Nvidia GTX 10xx Discussion Thread

MarkAnthony · 17-06-2016 4:57pm

LOL the drama and price gouging has started on Adverts in earnest I see. So tempted to join in!

MarkAnthony · 17-06-2016 5:11pm

Waiting to see if this gets approved. A bit of trolling I grant you although the Ad is genuine for a swap (or sale at the stupid mark up).

Really pissing me off the silly prices on founders editions on adverts.

challengemaster · 17-06-2016 5:32pm

X-fire results for RX 480 surface...and they beat a single 1080 in Firestrike. 81% increase over single card performance.

http://www.overclock3d.net/articles/gpu_displays/amd_rx_480_crossfire_benchmark_results_leak_online/1

Can't wait to see actual game benches with these, but I might actually be convinced to go red team if this holds up...

.G. · 17-06-2016 5:49pm

Cancelled my order for the Asus Strix and ordered a G1 gaming instead. OCUK say I'll defo get it next week. The Strix was "maybe early July". Can't be having that. Shipped to parcel motel for reduced VAT and free shipping too. Winning.

tuxy · 17-06-2016 6:55pm

I know the g1 edition were good in the past but it seem like there is no room for performance gains over reference(founders) this time.
At this stage if I was buying I'd probably get the slightly cheaper founders edition because of stock levels.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bPZjpBJeSU

.G. · 17-06-2016 7:14pm

The founders edition cards have been shown to throttle themselves cos the coolers are crap. Not a problem if you are water cooling it of course.

Ri_Nollaig · 17-06-2016 8:37pm

MarkAnthony wrote: »

Waiting to see if this gets approved. A bit of trolling I grant you although the Ad is genuine for a swap (or sale at the stupid mark up).

Really pissing me off the silly prices on founders editions on adverts.

some of the comments on adverts are gas lol
Both buyers and sellers living in dreamland it seems.

SpannerMonkey · 17-06-2016 9:48pm

tuxy wrote: »

I know the g1 edition were good in the past but it seem like there is no room for performance gains over reference(founders) this time.
At this stage if I was buying I'd probably get the slightly cheaper founders edition because of stock levels.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bPZjpBJeSU

Well the g1 is cheaper than the founders edition and every review ive seen shows 6-7% performance increase over the reference design . Add in that it runs cooler and quieter than the founders edition i really cant see a reason not to get it bar that its not as energy efficient but who cares about that on a desktop

tuxy · 17-06-2016 9:57pm

Overclockers.co.uk which is one of the few places that have managed to get stock of non FE cards prices the g1 at 10 more than the FE.

Actually I would usually avoid overclockers because of their prices are not usally very compoetative but the prices for 1070 and 1080 works out very good if you use parcel motel for really cheap shipping.

Digital Solitude · 17-06-2016 10:38pm

MarkAnthony wrote: »

Waiting to see if this gets approved. A bit of trolling I grant you although the Ad is genuine for a swap (or sale at the stupid mark up).

Really pissing me off the silly prices on founders editions on adverts.

He admits he paid €730 for it? Where the **** is he pulling €850 from?

Madness

*Edit* Didn't realise it was your card. Where the hell are you going with it :pac:

Calibos · 17-06-2016 11:08pm

superg wrote: »

Cancelled my order for the Asus Strix and ordered a G1 gaming instead. OCUK say I'll defo get it next week. The Strix was "maybe early July". Can't be having that. Shipped to parcel motel for reduced VAT and free shipping too. Winning.

Holding on to my Strix 1080 order with OCUK. Ordered at 10pm on May 27th. While I haven't rung them yet to find my place in the pre-order queue I have a fair idea I'm about 80 or 90 based on others order times and confirmed places in the queue.

Owner Gibbo on their forums says Asus are sending in dribs and drabs. ie. 10 came in thursday, 10 more today, similar expected monday and tuesday.

What I was going to do on Monday was to ring, get a confirmed number and switch my payment option to Visa from 'Pay via Amazon, in case that might have me dropping down the queue.

After reading your bit about Parcel Motel......DOH!!!

Why didn't I think of that!! I guess because I originally intended to order the whole PC from them.

So I'll get them to change the delivery address too. 4% saving is nothing to sniff at. Of course Murphys Law dictates that I'll wake up to en email first thing Monday morning saying my Strix has shipped before I have a chance to call

I suppose that can also be considered a win though seeing as I am desperate to get my hands on a GPU so I can finally use my May 28th Oculus Rift.

TerrorFirmer · 17-06-2016 11:24pm

Got an email from ComputerUniverse saying that the ichill X4 won't be in stick until 26th June, provisionally.

No update from Mindfactory on my ichill from there either but they've started shipping other stuff seperately.

.G. · 17-06-2016 11:32pm

Calibos wrote: »

Holding on to my Strix 1080 order with OCUK. Ordered at 10pm on May 27th. While I haven't rung them yet to find my place in the pre-order queue I have a fair idea I'm about 80 or 90 based on others order times and confirmed places in the queue.

Owner Gibbo on their forums says Asus are sending in dribs and drabs. ie. 10 came in thursday, 10 more today, similar expected monday and tuesday.

What I was going to do on Monday was to ring, get a confirmed number and switch my payment option to Visa from 'Pay via Amazon, in case that might have me dropping down the queue.

After reading your bit about Parcel Motel......DOH!!!

