worth upgrading to a 1080 FE from MSI 970 Twin Frozr?

[Salty22]

Been offered the release day bought Nvidia made 1080 Founders Edition for £380, its barely been used.
Currently on the MSI 970 GTX Twin Frozr Edition, which has the fan stop technology on it so largely totally silent and a brilliant card.
Assuming i can sell the 970 for a decent ammount, what would you guys do?

I game on an Acer X34A at 3440x1440p.
Main thing that puts me off is with this new card being the Nvidia FE model the cooling will seem ***** compared to my 970?

 

[Dirk Diggler]

Absolutely, I'd be on it. I had a 1080 paired with my X34a before I bought my 1080ti, and I'm sure you'll love the performance increase from a 970.

The FE can be noisy, and I've got mine under water so I can't really say whether you'll get on with the noise, but the performance increase will be excellent.

 

[Salty22]

Im just so fussy with fan noise im worried ill have it and think oh god the noise is driving me crazy, and that i should just have saved for a 1080ti AIB

 

[LeMson]

Wouldn't touch that until we know more about vega's release and prices, not long to go now.

 

[Salty22]

I've got a g sync monitor though, or do you mean incase the price drops? I thought vega was meant to be disappointing?
Really don't know what to do :/ lol

 

[greatash]

Vega is looking promising, I'd wait.

Nvidia will most likely do a big price drop on 1080/1070 once Vega is out.

 

[Salty22]

Going to wait, promised my wife id finish building her PC first

 

[LeMson]

I've got a g sync monitor though, or do you mean incase the price drops? I thought vega was meant to be disappointing?
Really don't know what to do :/ lol

As an fe card it will be a bit noisey, you can put an aio water cooler on it though, tho thats more money spending, hopeing we see price drops as someone above said, £50 off would make new 1080's £450ish

 

[Radox-0]

Amusingly at stock I do not find the FE card noisy to be honest. Partly because the fan speed does not ramp up all that high but in turn does mean your sitting at 83 degree's with boost clock not going quiet as high as other aftermarket card's. If you mess with the fan profile to try and maintain higher boost clock's then yeah it does get loud at that point, but out the box, the noise is a non-issue.

3D Guru add noise graph's in to their test and with stock out the box profile the FE 1080 is 1 DB from the MSI Gaming X which is a solid cooler under load for example: http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/msi_geforce_gtx_1080_gaming_x_8g_review,11.html or same noise levels as the Strix even: http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/asus_rog_strix_geforce_gtx_1080_review,11.html

Still go aftermarket to get the benefits of slightly higher boost clock speed with a similar noise profile, but even the FE noise at stock is fine and it will boost past box specs at stock anyways. Or wait to see how vega pans out