GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Discussion Thread

Third time is a charm?

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Actually this card is doing much better than the rest.
Finally. 2050/12100 sustained. 68 C. No sound. :drool:
Fan doesn't go over 42%.

Screw MSI Gaming X and Founder's Edition.
 
Definitely mid 60s for me as well on everything max. Might drop down to 54 or so in some scenes.

On another note.. should I swap my TI out for a gaming X? Looking for a card that isn't as loud. Heard good things about the Gaming X.

I ran straight through the first village in W3 yesterday and it looked like it was more in the mid-70s for me (granted I've not played the game at all so no idea how it performs in combat, etc.). This was on Ultra with hairworks off and in-game AA off. I'm using ReShade to inject SMAA rather than use in the in-game AA because I really thought the ingame AA looked wonky. That's all I've played of the game though, I've not been to any of the higher GPU workload areas.

I like my Gaming X - you have a FE? It never really boosts above 1970, and I had to bump up the clock in Afterburner to get that, but it's quiet and gives me a massive upgrade over my 980 non-Ti on my 348q. I can't really speak to temperature at the moment, though, it's not running hot, but I'm also in a temporary living situation and the card doesn't let me close up the mITX case I'm using so it's sitting out in open ambient air, which obivously helps the temperatures. When I get back home permanently it will be put in my Define C rig and we'll see how it does in that.
 
In case anyone was wondering, the prolimatech mk-26 fits the msi armor edition of the 1080 ti. I've got it to 2.08 on the core, along with +400 on the memory(haven't really pushed that to the limit yet. But, it runs at 68C and is dead silent while playing witcher 3 @ 4K. Kinda fun :)View attachment 24208 View attachment 24209 View attachment 24210

This is similar to how my Aorus non-extreme 1080Ti looks. I removed the fan shroud (only 4 screws), re-pasted with thermal grizzly, and zip tied 2 x 120mm PWM fans to the heatsink, connected by a Gelid GPU-fan to 4pin adapter so I can manage fanspeed with Afterburner. Wasn't happy with the factory triplet toy fans.

Result is 50-55C full load, pegged at 2000/6000 at 1000mV with a custom curve in Afterburner. Does 2088 at 1093mV, but a couple extra FPS isn't worth the temp increase and I prefer it under 60C all times.

Longterm I still prefer CLC on the GPU, ever since first getting a dwood bracket. No comparison. Wish there were more aftermarket CLC options that didn't require a FE card. I'll probably sell this card when MSI reissues the Seahawk in a couple weeks as the Corsair cobranded card.
 
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How do you stop the glowing 1070 FE LED in Linux? Is there an LEDVisualizer binary?
 
This is similar to how my Aorus non-extreme 1080Ti looks. Wasn't happy with the factory triplet toy fans.

I had that exact same card but I ended up returning it. I have to admit though that triple fan setup was very cool in that the middle fan was under the other two to save space on the length of the card. I thought it looked really cool honestly.
 
So, this seems out of the ordinary and i've had my EVGA 1080ti SC Black Edition for about a week but last night I was playing Alien Isolation @ 3440x1440 with all settings maxed and I took my headphones off and I heard the GPU for the first time. So I Alt-Tabbed out and saw that the temps were reaching 80c with the fan near 100%. I have never heard the card before and I have the fan profile set to Aggressive. If I set it to something anything other than that either custom or quiet, the temps keep rising and I have hit 84c before I turned the Fan Curve back to aggressive. When I heard it I had a modest over clock of +75 on the core with +150 on the Mem. I lowered it to 50 and 100 and was still nearing 80 a couple times while playing.

Is that normal? The temp threshold is set to 89, but I have never seen it get this high before let-alone heard the card when playing other games.
 
