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Good replacement for 1080ti?

David Evans said:
[QUOTE="Any recommendations? Was looking at the 2070 super (kfa2) looks a good card for the money.
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I have this card, couldn't recommend it highly enough, great performer and cool! Mine seems to be beating the benchmarks for the 2080 super so i'm happy and it's at a great price at the moment[/QUOTE]

Did you go for the two or three fan version? how hot does it run? I assume the only difference is the extra fan. so tempted to pull the trigger and just sell the 1080ti (with a warning to potential buyers of the heat) could prob get enough money to pay for this card.
 
Monkeyboysteve said:
Did you go for the two or three fan version? how hot does it run? I assume the only difference is the extra fan. so tempted to pull the trigger and just sell the 1080ti (with a warning to potential buyers of the heat) could prob get enough money to pay for this card.
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What’s wrong with the 1080Ti if you don’t mind me asking?

Personally they are great cards but it would be a bit of a sidegrade if not even a downgrade for you as a 1080Ti owner. The Ti is still a faster card than the 2070 Super. Lesser performance, lesser vram. Only thing is they do run a bit cooler and consume less power.

Not tempted to keep the Ti and get something next gen?
 
tyler_jrb said:
Did you go for the two or three fan version? how hot does it run? I assume the only difference is the extra fan. so tempted to pull the trigger and just sell the 1080ti (with a warning to potential buyers of the heat) could prob get enough money to pay for this card.
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What’s wrong with the 1080Ti if you don’t mind me asking?

Personally they are great cards but it would be a bit of a sidegrade if not even a downgrade for you as a 1080Ti owner. The Ti is still a faster card than the 2070 Super. Lesser performance, lesser vram. Only thing is they do run a bit cooler and consume less power.

Not tempted to keep the Ti and get something next gen?[/QUOTE]
It runs insanely hot and mine is loud, I knew from reviews when I got it that it would be, but it's just too much now. I have to have fans on 100% most of the time to keep it from throttling. I just chose the wrong 1080ti basically (aorus) pretty much every review said it is fast but hot and loud. Also the sag is unreal, and because of the really flimsy plastic shroud my gpu brace is close to snapping it, the build quality was really really poor on this card lol. Well on the front anyway, the back is solid.
I might not buy a new card yet, just looking at recommendations for if I do. Also I just get the feeling this card will die one day, and if it does, even if I do RMA it, I cant be without a gaming PC for weeks while I wait. its the only escape I have.Well that and masterbation, and I need a gpu for that too.
 
Monkeyboysteve said:
Not sure I have done it correctly lol.

https://imgur.com/VFIpUxw

Thats the link anyway to the screenshot.

Never before have i had a big company ask me to send cash in a box, also never had a company ask me to pay for a damaged item to be returned to be fair, maybe I have just been lucky that I have always had companies that pay the shipping fees before. just assumed that was standard.
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Just a blur on my phone.

Still doubt they would ask you to send cash in a box tho.

Postal order made out to them, cheque again to them or a bank transfer I would get.

Amazon a usually pretty good. If they sold it with warranty then it's there problem.
 
koooowweeee said:
Just a blur on my phone.

Still doubt they would ask you to send cash in a box tho.

Postal order made out to them, cheque again to them or a bank transfer I would get.

Amazon a usually pretty good. If they sold it with warranty then it's there problem.
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It's right there in the screenshot though, it's a screenshot of the rma team literally telling me to put £15 in the box. not my fault you cant click on the picture or link to imigur. its right there. i'm not paying for an RMA of a faulty product, ive never had to with any other company. EVGA sent me a box and paid all courier fees when i had an issue with a power supply years ago.

Amazon have refused (as i said before) as they only cover it for the first year, after that its on the manufacturer, AMazon said if it stated an extended warranty on the description of the item then they may help, but if its just a standard manufacturer warranty its nothing to do with them.
 
lol. but yeah, they sent an email literaly asking for money in the box. which is sketchy in my opinion. and just weird for a big company. They make it explicit that the warranty service is free (it has to be) but the money is a handling fee, which is still wrong.
 
Ok just went to the desktop version I can see it now.

Could it be that because it wasn't bought through them they charged the £15 or rather you made a claim going off the serial number ? Amazon should have sorted it really. Never heard of a handling fee. That's a bit of a joke.
 
koooowweeee said:
Ok just went to the desktop version I can see it now.

