** OcUK HAS 21 CUSTOM GTX 1080 MODELS READY FOR PRE-ORDER !! **

[MumboJumbo]

The feeling I get right now is Asus have stopped testing and are just throwing the GPUs into the regular and the Gamer, as those speeds can be hit, so yes there could be some overclocking gems.

The issue for Asus is the way they pre-test is to strict and their clock speeds for the OC were simply to high, they made a clear error and as such were getting very poor yields and wasting a lot of time.

So for now I feel they have stopped testing because the result right now is Asus are not selling any 1080's, because they have no 1080's pretty much in stock in any good volume of Strix anywhere. So they need to get stock into channels, then they get sales and market share back and at the same time a lot of OC customers will happily switch.

Once they get production and the channel stocked on regular cards I can forsee they will start testing GPU again to try and get some OC's out the door.


For now we have increased the pricing on Gamer and OC to a crazy level to stop any new orders, we want our own customers who already paid to have first dibs and we'd rather limit any new orders on the OC part by pricing it so high no one buys it.

I've seen you and many others state that hitting 2k clocks isn't an issue, so why would asus be having these problems?

 

[Simon Belmont]

You can't even do anything with LED's in latest build of Geforce Experience (version 3).

Although, just to note version 3 is still in beta.

I'm on latest build and I can turn on and off the LED'S on my EVGA 1080 FTW

 

[Five.Stars]

I'm on latest build and I can turn on and off the LED'S on my EVGA 1080 FTW

You sure? Is it version 3. Something?

Because as far as I am aware they have stripped out the LED Visualizer and are looking to release a standalone app for it until they reintigrate it back in to GE. That was from the Nvidia forums.

 

[Simon Belmont]

You sure? Is it version 3. Something?

Because as far as I am aware they have stripped out the LED Visualizer and are looking to release a standalone app for it until they reintigrate it back in to GE. That was from the Nvidia forums.

I'm on the latest build of Geforce Experience and LED visualizer is still there.

 

[chrcoluk]

Well, why would you want to pay that amount for the strix when you can get better performance, better cooling, more quiet and 2 years more warranty from the Zotac lol

seen a zotac on a youtube video, seems cooler is not much smaller than a palit, they look very good cards.

they put it next to a FE and wow LOL, the FE looks way smaller when compared. I would dodge the asus tax this time around.

https://youtu.be/qPTIy8EDVVY?t=2m35s

 

[hunter23]

like to say thank you ocuk , 1080 amp extreme is 1 belter of a card running 2050 out of the box , hope the outher pre-order peeps get theirs soon

 

[Gibbo]

I've seen you and many others state that hitting 2k clocks isn't an issue, so why would asus be having these problems?

The clocks manufacturer state are the hard BIOS boost clock, as such the card never drops below this and will achieve this typically even at 80c. The moment they are below 80c they run above the stated clocks.

So it is not impossible for say a completely stock Strix 1080 out the box if it has a good ASIC to boost over 1900MHz or even 2000MHz, so pretty much the boost clocks of the OC part.

The difference is the OC parts due to having its hard boost clock set much higher means at lower temperatures it could be hitting 2.1GHz plus and this is the issue the amount of Pascal GPU that can do 1900MHz plus at 80c are few and far between, yield is very low.

Of course in real world use most of these after market cards with larger coolers run around 65c so run far faster than advertised clock speeds.

 

[Gibbo]

like to say thank you ocuk , 1080 amp extreme is 1 belter of a card running 2050 out of the box , hope the outher pre-order peeps get theirs soon

Told ya so, AMP Extremes are the best Pascal cards full stop!

 

[Simon Belmont]

like to say thank you ocuk , 1080 amp extreme is 1 belter of a card running 2050 out of the box , hope the outher pre-order peeps get theirs soon

My EVGA 1080 FTW does 2050mhz out of the box also. So fast.

 

[Yodhrin]

10 units 1080 X3 just left HK, due next week.

Bugger, only 10 really? Christ at this rate it will be the end of August before I see mine

 

[joker0257]

Told ya so, AMP Extremes are the best Pascal cards full stop!

2050mhz out the box........This is exactly how my Strix OC performs! runs quiet too and I've not even set it to OC mode yet. It runs cool and fast in the default "gaming mode" and has done since it arrived a week ago.

 

[gabsmabs]

Bugger, only 10 really? Christ at this rate it will be the end of August before I see mine

Grim isn't it. Although Gibbo did say i could upgrade to an X4 for a mere extra £70...Hurry though there's only 2 left.

 

[Neutrino101]

In case anyone is still considering swapping from the Asus Strix OC and looking for a good card I had a go at overclocking the Gainward Phoenix GLH that I swapped to from the Strix earlier in the week this evening.

It's stable at 2.152GHZ on air! And the fan is still barely audible. Benchmark result below.

http://www.3dmark.com/spy/47585

 

[Smffy]

I'm on latest build and I can turn on and off the LED'S on my EVGA 1080 FTW

You can also turn them off in Precision, the new Pascal version.

 

[AiiR]

Clicking the links on the OP and seeing the prices have increased on average £100 a piece, sad times..

 

[Sepdnoj]

Just want to say thanks again to OCUK. Got my G1 in yesterday.

Really pleased with it. This is what it does out of the box in just OC mode with the Gigabyte software.



Can anyone recommend some better benchmarking tools or is 3dmark the only good one about now?

 

[Simon Belmont]

You can also turn them off in Precision, the new Pascal version.

For changing colour on the EVGA FTW yes, but if you want to shut off the LED's geforce experience works well also. Five.Stars says their taking off LED visualizer. Why would Nvidia do that?

 

[Five.Stars]

For changing colour on the EVGA FTW yes, but if you want to shut off the LED's geforce experience works well also. Five.Stars says their taking off LED visualizer. Why would Nvidia do that?

They have removed the LED visualizer from Geforce Experience 3.0 onwards. Which is beta, you will only have updated to this if you have ticked beta in settings. It is 100% definetly removed. I don't know why, and they are going to reintigrate it at some point, but it is absolutely removed from Geforce Experience in version 3.

 

[Five.Stars]

From Geforce forums:

July 5th

GeForce Community,

To follow up on our July 2nd post, we just released a patch update to the GeForce Experience Beta (Version 3.0.2.191).

Please restart GeForce Experience for an automatic update or download:
http://www.geforce.com/geforce-experience/gfe-beta

Some of the posted fixes include:

Installation errors with a dialogue “A newer or a same version is present.” This has been fixed.

A few users experienced BSOD errors. This has been fixed.

Please keep the feedback coming!

GeForce Experience Team

We also offer live chat or email support here: http://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/chat/chat_launch


July 2nd

GeForce Community,

Thank you for trying out the Beta - we appreciate your feedback!

To address a few of your top items:

Some users were not receiving timely account verification emails. We have expanded email server capacity to address this.

A few users have experienced BSOD errors. We are working on an update for this coming week to fix it.

We are also planning to release LED Visualizer as a standalone applet until it gets re-integrated.

Feature requests for split audio, advanced mic controls, and OGL support is on our roadmap. We are working on them.

Please keep the feedback coming!

GeForce Experience Team



Area for Known Issues and Updates:


We will unlock Twitch channel name in next release

 

[Simon Belmont]

Thanks for the info Five.Stars