GearDraxon
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Yup, got another email notification saying they were back in stock, and jumped on it! Looks like it went through.
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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti launch/review day - 2017/03/09
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Coma Ecliptic
Member
AORUS coming in and out of stock now
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod...-na-_-na&cm_sp=&AID=10446076&PID=7057735&SID=
Hellshingu
Member
Please help...
I've read the the Aorus Xtreme cards were binned and I do have a Gigabyte mobo in my current build. Not that it matters too much.
I've read the the Aorus Xtreme cards were binned and I do have a Gigabyte mobo in my current build. Not that it matters too much.
Just ordered this:
And this:
Should be here by Friday. Extremely excited.
They are really trying to sell the 1080 Ti hybrid kit for $160??? Wtf. You can get the 1080 kit for $119 anywhere and I was able to get it for $105 off Amazon three months back. Guess it went up in price again since so many people were buying it for the 1080 Ti lol. Just takes a dremel tool to cut/grind the backplate in 3 spots. Well the spot where you grind for the capacitors was a real pain, but the other 2 spots that you cut out were easy to do.
Please help...
I've read the the Aorus Xtreme cards were binned and I do have a Gigabyte mobo in my current build. Not that it matters too much.
get control of yourself man
Hellshingu
Member
I have a FTW3 on pre-order too....
But seriously, I might just use the Aorus. Been using MSI for my last 2 cards. Clocks on the Aorus and the fact that they were binned make it very attractive.
The Armor's cooler just isn't enough to properly cool a 1080 Ti
If temps are getting in the 80s with the fans close to max now I can only imagine what will happen in the summer...
EatChildren
Currently polling second in Australia's federal election (first in the Gold Coast), this feral may one day be your Bogan King.
What does "binned" mean? This terminology is new to me.
Eclectic Sk3ptic
Member
Just ordered this:
And this:
Should be here by Friday. Extremely excited.
IMO that's easily the best "version" of these cards aside from actual water cooling. Temps at 100% load should land somewhere between 50-60C (overclocked), hot air gets ejected out of the case, and it's very quiet too. My FE runs at a stable 2,038Mhz at 80% fan speed, so with one of those I'll be getting all of that performance without having to put up with the noise. In any case, thanks for the heads up! I'll order one when they're back in stock
Celcius
°Temp. member
It means that it's been pre-tested and guaranteed to run at a higher spec (clockspeed) than normal units are guaranteed for.
They test the chips capabilities (clocks etc) and select the better performing ones
KevMan1815
Member
Strix is installed and now I can't decide what game to try out first.
Hellshingu
Member
So should I try the Aorus Xtreme out or stick with the MSI Gaming X? Don't know what to do...
Please help...
I've read the the Aorus Xtreme cards were binned and I do have a Gigabyte mobo in my current build. Not that it matters too much.
Have ordered both, still no idea when either of them will ship here in Sweden.
I have been really happy with my EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti FE and ASUS PG279Q but I do notice I am not able to get a sold 60+ in Rise of the Tomb Raider and GTAV with everything on Ultra. Could it be my CPU or Memory bottlenecking me?
Here are my specs (also my CPU is overclocked to 4.0 GHz with my GPU stock):
Operating System
Windows 10 Pro 64-bit
CPU
Intel Core i5 4670K @ 3.40GHz 32 °C
Haswell 22nm Technology
RAM
8.00GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 666MHz (9-9-9-24)
Motherboard
ASRock Z87 Extreme4 (CPUSocket) 33 °C
Graphics
ROG PG279Q (2560x1440@144Hz)
3071MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti (EVGA) 29 °C
Here are my specs (also my CPU is overclocked to 4.0 GHz with my GPU stock):
Operating System
Windows 10 Pro 64-bit
CPU
Intel Core i5 4670K @ 3.40GHz 32 °C
Haswell 22nm Technology
RAM
8.00GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 666MHz (9-9-9-24)
Motherboard
ASRock Z87 Extreme4 (CPUSocket) 33 °C
Graphics
ROG PG279Q (2560x1440@144Hz)
3071MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti (EVGA) 29 °C
Your ram is clocked really low. You could get up to 3000 Mhz (DDR4) and see a nice 10 - 20 FPS gain in certain titles just from that change.
