Poll: ASUS STRIX 1080 OC UPDATE, WHO WANTS A STRIX GAMER OC INSTEAD? (POLL)

[Gibbo]

Who the hell want's to pay £329 for Strix 1060 when you can get cheapest 1070 for £359 !!!! Jesus Asus

Yes our TODAY ONLY DEAL on Palit is a cracker!

 

[HarryBizzle]

Aren't Zotac Amps happily hitting 1900 boosts?

 

[Gibbo]

Aren't Zotac Amps happily hitting 1900 boosts?

Most of the Zotac AMP Extreme hit over 2000 on boost.

 

[Greebo]

Its not looking good, on a oc forum I spend time on, a few people have flashed the OC bios onto the standard asus board and had instability, suggesting the chips are not coming out good.

Here is one such person http://www.overclock.net/t/1601329/gtx-1070-1080-bios-who-has-it/280#post_25366569

This to me backs up the theory that reviewers get cherry picked cards, as odds are if they were picked randomly from stock most reviewers would have had stability issues. Or maybe asus cheated and boosted TDP limit and voltages on reviewer cards to get the clocks working.

The only bios on the net at the moment with more voltage than normal 1080 cards is a Asus OC bios. Im not sure if its been modded that way or whether is came from a reviewers 1080.

 

[HarryBizzle]

Most of the Zotac AMP Extreme hit over 2000 on boost.

Yeah so I don't quite get why Asus can't get enough chips sorted.

 

[Gibbo]

Yeah so I don't quite get why Asus can't get enough chips sorted.

I know the CEO of Zotac, as such I get a good percentage of the world wide allocation, so though they have probably not made any more volume than Asus, OcUK has pretty much had 25% of Zotac's world allocation. Whereas Asus share out stock a lot more across the world.

When your personal friends with a lot of CEO's from some of these big companies or should we say good whisky drinking buddies, it can go a long way to winning more stock.

 

[MumboJumbo]

We had 33pc of OC arrive yesterday, that puts at nearly 60 total delivered so far. The yield on the cards with 1900+ boost is very poor, Gigabyte Extreme has also being very small numbers.

But they will arrive but there is no idea when and how many, whereas the Gamer we have 200 of those and in real world the gaming FPS difference between a Gamer and an OC is within 1-2% of each other.

You have at least given me the confidence that I'm not going to wait months only to have my order canned on me. I do feel that this doesn't add up at all though. OCUK staff themselves have said that most cards are hitting 1900+, yet these cards are very low yield? Is the base clock so hard to keep stable? That kinda indicates that all the other cards are clocking to below the base of this one and are unable to maintain their boosts.

I agree that it's only a few FPS difference between the cards. The difference is we paid for a better card and are being given a worse one for the same price. I think that's why so many of us aren't budging. I'd downgrade if ASUS compensated me for the difference between the two prices when I orginally bought the card.

 

[ppios]

I amended my post as you were quoting me. Indeed correct and it is looking like very low supply. Still no idea on price mind, but definitely have the wallet prepared.

Sorry! I agree, doubt they'll have many but I'm sure they'll sell through even at $1.2k.

Reluctantly switched to the Gamer Strix, despite now being 10th in queue. I have terrible luck when it comes to needing to RMA components so 100Mhz slower boost will just have to be.

This whole situation has soured me from pre-ordering any cards to be honest. I'm not happy that I didn't receive a single email through the entire 2 months, nor am I too impressed that there wasn't a single "sorry" in the one email I received yesterday. ASUS of course, has equal blame for their poor communication, especially for a multi-billion dollar company. Not being able to predict the yields from your own production line is a joke. I do think OCUK need to work on their communication off the forums though.

 

[rogueblade]

So just to simplify things..
If I ordered this, which I have (Strix OC),
I should call OCUK, and ask them to switch it to this (Strix) if I ever want to actually receive an Asus Strix any time in the near future?

 

[LoopyOrc]

So just to simplify things..
If I ordered this, which I have (Strix OC),
I should call OCUK, and ask them to switch it to this (Strix) if I ever want to actually receive an Asus Strix any time in the near future?

Correct, they'll ship it out for the next day also.

 

[Borealis]

GX-409-AS STRIX GAMER is now in stock, it is identical to the OC card, slightly lower clocks though out of the box it is boosting to OC clocks anyway.

Call us if you wish to swap over to this card at the same price as you paid for OC.

This card is hidden online as were only allowing OC customers to get their hands on this SKU.

@rogueblade. If you've ordered a Strix OC and want to switch, give CS a call and the can switch you to the Gamer Strix as per Gibbo's post. The Gamer Strix is not on the website.

 

[rogueblade]

@rogueblade. If you've ordered a Strix OC and want to switch, give CS a call and the can switch you to the Gamer Strix as per Gibbo's post. The Gamer Strix is not on the website.

I'm confused, @Borealis, is this not the card which you're saying is unlisted?

When I call, I don't want to mix up the cards

 

[Curlyriff]

This is the unlisted card as they are offering first refusal to people who ordered the OC to make sure you can then get the Gamer model. Not sure for how long but this is current situation.

Hope that helps

 

[rogueblade]

Done, I've switched to the unlisted version. What a cafuffle....

 

[CrazyArsedMonky]

Hello folks,

Don't know if anyone out there is still holding out for the daddy STRIX; if anyone is - i can vouch for it's quality

I am an ASUS fanboy, no idea why, just am - it just always works in my experience, but feel free to flame away!

My STRIX was delivered after 62 days of waiting but straight out of the box, in default profile i am getting 2050MHz clock @ 72C. I am happily running all games at 4K with max settings and FPS look good (not sure of exact figures).

Just saying this because i almost jumped, then someone gave me perky comment and i am glad they did; very happy with my card.

Stay strong gents!

 

[Gerard]

Personally I feel 2ghz is nothing but a number, even cards clocking to 1900 MHz are showing only about a frame difference between them and cards hitting 2ghz plus. Big numbers but bugger all performance difference over lower clocked cards.

Hello folks,

Don't know if anyone out there is still holding out for the daddy STRIX; if anyone is - i can vouch for it's quality

I am an ASUS fanboy, no idea why, just am - it just always works in my experience, but feel free to flame away!

My STRIX was delivered after 62 days of waiting but straight out of the box, in default profile i am getting 2050MHz clock @ 72C. I am happily running all games at 4K with max settings and FPS look good (not sure of exact figures).

Just saying this because i almost jumped, then someone gave me perky comment and i am glad they did; very happy with my card.

Stay strong gents!

How is fan noise at those clocks?

 

[CrazyArsedMonky]

Pretty quiet I would say, though it's hard for me to say for sure as I always wear headphones.

My case sits on the floor next to me, under a desk. I can't hear it unless I get under the desk, which I did do a few times to see when the fans were turning.

Sorry for a crap answer!

 

[rogueblade]

I've got mine now after ditching the Strix OC card and settling for this unlisted version:

 

[rogueblade]

FYI I'm OC'd mine to 2012Core and 15350Mem

 

[azazl187]

Has anyone tried the OC mode on the ASUS GPU Tweak 2? Whenever i enable it on my card it crashes as soon as i start up a benchmark....