GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Discussion Thread

^ Not an MSI issue. 1900-2100 is LOTTERY, not brand. I can show you every brand with a dog and a golden, doesn't matter FE or AIB. I see people with Aorus extremes saying they have to run "silent" mode, while some lucky people with regular Aorus reporting 2050-2088. It's lottery 90%, and 10% cooling/tweaking ability.
 
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^ Not an MSI issue. 1900-2100 is LOTTERY, not brand. I can show you every brand with a dog and a golden, doesn't matter FE or AIB. I see people with Aorus extremes saying they have to run "silent" mode, while some lucky people with regular Aorus reporting 2050-2088. It's lottery 90%, and 10% cooling/tweaking ability.
I know it is lottery but losing twice to the same vendor is a bit much. MSI can suck it. ASUS, EVGA or even Gigabyte did better for me.
 
I know it is lottery but losing twice to the same vendor is a bit much. MSI can suck it. ASUS, EVGA or even Gigabyte did better for me.


Each card is different and its a crapshoot. I went threw 4 evga 1080 classifieds before i got 2 that would run specs. 2 out of 4 would pull voltage limit 1 at below specs as soon as there was a load on the card.

I guess they need to bin the chips better.. but if it does run at the specs promised they did nothing wrong.
 
My Gaming X is only hitting a boost of about 1900 out of the box when playing Witcher 3 in 3440x1440 if the CAM performance overlay is to be believed (for some reason Afterburner and Riva's overlay has stopped working for me, need to work on that). This seems lower than some people's experience, particularly since it's sitting in an open air case and not getting above 68C. I'll see what I can do by manually pushing the boost with Afterburner (I guess I should raise power limit to max?). Still, the performance is such a leap over my 980 (non-Ti) that I'm happy either way at this point.

No coil whine from my card that I've noticed.
 
My Gaming X is only hitting a boost of about 1900 out of the box when playing Witcher 3 in 3440x1440 if the CAM performance overlay is to be believed (for some reason Afterburner and Riva's overlay has stopped working for me, need to work on that). This seems lower than some people's experience, particularly since it's sitting in an open air case and not getting above 68C. I'll see what I can do by manually pushing the boost with Afterburner (I guess I should raise power limit to max?). Still, the performance is such a leap over my 980 (non-Ti) that I'm happy either way at this point.

No coil whine from my card that I've noticed.

Crank the power limit to max and add 50 to 70 to the core clock.
 
My MSI Gaming X only does 1949 MHz maxed out. Otherwise crashes. I am going to sell it and buy something else. My FE used to do 2050 sustained clocks albeit at 100% fan speed which can wake dead people from their graves.
 
My Gigabyte FE is no champion... been poking around on it and it does 1950 max but usually just over 1900 and that's about it. I've since just maxed out the voltage limit slider and left the rest stock. It plays fine like that an bosts to the ~1800s and I don't have to run the fan too hard. It's a decent card but I don't think this one is a good candidate for water so going to sell it and got a Zotac AMP on the way. This will be my first Zotac "AMP" card.
 
I just said fuck it and ordered an ASUS STRIX 1080 Ti right now. Another chance at lottery.
MSI going to sell tonight.
 
I know. But still. An 800 dollar card not even hitting 2000 MHz was bothering me to no end.
 
Just keep in mind how many more cores and tmus are in these ti's. That said I too like to see that golden round 2000 on my G13 display while I am gaming. I am hoping the better power delivery in the AMP card might assist in keeping high clocks - that and some silicon lottery luck. Extra power delivery didn't seem to matter a lot for the 1080 but it might for the ti. It definitely is more power hungry. I got lucky with a 1080FE that clocked really well.. Fingers crossed for my AMP.
 
Just took out the HDD cage in my mid tower Enforcer case got two of them for better airflow and I'm not gimped by Graphics card size anymore.
EVGA FTW 3 is 11.80"

So I'm set if I ever want a quieter card that doesn't have bright green ugly GTX logo or fan to drive deer and rabbits away.
The reason I got the case in the first place modular and not too big I wish I could ditch the Disk Drive bays but I would need to cut the riviets I can't see them anyway with the side panel on.

