Best of the best 1080ti's AIB?

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ledhead11

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I know its early but hey I'm sure there are a lot us looking and waiting. Lets help get the ball rolling on hunting these beauties. I'm looking for the fastest, most reiliable either air or water cooled 1080ti AIB editions.

Here's a few reviews I've been able to find so far. I'm aware there's a bunch coming out next week. There's also some posts for specs too.

http://www.kitguru.net/components/graphic-cards/luke-hill/asus-rog-strix-gtx-1080-ti-oc-o11g-11gb-review/

http://www.guru3d.com/articles-pages/msi-gtx-1080-ti-gaming-x-review,1.html

http://www.guru3d.com/news-story/zotac-announces-more-gtx-1080-ti-models.html

https://www.overclock3d.net/news/gpu_displays/evga_announce_their_gtx_1080_ti_elite_gaming_series_gpus/1

https://www.techpowerup.com/231867/gigabytes-aorus-geforce-gtx-1080-ti-11g-detailed

Some manufacturers are only taking pre-orders, some already shipping, and some start selling tomorrow.

Edit: I almost forgot to mention-looking for air cooled above 1700mhz or water cooled above 2000mhz on the core. I haven't read too many reviews pushing much farther than 11500 on the ram other than some custom jobs pushing close to 12mhz.
 
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That's the one I'm leaning towards. I've been using Gigabyte for the last 3-4 years in my builds and happy but I know a lot of people love their Strix's. The clocks for either are almost always near the same in per tier. I read in the above review that in a good case on air it can be OC'd even further ~2000mhz. Hilbert's review of the MSI is awesome, he stated he'll be reviewing the Strix next week so we'll see then which come out ahead.

Hoping Tom's starts getting some out too.
 
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Lots of announcements lately but very few reviews but for those who got Strix's here's the some OC info on what I've done.

I added a 2nd 230mm fan to the top of my case to help with heat gathering. At first I installed as exhaust like the one that came with the case. I didn't really notice any major difference in temp dissipation. OC'ing the card to over 2ghz with it's fans cranked was holding around 50-60c. I was able to OC the Vram to 5805mhz and totally. BTW totally gave up using GPU TWeak, too many crashes even when not OC'ing so I went back to Afterburner. Afterburner was totally stable but with the fans at 100% it got pretty loud.

I then experimented and tried switching the direction of the new case fan. Huge difference. CPU is holding 50-60c & 50-60% usage or less @ 4.2ghz. Using the same settings on the gpu as before and temps dropped to 45-50c and power target of 120%.

Last night I decided to set the GPU core clock back to default and let it do its own boost, power target back to 100% and set its fan to 60%(barely audible). Mem clocks still at 5805mhz(+300) so that's effective 11.6Ghz!. Core was averaging the same 1912-1987mhz that Tweak was doing while holding 45-60c while tweak let it go to 60c.

Games I usually test with(AA-FXAA or SMAA2, 1440p/144hz/G-Sync, No lens flares or blur). Games Witcher3/ROTTR/Mordor/Batman AK(game blows but nice for benching), Mass Effect, Metro's, Crysis 3)

Factory stock clocks: 80-90fps for newer demanding games and over 100fps for older games.
Vram OC only with new case fan and 60% GPU fan setting: 90-110 for newer demanding games and 120-130fps for older.

Bottom line is that with these TI's is that if you keep em' cool, give clean stable power the Vram can be the sweet spot for performance gains. Most brands are averaging really close to each other on the cores but getting the Vram up to ~5800mhz really seems to make a difference. It did for me and it only took a $10 case fan addition.
 
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