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Hello! So I currently have a 6600k paired with a 1060 6GB, along with a 144hz 1440p monitor (with freesync). I feel like it certainly was perfect for 1080p 60hz, however not for 144hz 1440p. But I feel like I wanna step up my game, and get a new graphics card (and upgrade the rest of the system as well, once I can afford it) I am aiming to buy the new stuff on black Friday, since in Sweden we usually have some pretty sick sales around that time. However.. there are plenty of options to choose from. My first option is 1080 Ti, a very powerful card that most likely will be on sale, however nvidia definitely does not support freesync, which seems pretty sweet. My second option is RX Vega, which might get on sale (.. or might not), does support freesync. However, since it is Sweden we are talking about, taxes might set it to up to 1000 dollars (9000 SEK), making this maybe a bit too expensive. And then the third option.. volta, which might not even be released by then. The games that I will play are most likely: GTA 5, call of duty WW2, Civ 5-6, and maybe some battlefield 1 as well My budget is max $1000, although the less I pay for that, the quicker I'll get my other hardware upgraded. What would you guys suggest?

For the fast few weeks I have spent a lot of my free time hanging out on these forums and asking many questions mostly concerning 1080ti and 4k monitors. I have thoroughly enjoyed it and learned a lot thanks to a very welcoming community with compact but meaningful answers. I feel like I can share my experience, which may or may not echo someone else's. I got a 1080ti and core i7 7700 motherboard combo for a really good price with a catch: I couldn't choose the models of the GPU or mobo. As soon as I got my the gpu, I excitedly looked for the model and was disappointed to see it was the MSI aero, with blower type fan. Also, I felt I lucked out on the core i7 motherboard since it is an unknown model (Z270 S01) only used for OEM pc (it does not even have an official manual). In any case, I started benchmarking here and there comparing scores and FPS left and right. My scores are mostly average, somewhere between the 1080 Ti founder edition and the MSI gaming X. But I still couldn't feel satisfied, always thinking that because my GPU wasn't the best, and my motherboard was obscure I somehow got robbed for something I spent so little money on. Yesterday two things finally put everything into perpective: playing BOTW at a clean 30fps, thus giving me hope that even at low FPS a game could still be enjoyable, and ME andromeda using a cinematic shader that made everything look sharper and clearer. In any case, I still feel like an ungrateful jerk since a part of me still hope to favorably compare to others on benchmarks and such, but the sooner I can just play and enjoy the better it will be. Anyone else in my case: as soon as you get a shiny new GPU, you waste so much time comparing that you forget to have fun?

Hi I used Valley Benchmark 1.0, one time with no OC nothing The second time I used the OC profile from GPU Tweack, very light OC I would say, but the crazy thing here s that the second time the results were no as good as the first. any suggestions?

Ive upgraded my gtx 970 to a 1080 ti some days ago, and since then ive noticed most games are actually performing worse than before. My cpu is an I5 4690K which ive never overclocked since i still use the stock cooler, but my temps arent bad, never been more than 75C, but according to the task manager, its generally at 100% usage in demanding games, I dont know if thats normal. I have 8gb of ddr3 1866mhz ram which also hit 100% usage often. The storage i use for games is a western digital 7200rpm 1tb hdd. The new gpus temps are really good, i havent hit 70C, the fans are working perfectly, and usage is generally at 50% but sometimes it goes higher. I havent been able to upgrade to a 4k monitor, i plan to do it in a couple of months, so im still gaming at 1080p, and with my 970, i was able to almost max out settings in most games and still get near 60fps, but now, with the same settings, im getting lower fps and frame drops pretty often, especially in my modded skyrim, in which i used to get 50-60fps, but now every time i turn the camera i drop to 20fps, sometimes it even freezes for a couple of seconds. Something similar happens in Just Cause 3 or Dishonored 2. Ive used ddu to remove my previous drivers and installed the new ones from nvidias page. Id really appreciate any ideas as to why this happens. TL;DR new 1080 ti, lower frame rates than when i had a 970. I deleted previous drivers and downloaded new ones. Specs: I5 4690K no overclock stock cooler 8gb ddr3 ram Gigabyte z97x gaming 5 WD 1tb 7200rpm hdd

Exactly what the title says. The Asus video card I can get for about $720, whereas the Zotac I can get for $770. The Asus has a lower clock speed and according to reviews the Zotac gets good thermals. Which one is more worth it?

