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Hello I had some great advice for my PC on an earlier thread and after doing more research (most notable on nVME SSD's) I've put together what I think is my final build. My goal is it's purely a gaming system. I want the highest possible clock speed (so I will OC the GPU and CPU) to get max performance on CPU and GPU games. I am playing on 1440p, but I will be upgrading my monitor to the Ultra wide later on. My goal is obviously as many FPS as possible and I think this setup will do that (I also love the idea of fast load times with the M2 SSDs). If you have any final remarks or see any areas where I'm leaving perfomance on the table or I could get the same performance for the same price(ish) please let me know: PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant CPU: Intel Core i7-6700K 4.0GHz Quad-Core Processor ($412.69 @ Newegg Canada) CPU Cooler: Corsair H100i v2 70.7 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler ($133.98 @ Newegg Canada) Motherboard: MSI Z170-A PRO ATX LGA1151 Motherboard ($156.98 @ shopRBC) Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3000 Memory ($89.99 @ Canada Computers) Storage: Samsung 950 PRO 512GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive ($399.00 @ Canada Computers) Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 1TB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($379.00 @ Canada Computers) Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 1080 8GB Founders Edition Video Card ($919.98 @ NCIX) Case: NZXT H440 (Black/Red) ATX Mid Tower Case ($69.88 @ Canada Computers) Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA NEX 750W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply ($86.99 @ NCIX) Total: $2648.49

Hello random people! I'm Marco and I'm planning to upgrade - or more like completely rebuild - my current setup. I live in Germany so the Amazon items should be on the .de site because shipping and availability and stuff. I've already thought quite some time about different components and what I could, should and can use. First off: I am NOT a computer expert. I could explain a lot about different components and how they work, how they perform, etc. But I have absolutely NO idea about if parts will acually "fit together" or not. Well thats why I am here. I'm just gonna throw a list of all of everything about my current and my future setup in here and you guys tell me: -Does it even work like that? -Does a part not work with another one? -how well does it work? -what would you recommend (instead)? Also I gotta add that I mainly play Games like Fallout 4, GTA V, some F2P shooters like DirtyBomb and sometimes some good old relaxing Minecraft on my setup and, of course, watch YouTube Videos. Ok lets begin, shall we? First heres my current setup: CPU: AMD Fx6300 GPU: GTX660ti SSD: Samsung 240Gb SSD HDD1: Seagate Barracuda 3Tb HDD2: Some random HDD @ 280Gb HDD3: Some random HDD @ 180Gb Motherboard: Gigabyte 87LMT-USB3 PSU: Berlin 630W Case: Zalman Z11+ CPU Cooler: Arctic Freezer 13 RAM: Hyper X ddr3 8Gb (And YES I can play Fallout 4 and GTA V on mid-high settings with 50-60fps on this believe it or not) For the new setup the big part will be that I at least plan to buy a GTX1080. There is the first problem/question I have: Will it even work with my motherboard/CPU? Is the CPU a big bottleneck? Is the motherboard one? Could you recommend a CPU which does not cost more than a sportscar and would work "better"? For the Monitors I want to buy 2 (later MAYBE 3) 2K 16:9 Monitors from Acer with a 4ms response rate.- Which the GTX1080 should handle with ease. (right? I mean it is "made" for 4K Gaming so...) On this point I could also ask: How "cheap" well the GTX1080 probably be? Im in Euros € and here on Amazon they cost all around 730€-890€. From what I've heard at least they will probably be around 650€-???€. The FX6300 will stay, just like the 8Gb DDR3 Ram which will also get another same pair of 2x4Gb sticks in order for my system to have 16 (Which is nessesary for GTA V and Fallout 4 at least) Maybe I will overclock it too. Now for the new home of all of this hardware. It will move into the Thermaltake Core P5 which is a completely 4 5-way open case (bottom, top, left, right and front) Which has a Plexiglas Window on the front. (Link right here) For the Watercooling theres an Amazon list with all the Parts right ----> here <----. I will watercool it using soft tubing. This will also be my very first custom loop ever so this is quite exciting for me right here. For the Radiator I will use a 480mm 45mm thick rad, just because it fits absolutely fine in there (I'm sure I could even screw 1 or 2 more of the same ontop of the first one to make it insanely thick) For the Fans I will use 4 Blue Riing Fans from Thermaltake which I do already have in my Case right now. For the Pump I'm gonna use a Pump/Reservoir Combo. The CPU Waterblock and the GPU Waterblock are just simple Waterblocks and I may buy a backplate for the gTX1080 too if I have some money left over. I checked on the connections, the fittings, the rad and pump, waterblocks and tubing itself and it SHOULD all fit together just fine. Maybe. Technically. In Theory. Well that is *already* pretty much it. If you managed to get down here - Thank you very much for taking your time to read this. I'm looking forward for some opinions from you guys and thanks for your help! Greetings from Germany, Marco

