well I tried to buy a new 1080

Honestly waiting is not a big deal. Lets you see all the AIB cards, lets prices settle and finally it lets you see whats up with Polaris. I have been browsing the aftermarket 1080 leaks and like what I am seeing from the AIBs. Just hoping the prices dont get too jacked up.
 
wigglywaffles said:
Why are people so thirsty for this overpriced piece of shit? It's not like anything that needs a SLI 980 Ti setup isn't going to need a SLI 1080 setup anyway because it's not that much of an improvement over the 980 Ti.

Everybody's rushing out to drop $700 on this thing and meanwhile I'm just sitting here playing everything at 4K + 60 FPS with my SLI 980 Ti's without a care in the world. Maybe if it was a 75%+ performance increase over a single 980 Ti then it might be of interest... because then you could drop the SLI requirement to do 4K gaming.
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DPI said:
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I just had to look that up.

  1. (idiomatic) Things that somebody pretends to despise because he/she cannot possess them.
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No, I don't think that applies at all. I have no desire to replace my SLI GTX 980 Ti's with a GeForce GTX 1080, nor do I have any desire to replace them with SLI GTX 1080 and be out of pocket an additional $600.

For every game that has SLI support, my GTX 980 Ti's have ran everything I've thrown at them at 4K + 60 FPS.

For every game that doesn't have SLI support, I've only encountered a couple in which a faster single GPU might be desirable in order to achieve 4K + 60 FPS, like Dead Rising 3 and Quantum Break. However, GTX 1080 is not sufficiently powerful enough to achieve 60 FPS at 4K in these games, so I still would want to hold off playing them until something even faster comes out.

So I fail to see what that has to do with my post. Why desire something that has zero use to you?
 
{NG}Fidel said:
Honestly waiting is not a big deal. Lets you see all the AIB cards, lets prices settle and finally it lets you see whats up with Polaris. I have been browsing the aftermarket 1080 leaks and like what I am seeing from the AIBs. Just hoping the prices dont get too jacked up.
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Looks like prices aren't getting jacked up yet. I snagged a preorder on a Gigabyte G1 GTX 1080 for $611 at Amazon earlier today. The card has a decent factory OC, three fan cooler, zero RPM operation, and RGB LEDs so it should be way better than the FE blower.
 
variant said:
They were probably sold to employees and friends of the employees before the store ever opened. There's a good chance some of those cards show up on Ebay.
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I can't stand that crap! I'd call it hustling, but.. When you have the cash to drop on a 1080 just to jack up and resell, that's just A-hat greedy.
 
Got my two Gigabyte FE 1080s yesterday, was able to order them around 9 AM last Friday without incident. I'm in the process of gathering the rest of my parts for a new build so in the meantime I put one of the 1080s in my only i7-980x system replacing 3 GTX 680s. Wow, what a difference. Even with this 6 year old system the 1080 is making modern titles fully playable at full settings even at 3x 1080 surround. I've never tried to plug a brand new GPU into a six year old PC but to get these kinds of results impressed me. I almost don't need the new rig for gaming though I know the i7-980x is holding back a single 1080, let alone two.
 
Asus Strix is supposed be available tomorrow for $620 standard and $640 for OC'd version. I'll be grabbing one if can find one.
 
Ocellaris said:
Looks like prices aren't getting jacked up yet. I snagged a preorder on a Gigabyte G1 GTX 1080 for $611 at Amazon earlier today. The card has a decent factory OC, three fan cooler, zero RPM operation, and RGB LEDs so it should be way better than the FE blower.
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Update: Cancelled my $611 1080 G1 after Gigabyte posted information about their 1080 Extreme card. I won't buy the Extreme, however the way they did the two product pages, the G1 Gaming 1080 is a dumpster card and doesn't even include ball bearing fans that aren't load as hell. For $600+ really feels like I should be getting a decent effort from the manufacturer and not an old cooler with noisy fans :(
 
Ocellaris said:
Update: Cancelled my $611 1080 G1 after Gigabyte posted information about their 1080 Extreme card. I won't buy the Extreme, however the way they did the two product pages, the G1 Gaming 1080 is a dumpster card and doesn't even include ball bearing fans that aren't load as hell. For $600+ really feels like I should be getting a decent effort from the manufacturer and not an old cooler with noisy fans :(
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$600 with some crappy fans? Lame. 1080 Ti anyone??

hmm, you have the 960. A 1070 would probably be a pretty good upgrade, or maybe a future 1060/ Ti
 
BECAUSE??? BECAUSE I WANT IT>>> :)

logic took over my brain since then. I play overwatch on my 4k monitor. My 980ti does just fine. Spending 700 dollars will not make me any better at Overwatch...unless I hire a 12 year old with cat like reflexes :)
 
Don't think I've seen a single review of the G1 1080 gaming that said the fans were loud or inadequate. Did you just make that up or what ?
 
sok0 said:
Don't think I've seen a single review of the G1 1080 gaming that said the fans were loud or inadequate. Did you just make that up or what ?
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The Windforce fans on 9x0 cards were loud in my experience, I think cards like the 970 Strix and 970 MSI Gaming were better with two larger fans over three small ones. Actually add the EVGA ACX cards to that list as well.

