I purchased the cheapest 1080 Ti I could find

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Wag

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I took a shot and I purchased an ASUS TURBO-GTX1080TI-11G from Newegg off eBay for $639. I wanted to buy an FE blower model anyways, and although this one is slightly modified, I'm pretty impressed with it.

I was hesitant to purchase one because of the mixed reviews it received on Newegg. It runs at reasonable temps at load (~72C) and the core overclocks 175, the memory 425. Not bad.

The only drawback is the fan is a bit loud, which is par for the course for blower style fans.

Eventually I'll probably buy a 2nd and consider modifying the cooling.

I do find it odd they bothered changing the design of the stock blower style FE fan. Can anyone explain this?
 
I was on my way to buy same card and walked out with strix instead.

Only reason i didnt get it, it's not a reference board (good thing) no waterblocks available (bad thing).
 
Wag said:
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I took a shot and I purchased an ASUS TURBO-GTX1080TI-11G from Newegg off eBay for $639. I wanted to buy an FE blower model anyways, and although this one is slightly modified, I'm pretty impressed with it.

I was hesitant to purchase one because of the mixed reviews it received on Newegg. It runs at reasonable temps at load (~72C) and the core overclocks 175, the memory 425. Not bad.

The only drawback is the fan is a bit loud, which is par for the course for blower style fans.

Eventually I'll probably buy a 2nd and consider modifying the cooling.

I do find it odd they bothered changing the design of the stock blower style FE fan. Can anyone explain this?
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The whole cooling assembly on the FE is heavy, made almost entirely of aluminum. This one is made of plastic. Like Kazeohin said, they probably saved a buck.

On a side note: after replacing the FE cooler on my Titan X I noticed it must weigh twice as much as the one from my GTX Titan X, which included the use of a magnesium alloy.
 
I ended up buying NZXT's G12 and Corsair's H50 to add liquid cooling to it, which dropped the temps almost in half. So, in the end, I ended up sinking $100 more (after shipping and taxes) just to cool the card.
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Someone on Newegg said they were able to modify the card so it is doable. I'll see how hot it gets once I add a 2nd card. Right now it tops out ~72C which is pretty good. My non-reference EVGA 980Ti ACX's were much hotter than that.

Also, for some reason I've noticed raising the voltage does absolutely nothing. Anyone know why? I've never experienced this before.
 
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I almost bought that card with the intent to put an accelero iv on it. Would have come in at $700 tho, didn't make sense when the custom cooled cards are like $720. Still pissed at myself for not jumping on the xlr8 card when it was $639.
 
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I almost bought that card with the intent to put an accelero iv on it. Would have come in at $700 tho, didn't make sense when the custom cooled cards are like $720. Still pissed at myself for not jumping on the xlr8 card when it was $639.
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I realize Newegg has some of the custom cooled cards on sale at times, but I wanted a blower style fan anyways. They had a reference FE PNY on sale for $10 more. I thought I'd give this one a shot. It's not bad for what it is. If it comes down to it I can still modify it.
 
That seems pretty sensible given that these GPUs kind of top out at the same clocks no matter what people do.

I'll be honest, a big part of my 1080 Ti purchase boiled down to aesthetics (I liked MSI's black and red thing) but it's really iffy in terms of whether that's worth an extra $100 over a blower.
 
Wag said:
I took a shot and I purchased an ASUS TURBO-GTX1080TI-11G from Newegg off eBay for $639. I wanted to buy an FE blower model anyways, and although this one is slightly modified, I'm pretty impressed with it.

I was hesitant to purchase one because of the mixed reviews it received on Newegg. It runs at reasonable temps at load (~72C) and the core overclocks 175, the memory 425. Not bad.

The only drawback is the fan is a bit loud, which is par for the course for blower style fans.

Eventually I'll probably buy a 2nd and consider modifying the cooling.

I do find it odd they bothered changing the design of the stock blower style FE fan. Can anyone explain this?
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Great price. I just picked up an ASUS 1080ti FE from Microcenter for $669 (free Destiny 2).

It was tricky getting a stable clock but I finally managed a rock steady 1924MHz with stock voltage and a manual fan curve holding steady at 70% on full usage. I can easily tolerate the fan noise at 70% so I'm glad I didn't pony up the additional $50-$100 for a custom card.
 
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