So, this seems out of the ordinary and i've had my EVGA 1080ti SC Black Edition for about a week but last night I was playing Alien Isolation @ 3440x1440 with all settings maxed and I took my headphones off and I heard the GPU for the first time. So I Alt-Tabbed out and saw that the temps were reaching 80c with the fan near 100%. I have never heard the card before and I have the fan profile set to Aggressive. If I set it to something anything other than that either custom or quiet, the temps keep rising and I have hit 84c before I turned the Fan Curve back to aggressive. When I heard it I had a modest over clock of +75 on the core with +150 on the Mem. I lowered it to 50 and 100 and was still nearing 80 a couple times while playing.

Is that normal? The temp threshold is set to 89, but I have never seen it get this high before let-alone heard the card when playing other games.
Sounds normal. +75 is an aggressive overclock with GP102 on air. Plus, the 2-fan version of the iCX cooler isn't that great. Really the only difference between it and the old ACX cooler is extra sensors. Could try replacing the thermal compound to see if that makes a difference.
 
BTW, the evga 1080 TI ftw3 is in stock at newegg right now for anyone looking for one
 
So, this seems out of the ordinary and i've had my EVGA 1080ti SC Black Edition for about a week but last night I was playing Alien Isolation @ 3440x1440 with all settings maxed and I took my headphones off and I heard the GPU for the first time. So I Alt-Tabbed out and saw that the temps were reaching 80c with the fan near 100%. I have never heard the card before and I have the fan profile set to Aggressive. If I set it to something anything other than that either custom or quiet, the temps keep rising and I have hit 84c before I turned the Fan Curve back to aggressive. When I heard it I had a modest over clock of +75 on the core with +150 on the Mem. I lowered it to 50 and 100 and was still nearing 80 a couple times while playing.

Is that normal? The temp threshold is set to 89, but I have never seen it get this high before let-alone heard the card when playing other games.

Mine runs a good bit cooler than that. I have my fan curve set to 70% at 75*. Running Firestrike Ultra stress test it will hit 76* after 20 loops.

What does everyone do to test the thermal handling of their cards?
 
Mine runs a good bit cooler than that. I have my fan curve set to 70% at 75*. Running Firestrike Ultra stress test it will hit 76* after 20 loops.

What does everyone do to test the thermal handling of their cards?

When I run those tests it stays within those temps too, but when playing certain games it gets quite high.
 
When I run those tests it stays within those temps too, but when playing certain games it gets quite high.

I don't feel like getting into a gaming session right now, but I log my temps and have never seen it above 80*.
 
So, this seems out of the ordinary and i've had my EVGA 1080ti SC Black Edition for about a week but last night I was playing Alien Isolation @ 3440x1440 with all settings maxed and I took my headphones off and I heard the GPU for the first time. So I Alt-Tabbed out and saw that the temps were reaching 80c with the fan near 100%. I have never heard the card before and I have the fan profile set to Aggressive. If I set it to something anything other than that either custom or quiet, the temps keep rising and I have hit 84c before I turned the Fan Curve back to aggressive. When I heard it I had a modest over clock of +75 on the core with +150 on the Mem. I lowered it to 50 and 100 and was still nearing 80 a couple times while playing.

Is that normal? The temp threshold is set to 89, but I have never seen it get this high before let-alone heard the card when playing other games.

It's normal for the ACX cooler 250W+ card....with the Titan X Maxell ACX cooler it would usually average around 76-78C for me at max load, and that was after I replaced the stock paste with Gelid Extreme.
 
Do you guys run support GPU brackets for less strain on the motherboard or do you think it's a sham? I was looking at different solution either they are ugly unecessary or break on you before the card does.
 
Just finished building a new system featuring two EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti FTW3 GAMING cards in SLI.

This video documents the build and provides benchmarks at the end:

 
Do you guys run support GPU brackets for less strain on the motherboard or do you think it's a sham? I was looking at different solution either they are ugly unecessary or break on you before the card does.


Depends on they card, and how heavy it is, I would use one just to be on the safe side as most of the 1080ti look to be fairly big and heavy.
 
