The Pascal GTX 1080 Ti Owners Thread

Kaapstad · 12 Mar 2017 at 15:32

khemist said:
I'll try!, the card does seem to run slightly cooler for me with a 1/1 fan profile.

For maximum performance low temps are very important with GP102 cards.

Will you be fitting a waterblock?

khemist · 12 Mar 2017 at 15:35

Probably, later on, staying on air for a little bit though.

trawetSluaP · 12 Mar 2017 at 16:05

Roguey000 said:
Congratulations on the card. How much does thermal throttling effect the 1080Ti FE?

Thanks,

Boost is anywhere in the region of 1850 to 1900 stock and when the thermal throttling hits it'll go down to around 1650 to 1700.

EDIT: A 1:1 fan profile certainly helps. It keeps the card at around 70C which stops the throttling but it's very loud!

easyrider · 12 Mar 2017 at 17:43

Do you feel it's worth it over a 1080 and please try to be honest...

trawetSluaP · 12 Mar 2017 at 18:03

easyrider said:
Do you feel it's worth it over a 1080 and please try to be honest...

I didn't own a 1080, I upgraded from a 980 Ti.

Having said that, IF you have the extra cash and can justify the extra performance then I'd say yes. But it also depends what you're aiming for. I play at 1440p and want to max EVERYTHING with a single card and the 1080 Ti is the card to do it.

khemist · 12 Mar 2017 at 18:30

Worth the money?, no, but i knew that it wouldn't be coming from a 1080 and only playing BF4 @ 1440p at the minute and that runs great...just can't resist the shiny shiny.

Drollic · 12 Mar 2017 at 18:32

easyrider said:
Do you feel it's worth it over a 1080 and please try to be honest...

Thanks to what looks like better overclocking results by a small percentage, from the benchmarks I've seen, I'd say it's a close call and comes down to what specific cards you're comparing and the deals you can get.

Gripen90 · 12 Mar 2017 at 18:34

I ordered 2x Zotac GTX 1080Ti F.E cards yesterday, hopefully I'll have them by Tuesday.

I sold my 3x MSI GTX 980Ti reference 6GB cards.

The Artfull Bodger · 12 Mar 2017 at 18:52

Finaly got round to sticking the waterblock on. Scared myself witless - forgot to connect hard drives before booting up, thought I had bricked it

.

The Artfull Bodger · 12 Mar 2017 at 18:53

IT Troll · 12 Mar 2017 at 18:56

trawetSluaP said:
I didn't own a 1080, I upgraded from a 980 Ti.

Having said that, IF you have the extra cash and can justify the extra performance then I'd say yes. But it also depends what you're aiming for. I play at 1440p and want to max EVERYTHING with a single card and the 1080 Ti is the card to do it.

Same route and same reason. The 980 Ti was starting to struggle and a regular 1080 just wasn't enough of a jump in performance. £700 is a lot to play a few games, but if that is what it costs...

The Artfull Bodger · 12 Mar 2017 at 19:05

Anyone else get a flashing screen before and after bios prompt with their cards?

Xereo · 12 Mar 2017 at 19:35

Well placed a pre-order for GTX 1080ti number 2. Now cant wait to SLI

Dicehunter · 12 Mar 2017 at 19:54

All setup

MooMoo444 · 12 Mar 2017 at 20:28

Anyone feeling underwhelmed by the card? For the price etc.

Just fishing for some honest opinions really. I've seen some people unhappy.

Digital X · 12 Mar 2017 at 20:35

Nice, air 240 case?

Wucked · 12 Mar 2017 at 20:39

Would any one of you lovely owners do me a favor, please? I'm curious to know what fps you get for Witcher 3 at 3440x1440.

Dicehunter · 12 Mar 2017 at 20:44

MooMoo444 said:
Anyone feeling underwhelmed by the card? For the price etc.

Just fishing for some honest opinions really. I've seen some people unhappy.

I got a 20+FPS boost in The Division with max settings at 2560x1440P and that is 1 very demanding game, Makes me happy

digitalx said:
Nice, air 240 case?

540

roysters · 12 Mar 2017 at 21:02

Dicehunter said:
I got a 20+FPS boost in The Division with max settings at 2560x1440P and that is 1 very demanding game, Makes me happy

540

You on air or water, i have exactly same case, the general consensus is put the 1080ti on water...

tyler_jrb · 12 Mar 2017 at 21:03

MooMoo444 said:
Anyone feeling underwhelmed by the card? For the price etc.

Just fishing for some honest opinions really. I've seen some people unhappy.

The card is a hot one and unless your running an extremely aggressive fan profile your going to be seeing drops below 18/1700mhz as people have reported with the FE reference cooler.

Your going to be losing out on a lot of performance with a big chip card like this. TXP stock vs watercooled is something like a 15% increase in performance.

My advice is wait for a good AIB cooler, mod it with a hybrid cooler, or watercool it. A reference cooler certainly isn't the way to go where noise and performance is concerned.