jim2point0

My EVGA 2080TI FTW3 with a Kraken X62 Frankensteined onto it. Was determined to break 10500, but it's not in the cards

It's Amazon, so yeah. I also hear a little bit of coil whine, but it's all but drowned out when I have headphones on. I just don't know how much difference there would even be if it clocked to say.... 2050mhz. I doubt much at all.

Think it's worth sending back mine to try and get a higher clocked one?

Well I got my Strix and tested it. I max out at 1987mhz. That's... really not great. That said, it's way cooler and quieter than the FTW3. I just wish it clocked higher and could allow for a higher TDP.

It's not. But it's also not the point of these cards. Nobody should be buying these to run them on air.

The clocks you get on these cards will pretty much apply to any 1080TI. There's very little variance in the max clocks for each Pascal card. Most people will land somewhere in the 2000-2100mhz range. The highest stable in my EVGA FTW3 is 2035ish once temps stabalize. I'll be getting a Strix tonight to test though. Sad to hear that it's power limited....

Am I doing this right?

I actually came here to ask a similar question.. but I'll just piggyback on this thread instead of making a different one. But more specifically, I'm looking to replace the 4 fans in the H440 with LED fans that will allow me to match them up with the other LEDs in my system. Should be on par with the H440 fans or better

I was going to get the Strix. Not sure why I went with the EVGA. I think it looks worse and the massive video card name glowing on the side is kinda annoying. But I heard that it ran the coolest out of the 1080Tis so far and EVGA has great customer support and warranties. I saw one for sale and jumped on it. Kinda wishing I got the Strix now but I think it's hard to go wrong with any of these cards.

Typo... fixed

With a lot of messing around with voltages and whatnot... I couldn't actually find a voltage lower than 1.34v that would maintain 4.9Ghz. So it looks like that voltage from the auto profile may be somewhat realistic. I've decided to take the above suggestion and delid my processor. I might report back with how everything goes. For now, I'll be ramping up my fan profile to 100% to keep it under 80 degrees.

I recently bought a 7700k and an Asus Maximus IX hero. I'm pairing this with a NZXT Kraken X52 and Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut paste. I'm not too familar with this board or how to overclock with it just yet.... but it includes an easy "5.0 Ghz profile" that you can enable and it does everything for you. Upon running Prime95, the temps IMMEDIATELY shoot to 83 and only go up from there. The NZXT monitoring software (CAM) warned me within 10 seconds that my CPU hit 89 degrees). I checked the voltage and it was spitting out something like 1.39. Pretty high! I'm not sure how the voltage is being set though. I went into the BIOS and noticed that CPU voltage was set to Auto. So my question is for anyone familar with this motherboard. Can I manually set a 4.9Ghz overclock and set my own voltage to see if I can keep it stable at more reasonable temps? Would I be better off joining the Asus forums and asking over there?

2560x1080 = 5120x2160 3440x1440 = 5160x2160 Something tells me the former will win out though.

Keep it going! I'm also looking for a pretty decent and affordable (< $100) for my 3440x1440 monitor (Dell U3415W). Something that can allow me to move it forward\backward and tilt it.

I admire this thread for existing but it won't stop people from saying this 1. It's really annoying that anyone would even try to shorten such an odd resolution to something K. 2. Do the math? 1K = 1000. I doubt anyone ever intended for anything to be X.5K. But because peoeple need everything dumbed down for them, someone decided to shorten 2560x1440 to 2.5K and here we are.