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Which Nvidia 1080TI to buy?

AMDPower

AMDPower

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Hi all

Unfortunately, I waited for VEGA hoping that it might perform similar to 1080TI but it would seem that's unlikely to happen even within 20% of a TI and would have bought VEGA as I just prefer Radeon cards. I have been away from gaming for 5/6 years now and want to get back into 4k gaming. Just two things are bothering me right now, with VOLTA so close should I drop £700 on a new card as its resale value in 6 months looks like about £300. Second, which 1080TI? there is bewildering array of them.

I really did not want to spend more than £450 on a gaming card specially with volta so close but that looks impossible at 4k gaming. I have found these two cards

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/giga...dr5x-pci-express-graphics-card-gx-19h-gi.html

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/giga...dr5x-pci-express-graphics-card-gx-001-au.html

is it worth me paying the extra £100 for the Aorus edition of the card? because £640 for the standard edition seem quiet nice price.

I want something quite and cool and good no hassle warranty, maybe a different brand card is better.

thanks all
 
The cooler on the cheaper Gigabyte isn't the best and basically the same cooler as used on the 1080, so it gets quite hot also. Why not wait and see what happens tomorrow and you can make a more informed decision then and for the record, I have the MSI 1080Ti, which is very quiet and runs nice and cool.

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/msi-...dr5x-pci-express-graphics-card-gx-33j-ms.html

Worth an extra £100? Depends on how quiet you like things I guess :)
 
You've waited 5/6 years, so what's another 24 hours? I can't see how you can make a decision based on no knowledge of price and performance of Vega?

A 1080ti is probably a bad buy right now as prices are due to fall and Nvidia may counter the Vega release.

To answer your question, I personally don't see the value in paying £700+ for the xtreme card. I've owned loads of Gigabyte cards and I think their coolers are up there with the best for temperature and noise and as it's Pascal then the more expensive card will offer nothing in terms of overclocking.
 
AMDPower said:
with VOLTA so close should I drop £700 on a new card as its resale value in 6 months looks like about £300.
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The 70/80 Volta cards are likely to appear first. In 6mths the 1080Ti will still be a very fast card. Remember the 980Tis held their value very well when the 1070/80s came out.
 
The Aorus extreme had been as low as £688 in the last month or so, give it a couple of weeks and as long the Vega isnt a complete flop i reckon it will be nearer £550
 
I personally dont see Volta general consumer cards until May-July next year.
I am too waiting on what the heck will happen tomorrow, fingers crossed price drops all around :) before shelling out for a 1080Ti
I personally wouldnt opt for Gigabyte though, the quality to me is somewhat mediocre, I'd look at the Zotac for about £20-30 more. That's even got 5 years warranty in!
 
AMDPower said:
I want something quite and cool and good no hassle warranty, maybe a different brand card is better.
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Gigabyte have been getting a kicking recently on these forums, read some of the threads, scary! EVGA seem awesome warranty wise and they have a card at £728 if you want to spend that much
 
LeMson said:
Gigabyte have been getting a kicking recently on these forums, read some of the threads, scary! EVGA seem awesome warranty wise and they have a card at £728 if you want to spend that much
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To be fair there have been just as many praise threads. Using forum post to decide on quality of service isn't a good idea as they are such a small sample.
Also a lot of the "issue" threads appear to be from people with little experience in PC building.

Note I have some EVGA GPUs and PSUs and well as Gigabyte so I'm not being biased, well maybe a bit because they are my 2 top PC component companies.
 
Sasahara said:
To be fair there have been just as many praise threads. Using forum post to decide on quality of service isn't a good idea as they are such a small sample.
Also a lot of the "issue" threads appear to be from people with little experience in PC building.

Note I have some EVGA GPUs and PSUs and well as Gigabyte so I'm not being biased, well maybe a bit because they are my 2 top PC component companies.
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You are also a sample size of 1, so even more useless :P
 
You could go in the middle with something like this.

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/pali...dr5x-pci-express-graphics-card-gx-03w-pl.html

Tis a good card. I don't see exactly what Vega 56 is going to change. As already discussed this is a card to compete with the 1070, maybe sniff at the 1080's bottom. The 64 is not launching tomorrow, is it? in which case the 1080Ti is not even in the same class.

People are hopeful that a card coming out that chews power and gets hot and throttles will compete with the 1080. The 1080Ti is still in a league of its own IMO. Maybe you will see a £30 price drop when 64 comes out as a gesture from Nvidia but I can't see it dropping too fast.

