Nvidia GTX Titan

[Sorin]

As I have written above, there are zero compatibility settings except "ambient occlusion" which is irrelevant for DCS (that stuff is for first person shooter games).

[SkateZilla]

Nvidia does, it always has, under Digital Combat Simulator: Black Shark. I assume they never changed it's name because it's the same executable for dcs a10c & bs when stand alone and now dcs world (dcs.exe)

 

I'll say it again, there are no MULTIPLE GPU PROFILES for DCS in either one (AMD or nVidia)'s Drivers.

 

nVidia still has residual BS1 Profiles, but all it does is turn off A.O., it's not a SLI Profile.

[SkateZilla]

yop, fanboys stay fanboys, and i am not one of them :smilewink:

i can tell you, i had the excact same card (Sapphire 6GB 7970GHz), and it could not beat the titan.

But i dont want to start this discussions again, sorry.

 

And I doubt you had it at 1300Mhz Core/6800MHz Memory,

because it took the AMD Overclockers Team a week to get it stable,

which required a cooling modifications, Power Modifications,

not to even mention 1.4v GPU, and upwards of 1.8v for the GDDR5.

[danilop]

One application where Titan, being very modest in power requirements / cooling department, has no competition is boutique, high-end gaming rig built on mini ITX or micro ATX board in something like BitFenix Prodigy, Silver Stone FT03 or similar very portable miniature case.

 

There is considerable interest in such a builds, and not everyone want / need big, noisey case with high airflow (gazillion fans) with insanely OCed graphics cards in triple or quad arrangement powered by 1.5kW monster PSU ... apparently.

Edited March 13, 2013 by danilop

[faro06]

And I doubt you had it at 1300Mhz Core/6800MHz Memory,

because it took the AMD Overclockers Team a week to get it stable,

which required a cooling modifications, Power Modifications,

not to even mention 1.4v GPU, and upwards of 1.8v for the GDDR5.

 

ok,Stock 7970 slower than stock Titan, basta

[SkateZilla]

Titan's can barely be overclocked, Heavy heat and locked voltage...

 

 

Dont get me wrong, out of the box, Titan dominates everything.

 

But the 2 things Above (Heat and Locked Voltage) are it's downfall, because experienced Overclockers will simply take a 6GB 7970 and Water cool it w/ custom block and heatsinks. and save themselves $300-400/Card.

[faro06]

oh c'mon, experienced overclockers flash bios and use User-modded BIOS.Just have a look in their threads at overclock.net

[SkateZilla]

<<-- is AMD Sponsored, so you can safely say Im bias'd, and I'll admit it, But i can also admit Defeat to the GTX Titan for a Single Card Solution.

 

But in not spending $4000 on a Quad SLI Setup, when I can spend $1200 on a Quad XFire Setup that will keep my monitors at the Refresh rate they operate on.

 

There's only 1 Titan BIOS, so there's no point in flashing it to gain control over the Voltage.

[MonnieRock]

I thought this was a nVidia Titan thread. Not a amd vs nVidia discussion :dunno:

[cichlidfan]

I thought this was a nVidia Titan thread. Not a amd vs nVidia discussion :dunno:

 

This always happens. I think it is non-beta driver envy. :P

[Slayer]

Titan inbound :P

 

Got the in-stock notification the second I happened to be checking my email and pulled the trigger~was sold out a couple of minutes later....

 

N82E16814130897 VGA EVGA|TITAN 6GD5 06G-P4-2790-KR 1

Adult signature required on delivery

 

UPS Tracking Number:

*******************

 

(Shipped from Industry, CA)

Shipping Time:3/13/2013 1:31:20 PM

[MonnieRock]

This always happens. I think it is non-beta driver envy. :P

 

I'll stick with nVidia drivers any day ;)

 

Titan inbound :P

 

 

Congrats Slayer !!:thumbup:

 

Please let us know what kind of increases you get compared to your GTX680

 

 

 

Thank you,

Monnie

[cichlidfan]

Titan inbound :P

 

UPS Tracking Number:

*******************

 

You could have at least given us the tracking number so we could watch it travel to your home. :D

 

Btw, I just noticed that there is a vendor on Amazon that is selling it for $1430.95 and still has the nerve to charge $6.50 for shipping. Of course, at that price what difference does $7 make.

