Leonius

Does not sound like that is the issue here. He reported that under load the fan keeps ramping up and down, that should not be the working of that fan stop feature. the fan usually only stops if the card reaches below 50 °C and usually with no fans spinning 50°C will be reach under less than 50% load. So I think that is not the issue

Try installing something like MSI afterburner and set a custom fan curve. If the fan still does the ramping up and down, its probably a broken fan...

looks like a bug in the game, nothing to do with your gpu...

If you dont see a difference, just leave it off. Some older games simply do not perform well on new high end hardware since they can not utilize all new features. Also PhysX was never very efficient and only few titles utilized it and even fewer utilized it well.

The new GPUs aren't out yet. How are we supposed to know this information?

that benchmark is at max settings my 1080ti can barely handle 2,5K with those settings, just be reasonable

I just bought a gtx 480 on account of it “running hot”, which I just assumed was the gtx 480 being itself. Turned out it was a bit more than that. 

what he said!

No! Don't do that! There is no need to upgrade your CPU to a new generation that is STILL susceptible to meltdown/spectre. Especially when the 6600 is still a good processor and shouldn't bottleneck anything on the system. Why would you want to spend 400 dollars on an upgrade that you do not need? The 2nd generation i7 is still not bottlenecking systems, upgrading your CPU is overhyped and should not be done until necessary if you don't want to waste money. 
 
Also CPU's almost are never 'overpriced'. The only issues come when a new generation releases and it is sold out which causes that generation to be more expensive temporarily. It can't be like RAM, due to the components inside the chip. Ram can be more of a bottleneck than a 6600, so I would definitely spend 100 dollars on 8 GB of ram. You won't really need any more if you get a new MOBO anyways since it is ddr4, RAM doesn't really get superseded like CPU's or GPU's.
 
Do not buy a new CPU, only buy RAM if you really need it. If you aren't actually having issues, then save up for the next generation of GPU's or something. But CPU vs RAM upgrade, I would go ram for sure. 16GB is great.

dont upgrade the cpu untile intels sells chips that are not susceptible to meltdown and spectre any more. Maybe ram is a better coice, but if you dont have any performance problems you should not upgrade anything.

Crystal ball says "Too soon to tell.... Please check back later"

no thats fine only p95 does that its normal and below 1.32 is very good, no heating issues there

I personally got hooked on Gainward while they had their Phantom Series... 
 
Right now I would grab a MSI one due to their silent coolers on their Gaming X series cards.

Here in germany amazon tells me the 1080 strix will be ready for dispatch in about 1-2 months, however the gaming x from msi has a definete delivery date of 21st of January, so @Pahlavon you might want to have a look at other board vendors, the msi is very good as well as the asus card.

I'll go and try that out after I get my refund =)

I heared you can use a quantum flux device instead, even more expencive though...
 
But seriously, it will be in stock again at some point, usually a couple of days.

For that to answer you need to order a crystal ball from Amazon... but they don't ship with a battery... 
 
I tried that but the Plutonium battery needed to fire the ball up has gone lost on the way from Amazon to me... we are still working out the issue of getting the money back... mind you.. those plutonium power cells are really expensive.

You OBVIOUSLY do not play all games...
It is likely you only play a select few....
You are QUITE WRONG & Generalizing an OLD truth.
 
Frame Delivery and Smoothness matters, and with 16GB, MODERN GAMES SUFFER LESS.
*The low-midrange notice it less because they never got that high performance to be sensitive to it...
Take any decent enthusiast RIG, drop down to 8GB Ram, you can clearly see differences in many if not most titles, in regards to smoothness and frame delivery... and thousands of benchmarks online to prove this, educate yourself before you tell others false claims.

I think I was using it with this system before. Something has changed. I don't know what.
 
About ram, I do have 16 GB ram but one of those sticks are defective. I'm waiting for the replacement. I know 8 GB isn't enough
 
Edit:
 
https://forums.geforce.com/default/topic/1033880/geforce-experience/cpu-not-ready-in-latest-geforce-experience-/
 
Apperantly it's NVIDIA's fault

Yeah, 8GB is really quite a bottleneck in today's games. 1080Ti, 8700K and 8GB RAM is a weird combo. If you have a few grand to get a system like this, the extra $80-100 for 16GB shouldn't matter that much  

probably the cpu is too new experience isn't properly updatet yet, but with that setup you dont need game optimization, just max everything out
Edit: btw you should get more ram...

There's no way it would cost similar to 1050 ti.
Maintaning fps for what?
Free-sync? he's on a budget he wont buy g-sync monitor.
Thats why there's V-sync and fast sync for him.
and 1050 ti is still more powerful.
1060 would make more sense if he got the budget though.
 
Sure but there's no 100% guarantee to succeed or at least achieved your desired result and there are a lot of risk on doing it.
 
 

The OP is on a budget.
Most Budget free-sync monitor has free-sync range around 40-75Hz
560 is a weak GPU. Pretty sure it can gives only gives you like 40'ish fps average on modern AAA title with High settings
Even my friend has a 480 gaming x and play Witcher 3 at 1080 with custom ultra settings and got around 50fps average.
But u can always lower the settings to gain more fps and sacrifice the graphics.
 
Adaptive sync is considered to be a high end feature and getting one of those when u have a low end gpu just doesnt make sense as most of the times your gpu wont be able to maintain the fps to keep the free-sync stay active.
 
I agreed that Adaptive sync is superior but that doesnt mean there's no better solution for current OP situation.
Tripple buffering is favored by many its even better than Fast Sync for some reason.
As long your gpu isn't too fast for the games Tripple buffering wont add any noticeable input LAG.
And 560 is the perfect candidate for that.
 

Monitor refresh rate has very little to do with tearing and its not how fast you move but how many frames u got.
If u move very fast in game with 60hz monitor then u will notice a terrible tearing but with 144hz monitor the tearing will not be that noticeable anymore.
But if u for example get 144fps average on 60Hz monitor then the tearing will stil be very noticeable its just not as bad as u got 50-70fps and the differences is not that big.
Its just because more frames is sent meaning more frames is displayed and it happened so fast, Yes there's still tearing its just all of that happened so fast and with more frames even though there's a tearing it would be less noticeable.
But of course its not the best solution to deal with Tearing.
V-sync,fast sync or adaptive sync is the way to go.
I think his best option is to get 1050 ti and use Triple buffering V-sync with D3DOVERRIDER since i am sure the 1050 ti is not fast enough to fill up the back buffer with heavy AAA title so input lag will be minimum.
With easy to render/less demanding games however it might, if thats the case all he need is to use fast sync although i dont really like it and i rarely recommend it.
 
 @YeshYyyK 560 is a weak GPU compared to 1050 ti.
Get the 1050 ti and use V sync Triple buffering if you play AAA title.
If u play Esport games or other games that is not very demanding and u didnt want tearing use Traditional V-sync it will increase the input lag which is not good for competitive games but your gameplay will be tearing free or if u didnt want input lag but still didnt want any tearing use the nvidia fast sync although it will sometimes gives u a weird micro stuttering at high framerates or u could use the Triple buffering V-sync it will increase the input lag but its not as bad as traditional v-sync  or dont use any of those option if u didnt want more input lag or micro stuttering but you will experience tearing, a lot of it.
 
The choice is yours.
But if u asked me i'd go with the 1050 ti.

dont get freesync and instead get a better gpu. More frames at the same time reduces screen tear, and the money you safe on the monitor withoug free or gsync you can put into the gpu. I would suggest you safe up for a 1060 though, that is a huge bump from the 1050 performance wise.