Sup guys
😉After I upgraded my Asus GTX 980 stock on my G20 to a Zotac GTX 980 Ti Reference, I, as recommended by professionals here, searched for 330W psu, could not get it so I moved on with the original 230W PSU that comes with G20. Well it actually is working flawlessly even though I overclocked my GPU!!!
Here I show you how I did that overclocking and also how I made it so cool, even cooler than those non-reference designs.
Regarding the overclock thing:
Thanks to the Techgage website I found a very good and stable overclocking config. I used the ASUS GPU TWEAK to customize my GPU and really didnt notice any significant differences between this one and others like afterburner and...
Measures are : GPU Clock Boots +210MHZ offset and Memory Clock +300MHZ offset.running at 100% power with no Voltage changes. I also suggest you set the Target FPS on 00 so it gets the best.
It truly works without a single issue with your own Stock 230W PSU as this PSU can draw much more than that.
Firestrike score for me was 13200 or so with the default settings. After OC`ing my GTX980Ti I got the score 15100 which is a very very good improvement if you ask me. FPS improved over 15 fps and I significantly notice some improvements.
But when I played some time like 15 20 mins, I noticed the temps are going high even I had to kick the fan speed so high over 90% to keep the temp at max 84C. I noticed that I had the issue when I removed the OC settings.Here I found a very simple solution....
Regarding the cooling trick:
You might say yeah we knew it or stuff but I though sharing it here.
You know what is the worst thing about G20? poor airflow. Its like all the parts inside this pack are being suffocated, deprived from fresh air. the solution? simply take off the right side cover and thats it. one screw at the bottom where the warranty seal is and one at the top where you should first take off the cover then you`ll get the screw on top. you can use this video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jazM6KgjaPkAs I said before with or without Overclocking I had to maxout the fan spin to keep the temps lower than 84C. By removing that right side cover look what happened
🙂Playing Dragon Age: Inquisition at ultra even I manually set 2 other options to ultra and Multisample Anti Aliasing to 4xMSAA running the game at 60 fps without a single drop with maximum of 70C
🙂 isnt that sweet? I had it 84 now its hardly touching 70C.
This dragon age game was the toughest I came across in terms of heating my GPU and as you could see now I have about 15C improvements and dont forget ... this is an Overclocked reference gtx980Ti.
About the fan setting, this is a view of my User Defined fan setting which I havent touched it since I uncovered my G20 but I can now reduce it much but even now it doesnt bother meat all, you just hear a breeze
🙂about 2 minutes after I exit the game look where the temp is
🙂 30 C and while I was writing this post it came down as low as 27.
My point is, Asus Strix GTX980Ti claims to have the stable 72C temp during stressed gaming condition, other custom designs claiming as such. This reference GTX980Ti which is blamed all over gaming websites of having high temps now as I shown you above with Overclocked settings can do 70C, isnt uncovering your G20 woth it??!! I believe it is.
My G20 now looks like this, lying on a box which actually is my Zotac GPU box and breathing
🙂You might say "I bought this for its killer face" but my advice, in the end its all about what you see on your display and what less noise you hear from your rig.
I am much much happier now and dominating all games at ultra by my Zotac Reference GTX980 Ti Overclocked with maximum of 70C and no GPU fan sound irritation.
Learned a lot here so though it would be a good thing to share
🙂Keep calm and game on fellas
🙂 G20 Rocks