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Sup all. Finally got my Evga Ftw3's installed. Just a little bump in clock and memory and both cards hit over 2k but will settle down to 1982 and around 12000 on the memory

Icx works well but I have fan profile set to aggressive. Pretty much doubles game fps versus my old 980ti's

I'm happy with them and don't really care about chasing the 2k lottery of cards because at the end of the day 1-2 fps not worth the headache and I rather be enjoying some gaming!
 
Sweet, those FTW3s look nice. Have you had a chance to see how they perform when undervolting? For some cards, you don't lose many clocks and can really cut back on the heat output.
 
Sweet, those FTW3s look nice. Have you had a chance to see how they perform when undervolting? For some cards, you don't lose many clocks and can really cut back on the heat output.

Haven't tried that yet and don't really feel like it would be necessary. My case has good airflow and my CPU is under water. I'd feel better knowing that being at stock voltage, cards will most likely be stable and I won't have to worry about the odd crash or lockup otherwise if I under volted to save a little off of TDP
 
Just got these in. So nice...

This looks awesome, however I have to ask; unless you have like $700 to burn is there any reason whatsoever to get SLI? I know in games that fully support it perform well, but from what i've read around here and elsewhere is that SLI never truly pays for itself in value to performance and I remember reading that sometimes you get better/smoother gameplay when only using a single card. Stability issues seem to be a issue. SLI has been around for so long as well as Crossfire, but I have never read on here over the last 13 years i've been here or anywhere someone saying "SLI/Crossfire was so worth it!"
 
This looks awesome, however I have to ask; unless you have like $700 to burn is there any reason whatsoever to get SLI? I know in games that fully support it perform well, but from what i've read around here and elsewhere is that SLI never truly pays for itself in value to performance and I remember reading that sometimes you get better/smoother gameplay when only using a single card. Stability issues seem to be a issue. SLI has been around for so long as well as Crossfire, but I have never read on here over the last 13 years i've been here or anywhere someone saying "SLI/Crossfire was so worth it!"


If you want 2560x1440 at 144-165fps with everything on or 4k with everything on and you know ahead of time that your game with support it. And willing to water cool them in sli or using blower style coolers like the fe cards then yeah its worth it.

Not using blower coolers other cards will cook under load.

So id say if you can get by with a single card then you stand to save a crapload!

Gets way expensive to cool 2 top end card just to swap them out a year later before there worth less then 50% just to do it all over again! Fine i guess if you have other systems to donate them to.
 
This looks awesome, however I have to ask; unless you have like $700 to burn is there any reason whatsoever to get SLI? I know in games that fully support it perform well, but from what i've read around here and elsewhere is that SLI never truly pays for itself in value to performance and I remember reading that sometimes you get better/smoother gameplay when only using a single card. Stability issues seem to be a issue. SLI has been around for so long as well as Crossfire, but I have never read on here over the last 13 years i've been here or anywhere someone saying "SLI/Crossfire was so worth it!"
I'd recommend putting the extra $700 toward a G-Sync monitor instead. I hardly ever need to worry about framerate anymore.
 
Haven't tried that yet and don't really feel like it would be necessary. My case has good airflow and my CPU is under water. I'd feel better knowing that being at stock voltage, cards will most likely be stable and I won't have to worry about the odd crash or lockup otherwise if I under volted to save a little off of TDP


Cool, I understand. I tried it out due to poor AC in my office, and it made a difference when gaming. Anyway, thats a sweet setup!
 
There will be displayport 1.4 monitors by the end of the year for 3440x1440 144hz and 4k 144hz. When you at least straddle 100fps-hz average in a frame rate band mostly from 70 to 130/160 fps you get a lot more benefit from the 1/3 of the time that the rates are over 100 as the graph in the jpg below shows - with 2/3 of the blend or frame-rate band in the overall mix reducing blur and adding noticeable motion definition increase adding appreciable benefit overall. If you get even higher fps on simpler games or with more gpu power, even better.

http://i.imgur.com/ALY9lQS.png

People are infatuated with graphics detail in still shots, but you don't play screen shots. If you are using a high hz display or high hz + variable hz to run low (sub 75fps-hz to 90fps-hz mode/most of the time in game, really should be like 100 at least imo), you are essentially running a low hz, low motion definition and motion articulation, smearing blur monitor and missing out on most of the gaming advancements modern gaming monitors provide outside of the judder/tearing/stops avoidance of g-sync/variable hz.

