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[NoMoreTrolls]

Alrighty, installed my card. Haven't gotten around to overclocking yet. Going to fire up DOOM and see how it performs!

Barely fit in my case... it was 1" longer than my previous card.

 

[vicious696]

1080 just arrived, time to OC and benchmark!

 

[TheRed]

I still cant figure out how to get my FPS to display in pCars VR. Anyway I turned some settings up and it seemed to run fine during an hour of play.

Max temp 71c, max usage 77%. Card generates far less heat than my 780.

May I know your settings? I want to figure out if mine isn't performing right, I can't really notice much difference from my 970 in PCars VR . Games on my monitor the card is definitely a huge jump though.

 

[Mrbob]

Come the fuck on Amazon/Nvidia. It's been more than a month now.

Just bullshit. I'm now out of the return window on my EK blocks.

I had $400 in Amazon gift cards, so I've got to be their bitch :-(

Yeah Amazon has been annoying with availability of these new cards. I canceled my Amazon order because it seems like all cards are being sent to Newegg.

 

[Mad Season]

Alrighty, installed my card. Haven't gotten around to overclocking yet. Going to fire up DOOM and see how it performs!

Barely fit in my case... it was 1" longer than my previous card.

What was previous card?

 

[Hawkian]

Omgeeee my FTW came a day early!!!

Now I have to wait to install it while I do my ritual deep house cleaning. :/

It's funny, during the ride home from work this post recurred to me and I was thinking about how peculiar it was... then after I got home and brought the card inside I realized there was no way I was going to let myself even open the box before I hit the gym :lol We all have our stuff, I suppose.

 

[CybernatonEvolution]

Yeah Amazon has been annoying with availability of these new cards. I canceled my Amazon order because it seems like all cards are being sent to Newegg.

I am holding onto the Amazon order. I don't want to gamble and wait all day for preorders to pop up on newegg and deal with retailers I didn't buy from before. I am getting really impatient though; I wanted to get the card at least early-mid June to enjoy it in the summer break. There is no point in getting a GPU upgrade when my current GPU is doing well, and I can barely use my PC when college classes start. I might wait for the 1080 ti if I don't get the 1080 in the next two weeks.

Fuck Nvidia, EVGA and Amazon. Seriously.

 

[LogicStep]

Was in the low 60C playing Overwatch everything maxed at 1440p 144hz running butter smooth. I'm happy. Haven't OCed anything yet.
Asus STRIX OC edition just in case. I dunno if that's a good temp or not. Seems fine to me.

 

[NoMoreTrolls]

What was previous card?

ASUS STRIX 970.

What's a good temp for 70ish percent usage? I see people reporting that the STRIX could potentially have cooling issues.

 

[vicious696]

after doing some OC benchmarks using Heaven and Afterburner was able to hit a stable 2139 MHz while playing the Witcher 3 on the G1 1080

 

[badb0y]

after doing some OC benchmarks using Heaven and Afterburner was able to hit a stable 2139 MHz while playing the Witcher 3 on the G1 1080

964 FPS dafuck

 

[BurgerDicks]

He's in the menus. No cap there.

 

[vicious696]

964 FPS dafuck

took that pic in a menu screen

here is another from Heaven Benchmark

 

[Hero_of_the_Day]

So, I sent another message to Amazon just bitching about the fact newegg has had stock of the Gaming X multiple times, third party sellers are giving ETAs on Amazon, while they have seemingly no clue when they're getting any in. I'll give the only interesting part of their response:

I've checked with our Manufacturing department and came to know that it may take 5-6 days extra time to get the stock from the inventory and deliver the order.

So, maybe next week? They also gave me a $10 credit.

 

[Hawkian]

Finally all set and running with the G1. Daaaaamn this thing is a beast.

It's very similar in size to my EVGA 780, for those among you looking to make that particular upgrade. Maybe a quarter-inch longer.