This is my first custom PC build and my first build log here in the forums. May I present you, the Evolv RGB (still working on the name, not 100% pleased). I was running my old prebuilt Lenovo that was already pretty old model when I bought it so i thought that I might want to think about custom build one to fill my needs. The main use of the PC was to be capable of decent/fast 3D modeling (when I need to start use it for that purpose in the near future) and gaming (of course). Unlike normal +2000€ builds this is not going to be used for 4K/1440p gaming. I will use it to get high framerate (over 150hz) to get everything out from the gaming experience with my 144hz monitor. The build's theme was decided when I couldn't decide the theme. I choose to use neutral colours and get the colour from RGB leds (I know that some of you dont like these leds and this whole build is MINE and designed by personal decisions) Current part list: (Press this to redirect to PPP) (To be ordered/not sure, ordered/shipping, arrived/bought and owned) CPU: Intel I7-6800K from the Broadwell-E lineup. My choice of CPU was between 5820K and the brand new 6800K. As the price difference was not as great as I expected it to be I decided to order the newer I7-6800K. CPU cooler: NZXT Kraken X61 all-in-one liquid cooler. Cooling performance of the 280x140 coolers are pretty similiar so I just bought the one looked best to my eyes. Corsair ones were ruled out when I found out that the RGB led to work in those would have needed other Corsair product with the digital port to work with. Case: Phanteks Evolv ATX Silver. One of the only good looking midtower-case that could fit EATX and 360mm+240mm rads in the future if my upgrading ever goes that far. And I just love the looks of the case itself. Motherboard: MSI Gaming Pro Carbon. Well now we start the RGB parts. This mobo is one of the best looking boards that the X99 refresh has given us. It has very nice RGB lighting and the carbon black finish is stunningly good looking. GPU: EVGA GTX 1080 FTW. What can I say? I just loved the silver/metal finish of the card combined to the white parts with the leds. The clockspeeds of the cards are factory clocked to almost the max like almost every other card in the 1080 family. (in air cooling of the side) RAM: G.SKILL Ripjaws V 32GB (8x4GB) DDR4-3200. Got good deal when buying these ones so I thought that I might aswell buy two times the 4 stick sets. Black metal heatspreader which nicely fits in the neutral theme. PSU: EVGA SuperNova G2 650W. One of the best PSU in the market at the moment, modular and gold certification. Storage: Samsung 850 EVO 500GB. Excellent reviews and one of the top sellers in the market at the moment. More storage: Samsung SM951 128GB M.2 SSD. I´m only going to store Windows + few my main games in the M.2 drive. NVMe is now supported by all MSI and Asus boards so it shouldnt make any hazzle. RGB lighting: NZXT Hue+ and max amount of lightstrips possible. Every self respecting RGB build should have one of the addressable led solutions. (Hue+ being only one that doesnt recuire Arduino/other microcontroller) Fans: 3x Thermaltake Riing 14 Red. Leds in the fans will be switched to RGB ones that are controlled with Arduino. Peripherals: Keyboard: Corsair K70 Rapidfire RGB Nordic. Only keyboard with the MX Speed switches at the moment and I was going to buy K70 even without knowing they were publishing the Rapidfire version. Mousepad and wristpad: PCMR Extended white mousepad 92cm by 46cm and grey normal-sized wristpad. I was going to buy the pad anyway and I just saw the awesome looking wristpad and after watching few seconds to my wrist I really noticed that i need one. Mouse: Razer DeathAdder Chroma. Best mouse I have ever tested, feels really good in my hands and responds as fast as I want it to do. Headset: Kingston HyperX Cloud Revolver. Metallic frame and feels good even with my glasses on. (fricking SS Siberia V2, dont buy then if you have normal sized glasses, my ears still hurt) Monitor1: BenQ XL2411z 144hz gaming monitor. I consider replacing my second monitor with another one of these if they ever drop back to the price I got this one for. Monitor2: Acer somerandommonitor1 24". Bought 8 years ago when I get my first PC (didnt even run at 60fps because the pc was crap) Monitor3: Acer somerandommonitor2 18". 4:3 very old and bad, used as infoscreen and I will propably dump it. DIY parts: Arduino + chunk of electric stuff. I will use these to the synchronize my motherboards RGB with the ones under my desk/behind my monitors. And to add remote controlled PC start with my mobile using the basic MIT App inventor. Different kinds of vinyl. Will be used to modify the colour scheme of the build. (Lighten the inside of the case and add some black accent to outside of it. Full set of sleeved cables. I dont know if I want to order this set yet as it costs around 110€. Some acrylic sheets. I want to make RGB effect under the mousepad. Signum cable holder. I just want to hide my cables under the table. To-do-list: -Drill another hole to my desk for the cables. -Finish the wooden cable hider. -Come up with design for the carbon vinyls. (Black and white carbon) -Wait for everything to arrive. I will start posting pictures when I start to receive parts/go and buy them.

