**DEAD** MSI GTX 1080 TI ARMOR 11G OC $639 shipped Newegg/Ebay

I would stay away from this model. The cooler is quite poor and to keep the card at halfway decent temps it has to be cranked up and is a bit loud.
 
That's unfortunate... I suppose it could be a decent deal for someone who is intending on using after market cooling regardless.
 
I actually have this card. Reviews surprised me. Mine is silent and never cracks 70C. Maybe I got lucky
 
masterosok said:
That's unfortunate... I suppose it could be a decent deal for someone who is intending on using after market cooling regardless.
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Except it's not compatible with aftermarket cooling since it's not reference.
 
wadec22 said:
I actually have this card. Reviews surprised me. Mine is silent and never cracks 70C. Maybe I got lucky
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Sounds like you live in a fantasy land. That or either you are running games that are not that demanding and/or you have them capped before the card gets pushed hard.

EDIT: Even right here from the videocardz.com review shows what you are claiming is nonsesne.

https://videocardz.com/review/msi-geforce-gtx-1080-ti-armor-review/15

"The only way to keep this card below 70C under load is by setting 100% fan speed, but since that’s more than 2400 RPM, it is simply not recommended unless you don’t mind a small jet engine in your case."

 
Gamers Nexus just put up a video on this card. Basically MSI slapped a 1070 cooler onto the Gaming X PCB.

DPI said:
Except it's not compatible with aftermarket cooling since it's not reference.
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EK is saying they will have a full cover waterblock for it in June and Gamers Nexus modded the NZXT AIO bracket to fit the PCB.
 
misterbobby said:
Sounds like you live in a fantasy land. That or either you are running games that are not that demanding and/or you have them capped before the card gets pushed hard.

EDIT: Even right here from the videocardz.com review shows what you are claiming is nonsesne.

https://videocardz.com/review/msi-geforce-gtx-1080-ti-armor-review/15

"The only way to keep this card below 70C under load is by setting 100% fan speed, but since that’s more than 2400 RPM, it is simply not recommended unless you don’t mind a small jet engine in your case."
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maybe... i'm playing a lot of VR, PUBG and still some BF4. Turning enough fps to push my predator to the 120fps so I can still use ULMB.
 
Lol Gamers Nexus review flat out said it was a "terrible thing to buy" if you were going to stick with the stock cooler on it. It is little more than the 1070 Armor cooler slapped on the 1080 Ti Gaming X and that cooler is not even close to sufficient for the 1080 Ti.
 
misterbobby said:
Lol Gamers Nexus review flat out said it was a "terrible thing to buy" if you were going to stick with the stock cooler on it. It is little more than the 1070 Armor cooler slapped on the 1080 Ti Gaming X and that cooler is not even close to sufficient for the 1080 Ti.
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i read that lol. pretty unsettling. i'll have to download heaven bench or something to push mine and see if temps skyrocket. guess if EK is making a block for it, that would be an excuse for me to ditch the AIO and go back to full WC setup.
 
Always remember though that if you remove that sticker from MSI card, you are pretty much fucked for warranty.
 
so i put mine through the paces last night looping heaven for 60 min at all max settings and topped out at 78C - it did get pretty damn loud. creating a custom fan profile and doing the same it topped out at 74C and wasn't as bad, but still louder than i would want gaming without my headphones (which is rare). in both cases, i never had any thermal throttling and it's staying cooler than the FE. keep in mind i have great air flow in my case with good cable management. i use two yate loons 120mm for intake right in front of the card and two yate loons at the top of the case pushing air out through the corsair h105 rad.

reading all the reports still may be enough to convince me to get a arctic extreme cooler for noise in the future. of course, that too voids warranty.
 
Try slapping a fan on the outside of the case blowing in threw the pci brackets. May want to remoce a few pci covers to allow air to move threw the case better. Doing this on non fe cards should help lower the temps even more and cold air will blow directly to the gpu core area.

May look bad depending on how your case is displayed but it will help.

Ive done this in the past when i was air cooling 1080 sli at the time. Used a long twist tie to hold the fan to the case.
 
Derangel said:
EK is saying they will have a full cover waterblock for it in June and Gamers Nexus modded the NZXT AIO bracket to fit the PCB.
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Yep, so +$165 for a waterblock which you'll never recoup your money on - plus the cost of the rest of a custom loop if you don't have one already (pump, res, tubing, rad), or a hack job on one of the cheapo aftermarket brackets - which not everyone is going to be comfortable performing.

You're still better off with a FE card, if any kind of aftermarket cooling is the goal.
 
DPI said:
You're still better off with a FE card, if any kind of aftermarket cooling is the goal.
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Depends on the price, really. $640 is only $25 cheaper than a FE so at that point it really isn't worth it. If the card was $600 or even $610 though I'd say its worth it. If someone was after a Gaming X version of the Ti, for whatever reason, to watercool or what not then you're saving almost $100 and getting the same PCB. For the most part though, the Armor is a terrible card and better cards are not much more expensive.
 
wadec22 said:
so i put mine through the paces last night looping heaven for 60 min at all max settings and topped out at 78C - it did get pretty damn loud. creating a custom fan profile and doing the same it topped out at 74C and wasn't as bad, but still louder than i would want gaming without my headphones (which is rare). in both cases, i never had any thermal throttling and it's staying cooler than the FE. keep in mind i have great air flow in my case with good cable management. i use two yate loons 120mm for intake right in front of the card and two yate loons at the top of the case pushing air out through the corsair h105 rad.

reading all the reports still may be enough to convince me to get a arctic extreme cooler for noise in the future. of course, that too voids warranty.
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How were you able to get a custom fan profile to cool it better and quieter? Seems physically impossible. Unless your ambient temps dropped drastically between the first and second run, the only way to get cooler temps is to increase your fan speed.
 
RamonGTP said:
How were you able to get a custom fan profile to cool it better and quieter? Seems physically impossible. Unless your ambient temps dropped drastically between the first and second run, the only way to get cooler temps is to increase your fan speed.
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it really isn't noisy until it gets to 80+% fan speed. the standard profile waits too long to start ramping up. i set it up to kick in at a higher percentage earlier, which keeps it from having to get into the 85+% area.

i'm using a corsair 500r and again, i either am lucky or the drama on this card is from folks with shitty air flow. with a custom fan profile, i'm sticking mid 70's during extensive sessions and the card noise isn't bothering me. it's far quieter than blower style cards i've owned in the past. to each their own i guess.
 
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