DOT DASH DOT
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2 8 pin, one of the few cards to do so.
Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 reviews and benchmarks
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2 8 pin, one of the few cards to do so.
Dual 8 pin for the FTW yeah.
finalflame
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Yes, FTW is custom PCB and 8+8, I believe.
Shifty Capone1
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AIB customs specs overview from ComputerBase.de:
They also have a quick boost stability comparison there:
Yeah it does, here is the quote with all the connections .
Super Rookie
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I have a G-Sync 144Hz 1440p monitor, but I will be pushing the DSR limits too!
Now just need to figure out where they are selling the High Bandwidth SLI bridge...
ShogunDarius
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how does dual pin make a card better?
Nice. FTW it is then. I just dont know whether to preorder online or just just buy it from NCIX when it releases and pick it up in store. I have a feeling if I buy it online and have it shipped it wont come on release day but rather a few days after release.
Considering the massive difference between US and UK (and pretty much everywhere else) pricing, I'm tempted to import. Has anyone in the UK done this in the past? Did the shipping/import duties end up making up the difference? Would probably get an EVGA FTW so warranty shouldn't be a problem.
Man alive, what is up with the packaging art for some of these? GPU box art is in a class of endearingly shitty all its own.
DJSebolski
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LMAO @ EVGA for being down for 5 hours. I mean WTF?
DOT DASH DOT
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If NCIX are good and will have it day one, prob better to get it there. In the UK we are severely limited as to where we can buy top end cards like this, so online is pretty much the only way.
Shifty Capone1
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Is June 10th now the day everyone is thinking?
Your analogy doesn't really work since you can get a faster product for less money in this case.
The blower cooler only really makes sense in cases with poor airflow.
BunkerStar
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So looks like where I live at, the first cheaper 1080's are going to show up at the start of July. Is it worth waiting for the msi gaming x (or any of the other ones) over the FE I have if I have no wishes whatsoever to overclock? Kinda want to get building a rig for my vacation in July. 
I'm not gonna lie, I like to consider myself an informed and rational consumer, and I cannot figure out for the fucking life of me when the non-reference cards are meant to be available (i.e. on store shelves), if any can be preordered outside of the UK, or when any of the cards announced ill be shipping (let alone all the different offerings).
Is this all so confusing by design to get people to just buy the FE?
Is this all so confusing by design to get people to just buy the FE?
G1 only 1 8 pin is no buy for me. The xtreme version should be awesome though.
That's actually a pretty good analogy (except for the elevated cost issue, but I digress). Do you have a sedan with a 2.8L non-turbo? Maybe that's true, the chip would be kind of a waste because that's not a performance car and you didn't buy it to go fast. It gets you where you need to go. However let's say you bought one of the cars with the 3.5L turbos, those are more performance oriented, and presumably you bought that car for a reason.
In the case of my car (135i) the chip gives you 55hp, which is roughly a 15% performance increase for 3% of the initial cost of the car. Was it worth it? I mean, I bought the sports coupe for a reason, I didn't NEED the extra power, but if I wasn't concerned with small performance differences I wouldn't have been in the market for that car in the first place.
I get that the 1080 is shaping up to be epic, but if you're throwing this kind of money at a graphics card, it seems like those performance differences would matter to you. I'm not judging people jumping on the FE (I may have done it if I hadn't gotten in on the FTW's). I just don't understand being in this conversation and saying a performance hit doesn't matter, especially on a more expensive card.
Expect them to release on different dates as they roll out from the different manufacturers. It'll generally be in the first three weeks of June here.
Just ignore the Founder's edition, it is not worth consideration given how quickly these aftermarket designs are rolling out.
Shifty Capone1
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Same for me. Where are you getting the information of the first 3 weeks of June for the US?
ECU tunes are totally worth it. HP boost and better gas mileage, can't go wrong for a relatively cheap upgrade.
ASUS' DIY blog post mentions the Strix being available starting June 4th. I don't know offhand where official citations are on the other dates but I saw like the 8th and 14th mentioned somewhere. They'll be coming pretty quickly seems like.
