what's your price range?

VEGA 56 although personally I'm not currently looking to buy a new GPU right now and I might not be for a while.

@shadowbyte Around £500-520 roughly

Am thinking about an EVGA GTX 1080, I definitely want it to be either an EVGA GPU or ASUS GPU in particular

the 1080 is a supersolid card, especially the Strix card just for the cooler alone

since the 1070ti so close to the 1080 in price, I'd spring for the 1080, as it's faster when overclocked

Yeah I was thinking about the ROG Strix 8GB one though it's about at £550-560~ ish.

Are EVGA's ICX GPU's good for both performance and cooling? I saw one on PCPP at roughly £530 which I might consider

And this is why AMD came to Intel for Radeon GPUs inside of Core i series H silicon .

@AluminiumTech What?  

I feel like I said something wrong lol

@Xiauj It's just that you and Shadowbyte ignored my suggestion of a competitive AMD product.

The only serious problem with Radeon products is the lack of mind share.

@AluminiumTech

wat

vega just doesn't make that much sense atm

the only available cards are reference design, which run hot + loud. Plus, Vega draws a crazy amount of power in comparison to a 1080 for similar (but usually worse) performance, as NVIDIA sponsors most current titles.

Definitely go with a 1080. At least in the U.S. you can almost always find them for around $500 flat, while a 1070 ti will run you $450~. The extra $50 for a 1080 is worth every penny (or pence in your case)

@AluminiumTech Oh sorry buddy, didn't mean to intentionally ignore ya <3. I dunno, I would have gone for VEGA 64 which is also in the same price range but I've heard small bad things when it comes to certain games.

I might have heard wrong but I dunno for sure and because the 1070 Ti is basically a 1080 which is pretty good.

Also fun fact, I've never had an AMD GPU before  Just need to eventually change my 650 Ti lol

Also, question to all, a Ryzen 1600 won't bottleneck a 1070-Ti or 1080 right?

I would recommend the 1080, because I don't like the 1070 Ti. (And because it doesn't cost a lot more than the 1070 Ti and it performs better) 

@Xiauj A 1600 shouldn't bottleneck really any GPU .

No it shouldn't except maybe in 1080p if you are pulling some high FPS.

@AluminiumTech Except for 2xTitan Xps or 1080 Tis at 1080p 240Hz.

Ok good

@PCGuy_5960 Actually, you should see KBL i5s. They're dying right now (see latest AdoredTV video).

@Xiauj Right now, the 1600 and 1600X are doing considerably well for the price and unless you're doing super edge case 1080p 240fps or stuff like that then you'll be totally fine.

@AluminiumTech Yeah I fully agree, that's why I went for a 1600, veryyyyyy good considerable priced CPU atm.

Good to know it shouldn't hopefully bottleneck, hopefully.

Just go for a 1080.  

Yeah that's what I'm hoping to try and go for, gonna try and maybe go for an EVGA One maybe 

One thing I did notice a little while ago was was that if I get an EVGA one, might have to also grab a DP>HDMI converter for myself  _{(....my IPS monitors ain't got DP )} because EVGA loves having 3xDP/1xHDMI.

A converter shouldn't hopefully cause issues but its a pain at the same time lol

Question,

Are EVGA's ICX GTX 1080s released yet? Some places are saying its not released and some are saying it is released...?

And Question-2, are EVGA's ACX 3.0 GTX 1080s worth buying? Or are the ICX versions better?

@Xiauj

yes, the iCX cards are out

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814487319

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814487318

the cards are pretty equivalent, but the iCX ones have individually controllable fans + a better backplate + some other stuffs

I don't think you can buy ACX cards anymore. You can only buy iCX ones.  iCX cards have more thermal sensors and better VRM cooling

@shadowbyte Hmm that's strange. Amazon UK for me says "its not released" and are charging about an extra £100 making it at around £630 GBP  Where as somewhere like Ebuyer/Scan on PCPartPicker (LINK) show it at £530-ish, and released.