EVGA Gtx 980 Superclocked ACX 2.0
So basically they overclock the core clock rate and than overclock the boost clock rate and sell it like that? And so would you recommend the EVGA card over the Asus card? And also does the Evga card not have the 0db fan thing? Also can i still overclock the card as much as i can with any other card or is it a small amount cause they already overclocked it?
The Asus GTX980 STRIX had the silent profile first and when I bought them EVGA didn´t offer that yet. Otherwise I would have bought EVGA, but I wanted this in my HTPC as silent as possible when I´m not gaming.
Well the OCs out of the box are good for one thing. The manufacturer has always just to guarantee the speeds that are written down as specs on the box. If you buy a reference design and it won´t OC for 5MHz... well bad luck and you have a poor ASIC quality chip or poor VRM. With a card like the SC or STRIX they have to guarantee you out of the box much higher clocks which equals to more FPS and better performance therefore in 3D based applications such as games.
Now overall these aftermarket cards don´t usually OC way much better than the reference design. I am an OCer and mod my own BIOS for GPUs and I found that my nVidia reference design can go higher (up to 1700MHz in boost) than my STRIX (1580MHz in boost). But these numbers are more for synthetic benchmarks than every day usage.
Most people can OC their GTX980s boost stable to 1480-1500MHz. And that it perfectly fine.
EDIT: The only aftermarket cards that are better for pure highend OCing are the Galax HoF, EVGA´s Classified and EVGA´s Kingpin. But you pay premium for them because they are made for extreme watercooling or LN2 cooling.
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