Enforcer specs w/ HDD cage and without basically it's just a Haf 912 case

Max GPU/PCI Card Length 270mm / 10.63 in with HDD cage
390mm / 15.35 in without HDD cage
 
So, I just ate $50 in tax to order from Amazon for the Gigabyte AORUS 1080ti because of this bullshit. Now, I think Newegg may have just lost me as a customer. I understand what they're doing but it doesn't excuse what they did here by showing the video card at $720 and then once you add it to the cart it shows up as $779 only to be brought back down by the "Discount for Gift#1" which is basically saying that because your free game choice is a $60 value we are discounting the price of the card. Bullshit. Just put it in my cart at the $720, list the game as free and be done with it... don't play with the numbers like that and confusing the fuck out of me; waiting on chat for forever to ask them to clarify why the price of the card went up $60 when I added it to my cart which made it seem as though the card was $780 and not $720 as advertised.

So guess what Newegg, I went to Amazon and ordered a Gigabyte AORUS 1080ti insteadof the EVGA Black Edition and ate the $50 in tax. Not to mention that I will even get my card on Saturday which Newegg doesn't do.

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I had newegg do this to me also for a "promotion" which was added to a purchase.. I cancelled also. (the only real con here is paying tax on the promotion)
 
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Took my Ti FE to +150 core and +500 ram tonight with fan curve maxing out at 75%. Core kinda settles around 2030ish and spikes to 2050. No more voltage. Just first round of testing. I was playing Wildlands to test but didn't seem to Max out the gpu usage for some reason (been like that actually since the Creators update). Played a little bit of Doom and Metro Last Light with no issues.
 
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720+38 shipping is equal to 758 you know.

Newegg charges my card twice everytime I purchase a 1080 Ti from them. However, the total is correct. Sold my MSI card and now waiting on my ASUS.
 
720+38 shipping is equal to 758 you know.

Which still isn't $779 you know? That's my point. I understand the grand total being the card + shipping cost, but that doesn't excuse the fact that the price of the card itself changes when added to the card which is what the $779 is. And then they put in the -$59.99 in there as if I am getting a deal on the card because the retail cost of Ghost Recon is $59.99. That's bullshit and confused me for way too long and should not have been added.
 
Took my Ti FE to +150 core and +500 ram tonight with fan curve maxing out at 75%. Core kinda settles around 2030ish and spikes to 2050. No more voltage.

My FE must be duffers because I can't get that high. Will report actual figures tonight after some gaming.
 
So, I just ate $50 in tax to order from Amazon for the Gigabyte AORUS 1080ti because of this bullshit. Now, I think Newegg may have just lost me as a customer. I understand what they're doing but it doesn't excuse what they did here by showing the video card at $720 and then once you add it to the cart it shows up as $779 only to be brought back down by the "Discount for Gift#1" which is basically saying that because your free game choice is a $60 value we are discounting the price of the card. Bullshit. Just put it in my cart at the $720, list the game as free and be done with it... don't play with the numbers like that and confusing the fuck out of me; waiting on chat for forever to ask them to clarify why the price of the card went up $60 when I added it to my cart which made it seem as though the card was $780 and not $720 as advertised.

Jesus Christ, you remind me of the people that sit there and analyze their grocery store receipt (for like $20 in groceries) and proceed to ask stupid ass questions and hold up customers behind them, even though they were wrong to begin with, then throw a hissy fit anyways.
 
TGIF party people. My Zotac AMP shows today.. I almost went with the Aorus but seeing all the folks with issues on those I figured this would be a safer option. Seems like a lot of folks are ditching their FE's for AIB's looking for that golden goose that will hit 2000 stable. Myself included. Good luck on your card searches.

I got my card. Build quality is very good. It's quite heavy and large. I am only able to get +50/+150 out of it max... which gets the gpu to 2ghz but it throttles back to 1949 and holds there on demanding games.. for less demanding it will stay at 2000 or 1987mhz. I have the fans set to hit 100% at 70c and they are quiet. The card maxes out at 70c with the fan @ 100% and my room around 24c. I'm a little bummed that it didn't clock higher but it did better than my FE and is much quieter.