Edited March 14, 2013 by cichlidfan

[cichlidfan]

I'll stick with nVidia drivers any day ;)

 

 

Yep. I used to have a 5850...gave it away when I switched.

[karambiatos]

You could have at least given us the tracking number so we could watch it travel to your home. :D

 

Btw, I just noticed that there is a vendor on Amazon that is selling it for $1430.95 and still has the nerve to charge $6.50 for shipping. Of course, at that price what difference does $7 make.

well from the 20 people that will probably buy it youll save $140

[Crazyowl]

Just one quick question. I have a gtx460 with 12gb ram, 3.4 ghz, ssd vertox 4 and so on.

 

Whats a good card from nvidia for upgrade using only 1 monitor and putting everything settings on max, and reg cost no more than 400?

 

Thanks in advance

[-Rudel-]

I'll assume you're running PCIe 2.0 still: GTX580

 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130587

[Crazyowl]

I'll assume you're running PCIe 2.0 still: GTX580

 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130587

 

Correct, what is a good mother board this days? Not so expensive like the titan:D

[Chaz]

Titan vs. GTX 690

 

[Slayer]

TITAN is made for multi-monitor , 690 can't hold a candle to it in this arena...only 2GB is really available as a framebuffer(as with any SLI setup)

 

X-Plane 10 for example eats 2 GB not even close to max settings...few others come to mind as well.

 

Looking forward to not doing the tweaking settings dance to keep it below that...

[danilop]

I think that Nvidia is waiting for the AMD answer to cut the prices of the Titan down (Nvidia basically have single GPU market for themselves ATM so they really don't have to think about the price) or to introduce another design based on GK110. Titan is luxuriously made - magnesium enclosure, etc so there is plenty of space for price cut.

 

Titan vs. GTX 690

 

 

It's obvious that Titan will beat or come extremely close to 690 as drivers improve and new games start to get optimized for GK110.

 

Crysis 3 is good example (2:17 in the video).

Edited March 15, 2013 by danilop

[tintifaxl]

The Titan is an phenomenal piece of hardware, but will not play a major role. Very good for us sim nuts, but who else needs it?

 

To me AMD offers the much better price/performance ratio atm, and the AMD7970 is on par with the GTX680 and cheaper. So imho the gpu market is very much contested, even when only looking at the PC's.

[SkateZilla]

you'll love the 6GB of VRAM, trust me.

[danilop]

... Very good for us sim nuts, but who else needs it?

...

 

1) Gamer who wants the best possible portable, high end rig based on mini ITX board (which doesn't allow for SLI/Crossfire) in small, silent case with limited cooling possibilities.

2) Gamer who wants the fastest single GPU available (note the want word, need is something which lot of folks who have the dough happily ignore :)).

3) PhD student or anyone else who need the best in scientific computation desktop power (yes, this is the card for that application) and cannot afford Tesla card which sells for 2.5x more.

Edited March 15, 2013 by danilop

[SkateZilla]

Titan is basically A Pro/Workstation Card with some features Firmwared Off / Disabled.

 

AMD Had plans to do it, but cancelled them because their next line is pretty much ready.

 

Smart move by nVidia to go ahead with Titan, considering the 400 Series and 500 Series "Pro/Gaming" Card they tried never saw anything outside of Production Samples.. which failed miserably.

 

On that Note, I'll be testing and screwing around with a write off Titan this weekend, we plan to soldier some IC/Voltage stuff to the mainboard and go nuts with it, with full cover water block cooling...

 

I wont stop till it either burns out or we hit a hair over 1Ghz GPU and 1700Mhz Mem.

 

I want 1.05/1.1/1.2Ghz though, going for the Single Card Record :)

 

I need to check with other overclockers to see what clocks they are getting, but with Water Blocks and External VRM Box, I plan to up the voltage manually

Edited March 15, 2013 by SkateZilla