I have been doing research for a long while and I plan on buying a friend a gtx 1080 while 1-2 months from now im getting myself a 1080 ti, but the problem I have is which GPU brand? Friend told me that all of the brands perform the same but has different coolers. Things I know so far Evga: Good customer service, terrible blowers/fans, high chance of coil whine MSI: Terrible customer service, excellent cooling, silent, less chances of coil whine ASUS: Terrible customer service, good coolings, silent, less chance of coil whine I have been seeing that Evga has good ratings in many videos, reviews, and etc. But my friend told me that its overrated and that I should go for MSI. But I do not want to take chances of it dying out in 1month-2years while the warranty and customer service that MSI has won't do anything about it as I have read many many customer complaints about it, and people around me telling me it as well. Im not sure if its worth risking just for the performance as for ASUS, many people like it as well, while its dominant in GPU sale I just want a GPU that has good coolers, durable, and that can last me up to 4-5 years.

I am wondering if there is a company that makes aftermarket backplates for graphics cards, that work with the stock cooler, specifically the gtx 1080 ti aorus

I've had an issue where I couldn't access voltage control over my GPU. I got the MSI GTX 1080 Ti Lightning X as the Lightning Z was out of stock when I purchased it. After running Afterburner I wasn't able to access voltage control and monitoring using the software which I found abnormal as the reviews I saw of the Lightning Z had full control over "Quad-Voltage control" MSI advertised. After doing some research I found some users finding a boost in performance simply by flashing their cards to the Lightning Z model. So after flashing my card to the Lightning Z, I still couldn't find voltage control until I downloaded the beta version of the software- I tried this with the Lightning X bios prior to flashing but I soon reverted back to the previous version. I was soon greeted to a small boost in performance. Prior to the flash, I was only able to run my card at 2025 MHz max and 1999 MHz on average. After the flash, I could run my card at 2088 MHz max and 2050 MHz on average. Sure, it's a small boost in performance but after running some gaming benchmarks I've also noticed a small FPS boost in all my games. On Overwatch, I got 166 FPS on average compared to the 150 FPS prior to the flash. Max settings, max settings at 1440p. Granted, this is no way a graphics intensive game. On Wticher 3 at max settings and 1440p, I got 93 FPS on average compared to 81 FPS prior to the flash. On FireStrike ultra 4k, I got a boost of almost 230 points in graphics score, I've done 3 tests and compared the averages between them. Temperature wise, both BIOS settings appear to be the same however the fan spits slightly faster after the BIOS update during work load. My results are possibly note very valid as I haven't considered to conduct repeats and taking into account control variables such as ambient temperature (Room temperature). But I think my results do show that the BIOS settings of the Lightning Z cards add more stress on the graphics card and in turn gives a small boost of performance. During my research, I've come across interesting results, one Lightning Z user couldn't get their Card past 1999 MHz and one Lightning user (lowest tier card) managed to get to 2100 MHz max and 2075 MHz on average after flashing his BIOS to Lightning Z. This may suggest that the tiers aren't separated by binning but rather "BIOS settings" which explains the small 10$ tier differences. TL;DR MSI marketed their Lightning 1080 Ti cards into 10 dollar tiers; Lightning, Lightning X and Lightning Z Only the Lightning Z BIOS supports advertised features such as "Quad-voltage control" and after contacting MSI, they were very unhelpful and just gave me the generic "Nvidia locks voltage control on the Pascal cards" It doesn't appear that the tiers are separated by binning, but simply BIOS settings. I'm slightly annoyed of MSI's conduct as I'm not getting full performance of my 1080 Ti using their Lightning X BIOS.