Why didn't I think of that!! I guess because I originally intended to order the whole PC from them.

So I'll get them to change the delivery address too. 4% saving is nothing to sniff at. Of course Murphys Law dictates that I'll wake up to en email first thing Monday morning saying my Strix has shipped before I have a chance to call I suppose that can also be considered a win though seeing as I am desperate to get my hands on a GPU so I can finally use my May 28th Oculus Rift.

My Strix order was with Scan and they emailed tonight to say 11th of July at the earliest so I cancelled. My head is done in cos I still really want one but OCUK have over 1000 pre orders already so will take them weeks to get through all that.Mindfactory have sold 410 so it'll take them a while too. I've sent an email to cancel the G1 too cos I can't decide on which other one to get, that's 3 cards ordered and cancelled in two weeks.:D I think I'm either going to wait until strix is on the shelf or I'm going with the Gigabyte xtreme which is hopefully in stock next week. But I'll probably change my mind 100 times tomorrow.:mad:

As for Parcel motel, I saw MarkAnthony mention it earlier and its only then I realised I can get the UK vat rate and free shipping by going that route, hadn't thought of it myself even though I use PM loads for stuff! So thank him:D

MarkAnthony · 18-06-2016 1:28am

Pulling it until the 1070s are in, otherwise I'm just being a knob.

That and it's arrived in Parcel motel but I just breathalysed myself and I've still alcohol in my system

might get on the Bike LOL!

Calibos · 18-06-2016 2:35am

Yeah, I'm the same. Use Parcel Motel for lots of stuff.

MarkAnthony · 18-06-2016 3:27am

Sober, the fact that I've had to do 4 reboots on this stupid 2.5" HDD is killing me! The wife and house mate don't seem impressed with the 3am parcel pick up or computer work

MarkAnthony · 18-06-2016 4:24am

A wee bit of choke hiss
Fan a bit louder than I hoped/card a bit hotter under load but I've a small case
EVGA Precision tries to be clever with profiles and fails miserably; saving a profile is ridiculously hit and miss

Performance is out of this world but actually not as ridiculous as I thought - staying 1080
Card looks absolutely awesome!
Totally silent at idle (fans spin down)
2000Mhz+, 11Ghz+ with no over voltage.

MarkAnthony · 18-06-2016 4:48am

Digital Solitude wrote: »

He admits he paid €730 for it? Where the **** is he pulling €850 from?

Madness

*Edit* Didn't realise it was your card. Where the hell are you going with it :pac:

A combination of cold feet, greed and I have to admit a degree of trolling the people selling FE cards at a ridiculous mark up. I then sobered up and realised that if I was willing to sell my card at a ridiculous mark up, which I was, not only was I being a bellend - which I can live with, I have done for the past 30+ years :pac: - I was being a hypocritical bellend.

I just get annoyed with Adverts, it costs absolutely nothing to do one of two things, ignore silly offers, politely decline them. When someone is gouging the least they can do is be a bit polite about it, some of the other ads had wound me up. Still shouldn't be messing.

I'm gonna stick with the 1080 as actually it will benefit me in VR and actually it's needed with this 3440x1440 display to get 75FPS in some of the games. I'm going to try this high(ish) frame rate malarky and see if I get used to it!

Nedved85 · 18-06-2016 11:31am

It confuses me that they don't add in 3440 x 1440 benchmarks in all of the YouTube Videos - May have to start a channel myself! Which card did you get again? Doesn't seem to be much of a difference between the overclockability of the 1080's from what I can see, my 3440 x 1440 can only achieve 60fps anyway so if I can achieve that easily I'll be happy.

TerrorFirmer · 18-06-2016 11:36am

Nedved85 wrote: »

It confuses me that they don't add in 3440 x 1440 benchmarks in all of the YouTube Videos

To be fair it's a pretty uncommon resolution, same as 2560x1080 - it wouldn't really make much sense to use them as standard benchmarks when they somewhat fall between the cracks of widely recognized standards (1080, 1440p, 4k)

Nedved85 · 18-06-2016 11:38am

True, I usually just split the difference between the 1440p and 4k results to get an idea of what an ultrawide monitor would get

.G. · 18-06-2016 11:51am

Right, Gigabyte Xtreme ordered. Somebody cut my hands off or confiscate my pc so I can't change it again!

MarkAnthony · 18-06-2016 2:32pm

Nedved85 wrote: »

It confuses me that they don't add in 3440 x 1440 benchmarks in all of the YouTube Videos - May have to start a channel myself! Which card did you get again? Doesn't seem to be much of a difference between the overclockability of the 1080's from what I can see, my 3440 x 1440 can only achieve 60fps anyway so if I can achieve that easily I'll be happy.

EVGA 1080 SC only went with it over the standard because of availability. Love it though.

Not sure on overclocking yet. Mine seems to hover around 2050mhz. I don't think it's power limited as it just crashes if I go for 2100 but I haven't (and probably won't) played with voltage.

Nedved85 · 18-06-2016 2:45pm

MarkAnthony wrote: »

EVGA 1080 SC only went with it over the standard because of availability. Love it though.

Not sure on overclocking yet. Mine seems to hover around 2050mhz. I don't think it's power limited as it just crashes if I go for 2100 but I haven't (and probably won't) played with voltage.

What software did you use to overclock? I've never overclocked before, going to do it this time though. I'll have a gigabyte g1 1080, use msi afterburner?