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really depends on a lot of things but air flow makes a huge difference. My Gigabyte G1 Gaming 1070 got that hot but I had it in a SFF case with terrible airflow.

depends on your budget and what you can find but if your buying now a 1070 or 1070 Ti are way better choices if you want to or eventually play at 1440P. my former 1070 I played any AAA game at 3440X1440 100Hz at high-ultra settings 60+ FPS never owned a 1070 Ti but basically a 1080 when overclocked. Having owned a 1080 this is more of a full on 1440P ultra settings card and even dabbles into 4K with reduced settings

I would go Pascal if you can find a decent price one or just wait but like Mick said whatever comes this spring/summer probably will not be easy to find and my guess manufacture card prices will be higher

no way to tell. Normally there aren't indications that a card is about to die,it just happens. Sometimes a fan stops working or temps rise, but sometimes it just happens. I personally am not into buying a mined card, it's like buying a car with an unknown miles on it. yeah the card and car could last for many years to come or it could breakdown shortly thereafter. Either way best thing is to make sure the card is still under warranty and is transferable

highly doubt it is a scam, when I called Monoprice directly they found my order in their system via my last name. Also bunch of people on Reddit have purchased and received the same item through Monoprices Ebay account. Just let it slide, give someone the joy of a new CPU

lol yeah just the manufacture product code

<Redacted> Free shipping albeit very slow USPS, showing estimated 8 business days to NY Also when I bought it last weekend Ebay had a $10 coupon (which has expired) making my purchase $319.99

I wouldn't worry buying a refurbished unit from Newegg since it has been refurbished by Dell and has a factory warranty HOWEVER Dell's refurbished units are not like Apple's refurbished units where they are in 100% pristine cosmetic condition. I would recommend trying to score a refurbished unit directly from Dell under their Outlet site and getting a "New" model. New means item was ordered or even shipped but never used. Plus with the Dell Outlet they always have sales and when I bought my 9560 I live chatted my ordered and got an extra 15% off.

15" laptops really have shrunken over the previous years due to eliminating bezels but I would agree with the above statement that a 15" is more of a weight problem. 13" sub 3 lbs while a 15" can be 4.5 lbs or more unless we are talking about the LG Gram lineup.

Honestly buying right now might make sense. Not a 100% needed upgrade but I am switching from an i7 6700K to a i7 8700K. The lowest priced 6700K and 7700K are around $300 while I just got a 8700K for $320 from Monoprice. I was able to sell my ITX MB and 6700K for $400 and get the $8700K and a Gigabyte ITX MB for $500. $100 to upgrade isn't free but a whole lot less than upgrading ram or a GPU at this point. Point being previous gen CPUs have not drastically gone down in price compared to current gen. The one reason why I would wait at least if your going Intel is due to motherboards. If Intel requires another motherboard update I am going to loose it. Either way I feel confident even if Intel came out with 9th gen tomorrow (not going to happen) I could still sell my parts and upgrade at a minimal cost without suffering from FOMO.

I would yes. Having gone from a GTX 1080 to 1080 Ti I found the jump was very substantial and well worth it even though I only game at 3440x1440 100Hz, but if you did want to game at 4K at least 60 FPS at 60 Hz this is really the only consumer card that can do this at the moment. A course next gen a 2070 and 2080 probably will be able to do 4K with some ease but we have no concrete idea when these cards will be released, plus a 2070 might be priced like a 1080 Ti and and the 2080 might hit almost $1K IMO. I bought my 1080 Ti 3 weeks ago knowing full well sooner rather than later a next gen GPU will be out, but the fact that I am getting awesome FPS on Ultra settings in all my AAA games is more than enough for the next 2-3 years at least. There comes a point where you need to ask yourself why do you need more than "X" amount of FPS, because at a certain point your just throwing money down the drain. If you truly want to 4K game I would wait since 4K monitors are pretty limited to 60Hz at the moment and the 1080 Ti doesn't really perform above FPS. I personally don't see myself going beyond 3440X1440 anytime soon

LG Gram. I have a desktop w/ a 1080 Ti for gaming so really use my laptop for Netflix, browsing the internet, and doing emails. I currently have a XPS 9560 and while 15" screen even in FHD is awesome for productivity compared to a 13" it's just too heavy and thick for a device that I use as an advanced iPad. I personally like having a laptop over a desktop just in case I am upgrading my desktop or need to write something on the go. If I had to do it over I would get a LG Gram 15

I have been able to score 6 cards from EVGA in the passed month for their MSRP just for signing up for their auto restock notifications. B&H looks to be restocking in the next week or so, but you can also signup for notifications. After selling a few cards on Ebay and Craigslist I would say I wouldn't feel confident in buying used unless I was truly desperate. On Ebay you get buyers protection but a lot of these cards tend to be former mining cards and have some of the highest sale prices. Best case scenario on Ebay I was seeing 5%-10% off used cards. Craigslist you can find the best deals since there are people who just want to move their card as fast as possible and are oblivious to the GPU crisis and what it's worth. However selling cards on Craigslist sometimes you meet some pretty sketch people and there really in no secure way of knowing if the card works. In the 5 cards I recently sold through local meetups not 1 person asked for proof if the card worked. They wanted to know where I got the card and the warranty, but I could have handed them a dead card took their cash. A dick thing to do but there are some nasty people out there.

