[wccftech]Colorful Prepares Monster Clocked Liquid Cooled GeForce GTX Titan iGame

[Cloudfire777]

Over 1GHz clock oh yeah :awe:

Colorful Back in the Game with GeForce GTX Titan iGame

Unlike previous air cooled iGame GPU versions such as the triple slot iGame GTX 680 Kudan or the four slot fanless GTX 680 which without a doubt looked amazing, the new GeForce GTX TItan iGame would feature a liquid cooled design. Colorful is readying the new card currently and has given users the option to select from four various design schemes that are given below.


As for the card itself, it is not known whether the card would use a customized PCB but from the looks of it and given Colorful’s history, they would probably add a more powerful VRM design and layout to the board, the core clock is said to be set beyond 1 GHz which is amazing since the card at stock frequency operates at 836 MHz. It should be noted that being a liquid cooled GPU, the card won’t take more than 2 slots and the GPU you are looking at in those custom design shots are not of the GeForce GTX Titan itself. That is easily pointed out by looking at the display connectors.

Source: http://wccftech.com/colorful-prepar...-gtx-titan-igame-liquid-cooled-graphics-card/

 

[Grooveriding]

Every Titan out there can do 1ghz. Reference card with a block of your choice is better than this thing, no doubt cheaper as well.

 

[Cloudfire777]

Every Titan out there can do 1ghz. Reference card with a block of your choice is better than this thing, no doubt cheaper as well.

Its like saying all 7970s can do 1150MHz...

The fastest GTX Titan released so far is the EVGA Superclocked. It goes from 876MHz-928MHz. The Colourful iGame Titan does over 1000MHz. On stock VBIOS. And more Thats a huge difference

 

[Grooveriding]

Its like saying all 7970s can do 1150MHz...

The fastest GTX Titan released so far is the EVGA Superclocked. It goes from 876MHz-928MHz. The Colourful iGame Titan does over 1000MHz. On stock VBIOS. And more Thats a huge difference

Yeah, they raised the clock higher in BIOS.... massive difference. Sorry this card is nothing special as far as Titans goes. Reference card+waterblock of your choosing>this thing.

 

[Cloudfire777]

So the possible custom PCB and new improved VRMs is nothing special? It could also mean that you can overclock it more than what you can with your Titans.
The fact that Colourful approves over 1GHz clocks means they have great faith in their card. Why do you think the other OEMs is around 900MHz?

 

[Grooveriding]

So it has voltage control ? Because the only custom cards that ever had an impact on 680 overclocking were the MSI Lightning and EVGA Classified, both of which were locked down and had voltage control removed.

 

[Cloudfire777]

I have no idea. Would be awesome without voltage lock.

The reason why I`m interested in new VRMs is because the ones on the existing Titans is not of so stellar quality. Which is why hwbot guys have to use other cards as zombies since the VRMs pop off once you push the Titan enough

 

[Riek]

Its like saying all 7970s can do 1150MHz...

The fastest GTX Titan released so far is the EVGA Superclocked. It goes from 876MHz-928MHz. The Colourful iGame Titan does over 1000MHz. On stock VBIOS. And more Thats a huge difference

but in game a stock Titan is running close to 1GHz (see Anand review). So unless that Titan is keeping the same boostfrequency difference as the stock version, the performance delta might be lower than expected.

 

[Cloudfire777]

but in game a stock Titan is running close to 1GHz (see Anand review). So unless that Titan is keeping the same boostfrequency difference as the stock version, the performance delta might be lower than expected.

That is GPU boost clock. You have three different set of clocks. Base clock, turbo clock and GPU boost clock. Base clock and turbo clock is guaranteed clocks. GPU boost clock is based on temperature and max power the card can deliver.

If the 1Ghz is the turbo clock, the GPU boost clock might be pretty interesting.

 

[thilanliyan]

Which is why hwbot guys have to use other cards as zombies since the VRMs pop off once you push the Titan enough

Are you serious?!! Push them like LN2 runs or something? Or on air/water?

 

[BallaTheFeared]

Higher voltage table and TDP please, otherwise what's the point?

Would love to see Lightnings that hit 1400/7000!!!

