah never seen anything like this before
You could straight up by qn upgrade kit and put it on any reference PCB.
"First, note that the 980 Ti Hybrid modding kit is available for $100. For users who already own a 980 Ti, the kit can be purchased for boosted performance at a lower cost than the Hybrid standalone"
it's the obscurity of the things you review and overclock and in depth explanation of all the details that i enjoy so much. thumbs up!
Man, this card/1070 was my dream card back in the day, but now i got 3070
Small upgrade
@@joshuagaona1274 If you mean a jump from a 1070 to a 3070 is a small upgrade you must be joking... That is the way i went and the difference is night and day, could just use more Vram.
@@ivgotballsofsteel4048 I have a GTX 1070ti and I doubt an upgrade would be night and day. On paper maybe, but in practice my card runs everytging you throw at it with at least 1080p 60fps, so the update will be from great to even greater.
@@ivgotballsofsteel4048 watchu mean ? A 1070 and a 3070 are a small difference apart. It’s like night and day, it’s only a small increase /j
@@Tom2404 1080 60 is the bare minimum for a decent pc experience tho lmao. 3070 gives you 1440p maxed out high refresh. so yeah, night and day and then some.
Ill Be glad when Graphics cards come back in stock! I love your videos man !
Yeah, these for $170. Imma buy one just for backup because they'll be so cheap.
shouldn't be too long now, the 1060 equivalent cards like the 1060 3gb and 970 have dropped to around ore scalping prices at least in the uk
Purchased one earlier this year for $200 and paired it with a Ryzen 5 1600 AF for my sister's build. The 980Ti is defiantly still a beast in 2021!
Yes and I don't know how to these people that compare this to other cards getting such low fps on this. Mine Asus GTX 980 Ti strix OC at stock have same performance as rtx 2060. This card is beast but It need good PSU. This card was worth these 250$ that paid for it one month ago. It is great upgrade of mine GTX 970.
@@jakubmad3957 Damn it does? I have an EVGA one from 6 years ago so that would be really nice
52 fps on ultra settings in AC valhalla and 54 FPS on ultra settings in AC odyssey.
But I have i9 9900k as CPU keep this in mind.
hell of a deal considering 1050Ti are bringing that now.
@@jakubmad3957 Yeah, I got a 980Ti for my GF's build, also a ASUS 980Ti ROG Strix. It still does well above 100 FPS in most titles except maybe the most demanding ones.
Honestly this isn't that bad of an idea. It would certainly be helpful for my 82c 1070 Ti lol
Dude, do you have a blower model? If not, then repasting should do you some wonders.
82°C is correct but if you don't like temperature this high, you can try to undervolt it or buy a AIO solution like a 120mm CPU AIO with a Kraken G12, it will be so much cooler that even under full load, I highly doubt the GPU could exceed 40°C.
Its probably a case airflow issue if not that sounds like a really bad 1070 or clogged up with dust
@@lombredeshakuras1481 you shouldn't use a CPU cooler on a gpu as they offer no cooling over the vram/vrms
Arctic gpu cooler maybe?
6:59 It is not the gpu's fault always in this game. The DRM has been found out to make huge performance dips in combat.
There was a update, that issue is fixed.
They patched it
@@dagnisnierlins188 it wasn't fixed But it is better than before
Can confirm this still exists on current patch.
I am still rocking a MSI 980 TI Seahawk GPU bought in January 2016... 🙄 yes I know just before the release of the 10 series I should have waited but I was excited as this was my first high end build due to a little inheritance from my grandparents... but man what a great card, still allows me to play most of my games smoothly at 1440p other than a few of the newer games I play (Cyberpunk et al). And the Corsair AIO cooler that MSI used for the card is still working fine... touch wood...
That's a pretty smart idea. Original owner probably bought a blower 980Ti and that cooler helped a lot. I wish I bought an aftermarket cooler for my Titan X Maxwell as the blower style cooler suuuucks and it's hard to find one now. Kinda pointless too since I've upgraded to a 2080Ti in 2019
I owned a 980 non TI, the evga hydro copper model in a custom loop. The card itself was a reference design with a tiny clock boost. The thing that made it really fast was flashing the bios and thus removing power and voltage limits. The waterblock held temperatures in check, the power delivery was cooled properly,but as I said, the card was a reference design. I think the TI model was the same, but in not sure there.
I just got a dual fan 980TI, I paid a bit more than you however. I was thinking it'd perform good, but was pleasantly surprised how good it was at 1440p.
Keep up the great content.