That makes sense- to expect them to be on different dates per manufacturer- but why haven't any manufacturers seemingly mentioned a date? I mean really even the difference between the first and third week of June is kinda significant when these things seem to be selling out like crack-infused hotcakes.
It's pretty easy to ignore the FE due to the $100 premium for nothing... but I dunno what my approach should be from here, I feel like I'm going to totally miss the first wave of orders for every card unless I'm checking every morning for the next month.
Nice catch. WHY wouldn't they put that date in the press release announcing the card?
That's the one I want so I'll dial in for the 4th and cross me fingers. Thanks!
Nice catch. WHY wouldn't they put that date in the press release announcing the card?
That's the one I want so I'll dial in for the 4th and cross me fingers. Thanks!
The launch does seem to be pretty buckshot, I don't know if there wasn't a lot of lead time on when they were going to be able to release or what.
The Strix is also the one I'd target regardless of release dates, so hopefully they're correct and you can get an order in soon. Keep an eye out for pre-order pages that go up before then.
MikeE21286
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The thought is that one pin does not give enough power for a stable overclock and limits the amount of overclocking that can be done on the card.
With the 1080 being hyped as having good OC ability, the thought is that the single 8 pin power source being given to the card is holding it back, and two pins will/may alleviate the issue.
icecold1983
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damn the asus still throttles. guessing its some type of utilization limit. cant see it being power or temp. not looking good.
Gonna sign up for the ASUS newsletter in the hopes they might send out a pre-order link for the card, feel free to join me using this incredibly stylish and professional-looking form: http://promos.asus.com/US/event/go-asus/news_signup_form.html
Could have orderered the Founders Edition this morning from one of the sites selling at 8am but the varants of the 1080 look much better. Give me that Strix love on June 4th! It would be nice if there was more info out on where to order from though. Pretty confusing from last night to this morning.
dgrdsv
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Not according to Computerbase.de. And that's not "throttles".
GlamFM
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So that Strix is looking to be one of the best 1080 value cards yeah? Base clock seems higher, way lower price at $620/640 respectively (for factory overclocked) than the EVGA ones.
SkyTurnsRed
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If I'm just doing 1440p gaming, would a 1080 be overkill? Should I just try to buy a second hand 980 ti?
icecold1983
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it drops down from its max clock of 2063 to 1898.
Hmm, £41 extra for the Xtreme version.
Coolade
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If you're going to go ultra wide 3440x1440, get a 1080.
In terms of overkill, I don't think so at 1440p. That would be a solid use case for a single 1080, especially going forward.
SkyTurnsRed
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Unknown Soldier
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If someone sees more customs go up for sale in US please post ;_;
lol no kidding
Traditionally, when you say "throttling" you are implying that some hardware is running at less than its rated frequency. Boosting less really isn't "throttling".
dgrdsv
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That's how boost 3.0 seems to work as it pushes to a higher level at start and drops down when the temperature is starting to affect power supply. Looks like it will do this with any type of cooling really as any card is getting warmer when switching from idle to load.
I'm confused. Do you mean the vertical height of the card, because the prodigy has lots of vertical space. The only place I can imagine it being limited is the card thickness in case it hits the side panel, but there is no way the card is 6" deep
LOL, the conversation has grown in scope. I was only commenting on the original quote about people with reference cards missing out b/c they don't mess with afterburner or the like. All I meant was the loss of boost clock they'd be missing wouldn't be something that they'd likely notice. That's it..
I get overclocking, superior custom PCB's and all that, I really do. I used to love overclocking in the days where I could run a 150MHz Celeron at 450. Good times, and a fun hobby.. etc. I like to hand my cards down to a couple PCs that won't accommodate a custom PCB/cooler now, so I don't worry with it.. I'll grudgingly pay the FE tax and move on.
Meanwhile, I'm going to blame you for egging me on if I wind up modding my BMW.
icecold1983
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its not boosting any higher relative to base clocks than boost 2.0 tho. im pretty sure the asus isnt hitting 83c or a power limit in that bench.
Edit - its actually boosting far less than maxwell 2 was. the 980ti strix sustains 1380 with an 1190 base clock. the 1080 strix sustains 1898 with a 1759 base clock