Having said that, my order for a FE card didn't go through and now I have a G1 1070 coming after also sending back a 1080 Strix. What a mess :facepalm:
 
Judging from the couple of G1 Gaming reviews, I think youll be happy with it.
 
sethk said:
could it be because not everyone is running a 980 ti rig? (just guessing here)
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Running a 7850 here.

If I'm going to spend more than $300 on a video card it better last me a great while. I forget what I spent for this thing but I know it wasn't that much, and I know it wasn't current gen when I bought it either. I've decided that I'm done with buying sub-$250 cards and they just end up getting long in the tooth very quickly. AMD is pissing me off with their antics as of late, so if I'm going to plunk down more than $250 on a video card this year, it's going to be one that I know:
1. is current/new gen.
2. is proven to be noticeably better than previous gen.
3. isn't an AMD product. (Unless they get their heads out of their asses.)
4. is actually going to run at 1080p without struggling, and can still do decently at 1440p (I doubt I'll get into 4K gaming anytime soon unless there's justification behind the jump in resolution).
5. is most likely not going to be rendered utterly obsolete by the next gen/refresh.

Even if a 1080Ti is going to come out this year, say by November? It would have to make the original 1080 look like a joke for me to hold off. I'm not going to worry about 10-15% performance increase in 5-6 months when I'm already what, 3-5 gens behind? For me it makes sense to jump on this card, or even a 1070. The only reason I'm kind of iffy on the 1070 is because I've been burned before on not spending just a tad bit more to have what I wanted in the first place, or finding out that the 2nd-tier offering is crippled by a new game that the tier-1 product just laughs off.
 
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Don't think I've seen a single review of the G1 1080 gaming that said the fans were loud or inadequate. Did you just make that up or what ?
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Absolutely silent under full load in my ncase.
 
I don't get that logic by some people. 700 for a Ti was ok but 700 for something faster is not ok?
 
Ocellaris said:
Update: Cancelled my $611 1080 G1 after Gigabyte posted information about their 1080 Extreme card. I won't buy the Extreme, however the way they did the two product pages, the G1 Gaming 1080 is a dumpster card and doesn't even include ball bearing fans that aren't load as hell. For $600+ really feels like I should be getting a decent effort from the manufacturer and not an old cooler with noisy fans :(
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Gigabyte start to sucks from some years, in products and especially RMA
 
{NG}Fidel said:
I don't get that logic by some people. 700 for a Ti was ok but 700 for something faster is not ok?
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What an idiotic thing to say. The 1080 is the replacement for the 980 so asking Ti prices for it is ridiculous. Using your logic (or lack thereof) we would be paying $10,000 for a gpu by now.
 
2nd gen pascal. Buy now for "want". :D

I see it as 680 to 1080 equivalent as 780 to 1180. Ti is always the trump of the family....not Donald.

When volta comes, 1st gen will be the WOW factor, 2nd gen will be the buy in. Unless you "want".

Nothing wrong w/ wanting.
 
misterbobby said:
What an idiotic thing to say. The 1080 is the replacement for the 980 so asking Ti prices for it is ridiculous. Using your logic (or lack thereof) we would be paying $10,000 for a gpu by now.
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the 1080 cost more to make than the 980. why would you expect the prices to be the same? because of some imaginary "replacement" concept you have in your head?
 
jiminator said:
the 1080 cost more to make than the 980. why would you expect the prices to be the same? because of some imaginary "replacement" concept you have in your head?
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Wow you are just as ignorant as he is as we again would be paying $10,000 or more for gpus using the logic of you two clowns. And perhaps you can not comprehend this is NOT even their big chip and its the class of chip that used to be x60/x60 ti cards. To say that 700 bucks seems right because it costs them more to make than the already overpriced 980 is laughable.

Ubsubbing so knock yourself out with another idiotic reply in support of ridiculous prices.
 
misterbobby said:
Wow you are just as ignorant as he is as we again would be paying $10,000 or more for gpus using the logic of you two clowns. And perhaps you can not comprehend this is NOT even their big chip and its the class of chip that used to be x60/x60 ti cards. To say that 700 bucks seems right because it costs them more to make than the already overpriced 980 is laughable.

Ubsubbing so knock yourself out with another idiotic reply in support of ridiculous prices.
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yeah, in your imaginary world you would not have to spend a billion dollars to build a new fab plant, in reality it does not work that way. price is not a "real" thing. Look at the stock market. The chips are worth whatever people will pay. For nvidia to charge less would be stupid and extend the time it takes them to recoup their costs. If the chip is overpriced it simply will not sell.
 
A whole bunch of the $699 blower cards going instock at Newegg today. Actually staying instock for a handful of minutes. Watching via nowinstock.net

Sadly not the card(s) I want.
 
Had a evga atx 3.0 preordered for two weeks and canceled it after I read a bunch of reviews about coil whine. I'm hoping the STRIX starts showing up in decent quantities sooner than later as I already resold my 7950s on ebay :(
 
Compwiz said:
Had a evga atx 3.0 preordered for two weeks and canceled it after I read a bunch of reviews about coil whine. I'm hoping the STRIX starts showing up in decent quantities sooner than later as I already resold my 7950s on ebay :(
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I sent a Strix back because people, were complaining about coil whine and the thermal pads not being attached. Nothing is immune to whine :( I'd straight up pay $100 extra for a card with zero whine
 
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