Devils advocate here but.... Why not? 95% of people buying this card wouldn't know if it throttling or not. And I wouldn't put it past Nvidia shipping something where they know they have pulled the wool over people's eyes... ram gate anyone?
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** NVIDIA GTX 1080 FOUNDERS EDITION: WANNA PRE-ORDER?
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Devils advocate here but.... Why not? 95% of people buying this card wouldn't know if it throttling or not. And I wouldn't put it past Nvidia shipping something where they know they have pulled the wool over people's eyes... ram gate anyone?
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Why not? Because I think it would be easy too remedy the situation with a change in fan profile which has little cost to Nvidia to do. However, I guess the 95% of people you mention might notice more noise than throttling I suppose
.I personally just doubt it but will be good to see how the buyers get on with them.
I think the situation will be better with later cards and suspect performance will come from cramming a lot more cores in than these early cards which might be obtaining performance more cheaply by using less cores but wringing their necks(higher clocks) to obtain the required performance. Pure speculation and not knocking NV but I reckon these cards will be a huge money spinner - despite high R&D costs of Pascal I wouldn't be surprised if the GP104 based GPU's are quite cheap to manufacturer. That's good business tho
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Those prices, pretty much what I said 
Anyone buying a 1080 at those prices is insane.
Anyone buying a 1080 at those prices is insane.
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Life is cruel and Nvidia are onto a money spinner
Well they won't be getting any of my money this round
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At least someone looks a bit guilty about taking the money.
Well they won't be getting any of my money this round
Going off the response offer this forum, they won't be getting 90% of the people on here to part with their monies. Even Easyrider is out.
At least someone looks a bit guilty about taking the money.
Lol
But the funny thing is, even though nvidia are trying to take the biscuit out of them with the pricing of the 1080, they still want one. They will probably brake and buy one anyway
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I would as you never know until you actually try one. We all know people love to pick up on a negative aspect then run with it. I reckon it'll turn out as a non-issue. I think many will buy them even if they're trying not to - new stuff
Might delay a purchase but for other reasons (want to build a new PC, spending time in opposite sides of the country at the moment so gaming time is rare and ruled out a small MATX case)
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How much performance increase do you think a 1080 has over a 780 in fps in games double ?
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Sorry I game at 1440p 60hz bit more info ha
Yes, possibly even more than double.
I love the title of this thread
"NVIDIA GTX 1080 FOUNDERS EDITION: WANNA PRE-ORDER?"
Even OCUK are thinking to themselves, who the hell is going to pre-order a reference card at this price
The only hope is Gibbos
with reference to AIB cards available on 27th as well.If i can get a decent AIB with two power connectors for under £600 Im buying. Fed up with xfire on my two 290x