whats going on with nvidia and luke

[typographie]

actually you can get non reference coolers for example the hybrid its just reference pcb also if you read the post before it was a gift its not like im going to sell or reject a gift from my dad 

 

Oh, fair enough. Sorry, got distracted by the pages of people suggesting the 980 Ti. It's a great gift, of course.

[n0x1ous]

So you guys buying Titan X's or SLI 980TI's - you guys work on Wall Street or something?

Nope - Just prioritize PC hardware over other things.

[n0x1ous]

For one, the Titan X is required by Nvidia to use the reference cooler, and as a result it throttles often. Of it's max boost clock of 1215 MHz, it sat around 1088–1189 MHz in the games in Anandtech's review. In fact, the Titan X never reached 1215 MHz at any point in their testing suite. The 980 Ti Kingpin comes clocked 200 MHz faster (which is a lot in the GPU world, by the way) and it's actually even higher than that when you consider that it's cooler will do a better job of letting it hit it's max boost clock when you're playing a game.

 

Furthermore, 12 GB of memory is truly a waste of money. The 980 Ti's 6 GB is already overkill, even at 4K:

http://techreport.com/blog/28800/how-much-video-memory-is-enough

No its not,  you can get an EVGA hybrid among others.

 

http://www.evga.com/articles/00935/EVGA-GeForce-GTX-TITAN-X-HYBRID/