Went from 7894 to 14268 in the Fire Strike benchmark :lol

mm, yes, quite

It got damn late, I won't get to try all the VR stuff I wanted to tonight, but oh well. Tomorrow.

 

[Piggus]

after doing some OC benchmarks using Heaven and Afterburner was able to hit a stable 2139 MHz while playing the Witcher 3 on the G1 1080

Ding ding ding ding ding!

That's the sound of you winning the silicon lottery.

 

[Dysun]

These Amazon FTW pre-orders are killing me. Ordered on 5/31 and no ETA
Almost a month

 

[Piggus]

These Amazon FTW pre-orders are killing me. Ordered on 5/31 and no ETA
Almost a month

EVGA sent Amazon and Newegg FTW cards last week, so I would imagine Amazon will start fulfilling those pre-orders this week. We'll see though.

 

[VlaudTheImpaler]

Alright, I don't know what to do. I installed my card and messed with afterburner a bit and set what must be an unstable OC to boot at the start. While restarting my computer in order to figure out why my fan settings weren't taking I forgot that I had done that and now every time I restart my pc when Skype auto boots everything freezes. All I can do is manually turn off my pc at that point.

 

[Paganmoon]

Cool, which version of the card and what mhz are you seeing at idle?

Consider yourself lucky. That's why it sucks, it's seemingly almost random when it works and when it doesn't. More monitors and higher Hz increase the risk of high idle clocks but even some people with triple screen setups have low idle clocks while others with two 60Hz monitors have high idle clocks. Connection types also have an effect, at least sometimes. I currently have 144Hz + 60Hz and idle clocks are in the 1200-1700MHz range (sometimes I use a third 60Hz monitor as well and then my clocks are completely stuck at ~1700MHz but it's summer/hot so trying to use less devices). With two screens If I drop the 144Hz to 120Hz, I get ~300MHz idle clocks.

Well, I was wrong. Hadn't checked my core clocks since changing my display cables (had DP to my 144hz screen, and DVI to my 60hz, but my 144hz doesn't support that refresh rate on DP, so switched DVI to that one, and DP->dvi for the 60hz one). Have 1200Mhz idle clocks right now, which sucks.

 

[BigBadGiantHand]

I have two questions related to my EVGA 1080 SC to those with experience:

1) Should I buy an extended warranty?

2) If yes, should I buy it through EVGA or Newegg?

 

[CraigerGamer]

I think this is about as good as I can get this card. No complaints. 2050mhz is damn good. For some reason whenever I increase the memory even just a bit, the card crashes. I wish I knew why that was.

 

[VlaudTheImpaler]

I also started getting display driver crashes as well. Never had those before either.

 

[Vuze]

Alright, I don't know what to do. I installed my card and messed with afterburner a bit and set what must be an unstable OC to boot at the start. While restarting my computer in order to figure out why my fan settings weren't taking I forgot that I had done that and now every time I restart my pc when Skype auto boots everything freezes. All I can do is manually turn off my pc at that point.

Disconnect the 1080, use iGPU and remove your auto-overclock or afterburner in general (or disable Skype auto-boot if that's the issue and then proceed with lowering your OC) I guess that should fix your problem.

Actually I'm curious if the PC still detects a dGPU when you only disconnected the PSU power connectors. It can still draw some power via the PCI slot. Just remove the 1080 completely to be 100% safe.

 

[Renmyra]

after doing some OC benchmarks using Heaven and Afterburner was able to hit a stable 2139 MHz while playing the Witcher 3 on the G1 1080

I could do benchmarks fine at 2175, Witcher 3 at around 2150, but in Overwatch my display drivers crash at like 1900-2000. Can't have that while playing ranked, so here I am running stock clocks like a pleb.

Maybe it's the memory clock?

 

[VlaudTheImpaler]

Disconnect the 1080, use iGPU and remove your auto-overclock or afterburner in general (or disable Skype auto-boot if that's the issue and then proceed with lowering your OC) I guess that should fix your problem.