Some, but not all games can get over 100fps-hz average with a single 1080ti at 2560x1440 on ultra now, though with some over the top settings like hairworks and higher physx settings turned off usually. Simpler games like overwatch can get over 160fps-hz average I think. You can always dial in the settings outside of "ultra" too of course.

Regardng cooling SLI, the evga hybrid cooled cards are only about $30 more than some of the custom aftermarket air cooled cards too, by the way ($60 difference if two).

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60fps at 60hz = baseline standard. Smearing blur.
...........................0% blur reduction.
...........................0% motion definition increase which is a 1:1 ratio of motion definition
.................................(equal frames shown compared to every 1 baseline 60fps-hz frame).
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80fps at 80hz = ~20% blur reduction.
............................1.3 frames shown compared to every 1 frame at 60fps+hz.
............................little motion definition increase, 8 frames to every 6.
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100fps at 100hz = 40% blur reduction
................................5 frames shown for every 3 at 60fps-hz. (or 1.6 to 1)
................................5:3 ratio or 1.6:1
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120fps at 120hz = 50% blur reduction
..............................more of a soften blur within the mask of onscreen objects and overall game world elements.
..............................2 frames shown for every 1 shown at 60fps-hz (2:1 motion def increase, double the motion def)
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144fps at 144hz = 60% blur reduction
..............................2.4 frames shown for every 1 shown at 60fps-hz (or 12 frames to every 5 shown at 60fps-hz)

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Regardng cooling SLI, the evga hybrid cooled cards are only about $30 more than some of the custom aftermarket air cooled cards too, by the way [/QUOTE]

Yes that hybrid cooler is nice.. i had 2 evga 1080 ftw hybrids for a short time.. they and the regular ftw cards ended up having what was called the black screen 100% fan issue. Had to return them.

Evga also sells a seperate 1080 hybrid cooler for around $100 i believe.. though that would only fit a fe card.. some were modifying it to fit a titan xp.

If wvga also comes out with a ftw3 hybrid.. now thats a card id go for for sli.. if you have a case to fit the 2 small 120mm fan rads.
 
The new icx cards including the sc2 hybrid have more thermal sensors and evga went nuts with thermal padding on everything this time after that last fiasco so they should be good. The sc2 hybrid is only $30 more (each), maybe a little more if you want to swap out the 120mm fans with some hydro bearing ones.

Some reviewer:
Card boosts to 2032mhz runs games at full load 43C quiet as a mouse. Very impressed with the unit and east of installation. 4 screws and a couple of zip ties to clean up the cables a bit.
 
This looks awesome, however I have to ask; unless you have like $700 to burn is there any reason whatsoever to get SLI? I know in games that fully support it perform well, but from what i've read around here and elsewhere is that SLI never truly pays for itself in value to performance and I remember reading that sometimes you get better/smoother gameplay when only using a single card. Stability issues seem to be a issue. SLI has been around for so long as well as Crossfire, but I have never read on here over the last 13 years i've been here or anywhere someone saying "SLI/Crossfire was so worth it!"

I've had SLI for years and honestly have hardly ever had issue with it. Usually I've had it in the mid range cards or upper mid range. This time I decided to go full crazy tilt because I am also pairing these with a 1440p Ultra Wide 100Hz Gsync screen. I want to be able to really push as many frames as possible and not have to worry for the next few years to come.
 
The new icx cards including the sc2 hybrid have more thermal sensors and evga went nuts with thermal padding on everything this time after that last fiasco so they should be good. The sc2 hybrid is only $30 more (each), maybe a little more if you want to swap out the 120mm fans with some hydro bearing ones.

