Nvidia GTX 10xx Discussion Thread

MarkAnthony

cherryghost wrote: »

Gave in and bought an MSI 1070 one for 480 delivered.

If anyone fancies a dangerous bunt, the KFA2 Reference Blower ones are now on mindfactory.de for about 450 delivered.

Overclockers?

cherryghost

MarkAnthony wrote: »

Overclockers?

Yeah I asked them how reliable is the stock tracker, they said it will arrive in warehouse this Friday.

On a seperate note, my office buddy bought 2 1080's and they arrived yesterday (FE's). They look pretty great.

Keggers2

Anyone have any experience with the KFA2 cards? Strongly considering their 1080 because it's really looking like the best value proposition at the minute

MarkAnthony

Keggers2 wrote: »

Anyone have any experience with the KFA2 cards? Strongly considering their 1080 because it's really looking like the best value proposition at the minute

The EVGA non SC edition is cheaper delivered from EVGA - when they're getting them though is a different story.

nix

Cant make up my mind on whether to splash out on the 1080 or just get the 1070. €850 is a bit much..

Can anybody recommend the best place to buy these? I usually shop komplett but they are slow at getting in stock.

Also from looking at the overclockers site they have a load of different ones and i have no clue which versions are good or better than others, any advice please?

MarkAnthony

nix wrote: »

Cant make up my mind on whether to splash out on the 1080 or just get the 1070. €850 is a bit much..

Can anybody recommend the best place to buy these? I usually shop komplett but they are slow at getting in stock.

Also from looking at the overclockers site they have a load of different ones and i have no clue which versions are good or better than others, any advice please?

Cheapest one with the cooler and brand you like. There seems to be almost no difference with overclocking leading to rumours of BIOS shenanigans.

MarkAnthony

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Fakman87

How did you get it so cheap?!?!

TerrorFirmer

That is surely pre-tax price?

MarkAnthony

Fakman87 wrote: »

How did you get it so cheap?!?!

TerrorFirmer wrote: »

That is surely pre-tax price?

Aye + VAT

Going to try and write it off against income tax by giving my tenants a computer I have lying around... :pac:

MarkAnthony

I might have made a terrible mistake :pac:

Can 10XX cards do SLI for VR?

Xenoronin

A single 1080 is plenty enough for VR though?

K.O.Kiki

Keggers2 wrote: »

Anyone have any experience with the KFA2 cards? Strongly considering their 1080 because it's really looking like the best value proposition at the minute

I have one.

It's fine?
Their OC software doesn't look great though.

MarkAnthony

Xenoronin wrote: »

A single 1080 is plenty enough for VR though?

There's never enough GPU horsepower for VR. :pac: We're talking 90 FPS in 5K if you want 2x supersampling. Even the 1080 can only do about 30FPS on 5K. Even if you come down to 1.5x sample it's still less than 50FPS.

That said I'm hopeful of VR optimisations especially on the green team.

Hal1

What are the psu requirements for a msi 1070?

MarkAnthony

Hal1 wrote: »

What are the psu requirements for a msi 1070?

500W same as the 1080 which uses about 30W more juice. These GPUs have tiny power requirements.

nix

MarkAnthony wrote: »

Cheapest one with the cooler and brand you like. There seems to be almost no difference with overclocking leading to rumours of BIOS shenanigans.

so when you refer to cooler, do you recommend going for one with like 2-3 fans on top of it? and stay away from the founders editions with the single fans?

I;m worried about over heating, my friend says the single fans can be crappy

MarkAnthony

nix wrote: »

so when you refer to cooler, do you recommend going for one with like 2-3 fans on top of it? and stay away from the founders editions with the single fans?

I;m worried about over heating, my friend says the single fans can be crappy

The 'Founders Edition' cards are more expensive this time around so go with a customer cooler (2 or 3 fans aye). They've never been as bad on nVidia as they were on AMD's side. This generation the blowers are fine if a bit loud.

Calibos

MarkAnthony wrote: »

I might have made a terrible mistake :pac:

Can 10XX cards do SLI for VR?

