Brandon Cassie

If you're looking for peace of mind, go with EVGA's ICX 1080, customer service is excellent and the card is superb.

Seeing that the reference 1080 Ti uses 2.0B, I don't see why MSI would use anything less.

These websites are as bad, if not worse than gpuboss etc... No bottleneck here.

Had a friend who stuffed a Titan into one of these. Works fine with aftermarket PSUs, any GPU will work as long as you have a PSU that supports it and you remove the drive tray (for long, beefy GPUs) The 1030 you listed is compatible with your current configuration, the 960 off ebay (now sold?) requires a 6 pin PCI-e power connector.

As it is, the 8700 is plenty enough for your use-case, seeing as you already have an SSD as your boot drive, I assume you've installed your relevant Adobe software to it, some games barely see a difference when placed on an SSD vs and HDD, don't think it's significant enough to overlook the 1080 Ti. Grab the 1080 Ti and use it with your existing system, definitely worth it.

I'd go with option 3, it serves no functional purpose in the case. Display it on the wall or something, it's still a damn cool card.

Of course, however, your intake would be hindered a bit.

You're asking that to the wrong person. That's entirely up to him and what this thread is even about. Why'd you need to cut wires? If you require additional wattage, which in this case you don't, just grab a modular PSU, it'll run you far less than what Dell would charge for one of their PSUs. Also I'm not sure what to tell you in regards to the overheating, it's very unlikely that it is.

Your system memory (in this case, DDR3) has no relation whatsoever to your dedicated GPU. You can use any GPU with your system as long as you have a PCIe X16 slot, a decent power supply and a case that supports your GPU's size.

Any standard PSU will work with this system....don't have to purchase a "proprietary" Dell PSU.

I use OpenHardwareMonitor, let's me view temps on taskbar.

Question 1) Yes, it's fine to use the ML120 on a rad. Question 2) Yes, the SP120 at the front is fine as well, as it's a static pressure optimized fan, perfect for moving air from filters/mesh etc. The AF120 on top is also fine as an exhaust. Question 3) In a pull configuration, yes. What case are you using?

Works fine for me at +650 with a decent improvement (~15%) as opposed to +450-500 in both synthetic benchmarks & actual games, not putting errors past it however. Not the case with everyone unfortunately as you've rightfully pointed out with error correcting, which is why I initially recommended +450.

Huh? You can't directly GPU mine BTC by any means. Anyway, let us know what happens.

These cards generally benefit more from a decent memory OC, around +450MHZ, feel free to keep going until you start noticing artifacts, I can personally set mine to +650 without issue and +100 on core, though not precisely 100 thanks to GPU boost, it still provides a higher clock speed.