As the title reads, I wonder which of these two AIO cards is better. They have slightly different systems of cooling, the hybrid is, well, a hybrid card, also using air. The Waterforce only uses water. I will be using them in the Ncase M1, which is why I want them to be watercooled. Is any of them significantly better than the other? Which one has the better fan for example. Can you replace the fan for any of them? Could it be a problem that the hybrid uses air in such a small case? All answers are appreciated, detailed and well-reasoned ones more so.

YOOOOO first post So, I am planning on upgrading some components on my PC. Unfortunately I don't have a couple G's to throw down immediately so I will have to do it part by part. I would like to get the expensive stuff out of the way first, such as the GPU. I have a strange bottleneck question that I can't find a really clear answer for. My current build looks something like this. CPU: Intel - Core i5-4590 3.3GHz Quad-Core Processor CPU Cooler: Corsair - H60 54.0 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler ($54.99 @ Newegg) Motherboard: Gigabyte - GA-B85M-D3H Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard Memory: PNY - Anarchy 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1866 Memory ($79.99 @ Amazon) Storage: PNY - CS1311 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($62.99 @ Amazon) Storage: Toshiba - P300 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($44.99 @ Amazon) Storage: Toshiba - P300 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($44.99 @ Amazon) Video Card: Gigabyte - GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 6GB D5 6G Video Card ($294.98 @ Newegg) Case: NZXT - S340 (White) ATX Mid Tower Case ($61.98 @ Newegg) Power Supply: EVGA - 650W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply ($75.75 @ OutletPC) Operating System: Microsoft - Windows 10 Pro OEM 64-bit ($128.89 @ OutletPC) My performance goal is 4K @ 60FPS . To achieve this I am planning on adding a 1080 TI, and hoping that will be possible with my current CPU at least until I am able to upgrade to a coffee/kaby lake cpu and all the newfangled parts required to go with it. The question is basically, is this an impossible feat? I have heard a lot of conjecture about CPU usage dropping at higher resolutions. From what I gather, playing at 4K is actually less stressful on a CPU than the same set up at 1080p. Does this mean that my 4590 will be able to handle the performance goal when paired with the 1080 TI (temporarily) ? And will I lose frames at 1080p when switching from my 1060 to the new card? Thanks for any input you guys my have!

I'm looking to build a killer mini-itx 4k gaming/vr(oculus)/video editing/streaming build and i this is the best i came up with. I really want the smallest PC possible to bring to LAN parties and stuff like that. Allow me to explain my choices. CPU: R7 1700 as some multitasking workstation tasks are involved. Basically the same as the 1700X and 1800X as i will overclock Motherboard: AsRock AB350 ITX as it is the best mini ITX board for overclocking and btw the X370 version of this is LITERALLY the same scrap the name, so you'll literally be paying more for the motherboard liscence for nothing. I hope to achieve a 3.7ghz overclock.(possible??) Case: Dr. Zaber Sentry as it is THE smallest ITX case to support a full video card CPU Cooler: CRYORIG C7 as it is the best cooler under 47mm (case max height) Memory: 3200mhz RAM, maybe 32GB RAM is too much? But I want dual channel and as games start requiring more RAM and if I want to upgrade, I don't want the burden to have to sell 2 x 8GB RAM sticks then buy 2 x 16GB RAM sticks. RAM prices tend to stay the same anyways, might as well get 32GB RAM from the get-go. Video Card: ASUS Turbo GTX 1080 Ti as cheapest non-founders blower-style 1080 Ti that is under the case max clearance (should i wait for Volta? When is it set to arrive?) Storage: Samsung 960 Evo 250GB as best value for money boot drive, Crucial M550 512GB (purchased) as my most played games drive, Toshiba 640GB hdd from my old laptop as my 'other games' drive folder Power Supply: 600W as I'm gonna overclock. I trust Silverstone and JonnyGuru. Monitor: cheapest and good-looking thin bezel 4K monitor (but no IPS, will I really see a big difference and does the price justify it?) Keyboard: good reviews Mouse: best value-for-money mouse according to some relatively famous Youtuber PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant CPU: AMD - Ryzen 7 1700 3.0GHz 8-Core Processor ($289.99 @ SuperBiiz) CPU Cooler: CRYORIG - C7 40.5 CFM CPU Cooler ($26.99 @ Newegg Marketplace) Motherboard: ASRock - AB350 Gaming-ITX/ac Mini ITX AM4 Motherboard ($108.99 @ SuperBiiz) Memory: Team - Vulcan 32GB (2 x 16GB) DDR4-3000 Memory ($270.99 @ Newegg) Storage: Samsung - 960 EVO 250GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive ($117.60 @ B&H) Storage: Crucial - M550 512GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (Purchased For $100.00) Storage: Toshiba - 640GB 2.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive (Purchased For $0.00) Video Card: Asus - GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 11GB Turbo Video Card ($714.98 @ Newegg) Power Supply: Silverstone - 600W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular SFX Power Supply ($116.99 @ SuperBiiz) Monitor: AOC - U2879VF 28.0" 3840x2160 60Hz Monitor ($309.99 @ Newegg) Keyboard: Corsair - STRAFE Wired Gaming Keyboard ($79.99 @ B&H) Mouse: Corsair - Harpoon RGB Wired Optical Mouse ($29.88 @ Amazon) Case: Dr. Zaber Sentry ($235.00) Total: $2401.39 Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available That's it, let me know your thoughts! Thanks! p.s. i noticed ALL the hardware comes form different companies with the exception of the keyboard and mouse.

