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Gigabyte GTX 1080 Xtreme Gaming

Interestingly enough I initially bought two Gigabyte WF 670's years ago but I had to return one for bent fin damage and a ticking fan.

Not that I have much experience with big heatsink GPU's from every AIB but it is interesting in the context of this topic.
 
Still remember the issues with the Gigabyte GTX 480 SOC when released a significant minority could not run at the stock speeds.

Seems not a lot has changed; my next GPU will probably be MSI now.
 
The-Hoff said:
Just to let you guys know, I received my card. Initial bad luck as my fins were bent as in the above image. Maybe mine was not as severe as I was able to delicately open and straighten them with a credit card (not a knife as it will scratch), and they look as good as new. I can see what they did to try improve the packaging but it will not work. The fins are too exposed. They should have been under the shroud. I consider myself lucky and I had bent fins, many others may have worse bent fins. I can see many RMA's just over fins.

As for everything else, it looks great and my fans run free, so maybe the new packaging has resolved that side of it. I have not installed it yet so here's hoping "coil Whine" doesn't ruin the party :)


EDIT - Extra feedback after playing with the card for a couple of hours and I am so angry you would not believe. This card has 2 modes, gaming and OC. This card crashes using 3DMark on OC mode. This card will not go above 2000mhz without a driver crash - pathetic.
I have not even tried overclocking because it will not even reach its OWN factory overclock. These cards aren't binned, they are from the bottom of the pile with a fancy cooler put on top. I have a 2nd FE card and that hits over 2000mhz with the lowly reference cooler. This card is an absolute behemoth and it can't even come close to my FE.
I know it is all about the silicone lottery but if a beast of a card with a cooler like this cannot even reach its own preset overclock, then there are serious problems with Gigabytes testing. I hope you all have better luck with your cards but this incident with mine shows that it is down to luck whether it runs well and nothing to do with the fancy cooler....as I have just proved, its a very poor one.
My refund will be initiated first thing tomorrow.

Sorry if I sound like a sour puss, but this has seriously ruined my weekend!!!
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I thought we knew from the outset with the lack of increased power, that overclocking all these gaudy OTT AIB cards wouldn't result in better clocks than an FE edition?

Granted though, not being able to achieve it's own advertised boost clock is completely unacceptable. But then my experience of everything Gigabyte has been on a similar level so I guess I shouldn't be surprised, one brand I always steer clear of now.
 
TheFloyd73 said:
Still remember the issues with the Gigabyte GTX 480 SOC when released a significant minority could not run at the stock speeds.

Seems not a lot has changed; my next GPU will probably be MSI now.
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Gigabyte took quite a while to recover from that in our (enthusiast) eyes. Hopefully this is just a one-off and not general neglect of their premium product...
 
The-Hoff said:
Just to let you guys know, I received my card. Initial bad luck as my fins were bent as in the above image. Maybe mine was not as severe as I was able to delicately open and straighten them with a credit card (not a knife as it will scratch), and they look as good as new. I can see what they did to try improve the packaging but it will not work. The fins are too exposed. They should have been under the shroud. I consider myself lucky and I had bent fins, many others may have worse bent fins. I can see many RMA's just over fins.

As for everything else, it looks great and my fans run free, so maybe the new packaging has resolved that side of it. I have not installed it yet so here's hoping "coil Whine" doesn't ruin the party :)


EDIT - Extra feedback after playing with the card for a couple of hours and I am so angry you would not believe. This card has 2 modes, gaming and OC. This card crashes using 3DMark on OC mode. This card will not go above 2000mhz without a driver crash - pathetic.
I have not even tried overclocking because it will not even reach its OWN factory overclock. These cards aren't binned, they are from the bottom of the pile with a fancy cooler put on top. I have a 2nd FE card and that hits over 2000mhz with the lowly reference cooler. This card is an absolute behemoth and it can't even come close to my FE.
I know it is all about the silicone lottery but if a beast of a card with a cooler like this cannot even reach its own preset overclock, then there are serious problems with Gigabytes testing. I hope you all have better luck with your cards but this incident with mine shows that it is down to luck whether it runs well and nothing to do with the fancy cooler....as I have just proved, its a very poor one.
My refund will be initiated first thing tomorrow.

Sorry if I sound like a sour puss, but this has seriously ruined my weekend!!!
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Yep.

In NZ at least they used that as an excuse to really hike up the price for what's essentially the same performance or at the very least, a tiny bump in performance. I've thrown quite a clock on my FE and it runs rock solid and smooth. Just hot so have to run the fan rather high to keep it cool. But so far it looks like I got lucky with the silicone lottery this time round.
 
Telecaster said:
I thought we knew from the outset with the lack of increased power, that overclocking all these gaudy OTT AIB cards wouldn't result in better clocks than an FE edition?

Granted though, not being able to achieve it's own advertised boost clock is completely unacceptable. But then my experience of everything Gigabyte has been on a similar level so I guess I shouldn't be surprised, one brand I always steer clear of now.
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Company aside, I think a lot of it is purely down to the luck of the draw. I have a Gigabyte FE edition and it runs great, even with a healthy OC thrown on. Won't be surprised if the same wholesale companies supply all the manufacturers with the same materials to produce the 'different' cards.
 
The-Hoff said:
Just to let you guys know, I received my card. Initial bad luck as my fins were bent as in the above image. Maybe mine was not as severe as I was able to delicately open and straighten them with a credit card (not a knife as it will scratch), and they look as good as new. I can see what they did to try improve the packaging but it will not work. The fins are too exposed. They should have been under the shroud. I consider myself lucky and I had bent fins, many others may have worse bent fins. I can see many RMA's just over fins.