Did you buy two or something? :eek:

To answer the question...not yet...kinda

TRUE VR SLI where each card does an eye each has supposedly been in the drivers since the 9 series but not switched on or certainly not used coded for by any VR games yet.

Regular SLI does increase framerates in games coded for it but it adds latency which is fine for 2D monitor gaming but not VR.

If it were me I'd be sticking with single card for this first VR generation. By the time we have CV2, VR SLI(GPU per EYE) will have matured and games and engines might actually be using it, Ditto for the VR multiprojection and stereo instancing stuff announced with the 10 series. That needs to be incorporated into game code. The true icing on the cake will be eyetracking with foveated rendering. When that comes we could conceivably be playing 2018 level/quality AAA titles on 4K/eye CV2's on our VR SLI 1080's.

MarkAnthony

I was wondering if I should have gone for 2x 1070s. I'll stick with the 1080 and potential divorce proceedings.

TerrorFirmer

I actually have dual 1070's on the way out of curiosity but my balloon was popped when I discovered Doom is a disaster in SLI. Not the be all and end all, but a stark reminder that SLI just has so many headaches and cannot be relied on. A single 1080 is definitely the far better choice I think.

MarkAnthony

nVidia seem to be really trying to cut back on SLI with rumours of it going completely. I wonder if it'll make a reappearance for each eye in VR. Navi on the other hand say 'scalability' presumable multi-GPU xfire?

Keggers2

TerrorFirmer wrote: »

I actually have dual 1070's on the way out of curiosity but my balloon was popped when I discovered Doom is a disaster in SLI. Not the be all and end all, but a stark reminder that SLI just has so many headaches and cannot be relied on. A single 1080 is definitely the far better choice I think.

I'll take one off you if the buyer's remorse gets too much

.G.

My 1080 delivery put back to the 29th

Pushtrak

I just ordered the Inno3D Chill X3 1070... though I'm seeing it saying now expected delivery date is 29th of June. I can't say I'm keen on that. I'd rather be ordering something I'd be getting much sooner than that. Not sure if I should suck it up and wait or cancel tbh.

Xenoronin

I think we won't see SLI VR, or at the very least, I hope we never see it. Considering that the cost of VR is already too high, unless you are talking two relatively cheap GPU (I'd actually count the RX 480 in this bracket), it only inflates the cost of entry.

Nedved85

superg wrote: »

My 1080 delivery put back to the 29th

Where did you order from?

I ordered directly from EVGA, annoyed that they are putting a preference on their big partners like OCUK.

It better get to me by next week!!

TheDoc

On mobile so a pain to copy in links. Was reading some threads on Reddit where retailers have chimmed in on complaints about 1070 price points.

They have outlined that this pricing is coming from a ramp up from Distributors, and the Distributors have advised that Nvidia are having problems with production levels, and have been informed typical stock levels won't arrive until mid to late July.

Some more interesting comment is that it appears Nvidia rushed to market to beat AMD and their attractive pricing point, but to me has shot themselves in the foot here with poor pricing. But it appears that the consensus is pricing will be more accurate and lower on the 1070's especially around the July mark. Many retailers on reddit outlining they have told their Distributors they have no interest in stock at that price point, and will review the situation in July.

Seems to be good sources and good comment. So I might actually hang of the extra month and see if the pricing does drop down. I guess it also provides another few weeks of feedback on a range of AIB's that arn't first shipping until end of June anyway (if they even do ship in June)

Appears some guy from EVGA is also sharing the details on the production issues with the chipset.

Slutmonkey57b

Basically standard practice for Nvidia over the last few years though: paper launch, halo products, "whoops all sold out, don't ask us about yields". They've done killer business on the next step down enthusiast and upper range cards, where AMD haven't had the equipment to properly compete and they've got away with rearranging the pricing levels so what used to be the 250-300 bracket is now the 400-500 bracket.

Looks like there'll be some good products from both camps this time round though, albeit at different price points, which is what we want after all

K.O.Kiki

I'm really surprised that this stuff is (supposedly) on reddit, what with NDAs you might get sued for.