Yeah def I was running a GTX 1080 overclocked on a 400 watt supply for sometime with no issues As long as your PSU is a quality one, the power requirements are highly exaggerated. A decent amount of pre builts have a 1080 Ti running on a 500+ PSU with no issue

That's what I did and I went from a 1070 > 1080 > 1080 Ti from December to now BUT it seems in my area (NY greater Tri-State) the market has become over saturated with cards at X2 markups. I bought a couple cards at MSRP and tried to unload them and couldn't sell anywhere close to x2 what I bought them for. It was actually more of a hassle and pain trying to unload them for the 8% I made off each card. That's not to say you can't unload your 1070 but don't expect people pounding on your doors anymore willing to pay $700 for a 1070. At best maybe you get msrp but that is very generous. Some people have been speculating in the card crisis will see some kind of relief in the next couple weeks. However if you are willing to spend money now on a graphics card I would say try to score a 1070 Ti, since it's really a 1080 on the down low.

Thank everyone for the input, looking like I will be waiting then for whatever comes out next

Seeing all your comments I probably will wait. I thought I saw something online saying there was a CL refresh as early as Feb 14 2018

Yeah I moved on to a Corsair Bulldog so upgrading is a lot easier besides the mini ITX boards

I mostly game and occasionally stream. Is there a rough idea for 9th gen Intel release?

Looking to upgrade my Mini ITX Board and CPU from a i7 6700K What do you think is a better choice Intel i7 8700K Coffee Lake 3.7GHz AMD Ryzen 7 1800K 3.6GHz there is a $100 difference between the combined motherboards and chipsets or the other thought is it worth up grading from a i7 6700K?

it's going to very market to market but I will say re-sell has kind of peaked. Obviously amount of direct re seller cards is hurting overall pricing but I have noticed selling cards is a bit harder in NY since the people who wanted a card already got it or there are people still not willing to pay the large markups. In the NY greater Tri-State region there are a good amount of people re-selling new 1080 Ti's on Craig's List but I am not seeing them being sold. Additional Ebay is pretty flooded at the moment with cards but all at marked up prices. I have found one of the only ways to unload a card is selling it 8%-10% above current manufacture MSRP. A month ago I sold my used EVGA GTX 1080 SC ACX 3.0 for $650 when I bought it for $545, so I don't think you can come anywhere close to $1000 especially if it is used.

Yeah it will but depends on the game. PUBG like people have stated is pretty poorly optimized even though NVIDIA has worked with them on this and on my previous EVGA GTX 1080 SC ACX 3.0 on a 3440x1440 100Hz monitor at High settings I was getting around 60 FPS. With my Gigabyte G1 1070 I was getting around 50 FPS on High and my EVGA 1080 Ti SC2 Hybrid on Ultra I am getting 70-80 FPS While prices for cards are all screwed up I would say if you could get a 1070 Ti for near MSRP I would go with that, it is just a dumb downed 1080 and when overclocked reaches 1080 performance, with the benefit of costing $100 or so dollars less. Again this heavily depends on what price you can obtain a card at.

real engineering right there

If you are set on upgrading now, yes going prebuilt makes sense since you can scrap a lot of the parts later on for a future rebuild. https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16883230227R (open box) Basically $1250 after 8% off for: Intel Core i7 7th Gen 7700 (3.60 GHz) 16 GB DDR4 16 GB Optane Memory 2 TB HDD Windows 10 Home 64-Bit NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 8 GB GDDR5X Power Supply 600W https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16883227780 $2060 Intel Core i7 8th Gen 8700K (3.70 GHz) 16 GB DDR4 2 TB HDD 240 GB SSD Windows 10 Home 64-Bit NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 11 GB GDDR5X While I am not a huge fan of the iBuy Power PCs they are only a few hundred dollars at most over what you pay to build a PC and that isn't taking into account zero GPU stock and inflated GPU prices so in a way yeah these prebuilts are a good deal

what monitor do you have/what do you want to game on? GTX 1080 can handle any 1080P, 1440P I found I had to lower my settings to High in some games on a 3440x1440P 100Hz screen in order to get 60+ FPS, 4K 60Hz 1080 can dabble in this but settings need to be lowered even more and you will see 50 FPS or lower. A GTX 1080 Ti is a no compromise card for the most part. 1080P massive overkill, handles any form of 1440P on Ultra settings with frames at minimum of 70-80 FPS. 4K 60Hz on Ultra 60+ FPS depending on the game. The 1080 Ti MSRP is also $200-$300 more than the GTX 1080, but I feel that a GTX 1070 Ti would be the way to go if you can't afford or don't need a 1080 Ti. The 1070 Ti will be cheaper and is basically a slightly slower 1080 but can be overclocked to hit 1080 levels. Now prices are completely out of wack, so depends on your budget and what you can find.