First thermal pads than backplate, thermal pads are useless without aluminum backplate.
It's very important to something drop temperature of memory chips for few degrees. 

MiRai

Scarlet-Tech

MiRai
Several EVGA Titan X SC/Hydros are showing up on eBay. o.O
http://www.ebay.com/sch/i...&_nkw=EVGA+Titan+X

I hope you don't actually believe those. Really, an extra $1000 for something that hasn't been released by the daughter company.

Believe them?  Why wouldn't I?  These are auctions from sellers with 1000+ feedback that have been members since '09, not some new account created yesterday to troll eBayers.  Why would someone with that level of feedback risk their eBay account for a quick buck by falsely advertising such an item?
 
The fact that they're so expensive doesn't mean anything since they're unlikely going to sell those GPUs at that price, and there are several non-EVGA Titan X GPUs up for sale on eBay that are $500 - $1,000 more than what nVidia is asking for them -- It doesn't mean people are actually going to pay that price.  However, why shouldn't I believe those EVGA auctions aren't real?  You don't think more than one person has access to them?  Do you think they're all stored at Jacob's house and he's keeping an eye on them?  I'm sure EVGA has plenty of Titan X GPUs ready to go at warehouses in several locations across the country which plenty of people have access to.

If you look at the ship dates, they are saying May, so they are trying to sell goods they don't yet have.

AWK16

Got mine today and been playing around with it for a few hours. Overall awesome card, but it is not ALL improvement over 980. Came in a box that is about the size of a woman's shoebox. Much smaller in person than it looks in pictures with no frame of reference I guess.

So some negatives, there is no super awesome back cover like the GTX 980 reference. It looks like the holes are the same however, but I am not sure if a plate should be put on there due to VRAM modules on the back of the card. I think the last card to do this was the GTX 280. Overall, I think the original silver/black cooler looks sharper than the blacked out Titan X look, but the side profile of the card still has the silver flair around the GEFORCE GTX light up logo. Oh, and the Titan and fan area do not light up or glow as the glamour shots indicate. EVGA's 980 SC also had more nice bells and whistles, like connector plugs and an SLI bridge cover.

It is DEFINITELY louder than the 980, mainly at idle it is more inline with older Nvidia blower coolers in terms of sound. However, once it ramps up it is about the same so far. Overclocking may change this. There is a bit more of a howl to it vs. the 980 which was easily the quietest card at idle I've ever owned.

The card does not boost as high out of the box, well covered, but my 980 SC boosted from 1242 stock to 1404 out of the box with no OC and I ran it at 1454 and it rarely if ever throttled. This card using just power target of 110% (max) in Afterburner boosted up to 1202, not bad but was mostly in the 1177 range during gaming. I will try and push it later today.

Also as covered in many reviews, there does not seem to be much RAM overclocking headroom. I clocked RAM to +250 (3750 or 7500) and after a gaming session noticed it had slid back to 3500 even though AB showed the OC was still applied. Seems as if Titan X will clock the memory back down if it thinks it is unstable rather than just let your screen lock up or crash? So, effective bandwidth will be reduced from the expected 50% as well given my 980 and many others I read are able to achieve 8000MHz (+500) quite easily.

Comes with NO connectors, no accessories, just a pamphlet and a pretty nice Nvidia heavy duty special edition case badge. Special edition is blacked out, although I think the standard green one with Nvidia claw looks better.

I did play Assassin's Creed Unity with Ultra Details and 4xMSAA and it is still not what I consider playable lol, but I did manage to push VRAM up to 6GB at 2560x1440 on my ROG Swift. :)

In summary, I'm still really happy with the card, but it is not going to be as big of a boost to anyone who already had a GTX 980 or any of the previous Titan cards. Anyone coming from something smaller or older is going to be in for a pretty big leap however. If EVGA had a SC version of this I would've bought it on launch but I think anyone who is willing to wait should if they can. The SC model is going to be a steal for just $30 and will be the card to get for anyone who wants the reference cooler. It will also have all the connectors and such included.

I will probably end up selling my 980SC (or my wife's 970 and give her the 980), but I think anyone who picks up a 2nd 980 for SLI would be just as happy with that instead of this card. I think for 4K I would probably opt for this card mainly for VRAM, but for anyone looking at 120+Hz gaming at 2560x1440 or lower, I think 980SC would probably give better performance in most cases.

Hope this helps for anyone on the fence and is looking at this card.

 
Thanks for quick honest review, many people that have already got them wont point the negative so psychologically they don't want to have regret.
 So the performance is pretty much on par with 980 and DP is cut big time almost to the point of no really usable to professional  and $1000 
 

It's probably a little more realistic to get several points of view. Others that have the card, that I've talked to, state very different things. The benchmarks also back up many of those sentiments as well. Thus, I'm inclined to listen to a consensus, rather than just one viewpoint (leaving all due respect to the original poster on the table).

chizow

AWK16Thanks for quick honest review, many people that have already got them wont point the negative so psychologically they don't want to have regret.
 So the performance is pretty much on par with 980 and DP is cut big time almost to the point of no really usable to professional  and $1000 
 

Well, just to be clear it is definitely faster than the 980, but its important to frame that in context it is only going to end up net 30-40% faster because the 980 overclocks so effortlessly, and while Titan X can also overclock quite a bit, it will end up throttling faster/sooner because it hits TDP/power limit sooner.   The Titan X is also louder at both idle and load, so in the end it just not feel as refined and impressive as the 980 was for me given the performance level.  980 is like that Al sports car with a nice quiet turbo while the Titan X....like the guy who put the aftermarket muffler mod to make it louder or something lol.


