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Will there be THAT big of a difference between founders and say FTW or other cards?

were the differences between 1080 FE and other cards a big difference?

I've built a new PC and I'm stuck with one of my 970's in there and I want to upgrade asap.. but I don't really want to wait much longer if I can buy the EVGA founders now and the FTW or MSI gaming version isn't going to be a big improvement over the founders.

Also.. will I be able to water cool the EVGA FE without voiding the warranty?
 
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the other pascal cards had little difference between the FE and custom cards. there was a performance gain there for sure and was worth getting a custom card over an FE for various reasons.

custom cards for the 1080ti will be the way to go for sure. look at the FE review tom's did a few days ago. http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/nvidia-geforce-gtx-1080-ti,4972.html the card hits thermal limits real fast and throttles back during a gaming run. the custom cards will fix this problem and allow the card to hit speeds we are more used to seeing with pascal cards. see the watercooling review tom's did http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/geforce-gtx-1080-ti-water-cooling,4975.html

custom cards won't be this cool of course on air but...
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the difference is always the same, the founders will be hot and noisy and sometimes will not overclock that well as the others

the others will work cooler and be more silent and more expensive, as always

about voiding warranty, it depends on the manufacturer, if they allow you to put a waterblock or not, if they let you, go ahead, if they don't, well, don't buy that gpu or don't use waterblock, buy the ftw version and work with air
 
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the other pascal cards had little difference between the FE and custom cards. there was a performance gain there for sure and was worth getting a custom card over an FE for various reasons.

custom cards for the 1080ti will be the way to go for sure. look at the FE review tom's did a few days ago. http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/nvidia-geforce-gtx-1080-ti,4972.html the card hits thermal limits real fast and throttles back during a gaming run. the custom cards will fix this problem and allow the card to hit speeds we are more used to seeing with pascal cards. see the watercooling review tom's did http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/geforce-gtx-1080-ti-water-cooling,4975.html

custom cards won't be this cool of course on air but they will be cool enough to allow cards to hit these speeds consistently. do yourself a favor and wait for custom cards before getting one of these cards. there should be solid fps differences with custom cards this time around.
 
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Ughhhhhhhh waiting sucks
 
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jumping in day 1 is never a good idea. stock is low, prices are high, resellers gouging heavily abounds. it's just not worth it. in a month the cards will be readily available and prices will drop as Vega comes out depending on how they do. well worth the wait right now to not get the inferior FE card.
 
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Simple....

All FE cards (1070 and above) throttled out of the box.
All AIB cards (AFAIK) didn't .... even when overclocked (except for EVGA SC and FTW)

Out of the box, there was very little difference between AIB cards, once overclocked, that changed. However Boost 3 bottlenecks all 10xx series cards and until someone breaks the BIOS code and develops a BIOS editor, there's not much users will be able to do to take real advantage of the actual component differences between the cards. With Boost 3 in the mix, the performance differences that could be gained are nerfed and you may expect differences ranging from 0 - 5% maybe. Differences in noise and temps however will be more pronounced.

Also, there are obvious dangers associated with living on the "Bleeding Edge" ... some dangers are consistent such as some AIB cards use the reference PCB (EVGA SC) while others beef it up a bit. More unique examples include

-EVGA 970 SC - Due to a design error, one of the three heat pipes missed the GPU. Later versions fixed this.
-Gigabyte 970 Windforce - This card had a very high level of 1 egg ratings on new egg 923%) while the MSI, EVGA and Asus stayed between 6 and 8%. near the end of its production run however, the Giga's bad review % dropped substantially.
-EVGA had the well publicized VRM overheating problems on the 1070 / 1080 SC & FTW series.... Since November, they have added the missing thermal pads.

By waiting for the AIB cards, you get a better card .... by waiting to read reviews and other's experiences, you get to avoid the lemons.


 
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