Actually I'm curious if the PC still detects a dGPU when you only disconnected the PSU power connectors. It can still draw some power via the PCI slot. Just remove the 1080 completely to be 100% safe.

Alright, so I ended up booting into safe mode and uninstalling afterburner from there and that seems to have fixed it. I had both afterburner and Precision installed. I don't know if that messed with anything or not... Anyhow I'm going to stick with precision for a bit and see how it goes. I just fixed my fan curve problem as well, it's a little different on the graph than afterburner which is what I was using before and I didn't think to check where the 0 value was on the graph lol.

One thing is for sure, I will never touch another button that says anything like boot with these settings on startup until I have a very stable OC. lol

EDIT: Question, do you guys think 3D Mark is worth for $5 on the steam sale? Or are there other benchmark tools I should be using?

 

[Unknown Soldier]

I would buy 3DMark for $5, not only does it have Firestrike that everyone on Earth uses but you'll also get the Stress Tests, the upcoming VRMark (demo already available), and the upcoming Time Spy DX12 benchmark. Seems like a hell of a lot of benchmark "content" for $5.

 

[VlaudTheImpaler]

I would buy 3DMark for $5, not only does it have Firestrike that everyone on Earth uses but you'll also get the Stress Tests, the upcoming VRMark (demo already available), and the upcoming Time Spy DX12 benchmark. Seems like a hell of a lot of benchmark "content" for $5.

Sweet thanks!

Also, is 253 MHZ a good idle speed for my card? Almost seemed like it was broken at first compared to what I saw in tutorial videos where theirs where running MUCH higher idle.

 

[billythemule]

Sweet thanks!

Also, is 253 MHZ a good idle speed for my card? Almost seemed like it was broken at first compared to what I saw in tutorial videos where theirs where running MUCH higher idle.

I'm pretty sure that's a really good number. Your card should be running very cool and drawing little power which is what's most important.

 

[ShogunDarius]

EVGA UK gave a new date for the SC and the FTW cards, end of next week. Also Scan has raised the price on the FTW card again this time it's £704.50

 

[drotahorror]

Sweet thanks!

Also, is 253 MHZ a good idle speed for my card? Almost seemed like it was broken at first compared to what I saw in tutorial videos where theirs where running MUCH higher idle.

Mine idles at 139 mhz core and 405mhz memory

Glad everything turned out ok when you were having some issues, I wanted to give some advice but didn't want to steer you the wrong way.

 

[VlaudTheImpaler]

Mine idles at 139 mhz core and 405mhz memory

Glad everything turned out ok when you were having some issues, I wanted to give some advice but didn't want to steer you the wrong way.

Good to hear that's normal! Now is it also normal to have to reboot your computer every time you set an unstable OC? The only time freezes are happening seems to literally only be during loading. Am I doing something wrong? Temps aren't high either. I idle around 36. The card looks to also stay idle while loading anything.

 

[Xyber]

Good to hear that's normal! Now is it also normal to have to reboot your computer every time you set an unstable OC? The only time freezes are happening seems to literally only be during loading. Am I doing something wrong? Temps aren't high either. I idle around 36. The card looks to also stay idle while loading anything.

Unstable over clocks usually only crashes the driver and then Windows recovers it.

 

[LogicStep]

Alright, I don't know what to do. I installed my card and messed with afterburner a bit and set what must be an unstable OC to boot at the start. While restarting my computer in order to figure out why my fan settings weren't taking I forgot that I had done that and now every time I restart my pc when Skype auto boots everything freezes. All I can do is manually turn off my pc at that point.

Sounds like a Skype problem. I had a similar issue, Google Skype freezing windows 10. I haven't OCed yet.

 

[datamage]

I would buy 3DMark for $5, not only does it have Firestrike that everyone on Earth uses but you'll also get the Stress Tests, the upcoming VRMark (demo already available), and the upcoming Time Spy DX12 benchmark. Seems like a hell of a lot of benchmark "content" for $5.