It's a bit late now to be worrying about Volta. IMO, if you want the best bang for your buck wait and buy a Volta Titan at launch. Then hang onto it. Otherwise I would get a 1080Ti and just use it. Don't worry about prices dropping, when they do they drop across the board. Just recently I bought a mint second hand T XP for the same price as the cheap 1080Ti. I don't plan on switching it out any time soon. As the guys said, first couple of releases will possibly compete, but the Titan and Ti cards usually come much later. I can predict that will be even later than usual, because AMD have dropped the ball. Yes, they are already talking about Navi, but that needs some serious support. It's a good idea, but if MGPU or whatever you call it isn't even working now then I can see delays in it working in the future. Game devs are not keen to jump on new tech and write the support for it, as we have seen since DX12 came out. DX12 comes out, promising to run more than one GPU better than before only all it has done is killed off Crossfire and SLi support. And the devs haven't even bothered to support MGPU or whatever you call it, so running two GPUs now is kinda daft.
 
AMDPower said:
Hi all

Unfortunately, I waited for VEGA hoping that it might perform similar to 1080TI but it would seem that's unlikely to happen even within 20% of a TI and would have bought VEGA as I just prefer Radeon cards. I have been away from gaming for 5/6 years now and want to get back into 4k gaming. Just two things are bothering me right now, with VOLTA so close should I drop £700 on a new card as its resale value in 6 months looks like about £300. Second, which 1080TI? there is bewildering array of them.

I really did not want to spend more than £450 on a gaming card specially with volta so close but that looks impossible at 4k gaming. I have found these two cards

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/giga...dr5x-pci-express-graphics-card-gx-19h-gi.html

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/giga...dr5x-pci-express-graphics-card-gx-001-au.html

is it worth me paying the extra £100 for the Aorus edition of the card? because £640 for the standard edition seem quiet nice price.

I want something quite and cool and good no hassle warranty, maybe a different brand card is better.

thanks all
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Just wait 24 hours and see how it pans out,and if it ends up causing any price changes on the Nvidia cards.

You need to realise the current Nvidia pricing structure was based on AMD having nothing above an RX480!!

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Also when it comes to 4K again realise many games have stupid settings which tank performance for very little visual gain,and people play games on 4K monitors with lesser cards.

Another issue is this - I have a qHD 25" monitor and you get 4K monitors which are the similar size,or not much bigger. I don't see the point for gaming,as you are just plonking in more pixels just for the sake of it.

If you are going 4K,at least make sure its a big monitor,and with a larger monitor you tend to be set further away from it,so again consider the graphical settings you actually need.

Remember do not take enthusiast tech forums,as what you "need" for a gaming PC,as more of a "want" for their hobby,so if you have been out of gaming for 5 to 6 years,just step back a bit.
 
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Dr_Watson said:
I'm looking to buy a GTX 1080 TI soon, luckily, prices are a bit lower here, although prices of most cards have risen by 40% in the last month, I found this card hasn't been affected. Fingers crossed for Vega to lower prices a bit.

https://www.msi.com/Graphics-card/GeForce-GTX-1080-Ti-AERO-11G-OC.html#hero-overview

Any thoughts on it, reviews seem to be good but it doesn't seem to be that popular in the UK?
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Blower coolers are fine but you won't get a real overclock going. Most Fe seem to boost to and overclock to 1800 or so before they get jet enginey whereas my evga SC black (possibly the lowest end evga card) boosts itself to 1939 at 75 degrees with a max fan speed of 55% and is almost silent to me. However blowers are good for sli and small builds afaik but I've got neither of those.
 
Strong logic here.

Card reviews go live tomorrow, makes thread about making a decision on pre-launch leaks and weak info.

An order placed on a sunday won't be processed til monday just like a monday order.

Buy what you like sure but this thread is a day early for both those reasons.
 
Thanks all for all your advice, much appreciated. Some good logic here, i should really wait 24 hours but to be honest i have already decided that 1080 level performance is just not enough for me. I was hoping VEGA would come in closer to 1080TI than the 1080 but to AMD own admission this is not happening or very unlikely to happen.

I was going to order as soon as possible and tomorrows launch wont really concern me EXCEPT for lower prices. It would seem there might be a consensus that Nvidia might drop prices. If they drop prices by even £30-40 it would really rain on AMD parade and make my decision even more easier and for other too I would imagine.

I will wait for a little while and see what Nvidia does but I have given up with AMD even though I was hoping they do something magical with their drivers. Even if they did highly unlikely they could match a 1080TI and nvidia still have the Titan XP too.

Ii I was gaming at a lower resolution I would have gone AMD. I should also mention that I have not really been happy with the way AMD have done this launch of VEGA and to be honest its put me off them somewhat. All these mirrors and smoke regarding the performance, the hype and all the other nonsense. I don't like nonsense and AMD dished it out in buckets this time.
 
passifid said:
Blower coolers are fine but you won't get a real overclock going. Most Fe seem to boost to and overclock to 1800 or so before they get jet enginey whereas my evga SC black (possibly the lowest end evga card) boosts itself to 1939 at 75 degrees with a max fan speed of 55% and is almost silent to me. However blowers are good for sli and small builds afaik but I've got neither of those.
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Cool, would not overclock anyway and know the limits of the blower type, was just checking there wasn't something fundamentally wrong with it. It's £594 here so looks like a bit of a bargin!
 
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