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Kev1eighty7

Kev1eighty7

Kev1eighty7

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Evening gents, bit of predicament here and would like your thoughts. Been sent TWO and sent back TWO Gigabyte Aorus GTX1080 10gbps (Rev 2.0) cards of late as i did actually order the 11gbps version (rev 1.0). Now, i found the two cards for around £520.00 but they were advertised incorrectly so sent them back. I can actually get the 10gbps version for £499.99 (another reason for sending back) but would rather the 11gbps but only place i can find it now is £560.00.

SO would you pay an extra £60.00 for 1gbps increase???

P.S The reason i wanted Aorus is because I've built with a Aorus ultra gaming MOBO and more importantly wanted a front HDMI port on the card for my installed VR front panel, feel free to recommend a similarly priced alternative also if you think id get a better deal

Cheers
 
Nice comparison of 10 vs 11 here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ur6f0QtjeY

Of course. OCs on individual cards vary so one could be better than the other.

For me personally that marginal gain is not worth £60!

I think most 1080s will take a +500mhz on the memory out of the box (both of my foudners did).

Go with the 10gbs and save yourself some money!
 
Yeah looking at that video it averages 3-4fps increase, i wouldn't say thats much of a gain really. think ill stick with the 10gbps for £499.99

Thanks for your help!
 
LewisRaz said:
Nice comparison of 10 vs 11 here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ur6f0QtjeY

Of course. OCs on individual cards vary so one could be better than the other.

For me personally that marginal gain is not worth £60!

I think most 1080s will take a +500mhz on the memory out of the box (both of my foudners did).

Go with the 10gbs and save yourself some money!
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You sound like you've made up your mind but if it's any help, my founders took a 500mhz memory overclock and 200mhz core clock overclock right out the box. They're very easy cards to overclock
 
if your able to overclock, mine hit 2100hz core and 12Gbps on the ram under water, on air core was a little lower, 2ghz but ram was the same .
its worth getting Rev 2 of the card, heatsink has more heatpipes that are thicker- not that the card needed it anyways .
but if you cant get the 11gbps price , then standard 10gbps should be fine.
higher res and VR , the 1080 still pulls ahead of gtx 1070ti at both stock - when overclocked 1070ti wont be able to match, and the price of that has risen
 
Kev1eighty7 said:
Cant find an 11gbps card for less than £560.00 now :(
Do you still think its worth it?
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If the price is rising and you don't plan on getting new Vive or headset that are now 1440p then stick with the default .
11gbps being OC to almost 12gbps is great for high Res , specially VR putting more strain then monitors .
Most likely the price has gone up due to $30 tariff slap on ram, and GDDR5X is limited ! Specially 11gbps which shifted over to 1080ti models which have had a production cut down, even ocuk staff mentioned it on here they stock piled up
 
@Kev1eighty7
Looks all good !

Survived real bench at stock with XMP enabled and not overheating so all good !

Worth download HWMontior

https://www.cpuid.com/softwares/hwmonitor.html

Gives you a nice display of system temps and voltages .

Worth downloading Unigine Valley to. Run it at 1080p with everything max, window mode. You'll hear some GPU coil whine , specially when you exit as frame rates are through the roof. Normally a good way to numbing down cards that have or might have coil whine when gaming , and will show you how your card is doing under stress :)

Since you've got a VR headset, worth download. vR benchmark and see how pretty and well your system handles it !

Then next step. overclocking!
 
Great stuff!
Ok no problem, i will get onto that task tonight and post up results ASAP! Did a cold restart after real bench and she loaded straight into windows, no reboots, checked RAM again in CPUz and still 1600, so seems very good!

I was pretty pleased with MAX 65 CPU temp, still shame i didn't realise about a bigger AIO but never mind, will upgrade in future.

I picked up a ACER XZ350CU for £400.00, B grade, only thing wrong is boxed damaged however, bit of BLB by the looks of it at the far left and right edges of the panel. At least it looks like that anyway, could be talking nonsense...Really wanted 1440p at 120Hz+ to be honest but lots of £££s...couldnt really find anything
 
@orbitalwalsh Pics of VR and valley benchmarks mate!
Max temps low 60s for GPU, seems good to me, fans must be working ok! Two 140mm at front, one rear, two up top in push config.

Can we work on getting more out of this card then soon? I cant get my hands on an 11gbps anymore, nowhere has them anymore!

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