Compsiox
Banned
Eh mine hasn't gone past 78 degrees yet. I am interested to see what the summer will be like tho. Hopefully not too bad.
Felix Lighter
Member
LGA 1150 socket CPUs don't support ddr4. Though there is DDR3 at 3000 Mhz. 666 Mhz is likely misread from whatever that was copied from. It's probably 1333 which is on lower side of what's available.
Anyone have experience with this version? I really like my current Gigabyte Windforce 980GTX. I did want to hold out for the EVGA cards next month... but the upgrade itch is too great.
I use MSi Afterburner.
bomberman447
Member
I use MSI Afterburner for mine.
Saren is Bad
Member
My Armor taps out at the 2400 rpm - should I care though? Genuinely curious.
Takamura-San
Member
What do you mean taps out? Your computer shuts down? or that is the fan RPM cap?
Hellshingu
Member
Have you guys seen any aorus xtreme reviews up? I've been looking at the normal sites but only seen pictures of the card.
SolidSnakeUS
Member
So I guess I should say fuck it and pre-order one of these bad boys and replace my GTX 970?
I'd just keep an eye on your temps to see how thermals are holding up until MSI gets a BIOS update out to fix it.
You are right, it is actually 1333. I guess its time to upgrade my RAM.
digitalrelic
Banned
Yeah, I was disappointed in the price increase as well, but frankly I'd rather pay more than take a dremel to a 1080 shroud. Ruins resale value, whereas I could probably get most of my cash back selling the 1080 Ti shroud a few years from now.
Pagusas
Elden Member
if I had a 970 I'd wait for the 11xx series.
Nah, the 970 is weak sauce with its gimped 3.5 GB of memory. Way worth it to get either an used 1080 for "cheap" or new 1080 Ti.
Well you are actually modding the backplate only. The shroud remains the same, but same general principle. Although a modded backplate still works fine with the 1070 and 1080.
Saren is Bad
Member
The fan is capped there even at 100% fan speed. It's apparently an issue but I haven't had anything bad happen when playing games
Compsiox
Banned
Do it. I very much feel the difference coming from a 980ti so you'll definitely be blown away. Go for it. The first Volta cards will probably be on par anyway.
Preorder... Acquired.
That's what I'ma do.
GTX 970? 🚮 🚮 🚮 🚮
Nah, I preordered an FTW3 but I think the Strix, MSI Gaming, and Aorus will all likely have better cooling solutions and perform better. The FTW3 will be close though and have the best customer service. If I can get a Strix or maybe an Aorus then I will likely cancel my FTW3 but if I can't I'll still be very happy.
Got my 1080Ti Gaming X yesterday. I'm usually an Asus guy, but estimates for STRIX were around 2 weeks, and I could get a Gaming X straight away, so I went for it.
It's actually smaller than the 1080 STRIX, which surprised me. At default clocks it's really quiet.
I can't unlock voltage controls in Afterburner for whatever reason. Without raising the voltage, I maxed out at +75MHz core and +450MHz memory on top of the factory OC. Now it makes some noise and the temps go up to around 80, but even at peak noise I feel it's a tad bit quieter than my STRIX 1080 was under the same circumstances.
As an interesting detail, I don't have the trouble I had with the STRIX of the GPU not always downclocking when idle. This resulted in the STRIX hovering at around 55c, which meant the fans were turning on and off all the time every few seconds. I fixed that with a custom fan profile, but doesn't seem like that will be necessary for the MSI card, which is nice.
This thing absolutely maims 1440p. Going from the 980Ti to 1080 was "now this is a little better" kind of upgrade that still had me dropping some details in some games, but this is something else. So far I tried TW3, FC: Primal, AC: Syndicate, Hitman, Crysis 3 and Dishonored 2. I was able to max everything out with proper AA (not maxed out in the games that allowed something stupid expensive like MSAAx8 though) in each of those games and never ever went below 60fps, spending 99.9% of the time well above 70.