Ah, so TIme Spy will be added to it, it won't be a new version of 3DMark?

 

[coolasj19]

Just bought an Asus Turbo 1080 from Newegg. Is it alright or to I need to cancel and wait? Can't find any reviews.

 

[Vuze]

GermanGAF

MSI Aero in stock here http://www.future-x.de/msi-geforce-...karte-8-gb-hdmi-3x-displayport-p-295770/?pv=2
20€ over MSRP tho

 

[demigod]

Just bought an Asus Turbo 1080 from Newegg. Is it alright or to I need to cancel and wait? Can't find any reviews.

Terrible imo. $650 for a blower.

 

[coolasj19]

Terrible imo. $650 for a blower.

Cancelled, thank you. That was a decently expensive mistake though. Since I have $650 missing from my account for a handful of days, heh. Hope the Amazon EVGA doesn't try to ship this week -_-

 

[Neo_Geo]

Good choice to cancel. Tthat card should be the poster child of the $599 MSRP for this line, and even that would be pushing the logical price point.

 

[OnionPowder]

I don't mind paying $50 more and I don't overclock

Should I just keep the ASUS?

 

[Dahaka]

I don't mind paying $50 more and I don't overclock

Should I just keep the ASUS?

just custom cool that bitch. Reference coolers are terrible.

 

[OnionPowder]

just custom cool that bitch. Reference coolers are terrible.

I didn't even know this was a thing. Might end up doing this later on down the line if I ever have heat issues or decide I want to overclock.

 

[GlamFM]

I didn't even know this was a thing. Might end up doing this later on down the line if I ever have heat issues or decide I want to overclock.

Easier said than done. Look it up on youtube.

Custom cooling is certainly something I will never do.

 

[Vuze]

Easier said than done. Look it up on youtube.

Custom cooling is certainly something I will never do.

I doubt he was talking about a custom water loop but rather slapping a Hybrid solution or another custom cooler designed for reference PCB on it like the ACX3 from EVGAs SC

 

[Flandy]

after doing some OC benchmarks using Heaven and Afterburner was able to hit a stable 2139 MHz while playing the Witcher 3 on the G1 1080

Highest I can get in witcher 3 on my G1 is 1936 :\ That's with an offset of +80
Any higher than that I get artifacting

 

[SkyTurkey]

So is there a specific card or cards that can be considered standouts for performance? I'm newer to this and all I know is it's beneficial to go with the 3rd party cards that aren't founders editions (if possible).

 

[seph1roth]

I have a Gamerock 1080 premium edition but i don't know how to make an stable OC on it.

Can someone help me please?

 

[CraigerGamer]

took that pic in a menu screen

here is another from Heaven Benchmark

What were your clock and memory offset numbers to get this pushed so high?

 

[Latvian Hitman]

I have a Gamerock 1080 premium edition but i don't know how to make an stable OC on it.

Can someone help me please?

Download and install either MSI Afterburner or EVGA PrecisionX16. Both programs do essentially the same thing, which is to increase GPU clock, memory clock, power limit and allow you to set up a custom fan curve.

Download and install a GPU benchmark like Heaven or Firestrike.

You'll be going back and forth between upping your clocks in AB/PX and running benches for a while. You basically keep upping clocks until you either start seeing artifacts during your bench run or you crash to desktop. That's how you know you pushed it too far. Once you find a frequency that gets you through your benchmarks reliably for a few passes, then it's time to game test. Chances are that your maximum game-stable OC will be lower than what you can pass FS or Heaven with.

Rather than write a book for you- I'd start by looking at YT. There are tons of overclocking guides for the 980Ti. Watch a couple of those, understanding that the same general principles apply to the 1080. There are some differences introduced in how GPU Boost 3.0 behaves, but those aren't going to change the OC process for you too much unless you want to get into some finer details.