1080TI?

[infinitive1]

so i am in the process of building a new PC with x2 1080ti. To which i plan on custom water cooling the gpu's with ekw blocks. My querry is will it matter what 1080ti's i purchase given that i will be water cooling and overclocking these cards. Would it be better to go with x2 Asus strix OC cards or x2 cheaper cards. As my understanding of the strix version cards is they are overclocked with the manufacturers custom heat sinks hence the infalted price etc.

BR

Nathan

 

[Panos]

Have you considered pre water cooler cards? Aorus 1080ti waterforce is same with the extreme but with waterblock and goes for around 775 if you search.
Otherwise you might have to pay the same if not more to buy the cheapest card, waterblock and back plate.
And then going through the process of removing blocks, potential coil shine because of some tight screw etc.

 

[Simon D]

Have you considered pre water cooler cards? Aorus 1080ti waterforce is same with the extreme but with waterblock and goes for around 775 if you search.
Otherwise you might have to pay the same if not more to buy the cheapest card, waterblock and back plate.
And then going through the process of removing blocks, potential coil shine because of some tight screw etc.

I agree with Panos, look at pre water cooler cards, you will have the manufactures warranties with these cards so have some comeback if any problems.

If you are new to water cooling fitting blocks to cards carry some risk and can invalidate your card warranty if you cause any damage to screw heads and break warranty seals on cards.

 

[orbitalwalsh]

so i am in the process of building a new PC with x2 1080ti. To which i plan on custom water cooling the gpu's with ekw blocks. My querry is will it matter what 1080ti's i purchase given that i will be water cooling and overclocking these cards. Would it be better to go with x2 Asus strix OC cards or x2 cheaper cards. As my understanding of the strix version cards is they are overclocked with the manufacturers custom heat sinks hence the infalted price etc.

BR

Nathan

Two options for you

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Phanteks Glacier GTX 1080 Ti Gigbayte Aorus GPU Full Water Block with RGB Lighting - Chrome= £124.99
• 1 x Gigabyte Aorus GeForce GTX 1080TI 11264MB GDDR5X PCI-Express Graphics Card= £739.99
• 1 x Gigabyte Aorus GeForce GTX 1080Ti "Waterforce WB Xtreme Edition" 11264MB GDDR5X PCI-Express Graphics= £839.99

Total: £1,716.07
(includes shipping: £11.10)



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ASUS does not support cooler removal, Gigabyte does! just dont scratch the PCB/ damage it other wise voided - asus also use stickers and paint on their screws

easier to go with the waterblock version, was £900 at release

Phanteks block with Aorus card allows you to keep backplate and like up to the on board RGB. personally if you going separate water block, pay more for the XTREME version with extra year warranty and RGB backplate

 

[infinitive1]

Many thanks for the responses guys i had not considered going with a card with the block already fitted totally slipped me. Would i be right in thinking though you could get the same performance from a water cooled card with some tinkering as the 1080ti strix oc or is the strix version used from gpu's kinda like the CPU bin lottery? Many Thanks

 

[Simon D]

The Gigabyte Aorus GeForce GTX 1080Ti "Waterforce WB Xtreme Edition" 11264MB GDDR5X PCI-Express Graphics is faster than the Asus GeForce GTX 1080Ti ROG Strix OC and comes with extra year warranty and water block.

The Asus ROG-STRIX-GTX1080TI-O11G-GAMING is cheaper by £40, but you would need to buy the water block, install it yourself and risk losing the warranty on the cards.

Gigabyte GV-N108TAORUSX WB-11GD Core Clock: 1632MHz, Boost Clock: 1746MHz , Memory: 11264MB 11448MHz GDDR5X, 4 years (I believe it needs to be registered online with 28 days of purchasing)

Asus ROG-STRIX-GTX1080TI-O11G-GAMING, Core Clock: 1594MHz , Boost Clock: 1708MHz , Memory: 11264MB 11100MHz GDDR5X, 3 years.

As for how far each card overclocks from the card specification it is down to GPU bin lottery.

From what I seen within reviews most 1080Ti O/C Max Boost Clock: to about 1950- 2050Mhz so seem to be limited by chip design.

 

[orbitalwalsh]

Key with water is it will hold constant boost and be silent (well depending on your water setup), should hit 2.1Ghz out of it as well due to the design of Pascal nothing of a certain amount of Mhz as heat increases every 5c i think it was over a base level

 

[andybird123]

They'll all over clock the same anyway so go with whatever works out cheapest - for watercooling, evga allow heatsink removal

I wouldn't advise getting 2 though as the state of multicard is not very healthy right now (unless you specifically play a game a lot that supports SLI)

 

[orbitalwalsh]

They'll all over clock the same anyway so go with whatever works out cheapest - for watercooling, evga allow heatsink removal

I wouldn't advise getting 2 though as the state of multicard is not very healthy right now (unless you specifically play a game a lot that supports SLI)

so do Gigabyte ,as well as OCUK - EVGA do allow 2nd hand RMA

again overclock the same- water just hold higher stable boost - but comes with its own extra costs and pits falls. EVGA and Aorus do offer AIO versions well for another food for thought

and yeah, as mentioned SLi... unless you've got yourself a new pending 4k 144hz monitor or games that you know are 100% SLi compat

 

[andybird123]

Gigabyte can be a bit hit or miss with RMA's, evga seem to be more consistent

 

[Panos]

Many thanks for the responses guys i had not considered going with a card with the block already fitted totally slipped me. Would i be right in thinking though you could get the same performance from a water cooled card with some tinkering as the 1080ti strix oc or is the strix version used from gpu's kinda like the CPU bin lottery? Many Thanks

Asus doesn't support watercooling and you invalidate the warranty the moment you remove the screw with the sticker.

All cards are equal but some better than others. All Pascal are locked to 1.093v except the Kingpin. So depending how good the cooling is and partially the power delivery you get overclocks.

eg my Aorus Xtreme does 2050 without any overclocking other than set the power limit to 150%. Even running on normal factory fan profile, and never exceeds 50% fan (the fans are silent until after 73%) speed.