The EVGA hybrid was just a reference card with a liquid cooler. That's why it fits onto the zotac. In fact it will work on most reference models like the gigabyte tri fan. It was the bios that was modded to get higher clocks
would only work with the lowest gigabyte windforce. higher models like the g1 and xtreme had custom pcb's
Thanks for posting - I also picked up a 2nd hand EVGA hybrid 980ti this week which came with no box. Had to check clock speeds after this video and they are as per the factory specs so looks like I got a genuine one. Bummed ... :P
Loving these kind of videos. Keep up the great work 💖
Thanks :)
@@RandomGaminginHD it's my pleasure c:
Fucking love hearing "Hello everyone and welcome", keep it up. :)
0:30 Nice fella you got there at the bottom right of the card.
Lol he was checking if it's fake or not.
Ants actually rule the world...
You can see an ant on the ground in the next shot as well. I guess he took the external shots first, then carried an ant back into the house.
Did something similiar with my 1080ti duke. Got a cheap 400 dollar card, slapped a cooler and G12 bracket on. Been a couple years and it still holds up.
EVGA sold aftermarket cooling kits. I bought their Titan X branded ACX one to go on my EVGA 980ti reference card (SC) to match my other ACX EVGA 980ti superclocked (SC). I was assured by SCAN the cooler would fit the card. I used them in SLI in 2015 for some early 4k gaming - monstrous ! The BIOS on the reference had the same clocks but the fan profile was designed for a blower cooler and was there fore mismatched with my other card (I did try software, wasn't great). I NVflash dumped the BIOS from the ACX and wrote it to the Ref card (after backing it up) - fan profiles were then blob on. I finally got annoyed with the unused Ref cooler sitting on my shelf and sold it this year for £42 to some Canadian chap on eBay :-)
Your videos are so calming for some reason
A friend of mine also ordered the EVGA kit from a Founders 1070 and rebuilt it .He also had the card installed in his PC up to about 5 months ago until he got his RTX 3080
I used to own a 980 Ti, though it was an air-cooled EVGA model.
Sadly, my old power supply thought it was a good idea to short out somehow, and take the graphics card with it.
I bought it brand new in 2015, and it lasted me a good 4 years. Used in conjunction with an Intel Core i7 4790K, and 32 GB memory.
But due to me having a 4K monitor, it started becoming a bit on the slower side for the games that came out later down the line (if I did not sacrifice resolution)
So when it died, I decided to build a brand new rig.
@Ayaan K This was back in 2019, so I decided that now was the time to go AMD again.
Current specs are:
AMD Ryzen 9 3900X
GTX 1080 Ti
32 GB DDR4 @3600 MHz
ROG Strix X570-E
ROG Thor 850w
ROG Helios Mid Tower
5.75 TB storage. (1x M.2, 3x SATA SSD + 1x HDD)
I bought mostly top of the line parts at the time, so that they could last for as long as possible
Only the graphics card and a few of the drives were re-used from the old build
0:32 Dude, seeing those ants 2 shots in a row almost made me punch my screen.
On my main gaming PC, I still have it with an Intel Core i7-6800k at 4.3 GHz, 16 gb ddr4 ram 3200 MHz ram in quad channel, and for the GPU, I have it with a PNY Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 GPU. Pretty much would've been high end specs for 2016, still holds up well in 2021. I remember after a recent update, Flight Simulator for me seems to run much smoother with less stuttering, even flying over New York City which is pretty graphic intensive. I think the 1080 is one of the cheapest 1080s out there, but at least it is a real 1080 nonetheless.
I that EVGA 980 ti AIO, lasted two years before it suddenly started artefacting then after a few weeks wouldn't turn on.
8 months later I'm still running my Gigabyte hybrid 980ti with overclock and using it as a work PC everyday too. Best card I've ever had
Bought my 980ti reference back in 2015. I was gonna upgrade to a 3090 but current world events happened.
Guess you’ll be hanging on a little while longer old pal.
Yeah it’s still hanging in there!
0:31 you can see clearly a wee lil worker checking out the components inside and ran as fast as he could before the card was plugged in! 😂
XD
i did the same when i was running sli gtx 980s. worked slick as hell.
While the fps is not anything too particular these days, the frametimes at 1080p seem absolutely incredible. That was the flattest line I saw all day!
EVGA sold a Hybrid hit! I used them myself for my 980s.
Hit or kit?
Kit was a hit xD
The hybrid TI is actually a reference 980Ti.
It's the reference board and PCB, so power delivery and binning is the same as the founders - the real highend ones from the maxwell gen are the MSI lightning, asus ROG, evga classified etc.
I would love a disassembly vid! Good work as always.
Overclocking can be your best friend if used right. Great video brotha.
I just upgraded tot a 980 Ti. Good to see it Will Serve me welk.🤗
Enjoy it it’s still great!
I had done this to my reference Zotac card too. This hybrid kit was available off the shelf to buy. Mine ran at 1500 MHz boost clocks after slapping this kit on. The stock cooler would throttle to 1GHz and 85 degree temps. Even maxed out, the GPU ran at a cool 60 degrees with this kit.
