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** The Official Nvidia GeForce 'Pascal' Thread - for general gossip and discussions **

Here we go again, nvidia greed, pricing, throttling, Ti owners saying not worth buying :D. Fine if you have a 980 Ti already but just be aware the new cards will be better supported, do DX12 "properly", drivers are immature etc etc :D.
But anyway, I'd rather see write-ups from some known forum members than most of these review sites tbh.

I'm probably going to hold off for a week or so and see what new processors appear as need to build a lightweight PC and will see how you all get on with your new purchases first. Just hope there's no introductory offer with statements of prices rising
 
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DarrenM343 said:
Here we go again, nvidia greed, pricing, throttling, Ti owners saying not worth buying :D. Fine if you have a 980 Ti already but just be aware the new cards will be better supported, do DX12 "properly", drivers are immature etc etc :D.
But anyway, I'd rather see write-ups from some known forum members than most of these review sites tbh.

I'm probably going to hold off for a week or so and see what new processors appear as need to build a lightweight PC and will see how you all get on with your new purchases first. Just hope there's no introductory offer with statements of prices rising
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I am doing a Hitman DX12 bench thread in the next couple of days. GTX 1080 owners can try their cards out against the Maxwell and AMD cards.
 
DarrenM343 said:
Here we go again, nvidia greed, pricing, throttling, Ti owners saying not worth buying :D. Fine if you have a 980 Ti already but just be aware the new cards will be better supported, do DX12 "properly", drivers are immature etc etc :D.
But anyway, I'd rather see write-ups from some known forum members than most of these review sites tbh.

I'm probably going to hold off for a week or so and see what new processors appear as need to build a lightweight PC and will see how you all get on with your new purchases first. Just hope there's no introductory offer with statements of prices rising
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The Maxwell driver gimping will commence at......2pm :p
 
ICDP said:
Lol, did this guy really check thermal throttling in an open test case system. I can see his open bench case with the 1080 in it. Now put that 1080 in a physical closed case and the throttling will be worse as ambient temperatures increase. Now it is of course possible to mitigate that by increasing fan speed but what's telling for me is that the 1080 reached normal boost clocks (1607) even in an open bench case.

As someone who owned both 780 and 980 reference cards I can assure you even though they are blower fans the ambient temperatures in a case still rises significantly after prolonged gaming.
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Watch it all the way to the end before you critique something the next time. He comments on this very specific fact in the very end of the video. Also the 1607 is not a boost clock but BASE clock. Meaning minimum garantied frequency.

As someone who have owned a 980ti reference card i can tell you that temps were perfectly fine and did not rise due to the GPU, they hardly even went up due to my air cpu cooler, i guess thats the bonus of proper fan setup.
 
Phixsator said:
Watch it all the way to the end before you critique something the next time. He comments on this very specific fact in the very end of the video. Also the 1607 is not a boost clock but BASE clock. Meaning minimum garantied frequency.

As someone who have owned a 980ti reference card i can tell you that temps were perfectly fine and did not rise due to the GPU, they hardly even went up due to my air cpu cooler, i guess thats the bonus of proper fan setup.
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I did watch it all the way to the end, regardless the test was done in an open test bench which is hardly indicitive of real world use. Are you saying that internal case ambient temperatures will not affect blower cards at all?

Because I know from my own experience it does have an efect, especially with prologned gaming of 1 hour +.
 
EVGA 1080 SC Edition Sneak Peek

This card looks incredible... But its still limited by a single 8 pin on the standard reference board :(

Presume it will be limited by power just as the FE in testing but the full article is here for you to read: http://hothardware.com/news/evga-ge...ed-avx-30-edition-and-gtx-1080-sli-sneak-peek

I've seen another image of the FTW edition where it DOES have two power connectors on the EVGA AIB so I guess there is still hope when and if its confirmed to be legit...

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HardStyler3 said:
because they didnt oc an custom version they did oc a reference design which mostly just reaches like 1300mhz because of throttling
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They reached a maximum clock of 1455Mhz after an hour of Unigine Heaven. Still isn't it a fair comparison to compare reference vs reference? Pretty sure the GTX 1080 are going to be able to reach 2300-2500Mhz with custom BIOS:es and other volt-mods. Suddenly the £619 price-tag doesn't seem that bad. :D
 
How is ASUS RMA these days for graphics cards? Do they have offer direct-to-customer services or is it like the old days where you had to do it through retailer and wait for a couple of months for it to be sent to somewhere in east Europe or Asia?
 
Toss3 said:
They reached a maximum clock of 1455Mhz after an hour of Unigine Heaven. Still isn't it a fair comparison to compare reference vs reference? Pretty sure the GTX 1080 are going to be able to reach 2300-2500Mhz with custom BIOS:es and other volt-mods. Suddenly the £619 price-tag doesn't seem that bad. :D
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Yes it will be interesting what these cards with a bios mod will be able to achieve ...But £620 is still a joke regardless ...and i will be very surprised if the custom boards are less than £620 very much doubt it ...the only boards cheaper will be the plastic blowers £579+ the rest of the customs will be £649.99+

Will have to wait & see
 
Rasphelt said:
Any idea if EK will make blocks for the FTW? Bitspower are not at this moment in time....

Cheers :)
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They probably will release blocks for popular non-reference designs. It might take a while though. For 980 Ti they did release them for virtually every single non-reference model from major AIBs out there.
 
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