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hi and welcome back to Hardware on box I'm Harris Matt and today we're going to overclock the GeForce GTX 980 TI reference card last week we got our first look at in videos new geforce gtx 980 TI the new high-end must have GPU the 980 TI proves you deliver type next like performance at a considerably cheaper price as we pointed out this makes the type next somewhat pointless another advantage that 980 TI has over the tight next is the will be custom-built cards from in videos board partners this is something that didn't allow with the type next this means companies such as gigabyte asus EVGA and so on can develop their own 980 TI creations this is important because while the Nvidia reference cool looks pretty cool it isn't the most effective design for keeping the 980 TI or tight next cool to keep the operating volume down the fan speed stays quite low even under heavy gaming and this makes the card run pretty hot this is largely why the gtx 980 TI was only a few percent slower than the type next rather than the eight percent that it should have been both cards hit a thermal throttle at 84 degrees and at that limit the 980 TI i was able to hold a higher boost clock speed with its fewer cuda cores unfortunately we're yet to get our hands on a production card with improved cooling from one of them videos partners which could further close the gap between the 980 TI and the type next while we wait for a production card we have had some time to tinker with the 980 TI reference card and conduct some overclocking experiments despite hitting the 84 degrees thermal limit quite quickly with the default clock frequencies we have had a lot of success overclocking the 980 TI with only minor voltage adjustments we were able to boost the base core frequency from a thousand megahertz to twelve hundred and seventy megahertz a nice twenty-seven percent increase so gddr5 memory also went from 1752 megahertz to 19 mega hertz or 7.6 gigahertz ddr we ended up adding 85 million volts and increasing the power limit to one hundred and ten percent now I'm sure you're all wondering what kind of impact this hat on performance so let me show you in Crysis 3 we were able to get 33 frames per second three more than the type next and five more than the non overclocks 980 TI in battlefield 4 we managed an impressive 51 frames 7 frames more than the type necks and nine more than the 980 TI and its regular configuration in battlefield hardline the overclocks nine NDT i was again faster than both the Titan X and the regular 980 TI by six frames and nine frames respectively in dying light our overclock ti was leader of the pack with 45 frames per second the type next wasn't far behind with 42 frames per second and the regular 980 TI got 38 in The Witcher 3 our overclocked card was again quicker than the Titan X by four frames per second and six frames per second faster than the nine overclocked 980 TI in Grand Theft Auto 5 or overclocks 980 TI was best in the field with 52 frames per second this was five frames per second faster than the Titan X and eight frames per second faster than a non overclocked card I think it's fair to say that overclocking the 980 TI is very much worth it as we were easily able to exceed the performance of the Titan acts on average gamers can expect a huge twenty percent increase in performance over the non overclocked card and we expect when the production cards come with their improved cooling that overclocking will be even more beneficial this has been Matt from Harbor unbox let me know what you think in the comments hit like hit subscribe and we'll see you guys next time yeah