Only game that gave me trouble of any sort was Dishonored 2, which is a POS due to it's framepacing problems. Interestingly enough I noticed that when I was hitting a solid 120fps it was smooth as butter - but when going below around 90 fps, the framepacing problems show up and it doesn't feel anything like 90fps even if the fps and frametime graphs say otherwise. Go figure.
All in all a very solid card based on one evening of tweaking and benchmarking. It's quiet, has no coil whine and it OC's to pretty solid numbers without voltage tweaks. And it cost almost 50EUR less than a STRIX. Guess MSI gets a chance at my money in the future as well.
It's actually smaller than the 1080 STRIX, which surprised me. At default clocks it's really quiet.
I can't unlock voltage controls in Afterburner for whatever reason. Without raising the voltage, I maxed out at +75MHz core and +450MHz memory on top of the factory OC. Now it makes some noise and the temps go up to around 80, but even at peak noise I feel it's a tad bit quieter than my STRIX 1080 was under the same circumstances.
As an interesting detail, I don't have the trouble I had with the STRIX of the GPU not always downclocking when idle. This resulted in the STRIX hovering at around 55c, which meant the fans were turning on and off all the time every few seconds. I fixed that with a custom fan profile, but doesn't seem like that will be necessary for the MSI card, which is nice.
This thing absolutely maims 1440p. Going from the 980Ti to 1080 was "now this is a little better" kind of upgrade that still had me dropping some details in some games, but this is something else. So far I tried TW3, FC: Primal, AC: Syndicate, Hitman, Crysis 3 and Dishonored 2. I was able to max everything out with proper AA (not maxed out in the games that allowed something stupid expensive like MSAAx8 though) in each of those games and never ever went below 60fps, spending 99.9% of the time well above 70.
Only game that gave me trouble of any sort was Dishonored 2, which is a POS due to it's framepacing problems. Interestingly enough I noticed that when I was hitting a solid 120fps it was smooth as butter - but when going below around 90 fps, the framepacing problems show up and it doesn't feel anything like 90fps even if the fps and frametime graphs say otherwise. Go figure.
All in all a very solid card based on one evening of tweaking and benchmarking. It's quiet, has no coil whine and it OC's to pretty solid numbers without voltage tweaks. And it cost almost 50EUR less than a STRIX. Guess MSI gets a chance at my money in the future as well.
Some of the reviews of this very card show the settings they used to OC, and those settings included increasing the voltage.
Example:
http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/msi_gtx_1080_ti_gaming_x_review,30.html
Whether or not the setting actually does anything... who knows?
SolidSnakeUS
Member
Would you say the top one would be on par with the 1080Ti or do you think it would be better? I know I've wanted to wait for HBM2, but I'm sure if it's worth the wait right now.
digitalrelic
Banned
Yeah I mean of course, more power to anyone that wants to mod the backplate. I would've much rather paid $120, but it just isn't personally worth the hassle/loss of resale value for me.
DId you choose one already?
The 1080 Xtreme was great, far better than their G1 variant, but no reviews are out yet for the Ti so I'd play it safe and keep the MSI.
mysocksarepink
Banned
will non reference cards drop today on Amazon? find out today on dragonball z
Hmmmm. Upon further inspection, I wasn't aware that the EVGA SC2 has less HDMI ports than say the MSI Gaming X.
I was going to go with EVGA for the customer support, but now I'm rethinking maybe going with MSI (Who I've always bought previous cards from).
Then the question becomes, when will they come back in stock, and can I click the button fast enough.
I was going to go with EVGA for the customer support, but now I'm rethinking maybe going with MSI (Who I've always bought previous cards from).
Then the question becomes, when will they come back in stock, and can I click the button fast enough.
Hellshingu
Member
I haven't. I won't get to mess around with the cards at all until the weekend and I'm sure reviews for the aorus will be out by then to help me make my decision.