Hey guys! I want to upgrade my pc. The options I have are: -Keep my current pc and upgrade from GTX970 to GTX1080. And upgrade later to new chipset OR: -Sell my i5 4590, 8GB RAM and Z97 mobo (friend is buying GTX970 from me) and get Z170, 8/16GB RAM and i5 6600K and also a GTX1070.

Sounds really promising, certainly a different approach to cooling the chip and the PCB. I'd be interested to know how well it works in the real world. Also I love the new LEDs (LED all the things!) Would be nice if we can manage and change those ourselves but I guess we have to wait and see on that. http://www.eteknix.com/inno3d-introduces-ichill-x4-ultra-gpu-cooling/

Hi, I'm building my first gaming pc. I'll be using it for VR and mobas. In addition, I'll watch a lot of movies on it. What I care most about is sound quality, good picture quality and a silent PC. I can go up to 2000$ if I had to. These are my parts: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/8cMDCJ I still didn't make up my mid for either GA-Z170X-Gaming 7 or Maximus VIII Hero. But, I'm more leaning on Gigabyte. Moreover, I really care about sound quality so should I buy a sound card or the one onboard would be enough? or it won't matter cause I'll be using an HDMI headset ( Tritton Katana 7.1) Finally, I'm planning on buying a G-Sync 4k 27inch monitor but don't know whats best need help with that. If you have any suggestions, advice or better part list i'll be happy to read them. \ Thanks,

Im tryin to build a pc for my brothers bday, he wants to play doom and i already got most of the things i need. an i7 4790 @ 3.6, 1tb WD,16gbs of ddr3 ram, a case, couple fans and a cpu cooler. And so i was thinking of buying this super cheap mini itx board to go with the upcoming 1070 or 1080 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00VX1GGWQ/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_lBTmxbCA14A87 Will this mobo be able to handle an i7 and a 1080/1070.

I found this from the internet, source says that this is gonna be the new design zotac did for gtx 1080/1070, not sure whether it is accurate or not... Just gonna leave it here..... Edit: the newer version of firestorm.. aka OC software. And the the color of the light is gonna be changable. Whether it is RGB we don't know... Edit 2: I think it is confirmed. http://videocardz.com/59857/zotac-teases-geforce-gtx-1080-pgf-edition-and-new-firestorm https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/4j03c4/zotac_teases_geforce_gtx_1080_pgf_edition_and_new/

Hi guys. My current build: ASUS Z170 PRO GAMING i7-6700K + MX-4 + ThermalRight SilverArrow IB-E Extreme 16Gb Kingston HyperX Savage 3000MHz Gigabyte nVidia GTX 980Ti Windforce OC edition InWin R3000 Rack mount 5U case 2xNoctuaNF-F12 fans Corsair AX1200i PSU Purpose (and the main challenge): 1. Gentoo Linux. Programming, compiling stuff (C, realtime compiling Scala and Java bytecode) in absolute silence. I mean not hearing anything coming from the case. 2. Windows 10. In my spare time I sometimes play games (BF4, Crysis, RPGs, BeamNG...) I want my PC to be the ultimate kill... gaming monster when I need it in such a role. But still I'd prefer it to be not very noisy even at full throttle. Budget: 2-3k EUR. I understand that I want my PC to be all in one tool for everything, so I'm ready to pay the price. Please, help me with: 1. How to achieve silence in working mode and good cooling when gaming? Should I stick with air cooling or there are some top notch solutions in water cooling suitable for my needs? 2. Great concern about the case. Mine is really old and it didn't even have a front fan mount until I slightly modded it with my Dremel. I like Corsair 900D and SMA8 from CaseLabs, but delivery of SMA8 will be a pain in the ass Do I need to bother getting SMA8? What is your thoughts on 900D vs SMA8. Linus didn't review or build in SMA8 as far as I know. 3. Do I need to switch to LGA 2011 and X99 or my current CPU will be enough for SLI build?

