Asus ROG Strix GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 11GB OC Edition Review
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Conclusion
Asus' ROG Strix GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 11GB OC Edition is remarkably unremarkable, aside from its snazzy RGB lighting effects. The company defines a wholly reasonable 275W power target, which should be plenty for a bit of overclocking. Even if you tune more aggressively than you should, Nvidia's voltage restrictions minimize the potential for damage. The silicon lottery will also keep you constrained to a fairly narrow overclocked range under air cooling.
A three-fan thermal solution works well in this case, though you can hear an oscillating sound at high speeds since the trio isn't exactly synced up.
It'd also be nice to see Asus employ a good VRM heat sink, which could have prevented high temperatures from building up on the PCB and ultimately heating the GPU package. For a bit of perspective, this weakness only materialized during our stress test inside of a closed case. Still, it's not exactly optimal.
Conservative fan speeds allow a wholly high-end ROG Strix GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 11GB OC Edition card to operate relatively quietly under full load, and that's quite an achievement. Manually increasing the RPM a bit helps bring temperatures down without ruining the acoustic experience, if you're really worried about heat.
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jasonbgreen83 I'm DISGUSTED that this $750 video card has jumped to $1200 in the last few days just as I was getting the money saved up to add one to my build. I refuse to be a victim of this price gouging greed. I'm sick of these companies pulling this limited stock crap to raise the prices to insane levels. Same thing with Intel and the 8700k. It's DISGUSTINGReply -
dstarr3 20278033 said:I'm DISGUSTED that this $750 video card has jumped to $1200 in the last few days just as I was getting the money saved up to add one to my build. I refuse to be a victim of this price gouging greed. I'm sick of these companies pulling this limited stock crap to raise the prices to insane levels. Same thing with Intel and the 8700k. It's DISGUSTING
If you click the Newegg link it shows a price of $799. I don't know why Tom's is reporting a $1,200 price tag. -
jasonbgreen83 I'm disgusted that this $750 video card has jumped to $1200 dollars in the last few days just as I got the money up to add one to my build. I refuse to be a victim of this price gouging greed. These companies are ridiculous with this limiting third stock crap just to raise the prices. Same thing with the Intel 8700k.Reply -
derekullo 20278033 said:I'm DISGUSTED that this $750 video card has jumped to $1200 in the last few days just as I was getting the money saved up to add one to my build. I refuse to be a victim of this price gouging greed. I'm sick of these companies pulling this limited stock crap to raise the prices to insane levels. Same thing with Intel and the 8700k. It's DISGUSTING
I see the confusion.
There are 4 versions of the card.
ASUS ROG Poseidon
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?item=N82E16814126202
$859
ASUS ROG GeForce GTX 1080 Ti DirectX 12 STRIX - Not Overclocked
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?item=N82E16814126187
$759
ASUS ROG GeForce GTX 1080 Ti DirectX 12 STRIX - Overclocked
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?item=N82E16814126186
$1199
ASUS GeForce GTX 1080 Ti DirectX 12 - Blower-cooled design
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?item=9SIA0AJ6E80374
$1299
You can still buy the card for $759 as long as you don't go for the water cooled, overclocked or rear exhaust models.
Less complaining, More research
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jasonbgreen83 I've had this exact card on my part list on PC partpicker for the last 5 months or so. Been saving up for it. It has been 750-800 for the OC version. In the last 48 hours that has jumped up to over a grand. For the exact same card. I know there are slower ones available, this exact card has jumped up. Now I have to wait for it to come back down.Reply -
The_King Why include a Fury X which is alreay EOL, but not the Vega 56 and 64 in your benchmarks ?Reply -
davidgirgis I own this card.Reply
I have used this card for games daily since it came out last April. It is as fast as Tom's Hardware says it is.
Check out my build:
https://pcpartpicker.com/b/NTCbt6
In August, the card started freezing immediately after I launched Dragon Age: Inquisition or The Division. Asus RMA'ed the card, and the new card works even better.
It is now running 1708 MHz GPU and 11100 MHz VRAM at 120% power target, with a slightly more aggressive fan curve than default. GPU boost does the rest auto-magically. -
a.p.martinez765 WTF 1200 bucks?? Ok this has to stop the PC community cannot afford to pay over a thousand dollars every time a new GPU comes out....Reply -
davidgirgis 20278838 said:What is a PCA?
A PCB (Printed circuit board) populated with electronic components is called a printed circuit assembly (PCA), printed circuit board assembly or PCB assembly (PCBA)
Credit: Wikipedia