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i don't think so... Edit: so far i have a spare 120mm fan blowng at the card, because at start up. the GPU isn't warm enough to get those card fans running. with the fan blowing against the card, it seems to have a better chance at running fine at startup.. just looks kinda stupid..

so i've got this strix 1080, and lately been having some issues with it. i've googled around, and some say it's a VRAM issue. it seems to work fine without the Nvidia drivers installed, such as safe mode... usually, windows would just restart the device, and it would work fine afterwards.. nothing goes wrong during gaming, or rendering... i'm kinda overwhelmed with the problem.. because windows restarts the device, and it works.. but without drivers, it seems to work as well. i have tried a fresh install of windows, DDU and try with an older driver... i can't figure it out. anyone have any ideas what it could be?

hey guys, i posted this a couple years ago, and since have gotten a strix 1080 ti. i just thought i'd mention that i have noticed some slight cpu bottlenecking in some of the heavier games like wildlands. however, it is negligable. i am still satisfied with the performance.. i still use it as a secondary gaming pc on the tv, or for guests.. however, i have also since the first post upgraded to to an 8700k... the performance difference is there, but when i am actually gaming.. i don't notice it. one thing to note is that i have also noticed some degradation on the cpu. meaning i had to add a little more voltage to hold the 4.4 GHz. i have also replaced the thermal compound on the heatsinks, helps a lot on the old motherboards. Edit: strix 1080... not a 1080 ti

thanks for the fast replies. the primary use is for gaming.. however that's not a daily thing. there is some rendering here and there... in terms of gaming, i'm running just an asus gtx 1060 6gb. metro last light benchmark (max settings) gets me about 120-130 average FPS, in game it runs quite smooth in my opinion. i don't think it's capable of much more.. at some point i will upgrade the card.. i do happen to have a xeon x5670, and did manage to OC it to 4.4GHz, but i could only get it stable at 4.2GHz. at 4.2 i didn't notice a big difference in day to day performance, but in benchmarks however. it is noticable.. all tested on the same mobo. the xeon was a little easier to overclock with cooler temps, but as soon as i hit 4.3, i had to hit the vcore hard to even boot, in benchmarks it was hard to get the same scores as my 980x, let alone stable. back to gaming, i do understand that a lot of games prefer fewer cores at higher speeds.. but are there really so many games that run single thread?

anyone still running x58 with an i7 980x? i've got my 980x AIO cooled running at 4.4GHz on an Asus rampage II extreme. i get a cinebench r15 score between 990 and 999. temps are pretty good ~65-70° on load.. thing is, i've thought about upgrading to a i7 7700k on a MSI Z270 Gaming M7 mobo. according to reasonable cinebench scores on OC'd 7700ks (~900 stock to >1k OC'd) i won't gain much in cpu performance. how anyone know the real life performance between the two? would i notice the difference when i upgrade to ddr4? my ddr3 is running at 1600... thanks for the help.