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    What's your fallback card?

    GT 520 master race!
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    Your GPU progression?

    OEM GT520 MSI GTX470 Hawk SLI EVGA GTX 680s EVGA GTX 1080 Ti I flirted briefly with Crossfire R9 290s but I went through four (none achieved States clock speeds short of overclocking) and Newegg still tried to prevent me from getting a refund.
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    Intel's 8th Generation Core Family - Coffee Lake (LGA 1151, 6C/12T)

    Given Nvidia's fuckery with SLI of late, I have a harder time being persuaded by available lanes than I did 4+ years ago. It's why I went with a single 1080 Ti. Looks like we're at the point where we ought to look more at chipsets and features than just cores, clocks, cache and PCIe lanes.
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    Intel's 8th Generation Core Family - Coffee Lake (LGA 1151, 6C/12T)

    I'm slightly confused by the point of the -X SKU 6c/12t (and lesser) processors given Coffee Lake's existence.
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    Intel's 8th Generation Core Family - Coffee Lake (LGA 1151, 6C/12T)

    How often do current i7's hit > 4.5GHz? Anecdotally, it seems the Sandy chips could do it much more frequently than Haswell and subsequent processors. If Coffee Lake does give us a 4.5 giggle 6c/12t i7, I will be absolutely tickled.
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    Intel's 8th Generation Core Family - Coffee Lake (LGA 1151, 6C/12T)

    What motherboard do you have? In my Maximus V Gene, the onboard sound is shockingly good even when I don't use SPDIF out (which I do exclusively). I would venture to say most full featured motherboards should preclude the need for sound cards. If audio quality is that important, optical out is...
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    Should I repaste my MSI 1080Ti Gaming X?

    I will be doing exactly this upgrade in the next week or so. Part of me wants to repaste with the stock cooler and measure like for like, but ultimately the hybrid cooler is a temporary solution until Fall when my Calyos chassis arrives. Not thinking I'll do too much over locking on this card...
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    GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Discussion Thread

    I was finally set on buying an EVGA 1080 hybrid cooler when I got the email that the ( much more expensive :eek:) Ti / Titan XP cooler was in stock. Probably could have saved a buck going with the non-Ti/XP cooler but I like EVGA's warranty.
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    GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Discussion Thread

    Per my correspondence with EVGA, no, it does not void the warranty. I asked specifically about Grizzly Hydronaut and they said all good. They also confirmed that it's perfectly fine (meaning no harm to the warranty) to install their hybrid cooler using the TIM of your choice. Just don't...
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    GTX 1080 ti on PCI-e 2.0 System???

    The ease at which my 2600K cruises at 5.0 giggles is why I've been comfortable keeping it for so long. I suspect most of us with Sandy's clocked at 4.7+ feel similarly. A 4.0+ GHz 6c/12t Coffee Lake would finally be that substantial enough upgrade (IPC improvements plus the extra cores/threads)...
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    Intel i7 2600k

    MrCaffeineX is pretty much spot on in my experience with this CPU. I have a very good chip that can hold 5 giggles at 1.4v steady but is heat throttled at that point. Pushing to 5.1 or > 1.4v is beyond my Noctua cooler. If Coffee Lake really does bless us with a 6c/12t LGA 1151 and my board/CPU...
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    GeForce 20 series to be released this year (Volta)

    Common scenario: Bought a gently used 1070 for cheap ($300-320), found it couldn't drive their display and/or resolution of choice, 1080 Ti launches and benchmarks show it could, flipped for the Ti. Hell, this was almost exactly my scenario before finding a Ti for fairly cheap as I'm about to...
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    NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Video Card Review @ [H]

    This is where the attraction of buying through reputable Ebay stores comes in. I used to buy almost exclusively through Amazon, but when they opened a warehouse nearby it suddenly wasn't as cost-effective compared to other vendors (particularly expensive things). Someone might put up a 1080 Ti...
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    Intel's 8th Generation Core Family - Coffee Lake (LGA 1151, 6C/12T)

    Admittedly I'm tired, but nowhere in the article did I see mention that Coffee Lake will give us an LGA 1511 6c/12t processor. I badly want to believe and I've seen the rumor elsewhere, but I didn't see it here.
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    Upgrade Advice - 2600K - Can it still cut it?

    Thing is, though, [H]'s own comparison between the 2600k and 7700 show little compelling reason to upgrade. Synthetics are only a 20-ish % improvement, games at low res to make them CPU-bound show even less, and users who've made that upgrade report even less improvement (on high end GPUs...
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