Hi all, is there much difference in performance between the 1080ti's like the strix vs the msi vs gigabyte etc ? Do they perform all about the same and would you go for a duel fan or triple fan model for a nzxt h440 ?

From many threads and videos I researched, people have been saying EVGA is the best when it comes to cooling, reliability, customer service, performance and etc. Is it really that good and worth purchasing? Im afraid to drop a lot of money on a 1080 ti im wanting to purchase for a while

Can I use 3 of the same monitors on 1 GTX 1080 Ti?

I'm going to build my first PC soon and was planning on buying the ryzen 1700 and the 1080 Ti. I'll be mainly gaming at 1440. Will the CPU bottleneck the GPU a lot? How severe will the bottleneck be? Like are we talking about awful, awful, awful performance such as 30-40 FPS on Deus Ex at 1440 or will it be 100+ and fine?

I am baffled with this gameplay. why can't the gpus get a solid 60fps or above on this game? Should the gpus be able to do this but the game is just bad or is it to much to require from the gpus?

So i was casually experimenting with fan speeds in the bios as well in the AI Suite 3 software, and when I then went to check how loud the system would get in BF1 i get about half my normal fps and HORRIBLE input lag, like I'm talking seconds, not milliseconds. I also noticed that everything was running slow. Everything i do feels unresponsive and delayed, opening tabs and programs etc is extremely slow. I have restored default settings in the BOIS, the only thing I have not reset is windows since i don't wanna reinstall my 500+GB of games again. Why do I have a better experience using my i3 4GB school laptop than my 1800$ pc? I need advice. Also my raid 0 speeds have gotten xtremely slow as well with faster reads than writes in CrystalDiskMark 5. Before I got pretty good speeds, not quite 2x the advertised speeds of one disk but still pretty good speeds. Thanks in advance Edit: I'm using Windows 10

Hi, I just bought a 1080 ti and am wondering if I should upgrade my cpu to not get bottlenecked by it. My current specs are as follows 4770k clocked to 4.1 ghz 32 gb 2133 kingston memory noctua dh14 1080 ti ssd Im mainly using the computer to play playerunknowns battlegrounds and am getting pretty shitty performance. im also running windows 7, could that be a problem aswee?

I heard that if you aren't doing 4k with it, the FPS and game will look unstable, is this true? Or is double the 1080 tis still fine? im using a 1080p monitor, and I know that the 1080 ti alone is beyond overkill for it. Im also using a 1700x Ryzen processor, will my GPUS bottleneck it?

