MSI afterburner doesn't keep settings

[Lord Nicoll]

Just now, Zando Bob said:

Cool! What 980 is yours? Mine is the Gaming series one with the TwinFrozr cooler. 

mine is the same one, MSI Gaming 4G, it sucks so much ass I almost returned it.

[Zando_]

1 minute ago, Lord Nicoll said:

mine is the same one, MSI Gaming 4G, it sucks so much ass I almost returned it.

How come? Mine is fine, and I usually like EVGA’s cards, but this one is beautiful. 

[Lord Nicoll]

Just now, Zando Bob said:

How come? Mine is fine, and I usually like EVGA’s cards, but this one is beautiful. 

The cooler wobbles so much in the mount, I added some washers so it'd clamp down a little more, the board is super flexible as the VRM and RAM coolers are separate, and the plasic shroud offers nothing. The fin stack is smaller because the shroud is so big in  areas, the fans are some weak ass shit, fucking almost no air flow at 100%, sure they're quiet and move a lot of air for the noise, but for the RPM it's bad, and almost no static pressure. Only one fan was controllable in MSI after burner, I had to tether the PWM signal from the fan that was controllable to the one that wasn't, the thermal pads they used where COMPLETE shit, hard and brittle and poor conductance, and the power phases, actually not that bad, but still only a doubled up 4 phase. 

[Zando_]

Just now, Lord Nicoll said:

The cooler wobbles so much in the mount, I added some washers so it'd clamp down a little more, the board is super flexible as the VRM and RAM coolers are separate, and the plasic shroud offers nothing. The fin stack is smaller because the shroud is so big in  areas, the fans are some weak ass shit, fucking almost no air flow at 100%, sure they're quiet and move a lot of air for the noise, but for the RPM it's bad, and almost no static pressure. Only one fan was controllable in MSI after burner, I had to tether the PWM signal from the fan that was controllable to the one that wasn't, the thermal pads they used where COMPLETE shit, hard and brittle and poor conductance, and the power phases, actually not that bad, but still only a doubled up 4 phase. 

Wow. Mine seems solid as anything. Maybe the Ti version is built better? Though the 980 is still a high end card (or was when it came out) so it’s strange they’d make it crappy. 

[Lord Nicoll]

2 minutes ago, Zando Bob said:

Wow. Mine seems solid as anything. Maybe the Ti version is built better? Though the 980 is still a high end card (or was when it came out) so it’s strange they’d make it crappy. 

Idk if the TI model is, please note I'm a follower of Buildzoid and will instantly completely discredit a GPU for even the tiniest reason, I'd wager money nobody would have noticed what I just said, I have never handled the ti model, so it might have the same things I listed there but you didn't notice because you weren't looking (I was, I noticed the PCB moves up but the cooler doesn't, to me that is very poor performance)

[Zando_]

1 minute ago, Lord Nicoll said:

Idk if the TI model is, please note I'm a follower of Buildzoid and will instantly completely discredit a GPU for even the tiniest reason, I'd wager money nobody would have noticed what I just said, I have never handled the ti model, so it might have the same things I listed there but you didn't notice because you weren't looking (I was, I noticed the PCB moves up but the cooler doesn't, to me that is very poor performance)

Yeah, especially since I moved from a single fan 1050 Ti. I doubt I’d notice any problems with the rigidity. Doesn’t matter too much anyways, since I’ll eventually get a waterblock and custom loop. 

[Lord Nicoll]

Just now, Zando Bob said:

Yeah, especially since I moved from a single fan 1050 Ti. I doubt I’d notice any problems with the rigidity. Doesn’t matter too much anyways, since I’ll eventually get a waterblock and custom loop. 

I would put a block on this, but, that is a lot of effort since I don't plan to use it for that much, this GTX 980 is to me, what that GTX 1050ti was to you, I am still deciding if I wanna volt mod it

 

[Zando_]

4 minutes ago, Lord Nicoll said:

I would put a block on this, but, that is a lot of effort since I don't plan to use it for that much, this GTX 980 is to me, what that GTX 1050ti was to you, I am still deciding if I wanna volt mod it

 

Whatcha looking to upgrade to?

[Lord Nicoll]

Just now, Zando Bob said:

Whatcha looking to upgrade to?

hehe, water cooled SLI GTX 1080ti for 165Hz+ 1440p gaming, I'm going to wait until I buy the cards and monitor together, it'll knock like €3000+ out of me currently, so I'm waiting until volta comes out and nobody cares about the GTX 1080ti anymore. 

[Lord Nicoll]

19 hours ago, Zando Bob said:

Whatcha looking to upgrade to?

Saving it as a profile did work actually, also I modded the BIOS and seemed to have gotten the Vcore to 1.288v, which is a little bit of a boost without any soldering which is nice.