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The Pascal GTX 1080 Owners Thread

Got my Gainward GS BTK ;) today hooray!

nVidia game experience LED control doesn't work but their own ExpertTool that I got off their website can be used for this.

Fan hasn't gone above 45% and temperatures have been under 72 degrees with stock settings - it is _rediculously_ quiet compared to the MSI 290 Gaming it replaces.

Now I need to figure out how to overclock!
 
Interesting test with the high bandwidth SLI bridge, Actually makes quite a difference over the standard bridge in some titles.

16FPS average difference between a normal bridge and HB bridge in the Division using 2 x 1080's.

28FPS average difference between a normal bridge and HB bridge in Fallout 4 using 2 x 1080's.

Seeing as Nvidia are only making an HB bridge with support for 2 cards that's going to be a good chunk of performance lost for people who bought more than 2 x 1080's when using the old bridges.

 
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Just added this great review to the User Review section in the OP.

TangoEchoAlpha said:
I received my MSI GTX1080 Gaming X from OCUK last thing yesterday - I am sure DPD did it just to see me suffer! :D

Hope I am OK to post this here, but here's my review of the MSI GTX1080 Gaming X - all of the clocks were left 'out of the box' for this review.


Great service as always from OCUK, thanks guys :)
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Dicehunter said:
Interesting test with the high bandwidth SLI bridge, Actually makes quite a difference over the standard bridge in some titles.

16FPS average difference between a normal bridge and HB bridge in the Division using 2 x 1080's.

28FPS average difference between a normal bridge and HB bridge in Fallout 4 using 2 x 1080's.

Seeing as Nvidia are only making an HB bridge with support for 2 cards that's going to be a good chunk of performance lost for people who bought more than 2 x 1080's when using the old bridges.

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well he says at the end of the video that they dont need HB bridge if they have 2 legacy connector that gives the same results on the games you listed.
 
Dicehunter said:
Interesting test with the high bandwidth SLI bridge, Actually makes quite a difference over the standard bridge in some titles.

16FPS average difference between a normal bridge and HB bridge in the Division using 2 x 1080's.

28FPS average difference between a normal bridge and HB bridge in Fallout 4 using 2 x 1080's.

Seeing as Nvidia are only making an HB bridge with support for 2 cards that's going to be a good chunk of performance lost for people who bought more than 2 x 1080's when using the old bridges.

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Don't agree with his figures at all.

I get better scaling in Witcher 3 using 4 TXs for example than he managed using 2 cards. 4 TXs also produce a lot more bandwidth than any 2 way Pascal setup can manage.

I also notice he was not using X99 which means he is alreading limiting himself bandwidth wise on the PCI-E slots which may or may not have been a factor. I have seen reviewers make this mistake when reviewing a pair of 295X2s in quadfire and then wonder why the performance takes a 30% hit.
 
Kaapstad said:
Don't agree with his figures at all.

I get better scaling in Witcher 3 using 4 TXs for example than he managed using 2 cards. 4 TXs also produce a lot more bandwidth than any 2 way Pascal setup can manage.

I also notice he was not using X99 which means he is alreading limiting himself bandwidth wise on the PCI-E slots which may or may not have been a factor. I have seen reviewers make this mistake when reviewing a pair of 295X2s in quadfire and then wonder why the performance takes a 30% hit.
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Maybe you could do some testing with the HB bridge versus the old floppy bridge when you get setup ? :)
 
Dicehunter said:
Maybe you could do some testing with the HB bridge versus the old floppy bridge when you get setup ? :)
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I will do.

I just tried my 980 Ti's in 2 way SLI (Firestrike Ultra) with the rigid 3 way SLI bridge that comes with every motherboard. Yesterday I ran the same setup and clockspeeds with a flexi 2 way SLI bridge and got about 3% better performance than I did today with the rigid bridge.

I will test this out properly when I get some 2 way high bandwidth bridges as they look nice regardless of whether they do anything or not.:)
 
Kaapstad said:
I will do.

I just tried my 980 Ti's in 2 way SLI (Firestrike Ultra) with the rigid 3 way SLI bridge that comes with every motherboard. Yesterday I ran the same setup and clockspeeds with a flexi 2 way SLI bridge and got about 3% better performance than I did today with the rigid bridge.

I will test this out properly when I get some 2 way high bandwidth bridges as they look nice regardless of whether they do anything or not.:)
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Cool cool :)

DOOM demo playthrough on the 1080 for the user vids section, Max settings at 4K ran at a pretty much constant 60FPS, Quite impressive.

I tried recording with all stats and FPS on the right side but it wont record them for some reason, OpenGL and Shadowplay issue probably.
 
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Ok got the performance metrics on the side to show in the recording for the user vids section -


Should be a little bit before full res is available.
 
Gregster said:
No need for all of that. Grab Display Driver Uninstaller, run it and follow the instructions for booting into safe mode, tick the box for installing a new GPU and run, when the comp restarts, shut down - remove old GPU, place new GPU in and install latest NVidia drivers :)
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This worked a treat. I'm now up and running. Thanks, Gregster.
 
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