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The Sea Hawk will probably be using a reference PCB, since the blower on it is exactly the same dimensions as the one on the Aero. The fairly cheap Armor model uses the exact same fancy PCB as the Gaming X model though.
 
Aretak said:
The Sea Hawk will probably be using a reference PCB, since the blower on it is exactly the same dimensions as the one on the Aero. The fairly cheap Armor model uses the exact same fancy PCB as the Gaming X model though.
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The armor was the other one I was looking at, nice how it has the same PCB as the gaming, but the heatsink looks small. As the only difference between the gaming and the armor looks to be the heatsink.
 
roysters said:
Im trying to figure out the best one to get under £550. I wont be overclocking it.

Im thinking KFA2, MSI Aero or Inno3D
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Definetly go for one of the open cooler options IMO. Both should run much quieter than the MSI blower. Between the two I'd fancy the KFA2 EXOC to be the better option, based on past cards. Their 970 EXOC cards were very well-received.
 
Legend said:
Anyone know if the Palit 1080 Jetstream has a backplate? Only image I can find seems to be of the shroud. Is this actually a decent card, I've not had any experience with the brand before?
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It seems to have a backplate, yes.

palit-gtx-1080-super-1by6o.png


http://videocardz.com/60428/palit-introduces-geforce-gtx-1080-gamerock-series

I owned both their 980 and 980 Ti and was very impressed with them. Quietest cards I've ever owned and both overclocked very well (~1500MHz in both cases). I wouldn't hesitate to recommend them.
 
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I have a buddy who works in a computer store in Germany and he told me that a ***** ton of Gigabyte Gaming G1 cards are coming later this week. I won't be buying those since they have only one 8-pin card, but the availability should probably mean that we'll get some stuff shipped out this week across Europe. Good news!
 
Vish Petrol said:
Doesn't look too good for the people who went with Asus
http://videocardz.com/60631/asus-rog-strix-geforce-gtx-1080-offers-poor-overclocking
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if you read through to the actual original article, they hit 2.4ghz on the same card on LN2

it is also a bit odd that the limiting factor its reporting is PT - power target, when the videocardz writeup says they removed the TDP limit - I think they may have misread the article because how would it be limiting at 2.0-2.1 based on power target if they removed the power target limit

it could also be that 8+2 still isn't enough to give clean power much above 2.0ghz, or they just got an unlucky card/core

until we see more results on more cards it is difficult to draw a hard conclusion from a single test - the fact that it hit 2.4ghz on LN2 shows the card is capable of more - would be interesting to know what it would do on water as opposed to LN2

or it really could be that Nvidia are about to get caught out in an "overclockers dream" moment
 
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