no matter what number what number i put in, that i find on a sticker attached the GPU it wont go passed it! my temps are reaching 88c and i cant play games no more cuz this crap! could some one please help me
im at my witts end!
 
i have a GTX980Ti that i bought from MicroCenter in California

Use a different program?

Rune Lockhart
no matter what number what number i put in, that i find on a sticker attached the GPU it wont go passed it! my temps are reaching 88c and i cant play games no more cuz this crap! could some one please help me
im at my witts end!
 
i have a GTX980Ti that i bought from MicroCenter in California

Try uninstalling the software you are using and then install MSI Afterburner. It works very well with any nvidia graphics card.

ok thx, ill do that.

afterburner works perfect! thank you soooo much!

Rune Lockhart
afterburner works perfect! thank you soooo much!

No problem and I am glad it works for you!
The Precision X (or whatever version it is) has always had issues with stability and other glitches. Way back when I first started OCing my graphics card it was recommended by quite a few people for me to switch to the much more stable Afterburner, in fact an EVGA rep also recommended the same thing. I do not know the differences in programming between the two programs but I wish that EVGA gets on the ball and creates a version of precision X just as stable as Afterburner.

If you like a simpler overclock/fan adjustment software, there is a program called Nvidia Inspector that looks a lot like GPU-Z but let's you overclock and set the fan at a static percentage as well as auto. You can open a Sensor Monitoring Graph that covers nearly every feature you would need to monitor as well as well as open multiple windows of it if you have more than 1 video card. You can also put it in a P8 power saver mode which clocks it down quite a bit when not gaming. For my 1070 FTW power save mode drops the clocks down to 708MHz instead of 1607MHZ so I can keep my global nvidia control panel power management mode on max power for global so I don't have to enable it for every game I play. It also lets you tweak the 3D graphics settings much more advanced than you can within nvidia control panel. It's a nice program, gives you a lot of technical details and keeps things simple without the eye candy of PrescionX or Afterburner. I'll pose a picture of how mine is setup for you to see if you decide to try it. It also doesn't conflict with any game and I have mine displaying on my left peripheral monitor. Here's the Pic:

Precision XOC v6.0.8 (the latest as of now) as well as v6.0.7 may ask you for First Name, Last Name and Email Address but the Serial Number is no longer a Required Field as denoted by an asterisk (look closely)..Scroll down on the download page to see the Version History..Is that not true for you?..Maybe right-click and running the installer and Precision as administrator might help..You can use/try PrecisionX 16 too. 
 
Other than that, stick with what works..Afterburner is recommended when Precision fails, or otherwise.