So I'm confused between getting the 1080ti Founder's Edition (1000$ Canadian.) or picking up an aftermarket card for roughly 1200 cad. Should I just get the FE and OC it reasonably or get an aftermarket and OC that some more, do you guys think 200 cad is worth it for the extra performance / acoustics? If i order the FE I'll get it today itself, if i pick the After market (EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti FTW3 GAMING) I'll get it Sunday not that I'm in a hurry but what would be best value? Keep in mind I have a 1440p gsync monitor so I won't really be gaming at 4k I'm getting the ti over the regular 1080 just for future proofing a little more.

I've had my 1080Ti Founders for a month or two now, it being my first really high-end graphics card and my first Reference blower card. It is also the first card I've ever really tracked the performance of or pushed very hard. Finally, this is the first time I've ever gotten into using MSI Afterburner. I LOVE the monitoring options in Afterburner, but paying attention to my GPU load, heat, and fanspeeds have given me some questions. Totally stock speeds, only using Afterburner as a monitor tool. For starters, it appears that the FanSpeed is capped at 40%. When under very heavy load, whether its maxxed out Rise of the Tomb Raider or NiceHash Miner, the GPU will reach 100% use (or close to it) and the temps will start to rise. With stock everything, the fanspeed would never go above 40%, even as the temps start to hit 80-82 degrees Celsius. Which did not seem okay at all. I never let it get any higher temp wise, but i can't imagine it was waiting for something hotter before the fan kicked in. Stock speeds, with Afterburner User Define turned on. When i turned on the User Define button for Fanspeed, using the default custom fan curve, its a totally different scenario. In the default fan curve, it basically matches the fan% to the Celsius temp. So as you hit 50 degrees, the fanspeed is around 50% and so forth. Under full load it ends up hovering around 68 degrees, somewhere between 60-70% fanspeed. This feels much more appropriate. So what gives? Are the FE cards somehow capped at a lower stock fanspeed for some reason? Or is turning on Afterburner in scenario #1 above somehow capping the fanspeed at 40% without telling me? Is there any reason to not use the User Defined fan curve as in #2?

So im building a new computer and i would like to do a custom loop for the first time and of course with that comes overclocking. So what i understand right now is it doesn't matter what card i buy they should all fall victim to the silicon lottery however power delivery will be important for consistency. This raises a few questions. Firstly im looking at 2 cards the asus 1080 ti turbo gaming edition and the asus 1080 ti strix rog. The first question has to do with how much of a lottery is it really will i be able to get the turbo from the 1582mhz to the 1708mhz on the strix? Second is how different is the the 6 and 8 pin delivery of the turbo to the 2 8 pins of the strix? The turbo is 700 usd at my microcenter which the the least expensive non reference card i could find all the other ones are 80 - 100 usd more is it worth the difference. OR Should i just go with the one with the highest clock out of the box that has a compatible block does that give me the best chance at the highest most consistent overclock? Keep in mind money isn't really the issue with this i just don't want to waste it if its not going to make a significant difference.

So I've never once overclocked anything in my life, and after having to turn down the settings of grass in games like GTA V and Ghost Recon Wildlands, I decided I'd finally put overclocking on the table. So here's my question: Is my setup capable of safely overclocking to the point of seeing noticeable improvements in performance/FPS? If so, what kind of performance would I be able to achieve without shortening drastically shortening the lifespan of my GPU and/or CPU. And if you guys do think I'm able to overclock, I have afterburner on my computer, so let me know what settings you think I should try out. <333

Ignoring price, which 1080 ti card will be the fastest, or will it even matter, the strix, ftw3, duke, aorus etc.

My Bronze Certified B2 EVGA Power supply did not include and spare connector pins. I currently have an RX 470 with only one 6+2 connector pins with it. https://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812423175&cm_re=6_pin_pcie-_-12-423-175-_-Product Will this product be good enough for my GTX 1080 ti upgrade?