 

[Cloudfire777]

Are you serious?!! Push them like LN2 runs or something? Or on air/water?

The serious overclockers cut the Matrix 7970 card in half and use its VRMs since the Titan board is not good enough. :biggrin:

http://hwbot.org/forum/showthread.php?t=71034

 

[thilanliyan]

The serious overclockers cut the Matrix 7970 card in half and use its VRMs since the Titan board is not good enough. :biggrin:

http://hwbot.org/forum/showthread.php?t=71034

That is a real frankenstein mod lol. A card costing $1k really should have some beefy power hardware. "Good enough" is just not good enough at that price.

 

[cmdrdredd]

That is a real frankenstein mod lol. A card costing $1k really should have some beefy power hardware. "Good enough" is just not good enough at that price.

Under normal usages it is well above enough.

As was said, this isn't special. All they are probably going to do is unlock the voltage control take it up to 1.2v then you can clock it to 1000Mhz. Guru3d already did this here http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/geforce_gtx_titan_overclock_guide,1.html

They got it to 1001Mhz with a boost clock in the range of 1100~1176MHz and memory clock of 6242Mhz.

 

[fixbsod]

Not saying this is a good card, but apparently I haven't been keeping up with the Titan --

I thought the Titan, while impressive at max specs will downclock at certain temps/fan speeds? (Over 70deg / 70% fan?) Such that a waterblock would be preferable to OC because it will keep the temps WAY down so there is no throttling???

Or is it just that there are much cheaper ways to waterblock the Titan as is?

 

[cmdrdredd]

Not saying this is a good card, but apparently I haven't been keeping up with the Titan --

I thought the Titan, while impressive at max specs will downclock at certain temps/fan speeds? (Over 70deg / 70% fan?) Such that a waterblock would be preferable to OC because it will keep the temps WAY down so there is no throttling???

Or is it just that there are much cheaper ways to waterblock the Titan as is?

You can set the temperature target now too. So you can increase the temp target to 90c, power target to +104, voltage to 1.2v, and then clock away. It doesn't void the warranty either if the manufacturer leaves the voltage unlocked. The standard temp target is 80c not 70c like the GTX 600 series cards.

The way GPU Boost 2.0 works with Titan is it will boost to max clocks until the temp is reached. You increase the temp target and the card will boost higher until it reaches that target and stays within the power limit.

 

[Plimogz]

The serious overclockers cut the Matrix 7970 card in half and use its VRMs since the Titan board is not good enough. :biggrin:

http://hwbot.org/forum/showthread.php?t=71034

^^ That's the craziest HW mod I've ever seen, I do believe.

But wasn't it mentioned amidst the Titan launch spiel that there would be no vendor-customized models? how long did that last -- seeing as how there's a Modded-by-Gigabyte Titan thread around here as well.

Still, I assume these people are using custom BIOSes to destroy their GK110, correct? As in, Nvidia explicitly went far out of their way to prevent this sort of thing from happening -- I don't think anyone can particularly fault NV for this, though an epically beefier approach to power delivery would have been nice on a thousand $$ gfx card, speaking as someone who doesn't have a grand to drop on a VGA but who, if he did, would like to think that everything on the card was above and beyond.

Off-topic: lol @ that Matrix 7970: what an inglorious fate to befall a card so obviously overbuilt with care -- except for the cheap GPU they put on board, that is.

 

[alcoholbob]

Not saying this is a good card, but apparently I haven't been keeping up with the Titan --

I thought the Titan, while impressive at max specs will downclock at certain temps/fan speeds? (Over 70deg / 70% fan?) Such that a waterblock would be preferable to OC because it will keep the temps WAY down so there is no throttling???

Or is it just that there are much cheaper ways to waterblock the Titan as is?

I think the throttling is TPD based, so if the fan has hit go super high (and since they use the same power source) the card will throttle clock rates.

 

[Rvenger]

Off-topic: lol @ that Matrix 7970: what an inglorious fate to befall a card so obviously overbuilt with care -- except for the cheap GPU they put on board, that is.

Well, the 7970 was the big dog in town before the Titan . After a year + it is nice to have something faster.