As for everything else, it looks great and my fans run free, so maybe the new packaging has resolved that side of it. I have not installed it yet so here's hoping "coil Whine" doesn't ruin the party :)


EDIT - Extra feedback after playing with the card for a couple of hours and I am so angry you would not believe. This card has 2 modes, gaming and OC. This card crashes using 3DMark on OC mode. This card will not go above 2000mhz without a driver crash - pathetic.
I have not even tried overclocking because it will not even reach its OWN factory overclock. These cards aren't binned, they are from the bottom of the pile with a fancy cooler put on top. I have a 2nd FE card and that hits over 2000mhz with the lowly reference cooler. This card is an absolute behemoth and it can't even come close to my FE.
I know it is all about the silicone lottery but if a beast of a card with a cooler like this cannot even reach its own preset overclock, then there are serious problems with Gigabytes testing. I hope you all have better luck with your cards but this incident with mine shows that it is down to luck whether it runs well and nothing to do with the fancy cooler....as I have just proved, its a very poor one.
My refund will be initiated first thing tomorrow.

Sorry if I sound like a sour puss, but this has seriously ruined my weekend!!!
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Any pics of the damage fella?
 
The-Hoff said:
The OC mode, which brings it to 1936mhz (advertised on the website spec, but the boost always goes slightly higher on most 1080's anyway), crashes when running 3Dmark. The "OC Mode" is clearly advertised on the specs of this card, and I haven't added any extra core clock.
Anyway, It boosts itself to just over 2000mhz then crashes. I would be miffed if I couldn't manually overclock 1mhz over the factory overclock, but the fact that it can't even hold its own OC mode, that is unnacceptable.
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I see the advertised speed now, I was reading from a review.

set the fan profile to 100% and using default clocks boost the voltage in 1% increments and tell us where you land to get it stable.

it might be that gigabyte need to tune the bios for a slightly higher voltage and fan profile.

having a crap clock out of the box does not necessarily mean a crap chip, it might just be a bit more leaky and need volts.

the xtreme should be able to beat out the FE once we see a custom bios. my 980ti xtreme is OK out of the box but only really sings once I slap a custom bios on it.
 
The-Hoff said:
The OC mode, which brings it to 1936mhz (advertised on the website spec, but the boost always goes slightly higher on most 1080's anyway), crashes when running 3Dmark. The "OC Mode" is clearly advertised on the specs of this card, and I haven't added any extra core clock.
Anyway, It boosts itself to just over 2000mhz then crashes. I would be miffed if I couldn't manually overclock 1mhz over the factory overclock, but the fact that it can't even hold its own OC mode, that is unnacceptable.
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It doesn't reach 2000 or it's not stable at 1936Mhz?
Please help me clarify this.
 
My G1 Gaming on OC mode got up to 1981mhz on GPU-Z and at 70deg with 70% fan.

I have done no overclocking yet but I'm, very happy with this and judging by others going higher may not do much at all for fps?

Taking two cards out and replacing with one and having a much better gaming experience is amazing :)
 
Besty said:
I see the advertised speed now, I was reading from a review.

set the fan profile to 100% and using default clocks boost the voltage in 1% increments and tell us where you land to get it stable.

it might be that gigabyte need to tune the bios for a slightly higher voltage and fan profile.

having a crap clock out of the box does not necessarily mean a crap chip, it might just be a bit more leaky and need volts.

the xtreme should be able to beat out the FE once we see a custom bios. my 980ti xtreme is OK out of the box but only really sings once I slap a custom bios on it.
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I tried cranking everything up (voltage in increments) and still crashed.
 
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Gigabyte-Gaming said:
It doesn't reach 2000 or it's not stable at 1936Mhz?
Please help me clarify this.
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It is not stable at 1936mhz but it does jump higher slightly and hover around that mark but It freezes my computer. This is using the OC setting with no tweaking.

Trying manually it holds 2000mhz for 2 seconds before crashing with fans and voltage tested on every incremental setting up to max.

After much testing I am getting 1900mhz stable but no more. The OC Mode is unusable for me.

My Gigabyte FE card flies to 1970mhz and passes all the 3dmark tests.
Something is clearly wrong with my Xtreme. Maybe it is isolated, who knows.
 
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ashmanuk67 said:
My G1 Gaming on OC mode got up to 1981mhz on GPU-Z and at 70deg with 70% fan.

I have done no overclocking yet but I'm, very happy with this and judging by others going higher may not do much at all for fps?

Taking two cards out and replacing with one and having a much better gaming experience is amazing :)
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Get that sig updated then ;)
 
The-Hoff said:
It is not stable at 1936mhz but it does jump higher slightly and hover around that mark but It freezes my computer. This is using the OC setting with no tweaking.

Trying manually it holds 2000mhz for 2 seconds before crashing with fans and voltage tested on every incremental setting up to max.

After much testing I am getting 1900mhz stable but no more. The OC Mode is unusable for me.

My Gigabyte FE card flies to 1970mhz and passes all the 3dmark tests.
Something is clearly wrong with my Xtreme. Maybe it is isolated, who knows.
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Wow that is quite poor! Both my FE solid at 2100mhz. One runs fine at 2139mhz.

But not even able to hold 1936mhz is quite shocking. I'd be tempted to return it if it can't even hold its own boost clock.
 
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