GALAX GeForce GTX 980 Hall of Fame Edition

[Cer3alK1ll3r]

I bought two of them straight from Galax for my new build. They arrived early, well protected in the packaging, and in perfect shape. For a white build, they are the only way to go.I know they might do better on water, but I want to keep the white and lights for now, so they will stay stock. My previous rig was an all water build, and upgrading it was a pain. They gpus did overclock much better though.

[Linusinium]

@nicklmg Luke says "not all chips are created equal" and I couldn't agree more. Why not share ASIC scores of reviewed GPU's, it only takes a second to do in GPU-Z.

 

Since I started checking ASIC scores, I had cards score as low as 66% (970) and as high as 90% (7950). That golden sample 7950 had stock core @880MHz, I was stable @1252MHz. My 970 has the lowest score of all cards I ever owned and it's also the worst OC I ever got. Not enough of a sample size and there are other factors as well but still.

 

It would be cool to see what scores you get with the hardware that vendors typically send you for reviews.

[xeromynd]

I now totally have my heart set on this card for my Black/White X99 build.

 

Have a question though: I plan to get one in the immediate future (< 1 month), and one more in the far future for SLI, prefferably when the price comes down because of AMD competing with the 300 series or something. Afaik, Galax seems to be a smaller company than Asus or EVGA. How likely are they to still be manufacturing these cards in 1-2 years? (Likely? or not at all, and I'll have to look for a used one at that point)

[Curufinwe_wins]

Maybe someone has brought this up, but what are the chances both you and Jay both got binned really poor cards? Or is it more likely they just are not up to snuff?

[Lays]

@nicklmg Luke says "not all chips are created equal" and I couldn't agree more. Why not share ASIC scores of reviewed GPU's, it only takes a second to do in GPU-Z.

 

Since I started checking ASIC scores, I had cards score as low as 66% (970) and as high as 90% (7950). That golden sample 7950 had stock core @880MHz, I was stable @1252MHz. My 970 has the lowest score of all cards I ever owned and it's also the worst OC I ever got. Not enough of a sample size and there are other factors as well but still.

 

It would be cool to see what scores you get with the hardware that vendors typically send you for reviews.

 

 

There are more to ASIC scores than that, a buddy of mine has 68% ASIC and can bench games & HWBOT benchmarks at 1600+ mhz.

 

Just because you get a high ASIC / low asic doesn't mean much, there's a lot of factors, IE: GPU temperature, vrm temperature, vram temperature, list goes on and on and on.

 

Some cards are leakier than others and won't OC if they go above certain temps.  My 780 Lightning as long as it's under 58c, I can run 24/7 1320 mhz on the core with 1.23volts, but as soon as it goes over 58, it crashes and artifacts like mad.

[ErickS89]

Maybe someone has brought this up, but what are the chances both you and Jay both got binned really poor cards? Or is it more likely they just are not up to snuff?

It happens, just because they're sent samples doesn't mean they would deliberately bin, test, and send them golden chips without their knowledge for more favorable reviews "basically just giving them golden chips" and you or I could get them but it's the damn silicon lottery man!

 

I highly doubt that's what's happening in the background, I just think the 980 was a well designed card that the HOF edition doesn't do much to the 980 itself.