Hi! I am planing on buying the 1080 when it comes out and I was really surprised at its overclocking capabilities. I was planing on using the 1080 for Virtual reality and the overclocking seemed really nice. Now here comes the problem.... I dont know if my mobo can handle this and if it does, I dont know if my PSU can handle it. This is where you computer geeks come in :). I dont know much about this stuff but I bet that there is someone on this forum that can help me so... Here are the specs: Mobo: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131993 I have a 600W psu but I have cx850m laying around, waiting to be used. If any other specs are involved in overclocking I can share them... Will I be able to overclock that 1080 when I get it? Thanks

Hey everyone, I guess most off you saw the GTX1080 release event. During the presentation Jen-Hsun introduced something called 'Simultaneous Multi Projection' and as a triple screen user i am very interested in this feature. However only 6 months ago i bought a GTX 980Ti and i'm quite annoyed that this feature gets released in another couple of months with the new series. Is there any chance this is more a software thing like "Ansel" that they introduced as well, so i'l be able to do 'Simultaneous Multi Projection' with my GTX 980Ti or is this closely linked to their new Pascal architecture. In which case the Maxwell architecture in the GTX 9XX-cards won't be able to run this feature. The introduction of 'Simultaneous Multi Projection' took me by surprise, because to be honest there current 'Nvidia Surround'-software isn't very good Introducing this should have impact on their implementation of 'Nvidia Surround' as well, i would think...

Hello my fellow forum members I've just seen the news graphics cards from Nvidia and I'm now sure to upgrade my two gtx780s to a single GTX 1080 (or higher). My concern is, will my i5 4570 able to keep up with this? Firestrike already says my CPU is holding me back, so what do you recommend? i7 4790k or i5 4690k? Right now I am running a 1440p monitor at 100Hz, and I want to make use of it. A good example is Rainbow 6 Siege, where I can achieve 40-60 FPS at Medium settings. I am sure that the GTX 1080 can push max settings but my CPU? Thanks for your help in advance My PCs specs: CPU: i5 4570 Cooler: Corsair H55 MoBo: Asus Z97M Gryphon Armor Edition GPU: 2x GTX 780s (SLI) RAM: 16 GB HyperX Fury PSU: Corsair RM 750Watt Case: Fractal Arc Mini R2 And some SSDs and HDDs

What should I do, I feel so helpless and cheated right now.

Disclaimer: this is all my own speculation and thoughts With Nvidia's Pascal Geforce cards (the GTX 1070/1080) set to release around Computex time in June, we are only a little more than a month away from its unveil. Based on previous launches,Nvidia usually host a conference for the "press" and Youtubers to present the cards in advanced to explain all the new technologies and specs of the new cards about a month before the release. And I think such conference is next week! Based on the fact that Jay from Jayztwocents is going to an "undisclosed event" next week (as shown linked below) and Linus is on San Francisco right now for the Samsung Developer conference right now, it's would make it very convenient that he would make a trip to the nearby Silicon Valley for the press conference. The conference would mean that the cards are one step closer to hitting the shelves and in our systems! What do you guys think? I'm I on to something or just off my bonkers?

Hello, I am planning my next build to be in a server chassis and I want to pack it with dual gtx1080s. That being said, I have the money for the build but I would still not like to be wasting money where I don't have to. I understand a rear exhaust card would probably have significant benefits in a server chassis, but I'd rather not drop almost $100 extra per card for the founders edition (which has been proven could use some extra power connectors anyway...) There are other blower/rear exhaust cards such as EVGA's base model which looks great and is the cheapest thing out there I have found {http://www.evga.com/Products/Product.aspx?pn=08G-P4-5180-KR}, but it still suffers from the single 8-pin power issue which I'd like to avoid since I do enjoy my overclocks . So the resolution I'm leaning towards at this point is the ZOTAC AMP (non-extreme, dual fan) {https://www.zotac.com/us/product/graphics_card/zotac-geforce-gtx-1080-amp-edition}. The fan shroud seems to wrap mostly around which I'm betting will reduce most of its internal exhaust and it's still reasonably cheap at $640 a card. Main benefit of course of going this route is the dual 8-pin power fingers which should hopefully give me some more wiggle room when it comes to overclocking. My main questions at this point are, first off, would anyone suggest something else / does anyone have any comments (or angry corrections ) for me? And second, is it redundant to go for the dual fan ZOTAC over the EVGA blower-style for the extra power (I'm assuming with good airflow in my chassis the cooling should be more than enough but perhaps I'm wrong and in either situation my overclocks would be limited by thermals regardless)? Thanks for any advice you can offer! -Eric

