Seems like a really great price for a liquid cool gpu eventhough it’s a generation old. Deal isn’t for everyone as this is open box and correct me if I’m wrong but you’d need a custom watercooled block for this card.
Not sure how much quantity is available
Normal 1080ti have comparable performance to a 2080, so a liquid cool one should perform much better.
i had this card. great card
Normal 1080ti have comparable performance to a 2080, so a liquid cool one should perform much better.
That's a silicon lottery and you may get 10%-20% Mhz more GPU after OC'ing both … but 2080 memory is much more overclockable than 1080 Ti memory.
Disclaimer: I sold a 1080 Ti for a 2080 but I'd spend 50 bucks more and get the 2080 if it was me.
Playing Metro: Exodus has sold me on RTX. When ray tracing is used for Global Illumination the results are a veneer of reality that is hard to not have.
Also for all the controversy surrounding DLSS it's a way to trade a small amount of image quality for AA results that mimic MSAAx8.
Yeah a water cooled card will have an absolute Max of say 3% gain vs say a nice air card. Just because you may get a slightly higher clock, but Moreso because due to the lower temperature the cards clock speed over time will be more consistent. You also won't be abusing your VRM's over time so I suspect that it'll make it last longer (if that's the point of failure)
Having a water cooled card/cpu on a custom loop mainly has noise as the benefit, as in its far more quiet then most air coolers and AIOs (AIOs are a waste of time imo).
I'm tempted by this deal, but I already have a 1080 founders on water with an EK block, this block doesn't look visually Pleasing to me either..
I guess that’s is generally true as the Turing architecture is more efficient compared to the older pascal ones. From the little research I did tho this card particularly is Gigabyte highest tier 1080ti meaning that the chip is highly binned. So I’d think Itd have higher performance compared to entries model 2080 (gigabyte winforce, or evga black).
Note: I might just be talking out of my ass since my knowledge only extend to review articles
Just note that the 2070, a card that is closing in on the $600 mark is only the slightest bit slower in terms of gaming performance. Another thing to mention it is newer in design and will be supported for a longer period of time, especially with RTX related optimisations.
You cant optimise a 60% in loss of frames for the sake of ray tracing.
Its also less power hungry
Don't know what you consider "slightest bit" but it's about 15% slower on average compared to a 1080Ti, or you know, the difference between a 2070 and 2080. It also has 11GB of VRAM compared to 8GB.
I'm not saying the 2070 isn't a reasonable purchase but it's not fair to compare the two as being very close, 15-20% in GPU terms is huge for high FPS gaming.
If it's a choice between a $2070 at $700ish and a 1080Ti at $900, I'd go the 1080Ti with a high refresh monitor. If you can get a 2070 for $600, link??? It's a great buy at that price.
custom watercooled block
(I think you mean custom watercooled loop, the GPU waterblock is installed here)
Can anyone recommend a good non-watercooled gtx 1080ti that has been available for a good price lately? looking for an upgrade from my sli 970 setup!
1, does this fit in the Lian Li 011 dynamic?
2, worth the upgrade from a 980TI?
no idea about your case but with regards to your second point you would increase your performance by at least 40%. 980TI is around 1070 performance and the GTX 1080TI is at least 30% faster so you would end up with 40% increase since you are moving from a 980TI to a 1080TI.
It's ~50% faster than an overclocked 980 Ti. imho no, as a fellow 980 Ti owner I don't think it's worth the upgrade at this price point.
Wait for Navi to be released, which will hopefully bring prices on Nvidia cards down further. Personally I'm not going to upgrade until the 3000 series is released, unless some very nice deals on an RTX 2080 pop up.
I would just wait abit as Nvidia is releasing new RTX gddr6 cards which may lower prices. Also Navi announcement which may also lower prices
for ppl dont know, decent water blocks usually cost 200$ish, so basically you paying 700$ for 1080ti new here.
…I take it whatever they're using is decent then…?
Pretty sure the 2070 is close to the performance of this?
you can get that for sub $700
no thanks. i'm still using a AMD 280X for 4k monitor office use
dafuq does open box mean
Probably the box has already been opened for whatever reasons, maybe showcasing the card on display case or a demo product for display but not used or used, and not sealed or unopened if there is not seal….
Decent price for someone who already has a radiator, fans, compression fittings, pump, reservoir, coolant and tubing.