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** NVIDIA GTX 1080 FOUNDERS EDITION: WANNA PRE-ORDER?

SiDeards73 said:
Greg do you have a revenue stream off the back of your YouTube? Or are you trying to drum up digital footfall to create a revenue stream? If the answer is yes to either of these then are you not breaking some OCUK rules banging on about your YouTube channel? I might be wrong on all accounts, just intrigued to know.

Btw the price of these cards is ludicrous, the blatant Asus tax is hilarious
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Look at my website and look at my Youtube channel and you will not see a single advert or ever will. I do it out of enjoyment and it costs me money but feel free to report me for banging on about it :o
 
LoadsaMoney said:
As said before, on release, it was more of a 980 competitor, now its not, and thats the trouble, took AMD an absolute age to get the performance out (always does), and by the time they do, no one gives a ****, as new cards are here.
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Look if that came across as harsh I'm sorry. But seriously the same logic could be applied to fury x and titan x since the titan x lost a few games but was clearly out of the furys league anyway. Why can't you understand that point.
 
I find the bare board picture hilarious for some reason - they've already included the place for the extra 8-pin power connector and cut out for the latch for the next Titan and Ti versions to make it even easier to produce when they decide they've bled the 1080 dry and can now start producing the proper card.

I know it makes sense to design the board this way to save money later, but at least try to hide the fact that you're keeping your full fat version back while giving us the semi-skimmed at the full-fat price! :D
 
Lokken86 said:
Look if that came across as harsh I'm sorry. But seriously the same logic could be applied to fury x and titan x since the titan x lost a few games but was clearly out of the furys league anyway. Why can't you understand that point.
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Its fine :)

The FuryX was a lot closer to the 980 than the TX, which is why it was classed as more of its comeptitor, everyone was saying it needed a good £200/£250 off its price, as why would you buy one, when the 980 was only (whatever it was at, at the time).
 
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Oh ok thanks. Well I shall be waiting for the 1080ti if it comes, not in a rush too much.

Looking forward to seeing the different coolers though.
 
Gregster said:
Look at my website and look at my Youtube channel and you will not see a single advert or ever will. I do it out of enjoyment and it costs me money but feel free to report me for banging on about it :o
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Nah Greg's I was just interested was all, mate of mine gave up his full time job to stream and makes a damn good living off it, but I wasn't sure if your allowed to advertise that stuff here personally if you make money from it
 
Confused Stu said:
I find the bare board picture hilarious for some reason - they've already included the place for the extra 8-pin power connector and cut out for the latch for the next Titan and Ti versions to make it even easier to produce when they decide they've bled the 1080 dry and can now start producing the proper card.

I know it makes sense to design the board this way to save money later, but at least try to hide the fact that you're keeping your full fat version back while giving us the semi-skimmed at the full-fat price! :D
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Nope, the board can't be used for anything other than that specific GPU. They've provided the design for AIBs to be able to install more power delivery and provide a better overall card but chose to not provide that extra delivery on this reference card on purpose making it worse value.

In many previous releases the reference boards were actually excellent quality and custom pcbs often skimped with worse mosfets, less available amps, worse cooling and cheaper pcbs as a result. AMD reference cards for instance were for years amongst the best and watercooling a reference card provided excellent results so people would look specifically for a reference AMD card to put a waterblock on rather than a cheaper less good pcb from a 3rd party.

Here you will have pretty much the opposite, reference cards leaving a few power stages and pci-e 8 pin out to save cash but will make it a worse card under water cooling.
 
In an ideal world, literally no-one would buy this... we'd all just sit here laughing at the price, waiting for the real one. Which eventually would appear, significantly lower. But of course that won't happen, the fools part with their money yet again... I wonder what history will make of this madness? :(
 
No disrespect to OCUK and Gibbo, but wow, jaw dropping prices. Just wow.

A blatant paper launch. Two prices given for basically the same product. No vesa standard adaptive sync. No UK RRP until preorders. £635 for a 300nm chip.

Despicable.
 
SiDeards73 said:
Nah Greg's I was just interested was all, mate of mine gave up his full time job to stream and makes a damn good living off it, but I wasn't sure if your allowed to advertise that stuff here personally if you make money from it
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It is something I have done for the last couple of years and was surprised at how much I enjoy doing it. It is just a hobby and an expensive one at that.
 
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