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Well, that was incredibly fast, clear and useful... =D Thank you SO MUCH!

Hi all! I want to connect two M.2 NVME drives to my motherboard, which has two M.2 slots to the CPU and one to the chipset (Gigabyte B650 Aorus Elite AX). All these slots are compatible with my M.2 drives' gen. Should I connect both drives to the CPU slots, or one to the CPU and the other to the chipset? As I understand it, the slots that go directly to the CPU are faster, so if I had only one M.2 drive everyone recommends to use those slots. Having 2 drives, I am wondering if they could use up each other's bandwidth and end up not using them to their full potential (even if knowing what I will store in each one makes it unlikely that they would be used at the same time), and thus wondering if I may want to use one of the CPU slots for the "main" drive, and connect the "secondary" one to the chipset slot. Thanks in advance!

Indeed, not too user friendly but it does the job for backuping and reimporting user profiles,THANKS!

Hi, I did buy the regular version and I am constantly using the Overclocking profile that comes with Asus software (GPU Tweak II) so I am using the config that comes with the OC version out of the box. Don't bother with the OC version, you can just achieve the same with the regular one with a simple mouse click on GPU Tweak II. Then you can even try to manually overclock the card even further by entering the "Professional Mode", but I have not bothered to do so... I definitely highly recommend this card... =)

Well just FYI, now the temperatures are finally dropping here in Spain (even if we are still at 28º during the day...), the GPU does not go higher than 65º after long gaming sessions =D This beast is definitely impressive...

Thanks a lot! That is definitely what I wanted to know. (and yes, the 71ºC is under heavy load during a long period of time) We'll see again during the winter how cooler it runs, when the ambient can go down to -5ºC

Indeed that was the most straight forward reason, and I do have liquid cooling for the CPU (which runs no higher than 50º during a stress test for now). Consequently, at what temperature should I start to be worried...? Hoping to never get to that point... =) Thanks again!

So... I finally got the card, and I obviously am astonished by its performance... As a few of you wisely indicated, the difference between the GAMING mode and the OC mode are just one click away using GPU Teak II, so thank you for that. I have a little concern though: all the reviews I have seen talk about a temperature between 66-68ºC at full load, and I am getting around 71ºC (I live in Spain, and we are currently at 37ºC all day long and the room is not air conditioned...). I have a Corsair 750D Airflow edition case, and all the temperatures monitored are doing just fine, but I am curious until what GPU temperature I should not be worried, specially during this incredibly hot season... Thanks again!

Hi, Since they are basically the same with a different pre-loaded configuration I did order the 8G "version" (as mentioned I found the O8G version being more expensive in my country...), so I totally agree with you in that sense. The temperature is indeed pretty cool for the frequency (specially compared to the "Founder's edition" cards), I can't wait to get mine at last =) Thanks for the input!

Great! Thanks a lot for this feedback, I really wanted to hear from someone having tried it personally.

Exactly, that's why I am picking this one in principle, because it is the one with the best performance in terms of fps, as mentioned I don't care about the noise, and the price is very similar to the other ones. Thanks again!

Indeed that's what I thought when I saw it... but my chat with ASUS tech support was very confusing (specially seen that the agent didn't know much about that product...) and selling the same card with the same software under 2 different "models" (and different price here in Spain...) just having a different profile loaded out of the box seemed also odd to me... Now it's all clear and I won't be paying (or waiting availability for that matter) more just for a preloaded profile... Thanks a lot to both! Do you have one of those? Would you recomend it over the other existing 1080 choices? (I don't really care about noise, I ALWAYS use headphones for gaming)

That is what I thought... If the cards are identical they can be overclocked equally... In such case, for the "normal" model, even if it comes with the base frequency out of the box, would I be able to set it to this preconfigured "OC mode" easily (with a profile selection in the software) or are we then talking about manually tweeking frequencies, voltages and so on? Thanks again

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Hello, ASUS ROG STRIX GTX1080 8G vs ASUS ROG STRIX GTX1080 O8G After doing a LOT of research, the information about these 2 models is still quite confusing for me... In ASUS' official website, both products are listed with the exact same pictures for both the box and the card itself, and in the description they both show the same GPU Tweak II tool with XSplit were you can clearly see in both cases that there is an "OC Mode". Some websites talk about the 8G model (having the letters "OC" avoided in all the text) describing it as having an OC mode, others describe the same talking specifically about the OC model but not the "normal" model... I then decided to get in touch with ASUS tech. support, and the person who attended me had to go and look for the information I was asking... After a few minutes, and a few back and forth Q&A in order to be 100% sure that we both understood each other, here is the conclusion that they had on my doubt (although this particular person did not seem to have the ideas too clear): - ASUS ROG STRIX GTX1080 8G: has 2 modes preconfigured (and NOT manually tweekable) GAMING mode & OC mode (with the overclock settings that they advertise as OC mode in their website) - ASUS ROG STRIX GTX1080 O8G: In this case the Overcloking can be done just as the "normal" model, but it additionally supports manual OC, and should be adjustable to several values of frequencies and memory speed. They did assure me that the graphics cards themselves are identical, except that the OC version allows manual overclocking whereas the "normal" version can only be used in either of the 2 modes preconfigured (gaming or OC). Can anyone confirm/reject any of the statements above, or can anyone confirm what are the real differences between these 2 aparently identical models...? Thank you so much in advance. KR, laEncarna