Vipergtspa

k|ngp|n

Vipergtspa
I asked this question a few times earlier in this thread and I am also waiting to hear back from EVGA (called them 8/31/15) in regard's to what would cause this.

Anyone know what the red light on the right side of the card in between the kingpin logo on the back plate and the voltage switches indicates ? It only comes on at random times (some times after a driver crash) and needs a complete shut down to get it to turn off.
Both of my cards have had this light come on, regardless of which PCE slot they are in.

I never noticed the light before on my 980 kpe, but with the Ti's it has happened since day one. Earlier today when the red light came on with the top card it also changed all of the led's to the default white, then started to blink off and on.

I have tried four different driver's, PX installed and uninstalled with no change. I am not sure if this is an issue or not, just want to know what this light is for. Also does not seem to be linked with the LED flicker that happens every so often, my none Ti kpe did this as well.
 
When running in SLI the light will come on when the top card hit's 80C no matter what, which is hard to make happen lol. But when running each card single they will both do it regardless of temps, max is about 67C.
 
EDIT: 980TiKP_XOC.rom bios did not fix the led flickering or the mystery red light.  Also the driver will crash once the red light comes on and I exit the software.
Thanks

The red light your talking about is an indicator that is related to PCB temperature monitoring. Just ignore it. Its essentially monitoring pcb temps and when the heater is enabled, there are handshakes between the two. The LED reset that happens on your card is related to this and can happen if the card exceeds 70C.

The LED reset that happens randomly on some cards like u are describing is a minor FW issue with some of the first cards that were released. Tin will post a ez DIY fix for this at KPC sometime next week FYI    

On a side note, the PCB heater function ABSOLUTELY CANNOT power on without removing the cooler and making the proper hard mods to the 980ti kp pcb. We did this for a specific reason, as to make it impossible for the heater to turn on unintentionally.

I forgot about that sentence. Vince said there will be a fix this week sometime for the LED flickering.
 
Also I did try reflashing the factory bios and the 980TiKP_XOC.rom and it did not fix the issue with the LED's for me.

ron biron

dmoheban
So I read that the lower asic quality cards are better for water cooling? Is this true?
 
Also the only water block available is the Bitspower 980 KPE Block? Will the EK block work?
 
Thanks

I think it was the lower ASIC ones for air and the higher ASIC ones for water cooling. That was the reason I bought 2 of the 75% cards.

Scarlet-Tech

dmoheban
So I read that the lower asic quality cards are better for water cooling? Is this true?
 
Also the only water block available is the Bitspower 980 KPE Block? Will the EK block work?
 
Thanks

No.. The EK 980 K|ngp|n block is NOT compatible with the 980ti K|ngp|n.  If Bitspower is listing it as compatible, I would be weary of being the one that finds out they are wrong.
 
Also, the Memory for the 980 block only cover half of the memory modules.. Why buy something that is only half good. 

dmoheban

Scarlet-Tech

dmoheban
So I read that the lower asic quality cards are better for water cooling? Is this true?
 
Also the only water block available is the Bitspower 980 KPE Block? Will the EK block work?
 
Thanks

No.. The EK 980 K|ngp|n block is NOT compatible with the 980ti K|ngp|n.  If Bitspower is listing it as compatible, I would be weary of being the one that finds out they are wrong.
 
Also, the Memory for the 980 block only cover half of the memory modules.. Why buy something that is only half good. 

I read on Kingpincooling.com that the  Bitspower 980 kpe block is almost compatible in that some memory do not make contact to the block due to difference in design but the reviewer said it wasn't a big deal and still was able to install it..
 
FWIW EVGA: No Paypal checkout! WTH?? Guess no 980 Ti KPE for me. 
 
 

dmoheban
 
I read on Kingpincooling.com that the  Bitspower 980 kpe block is almost compatible in that some memory do not make contact to the block due to difference in design but the reviewer said it wasn't a big deal and still was able to install it..
 
FWIW EVGA: No Paypal checkout! WTH?? Guess no 980 Ti KPE for me. 

dmoheban
Yeah but Newegg has only the 72 % Asic card. I'm sure it doesn't make a difference anyhow for just 2%. Wonder if theres a step up program for the Asic levels?
 
Just read the Asic levels on my old 780 SSC cards. One is at 81.4 % and the other at 68%. Talk about a wide gap! 

k|ngp|n
I'm surprised and never considered do that with any of the three kp cards. Always want to give you guys the BEST card possible period. Promoting/overclocking something different than what you can buy is not what I want to do here with this card, in fact the opposite. Gotta wait for official spec before its fact, just hearsay until then. We'll see..

ganzosrevenge

Agreed.  I'm a n00b at high-performance PCs, and I managed to reflash a BIOS onto the LN2 mode on my 780 Ti Classy.  One question I have about the KPEs is: if I'm interested in reliability and a 1500 OC, (not going for WRs here, but maybe a nice OC and very stable power), what should I do?  74% ASIC, Classy, or FTW?
 
Jason

Pgcmoore

ron biron

Pgcmoore
i recently sent a support ticket in asking for the easy load bios (.exe) files.
i was told they are not available yet 
that was as of 9/8/15 

Go over to page 2 of 980 Ti Kingpin SLI won't overclock much look though it you will find a link to get the Bios. Vince Kingpin posted himself.

sorry, missed your post, 
 
yeah i got that, the one i was referring to was for someone else was asking for it                      

Vlada011
You have Super Flower 2KW?
If fan on him spin so fast probably situation will be similar or even worse with AX1500i.
 
People use usually 2 PSU for such configurations.
If you plan to use custom BIOS and more voltage 3x KP will need more power than four graphic cards in 4way SLI.
That would be hard task... to work everything together, on one PSU and to stay relatively silent.
For 2KW really need to be proper installation in house, no joking with that, scary for one plug...
 

piloth
A bit of a unrelated question but I one of my systems I am running a 5960x with three 980ti KPE. I want to use the custom bios and try to overclock it as much as possible with watercooling. I bought a 2000W PSU but the fan inside of that one is driving me crazy.

Could I get away with the AX1500i powering the kingpins, the CPU and my waterloop with everything overclocked as much as I can or do I need more?