WNear
One other thing I meant to mention.
 
When the system first boots up and I check the GPU Clock and Memory Clock speeds of the 980, they always start out at 135Mhz. and 405 Mhz. respectively. After a while, they will then go to their normal 1189MHz. and 3505 Mhz. speeds.
 
Is this normal behavior for a 980 Ti FTW?
 
Thanks.
 

ty_ger07

WNear
One other thing I meant to mention.
 
When the system first boots up and I check the GPU Clock and Memory Clock speeds of the 980, they always start out at 135Mhz. and 405 Mhz. respectively. After a while, they will then go to their normal 1189MHz. and 3505 Mhz. speeds.
 
Is this normal behavior for a 980 Ti FTW?
 
Thanks.
 

Yup, normal.  The card downclocks when idle to conserve power and reduce heat.
 
It sounds to me like you have a power supply issue.

WNear
One other thing I meant to mention.
 
When the system first boots up and I check the GPU Clock and Memory Clock speeds of the 980, they always start out at 135Mhz. and 405 Mhz. respectively. After a while, they will then go to their normal 1189MHz. and 3505 Mhz. speeds.
 
Is this normal behavior for a 980 Ti FTW?
 
Thanks.
 

HeavyHemi

WNear
One other thing I meant to mention.
 
When the system first boots up and I check the GPU Clock and Memory Clock speeds of the 980, they always start out at 135Mhz. and 405 Mhz. respectively. After a while, they will then go to their normal 1189MHz. and 3505 Mhz. speeds.
 
Is this normal behavior for a 980 Ti FTW?
 
Thanks.
 

No that isn't normal. They should stay at idle clock barring some unusual configuration.

Dr.Death
well  ,  the thing is on that crap load of work is you made it that way  ..  you seen K.I.S.S used before ?   K-eep I-t S-imple S-illy  [or S-tupid] .
 
with todays fast SSD  raid -0- is kinda  old hat  from back in the old slow platter drive days  and for things you did not want to keep or any fear of losing .  today just not as feasible or worth it
 
you could usr one great fast SSD  and a good platter drive for storage / backup    and that crap load of work is pretty much eliminated  ..   like guys that do a SLI rig and got a water loop hooked up to them and have issues and that one thing they say '' but I got this water loop I got to take down and put back on everytime ''    Oh, well  that's the price you pay  when something goes wrong  .
 
'' I'll miss my Raptors''  ???  they cant be use single ?     get the WD data life guard  tool  on a pen drive  and boot to it to test your drives 
 
this should do it
https://support.wdc.com/downloads.aspx?p=2
 
 
thing is  if you had a buddy that had a good spare PSU  to try out   with the 2ed card doing the same  maybe a look at that first before digging too deep in to your storage arrangement  ..   I use seasonic  x 850's  and happy with them its a solid  build  platform,  but that's not to say anything cant go wrong at any time with anything 
 
just make sure you put the raid -0- drives back  exactly   they way they are and were loaded  don't confuse any part of that  if you pull them out and out them back in to reuse . 
 
tough call man,  and I feel for you  I use to have all that stuff hanging on a rig but  with todays JUNK  its now  K.I.S.S   and glad of it when something goes wrong ..
 
good luck 

Dr.Death
April 12th, 2010
 
Pros
 
Very close to mid-range SSD levels of performance
http://www.storagereview.com/western_digital_velociraptors_raid_ssd_alternative
 
 
 
now jump in to today  and SSD as they are now from back then    you could get one good  up to 500 gb  for 160 bucks ?       I still use all platter WD blacks   but unlike most I don't se where my stuff aint loading up  so slow  .    desktop and games or what ever is just click and go   its not like fire something up and go get a cup of coffee  or take a crap  .   funny thing like when we use to do lan parties   my rig loads the games up the fastest  in my group     with near all the same stuff they got   my buddy would say  dang man your all ready in the game ?   and were are using the same harddrives   wd blacks  160 's and 500's ..   and to boot  on top of that he had a stronger CPU at the time  in the AMD builds I had a fx 6100  and he had a 8150 .  same mothereboard as well ..
 
anyway  ''I was only using one of those sockets and using the dual cable connectors for both 8-pin power feeds on my 980''
 
I don't think that matters on that   I use one lead for the 2 pci-e 's on the card  [-980ti even overclocked ]   that 1200 you got should not even flinch , try it and see cant hurt anything .
 