Could it be that because it wasn't bought through them they charged the £15 or rather you made a claim going off the serial number ? Amazon should have sorted it really. Never heard of a handling fee. That's a bit of a joke.
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Gigabyte dont sell any boards themselves do they? Yeah Amazon handled my Asus motherboard before, but they said that was because it said explicitly in the description that it had a 5 year warranty, with gigabyte it didnt... or something. I dont trust amazon as far as ai can throw them.
 
Monkeyboysteve said:
Gigabyte dont sell any boards themselves do they? Yeah Amazon handled my Asus motherboard before, but they said that was because it said explicitly in the description that it had a 5 year warranty, with gigabyte it didnt... or something. I dont trust amazon as far as ai can throw them.
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Yeah bit naughty that.

I think ocuk do the same tho. They handle the full warranty with Asus and I think a few others. But I think you got caught in the extended warranty bull crap.

12 months with Amazon then the rest with the manufacturer.

£15 isn't to bad if it was a good few years old and in the extended warranty period. But still,never heard of anyone else doing that. would have cost them £2/3 quid to send it back to you.
 
koooowweeee said:
Yeah bit naughty that.

I think ocuk do the same tho. They handle the full warranty with Asus and I think a few others. But I think you got caught in the extended warranty bull crap.

12 months with Amazon then the rest with the manufacturer.

£15 isn't to bad if it was a good few years old and in the extended warranty period. But still,never heard of anyone else doing that. would have cost them £2/3 quid to send it back to you.
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They also couldnt guarantee they would fix it and if it was an issue they couldnt sort they MAY be able to send me a refurbished board, if not they would send original board back.

I kept getting bios number codes on my little mobo screen that didnt match any in the book, and they wouldn't tell me what any of the codes meant. it was all very frustrating, took days of emails.
 
Monkeyboysteve said:
It runs insanely hot and mine is loud, I knew from reviews when I got it that it would be, but it's just too much now. I have to have fans on 100% most of the time to keep it from throttling. I just chose the wrong 1080ti basically (aorus) pretty much every review said it is fast but hot and loud. Also the sag is unreal, and because of the really flimsy plastic shroud my gpu brace is close to snapping it, the build quality was really really poor on this card lol. Well on the front anyway, the back is solid.
I might not buy a new card yet, just looking at recommendations for if I do. Also I just get the feeling this card will die one day, and if it does, even if I do RMA it, I cant be without a gaming PC for weeks while I wait. its the only escape I have.Well that and masterbation, and I need a gpu for that too.
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my 2070s fe and the 5700Xt are both hot cards and are both marginally slower than the 1080ti. my recommendation would be to watercool the 1080ti you have with a waterblock. the 2080 super is a dud and the 2080ti is woefully overpriced.
 
Besty said:
my 2070s fe and the 5700Xt are both hot cards and are both marginally slower than the 1080ti. my recommendation would be to watercool the 1080ti you have with a waterblock. the 2080 super is a dud and the 2080ti is woefully overpriced.
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Not sure if I want to spend a lot of money on an older card to watercool it though tbh. Never trust water in my rigs anyway. seen way too frinds have leaks in their computers. Thats why I stick with my trusty noctua d15 on my cpu (even if it does take up half my damn case)
 
Really hard to beat the 1080ti right now. I know you said it's slowly dying and Gigabyte was a nightmare for RMA on a previous device but watch this and you might consider checking if the Gigabyte RMA process has improved.

 
String said:
Could you clarify please? Are you saying that you're refusing to pay £15 for RMA postage and would rather toss the card in the bin... Then pay £450+ for a new, slower card?
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Nope. I'm saying I'm not even sure my card would qualify for an RMA and this £15 issue was for a motherboard not the GPU.

I'm also saying I would sell my 1080ti to buy a 2079 super which seems to beat the 1080ti in most benchmarks and also has rtx and runs a lot cooler and quieter.
 
What's the issue with the card?

I would say your best bet is to keep it until the next iteration is released next year. The problem with GPUs right now is that the current generation didn't bring any decent performance increase over your 1080ti. A 2070 super would be a side grade at best, and a downgrade in terms of Vram.

You already have a top card.
 
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