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Which 1080Ti

I wish I'd been looking in May for a new GPU, seems all the good prices on them were from May through June then they got increased :(

Gonna just hold out for the 3 fan Zotac to drop sub £700 and endure my 390 until it (if ever) does
 
Baden said:
Yeah let me know how you get on with the Aorus!! A lot of useful information here thank you!
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First. I have owned many cards that someone could call "BIG" size wise. 8800GTS, 8800GTX, 8800Ultra, 7950GX2, even a monster 295X2.
Nothing, absolutely nothing prepares you for the size and weight of the Aorus 1080Ti Xtreme. The cooler alone is bigger and havier than a FuryX (with the AIO) or the MSI GTX1080 Armor (had one last year).
It even dwarfs and outweights my old 295X2. So make sure you have good motherboard with metal reinforced PCI-e.

Second. Is 2.5x height tall. Which means I cannot use my PCI-e for the wifi adapter, which is very old one and cannot work off a PCI-e x8. So Is now sharing the same PCI-e slot with the M2, and is working at x8.
Unfortunately the Gigabyte X99 Ultra gaming second M2 is short one and cannot fit the M2. Ordered and waiting a USB wifi tomorrow.

Third. Beautiful card. Especially when someone sets the lights on. That glowing eagle on the back and side plates are amazing.

Fourth. Fan's aren't working on desktop mode

Fifth. The Aorus utility seems pretty descent. The card is set by default to gaming for 1763 clock. But when you click the OC mode, it sets the card 1962mhz (haven't explored further with MSI AB etc).

Having run Spy couple of times, the fans barely spin, and cannot be heard at ALL!!!! and the score can be found bellow.
http://www.3dmark.com/spy/2234906

I really love the card. If is doing 1962 while benching, without spinning the fans, what it can do under water???? :D
We soon find out. :D
 
Panos said:
First. I have owned many cards that someone could call "BIG" size wise. 8800GTS, 8800GTX, 8800Ultra, 7950GX2, even a monster 295X2.
Nothing, absolutely nothing prepares you for the size and weight of the Aorus 1080Ti Xtreme. The cooler alone is bigger and havier than a FuryX (with the AIO) or the MSI GTX1080 Armor (had one last year).
It even dwarfs and outweights my old 295X2. So make sure you have good motherboard with metal reinforced PCI-e.

Second. Is 2.5x height tall. Which means I cannot use my PCI-e for the wifi adapter, which is very old one and cannot work off a PCI-e x8. So Is now sharing the same PCI-e slot with the M2, and is working at x8.
Unfortunately the Gigabyte X99 Ultra gaming second M2 is short one and cannot fit the M2. Ordered and waiting a USB wifi tomorrow.

Third. Beautiful card. Especially when someone sets the lights on. That glowing eagle on the back and side plates are amazing.

Fourth. Fan's aren't working on desktop mode

Fifth. The Aorus utility seems pretty descent. The card is set by default to gaming for 1763 clock. But when you click the OC mode, it sets the card 1962mhz (haven't explored further with MSI AB etc).
We soon find out. :D
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The zotac is even heavier and bigger than the aorus! You can do more with the lighting too, and there is more lighting, and it is brighter.

Use msi instead of the aorus utility, it seems to work better.

The idle fan feature is brilliant, one of the best thing about some of these 1080Tis.

Currently have my aorus at a consistent 2050mhz in game, but that has required 70% fan which holds it at around 70C. That said, this is higher than than the core edition of the zotac (these aren't great cores).
 
CaptainRAVE said:
A steal at that price.
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I was between the FTW3 and the Xtreme. And having read on OCNet how many people are happy with the Aorus, while many with the FTW3 cannot even clock it 10mhz higher than factory overclock, and was cheaper, got it.
And don't regret it at all. Haven't fiddle with it, and also needs to move to PCI-e 1 tomorrow to work properly at 16x PCI-e.

But 1962 clock out of the box, by just clicking a button, and the fans barely spinning? huh.
And were the 1080 last year had annoying performance at 2560x1440, so I couldn't justify the loss of Freesync. The 1080Ti is perfect for the resolution, and don't feel the lack of Freesync tonight.
 
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