 
For me its no regrets, I was going to spend another $500-$550 (or $620 in the case of my 980SC) no matter what, as single 980 still wasn't enough for 2560x1440p on my ROG Swift.  Titan X isn't fully there either but it is much closer (Far Cry 4 and AssCreed Unity played a lot better for example).  I think I would've been happy either way with a 2nd 980 or this, but I think the Titan X VRAM will mean fewer concerns for new games that routinely saturate the 980's VRAM.

The 30-40% also coincide nicely with what reviewers said, so I'd expect most people, who've read those, to know what they're in for when buying one of these. :)

Well I just ordered two Titan X's from nvidia's site since EVGA still has not put them up for sale. Would have loved to buy EVGA cards but the total silence on when these would be for sale left me no other options.

CGi-Quality
The 30-40% also coincide nicely with what reviewers said, so I'd expect most people, who've read those, to know what they're in for when buying one of these. :)

Yep no doubt, I went in expecting that and also read the concerns about noise and temps, but the 30-40% improvement to me does not totally outweigh the negatives, so it is bittersweet that's all.  I mean I guess if I was coming from another Titan or my old GTX 480s I would still be happy with the Titan X's sound and acoustics, just the 980 set a completely new bar imo for performance, noise, and heat for a top-end graphics card. 

Awesome. Think I sorted out my issues and was about to order from Nvidia. Out of stock. This launch is a terrible joke. by the time I can buy one, I won't want one. :)

MiRai

Scarlet-Tech

MiRai
Several EVGA Titan X SC/Hydros are showing up on eBay. o.O
http://www.ebay.com/sch/i...&_nkw=EVGA+Titan+X

I hope you don't actually believe those. Really, an extra $1000 for something that hasn't been released by the daughter company.

Believe them?  Why wouldn't I?  These are auctions from sellers with 1000+ feedback that have been members since '09, not some new account created yesterday to troll eBayers.  Why would someone with that level of feedback risk their eBay account for a quick buck by falsely advertising such an item?
 
The fact that they're so expensive doesn't mean anything since they're unlikely going to sell those GPUs at that price, and there are several non-EVGA Titan X GPUs up for sale on eBay that are $500 - $1,000 more than what nVidia is asking for them -- It doesn't mean people are actually going to pay that price.  However, why shouldn't I believe those EVGA auctions aren't real?  You don't think more than one person has access to them?  Do you think they're all stored at Jacob's house and he's keeping an eye on them?  I'm sure EVGA has plenty of Titan X GPUs ready to go at warehouses in several locations across the country which plenty of people have access to.

May-01 to May-06
Est. Delivery

Only a fool would believe these. Obviously they don't have something EVGA hasn't officially announced. If you think they have them, go buy one. $1300 isn't too bad to pay for something that isn't out.

P.S. One reason to not believe them... If they have the samples, they are bound by EVGA's agreement for the part, which means they can't sell them for profit being a test sample, not a retail version. If you seriously think just because they have a high rating that they actually have these in Stock and EVGA hasn't released them, then you may be the most trusting fool of them all.

Just like when the K|ngp|n cards were on eBay before they were released for pre-order, and the classifieds before they were available. Imagine, just for a second, that someone with a high rating can lie about availability... It's a hard concept to grasp, but they aren't bound by anything other than an estimated delivery date, then they have the money and can quickly refuse refund until they have money for the card someone else purchases as well as their own. People are foolish enough to fall for these in hopes of getting them before everyone else.

Where's all the new Titan X owner's comments...c'mon, we want to know.  :)

sounds like it's perfect for gsync since that seems to be around it's sweet spot of helping the smoothness.  Congrats and thanks for the feedback!

My plan is to get 2 of the vanilla Titan X's now and then eventually add a third in when games get demanding enough to need it.  I can never go quad-SLI since a) scaling isn't there and b) I have a soundcard and quad SLI occupies all the mobo slots.

Wonder if EVGA will include a fan option like Gigabyte did with the Titan Black where they didn't ship it with the fans on the card but put the fans in the box.
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVdpy4uxMbA

Benchmark scores.
 
It's...
 
Firstrike Ultra 7344
 
Firesrike Extreme 12939
 
Heaven 4.0 max settings at 1440P 2082
 
Just stock out of the box.
 
 
 

Crimson AL
What are the graphics score for each?

I will do that later when I get a chance.

Sajin
@chicochaco
 
What speed is your 5820k running at?

4100mhz...
 
I gots to fill in my sig.