''The Raptors by themselves are too small for my boot drive. They're only 620 GB''
 
windows 7 or Linux  only need like 19 gb +/-  if you set it up and not let windows configure it  then its  allocated for system thing can take up to what ever  mine is 30gb   on that    this is what guys use small gb ssd for there boot drives  like a 64gb  or less .   heck I use a 500 gb drive and in 3 years I yet to use 1/2 of it . 
 
16 GB available hard disk space (32-bit) or 20 GB (64-bit)
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/10737/windows-7-system-requirements
 
i use 4 wd black's   one got win 7  one got xp  one got  vista one got Linux  . 
 
 
i hope it works out for you  and that single HD windows install is the trick to get back going issue free .

Dave3d
Do you have the latest driver?
If so, I would go back a few revs of the driver you have.
Nvidia has been messing with the drivers for a month or so, and people all over are having issues.
I would try that before sending the card in.

WNear
OK, I'm off to game testing. I really hope this fixes the issue...

Dr.Death
355.82 win 7 
 
http://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/90494/en-us
 
The Seasonic PSU is a Platinum-1200 (SS-1200XP Active PFC F3), also top-of-the-line when I bought it. It has a 7 year warranty.
 
ya, that looked to be a pretty solid unit 
 
hmmmm...  '' Internal Design ''
https://www.anandtech.com/show/8461/seasonic-platinum-ss1050xp3-ss1200xp3-power-supply-review/2
 
maybe something too that 
 
''What confounded us however is that the assembly of the Platinum units is rather messy, which is a first for Seasonic.
It is not bad, not even average, but it does not live up to the standards Seasonic themselves have set
 
maybe why to what I said about not in stock  like at  newegg or amazon  anymore and maybe pulled from the market  ?   I guess that would depend on how your backup PSU does  if it works as expected or still fails  [looks like a lot of 1000w + PSU's are out of stock or back order ??]
 
'' could always be wrong, but that would be one heck of a coincidence to have three drives with issues. ''
  its happens  to me   with OEM / bulk drives [my buddy and I will pool orders  like he gets 2 drives and i'll add 2 to the order for myself  ]  all it can take is the packer to bounce it around or drop it or UPS guy  taking it around back for ''farther processing''   unlike a retail boxed  that packed and protected in a retail box  OEM are more to like open box / unboxed / bulk  ..   of have a power serge  or static  charge  or lighting strike just right when running  or mounted in your case    [that's what gets mine the most ] that can slap the arm  on the platters  crazy  . they still work as a single drive but I do not use them as a primary  the ones I count on   just Linux and storage  secondary   if it was to out oh well drives     
 
 
'' I do have it overclocked via the built-in, preconfigured BIOS settings ''
 
ya, I got a asus sabertooth  and tried to use that and nothing but issues   like plenty of hard crashes and bluescreens  and what not  ..   just dang sure did not work well for me in any way  .  may go good for days with out issue then mat crash every 2 min. the next    then that crap asus suite   program . never ever will I ever use that or even allow that to install   . all in all after 3 asus sabertooth    pretty much  made my LAST 3 asus builds was my last asus builds .  they will be hard pressed to get there products back in here with me . dang sure not the asus I grew up with anymore  . sad.
 
anyway get that psu in and let us know   how it goes  , fingers crossed  , good luck 
 
I forgot this on that old driver thing   its for win vista but you can see win 7 is listed in the notes as supported OS  when you click on one  just under vista it takes you back a tad bit more in the driver releases 
 
http://www.nvidia.com/Download/Find.aspx?lang=en-us