Some reviewer:


I hadn't read about swapping the fans for hydro bearing ones. Can you post a link with more info? I quick google search didn't pull up anything. Thanks
 
It's just a 120mm with better bearings and design on mounted on the radiator instead of using the stock one included in the box. It's not a swap of the the vrm fan inside the video card shroud though you could probably replace that with something from articcool if you wanted to get creative. If I was going to that far I'd probably just do the full nzxt bracket with a H90 AiO cooler like I did on my 780ti sc's..
I was considering getting FTW3's and putting my nzxt + H90 kits on them but I decided that I'd like to be good to go out of the box ez mode this time and not mess around much. I also won't have to re-use my H90's with a lot of miles on them, getting fresh pumps on the hybrids this way.

I'm going to swap the stock 120mm radiator coolers with few of these:

at amazon Cougar Vortex PWM 120 Cooling CF-V12HPB, Black

or here at newegg COUGAR CF-V12HPB Vortex Hydro-Dynamic-Bearing (Fluid) 300,000 Hours 12CM Silent Cooling Fan with Pulse Width Modulation (Black)

Noctuas are supposed to be pretty good too but I read a few reviews saying that they rev higher rpm and don't kick down in as many voltage steps. I also prefer the color of the cougars and used them before on my 780ti H90 radiators (140mm ones).
 
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Regardng cooling SLI, the evga hybrid cooled cards are only about $30 more than some of the custom aftermarket air cooled cards too, by the way

Yes that hybrid cooler is nice.. i had 2 evga 1080 ftw hybrids for a short time.. they and the regular ftw cards ended up having what was called the black screen 100% fan issue. Had to return them.

Evga also sells a seperate 1080 hybrid cooler for around $100 i believe.. though that would only fit a fe card.. some were modifying it to fit a titan xp.
No, the 1080 hybrid still needs the same modifications the Titan X and Xp do to fit the 1080 Ti. The 1080 Ti uses the same board as the Titan X.
 
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EVGA GTX TITAN X (Pascal) / GTX 1080 Ti FE HYBRID Waterblock Cooler, Cooling, 400-HY-5388-B1

https://www.evga.com/Products/App_Themes/Images/ProductOverview/400-HY-5388.jpg

With that being $160 + ship I'd compare getting a 1080ti (preferably a model with a mid plate), a nzxt bracket for $30 and a corsair H90 AiO cooler for $90, plus some screws and washers and it would probably cost less overall. Optionally swap fans for better ones.

The hybrid cooler 1080ti card itself is $810, around ~ $30 more than some of the custom air cooled cards. I am going with that and less DiY this time around considering how well they work vs price.
 
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It's just a 120mm with better bearings and design on mounted on the radiator instead of using the stock one included in the box. It's not a swap of the the vrm fan inside the video card shroud though you could probably replace that with something from articcool if you wanted to get creative. If I was going to that far I'd probably just do the full nzxt bracket with a H90 AiO cooler like I did on my 780ti sc's..
I was considering getting FTW3's and putting my nzxt + H90 kits on them but I decided that I'd like to be good to go out of the box ez mode this time and not mess around much. I also won't have to re-use my H90's with a lot of miles on them, getting fresh pumps on the hybrids this way.

I'm going to swap the stock 120mm radiator coolers with few of these:

at amazon Cougar Vortex PWM 120 Cooling CF-V12HPB, Black

or here at newegg COUGAR CF-V12HPB Vortex Hydro-Dynamic-Bearing (Fluid) 300,000 Hours 12CM Silent Cooling Fan with Pulse Width Modulation (Black)

Noctuas are supposed to be pretty good too but I read a few reviews saying that they rev higher rpm and don't kick down in as many voltage steps. I also prefer the color of the cougars and used them before on my 780ti H90 radiators (140mm ones).

Thanks for explaining, I was confused, thought you meant replacing the fans in a traditional cooler on a graphics card. Makes sense to upgrade the fans on a hybrid cooler. I hadn't heard of cougar fans before, but they look pretty good and are definitely cheaper than the Noctuas I bought in the past. I will check them out and give them a shot, thanks for the heads up.
 
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