I'm rocking with a ROG Strix 980 Ti right now and given that I'm fine with gaming at 1080p and I've got a reasonably decent CPU (Ryzen 7 2700x), it's serving me pretty well until I try to grab a newer card in November or December.
I'd been using a 2070 Super FE up until a few months ago when the secondary market was offering more for that card than I could pass up. So, after getting my old card out of it's box in the closet, a thorough rubbing alcohol bath, some new thermal pads, and a fresh application of Kryonaut paste... now here we are.
the EVGA 980Ti Hybrid is just a reference PCB. So the EVGA cooler will fit even the Titan X maxwell.
very impressed by how well that card is holding up. nice video.
They took the hybrid part to another level
the 980 ti and i7 6700k was my dream setup from bk in 2015
i like how you find these cards.. i have a 960 4gb.. but wish i had a 980.... i just am a poor guy though .. but love the vids.. and your sis is cool too ;)
Wow, that cooler is a pretty nice upgrade to the stock cooler! What a bargain!
Just bought a cheap 10400f today
(like 50€ cheaper than a 3600 and 35€ cheaper than an 11400f)
my gpu is the 1660ti (basically a 980ti but with GDDR6)
so looking at this was very informative as I should expect a very similar game performance from my gaming pc going forward (before that i was using an fx 8320 which was a hard bottleneck)
Had one of these, one of the best hardware buys I've ever made, thing aged like a fine wine
Got an MSI version for 100 pound (very great deal) recently, still packs a punch.
I've been using a PNY reference 980 Ti that I got broken on ebay for $100 usd at the beginning of this year, and I can play pretty much anything at 4k with decent framerate, it's a great card still.
Man that darn bug at 0:30
I honestly wasnt expecting 1440p on cp2077. I thought it would give about 10-20 fps. Good card!
G'day Random,
There are 2 Original EVGA GTX980Ti Hybrids for sale by the same seller here in Sydney,
one is $700AUD Used & the other $800AUD New in Box, so looks like he bought one to have as a spare & never needed it.
Yeah, I was expecting some sort of disaster GPU as well, so I'm glad to hear you at least got a 980Ti. Seems like a really nice card, though water cooling wouldn't be my personal preference. Remember, water and electronics don't mix, and things can go wrong.
I have an EVGA FE version of this card and absolutely love it, even though it might struggle with some title like 7 days to die due to bad optimization, but it is still a very nice card
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I bought an MSI GTX 980 Ti back in November 2015. Here in Korea, GPUs are more expensive, so the total cost came out to just a bit over $800 USD. The card has been good, but MAN, that price is difficult to accept.
I had 2 Galax 980ti HOF cards. Loved thoes cards.
Yo I actually saw this exact thing in early July. Of course it could just be a completely different person using the same idea, but it's a neat coincidence either way
Steven my friend, I am still running a GTX 970 to this day! :D
I was actually running a Zotac 980 ti with an EVGA Hybrid kit installed for quite a while. Sold it a year or 2 ago.
I'm still using this card to this day. It's such a beast even if it's 5 years old.
I'm really curious to see the core and memory clock especially for this powerful old card, pls enable them on afterburner :)
I have a ASUS GTX 980Ti ROG STRIX and it comes with 1250Mhz core and 7.5k Mhz memory out of the box so that one will have a lot lower even with a OC, maybe 1.1k/7k. Doesn't matter how good the cooling is, you just won't push a Zotac past those numbers. They don't have capacitor quality and VRM's capable enough to match that.
I feel like the ant crawling out from the bracket end of the card at 0:31 should have been a red flag lol
I do own a Gigabyte G1 OC 980Ti, still runs anything I throw at it.
I thought that ant was on my monitor! 0:29
I just commented the same thing! Except I asked if it was an ant or not. (I also thought it was on my tablet screen!)
I've been called a monster for how I game!
You said about the hum, putting people off, I have my AC aiming right at my PC with the side panel off. So the AC drowns out the fans and I wear noise cancelling headphones. 😂
Good idea, that condensation is gonna kill it. 👌 Meanwhile: my 1990s case with one intake fan on side panel and one exhaust fan on the back keeps my overclocked 1060 and overclocked Ryzen 5 5600x running at a perfectly acceptable temperature in a 24degC ambient room...
great video this reminds me of something id have done in the past
I'd say... your name is steven?? I'm ben man good video bro🤠👍
Hybrid kit sold by EVGA for reference pcb cards, have a 2080ti version
Wow, that's nice! I would really like to have that card! I'm running a GTX580 and the 1,5 vram is really holding it back.....
I had one of these, fond memories but definitely not the quietest card in the world.
Alot of people did this. People also did this with Titan X’s also. It’s a very compatible AIO
Pure genius plain and simple. Pimp my Zotac.
Haha yeah
I have two oc evga 980tis in two systems. Still work fine. Nice overclockers.
