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I returned the card and decided to give Asus another shot. This one works great, no problems to report. Thanks all.

It's not the Amp! Extreme, just the Amp!

90c is way too high. Custom cooled partner cards are normally somewhere in the 70-80c range. 90c is even higher than you would get on the Founder's Edition blower style GPU. Like I said, the previous 1080 (which had a bad fan) never went higher than low to mid 70's.

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House is 72 fahrenheit, I have 5 fans in the case. Case is a Corsair 400c mid tower and the card is in the top PCIE slot with nothing else under it, so plenty of space for cooling. This card should not be hitting 90c at 100% fan speed, the previous 1080 I had in the case never went over 72c. Unfortunately, that was the one that one of the fans started going out on. I have been through 3 1080's because they have had things go wrong with them. The first one had artifacts at stock speeds, the second one a fan was going out on (clicking and rattling), I think my expectations are right where they should be for spending $700 on a gpu. Are you all trying to tell me 90c is acceptable?

Hi all, I have gone through a few different 1080's and have had serious trouble finding one without problems. I just bought an AMP! Edition 1080 and it works well, overclocks over 2100 mhz, seems to be a pretty good card... except that it hit 90c at 100% fan speed. I'm wondering if it would be worthwhile to attempt taking the card apart and replacing the thermal paste or if I should just return YET ANOTHER 1080. I've been through 3 of these things so far, the last one was an Asus Strix that the fan started going out on. Really kind of over it. I guess another option would be keep it (because it's such a good overclocker), and do a custom water cooling loop with it, but I don't even know if anyone makes a water block for this card yet or if anyone will make one. Any ideas? Opinions?

Yeah, I'm on a 1440p, 144hz, g-zync, all that. It chews up and spits out pretty much everything at 1440p, so I can't really complain too much. The graphics score on Firestrike was around 24100, which is pretty much on par with other scores I've seen.

Yeah, that's why I was concerned about this one. Just bad luck I guess. I've also heard of issues with temps due to bad thermal paste and whatnot. This one has fantastic temps though. The problem is if I return it, the likelihood of me getting another one to replace it rather than just a refund are pretty much slim to none. Also, it's basically like flipping a coin on whether or not you'll get one that will do any better, or not have some kind of other issue. Guess I'll just have to deal with it being a bad overclocker.

I guess that makes sense. As I've done more testing this morning, I've realized that The Witcher 3 is the only game that really causes a lot of throttling. Doom sits around 2000 core clock after some minor throttling. The performance is still on par with other 1080's as far as benchmarks are concerned, so I guess it's not really causing any issues beyond not being able to hit higher clocks. Also, from what I've seen, even if you can hit higher clocks it's only going to add a few frames. Thanks for your replies!

Hi all, This is my first ever post on these forums, apologies in advance if I do anything wrong. I just recently purchased an Asus Strix GTX 1080 graphics card and I am having a problem that I haven't seen anyone report as of yet. While overclocking, the card will start out at what I set it at, which is 2039 mhz, but it will quickly throttle down to 2012, then 1987, then 1974, where it levels out. It will maintain a 1974 clock, but no higher than that. This is not a thermal issue, the temperatures are great on this card. It goes no higher than 68c. I have the sliders for voltage and power percentage maxed out and the problem is that it starts hitting the 120% pretty quickly and the voltage (and core clock), will drop several times from the 1.093 cap all the way down to 1.025 to keep the card from going over the 120%. Nothing I do remedies this in any way, I have even used the voltage/frequency curve editor on the MSI Afterburner 4.3 beta. The only way I have been able to get the voltage to stay high enough to maintain a higher core clock is by actually underclocking the cards memory. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought the Strix would have a higher TDP because of the 8+6 pin vs the Founders Edition 8 pin power. I'm wondering if there is possibly something wrong with the power delivery of this card. Is this something that I should be worried about and should I send it back? It seems strange to me that it is bashing itself against that 120% power limit so readily.