One thing, the Zotac logo would not light up when I got it. I tried the spectra app and it was greyed out and would not work. I finally had to uninstall the card, take the plastic face of the card and check all the wiring from the LED spot back to the power connector. I reseated everything and the light came on finally. Whew.
 
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Which still isn't $779 you know? That's my point. I understand the grand total being the card + shipping cost, but that doesn't excuse the fact that the price of the card itself changes when added to the card which is what the $779 is. And then they put in the -$59.99 in there as if I am getting a deal on the card because the retail cost of Ghost Recon is $59.99. That's bullshit and confused me for way too long and should not have been added.
You're freaking out about nothing. They structure the invoice that way due to shenanigans with people refusing delivery of the card (which triggers automatic refund) then keeping/selling game code.

Yep people are assholes when loopholes exist.
 
I have two FE's under water and they are locked at 2038/6000 while gaming. I think SLI overclocks are always a tad lower. Was hoping for 2050 but 2038 will do haha. I also water cool for the noise and the sustained boost clocks. My cards don't go over high 30s!
 
Got my Gigabyte AORUS 1080ti today. 2 odd things; one is that my 3DMark Physics score is less than the score I got my 1080FE which is weird. Also, overclocking the card anything past 1900 crashes games which is weird because it will run through the 3DMark stress test over and over and will also go through the entire Firestrike test without crashing but with games, the games crash.

Anyone have any ideas?
 
Got my Gigabyte AORUS 1080ti today. 2 odd things; one is that my 3DMark Physics score is less than the score I got my 1080FE which is weird. Also, overclocking the card anything past 1900 crashes games which is weird because it will run through the 3DMark stress test over and over and will also go through the entire Firestrike test without crashing but with games, the games crash.

Anyone have any ideas?
Don't have any ideas but glad that I didn't buy a gigabyte. You are the 10th person with a crappy card.
 
Yeah the Gigabytes have terrible yield issues or something. Seems like way more than the normal amount of people saying some don't even run at stock speeds. I think these 1080ti cores are kind of bottom of the barrel and most are only going to do 1950ish... My zotac hits 2ghz but anything beyond and it craps out. It throttles to about 1987 or 1949 while in game. The mem doesn't clock for shit either (11.3 max but backed off to 11.2) but it's a quiet card even with the fan @ 100% (70c ~ 24c amb) so I will probably just keep it.
 
Yeah the Gigabytes have terrible yield issues or something. Seems like way more than the normal amount of people saying some don't even run at stock speeds. I think these 1080ti cores are kind of bottom of the barrel and most are only going to do 1950ish... My zotac hits 2ghz but anything beyond and it craps out. It throttles to about 1987 or 1949 while in game. The mem doesn't clock for shit either (11.3 max but backed off to 11.2) but it's a quiet card even with the fan @ 100% (70c ~ 24c amb) so I will probably just keep it.

Well, Newegg still has the EVGA SC Black Edition 1080ti in stock so I will order one of those tomorrow and return the Gigabyte.
 
Got my Gigabyte AORUS 1080ti today. 2 odd things; one is that my 3DMark Physics score is less than the score I got my 1080FE which is weird. Also, overclocking the card anything past 1900 crashes games which is weird because it will run through the 3DMark stress test over and over and will also go through the entire Firestrike test without crashing but with games, the games crash.

Anyone have any ideas?

Physics score depend entirely on CPU and is not related to GPU but it can be affected by the GPU drivers lightly, any noticeable variation on physics score when everything else it's the same (CPU clock/RAM clock/timmings/etc) will depend entirely on OS and background Tasks...
 
what kind of temps is everyone getting on a 1080ti Founders Edition running about 80% load? im hitting around 80c playing GTA V with a fan speed of 50-55%
 
70c @ 100% with my fans at 100% which are barely audible over my case fans.
 
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