Wow, no overclocking? There used to be huge gains in the past overclocking. How did you ever resist? I remember managing to overclock one of my CPUs and literally nearly doubled its performance! Many of my GPUs would overclock 20% or more also as I recall. How did you resist overclocking all your life?
To answer your question, no it ain’t worth paying the £30 when you can do a manual overclock or even use the oc scanner tool that will give you more performance. The GPUs are identical as far as I know, just one has better clocks out of the box which it is guaranteed to work at and if it does not you are in your right to RMA. As I highly doubt they binned these, there will be zero difference apart from this. Silicon lottery will be more important so if lucky you could get a non OC that overclocks much better than a OC one can overclock.
But again, how do you not know all this being a member here 10 years?
Yes I managed to pick up a ASUS TUF for £649 but I get the feeling I won’t get my hands on it until next month. Bit sad really, Nvidia really messed up the launch. They created a frenzy due to their marketing but did not have enough stock to supply the demand. They should have launched 4 weeks later and built up supply to avoid all this. All this has done is let scalpers and gaugers make extra profit at end users expense.
The upside of this is it gives me time to see what else is coming out and if there is something more suitable I can cancel my order.
Have you picked anything, if not you will likely be having to wait until November unless you are willing to get shafted and severely over pay