Not sure if they made them back then, but there are kits from EVGA to make your card a hybrid card. They are made to be used with EVGA cards obviously, but I'm sure they work fine on a couple other models.
edit: scrolled and saw someone posted this basically. anyways hello
0:30 why did I thought that there was an actual bug on my screen and flinched
0:30 and in the scene after you fooled me twice. You made me feel the urge to go and grab something worthy of destroying insects twice.
For your next disguised GPU the thumbnail should show the GPU underwater ;)
The MSI model of the 980ti was my first graphics card in early 2016, loved it. I play at 1440p 144hz though, so glad I upgraded to a 1080
I have an Asus 980ti and swapped the cooler out for the g12 nzxt bracket and fan with a 120mm aio and it dropped temps a good amount but also noise. Very good option for these cards. I have the aio already and payed £10 for the bracket
Have been using a 980 Ti since 2015 and it definitely has been worth the money. Currently gaming at 1440p or 2160p still goes allright, it can definitely still run most games at 1440p/60. Currently playing snowrunner which it also beasts through at 1440p ultra. But i am looking for a replacement that can pump all my games up to 4k, so 3080 or 6800XT, probably going to bite the bullet on a model that is around €1200 quite soon, or cheaper if possible of course..
0.30 thanks for making me hit my phone screen... thought that ant was on my screen haha
the fact that it was running RE8 better than my 1060 3gb should tell you a lot. that’s still a great little card, and the VRAM is doing all the heavy lifting lol.
I still got my RX 480 8gb card and it still kicks almost every games ass at 3200x1800 with HDR with mostly high settings. Death stranding looks AMAZING!
I had a 980Ti Hybrid briefly last year, got it for £150 (remember when you could get a 980Ti for that much? lol) for my second PC when my boyfriend was using my main one. Paired with a 3570k with a heavy OC it was a 1440p beast considering the age. Still wish I never got rid of it
It always surprises me that even graphics cards that are now 6 years old can still perform almost as good as cards from today. It makes you wonder why we all need to keep upgrading all the time. I benchmarked my 1080ti with my RTX 3070 and, to be honest, there was very little in it and yet the RTX 3070 cost me £500 more!
well you should watch benchmarks first before buying a card with same perfomancelevel
those 980 Ti are still beasts, have one in my other rig:D
The drops in RE Village are not the fault of the card, but rather the Denuvo DRM.
I own the Titan X from that Generation, so a 980ti+ if you will. And it still works well. Borrowed it to a friend until we can finally grab a hold of any newer card...
Well, IIRC EVGA did sell the cooler separately. And the Hybrid version was also the reference PCB, just like the Zotac.
Have an EVGA 980ti classified in my main rig. But overall my computer doesn't run very well sadly, and i have huge problems figuring out, what exactly is wrong. Every 30-60 minutes, my computer "hangs" for like half a second. Like a hickup. I tested everything from cpu, to graphics card, ram but cannot find the problem. I even changed my mainboard but the problems are still there. If these hickups would be the only problem, i wouldn't mind, but i also have problems that games suddenly close or that i get bluescreens. System is a Ryzen 2700x, 32gb Corsair Vengeance rgb ram 3200mhz and an asus crosshair vi hero x370 board. Iam thankful if maybe you have any idea what else i can test out. Thx for your videos and keep up the good work man!
0:31 I thought that ant crawling on the graphics card was on my screen
It has to be a reference design. I think EVGA carried a hybrid cooler that fit on the reference card.
Very curious about the core clock speed. My palit reached a stable 1540mhz
Thats pretty good. These reference cards werent able to get that high. Most did 1475-1500. I could only get mine to do 1525 during a 3dmark pass with the coolant cool. Other than that, ran mine at 1490.
@@Jaymobe07 Huh? How? I had a ASUS 980Ti ROG STRIX and it could barely hit 1.45k/7.5k and that's leagues aboves any Palit or Zotac offerings. Somehow me thinks someone is making up numbers here. If you said 1250Mhz or something I would have believed you, but 1525? I find that extremely difficult to believe especially from Palit, which, along with Zotac are the bottom of the barrel when it comes ot AIB's
still running a 980ti with a massive aerocool cooler, got it clocked at 1452mhz core and 3981mhz memory, cranks out bf5 on ultra at 80+fps
Keeping my 980ti at 1080p where it belonged. Shame I don't play on it anymore.
I got the big brother, the Titan X. Still going very strong
A used 980ti Xtreme waterforce (Gigabyte hybrid version) was the first gaming GPU i owned.
If the pcb of the Zotac and the EVGA is the same, you can flash the EVGA BIOS and get better clockspeeds. I have a chinese gtx1080 which had a turbo cooler. I swapped it with EVGA SC cooler, flashed it and showed up as EVGA GTX 1080 SC, also had the performance to back it up