Hello everyone, I've recently graduated and no longer need my laptop's mobility, therefore I decided to build a proper workstation. However, I don't have much experience in PC hardware and wanted to ask for your opinion. Firstly, a bit of introduction, so you know more or less what I'm looking for. The PC we're building here is going to be used mainly for graphic design - large format projects in Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator and Lightroom. Also I'm looking to start 3D modeling and render things like characters and range of accessories that I'm going to use in photo-manipulations and large format posters. I'll probably start with Cinema 4D as I've got some experience working with it. Unfortunately I can't provide more details on rendering software as at this moment I am not very familiar with what's on the market - please assume the most mainstream software. I know for a fact that I'm not going to render large environment scenes - more likely it is going to be a single character or accessories like weapons, jewelry, cloth etc. I'm not a big gamer and the main focus should be to optimize this station for graphic design. But, spending this amount of money I would like to be able to play newer productions from time to time, although it doesn't need to be on Ultra details. When it comes to monitors I'm going to be usinx 2x fullHd monitors for starters, but I am looking to buy one 4k monitor sometime next year. I'd like to notice that the purchase is not very urgent, and if there are some parts worth waiting for, I can definitely postpone it. As for today I know I'm going to wait a little bit longer for not-referral versions of GTX1070 to come out. After a fair amount of reading and help of people from other forum I built something like this: PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant CPU: Intel Core i7-5820K 3.3GHz 6-Core Processor (£319.99 @ Overclockers.co.uk) CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D15 82.5 CFM CPU Cooler (£67.98 @ Ebuyer) Motherboard: ASRock X99 Extreme4/3.1 ATX LGA2011-3 Motherboard (£179.99 @ Overclockers.co.uk) Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws 4 32GB (4 x 8GB) DDR4-3000 Memory (£125.39 @ Amazon UK) Storage: Samsung 950 PRO 512GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive (£241.98 @ Ebuyer) Storage: Seagate Barracuda 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£53.33 @ CCL Computers) Video Card: Asus GeForce GTX 1070 8GB Video Card (£470.00) Case: Phanteks Enthoo Pro ATX Full Tower Case (£87.95 @ Amazon UK) Power Supply: Corsair RMx 650W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply (£79.32 @ Amazon UK) Wireless Network Adapter: Gigabyte GC-WB867D-I PCI-Express x1 802.11a/b/g/n/ac Wi-Fi Adapter (£27.15 @ Amazon UK) Total: £1653.08 Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-06-12 01:01 BST+0100 Previously on the list there was: - 6800k instead of 5820k - Asus GTX1080 Strix instead of GTX1070 - Corsair H110i v2 instead of Noctua NH-D15 CPU was changed due to opinion that 6800k doesn't overclock as well as 5820k and also 5820k is a bit cheaper option with similar performance. What do you think? Isn't it a bit too soon to judge 6800k overclocking abilities? Also is it worth to spent that extra few pounds on processor that is just newer? I've changed GPU for lower model as it still seems sufficient for my needs - I am only about to start with 3D graphic and not much of a gamer. Please let me know if that's a good decision or I should stick with 1080. Mediocre AIO WC was changed for higher end AC. The reason is price, and noise in favor of the latter. I am not going to crazy OC, I would be satisfied with clocks @4.3 / 4.4 . However if Corsair H110i v2 (or also considered Kraken x61) would provide much lower temperature with more stable work @4.5 I would consider the change again. On other forum I was told to change my ram from 3000Mhz to 2400Mhz as apparently motherboards with 2011-3 chipset have some issues with stable running ram on higher frequencies. Moreover I shouldn't really see a difference between 2400Mhz and 3000Mhz. Is that true? The last thing I am worried about is Motherboard - I picked ASRock because that seemed like the cheapest option that just had everything I needed. To be honest motherboards are most problematic to me as I don't see a difference between ones that cost £180 and those that cost £400, besides additional features I don't see use of. I would really appreciate if you could share your thoughts on this station and advise me if there are any areas I could save some money on or areas that are worth to invest a bit more to achieve better performance. Thanks in advance!

Hello guys! I am looking for a new gaming build to replace my current rig. I wanna get a better gaming experience over my current rig. What stuff the new PC has to do: -Gaming (Modded GTA V; Battlefield 4, Hardline and Battlefield 1; Rainbox 6; ArmA 3; Watch_Dogs 2; Elite Dangerous etc.) -render videos (Adobe Premiere Pro) -Photoshop Stuff The parts I've picked: HDD: Western Digital WD Blue 3TB, SATA 6 Gb/s SDD: Samsung SSD 750 Evo 500GB GPU: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1070 G1 Gaming CPU: Intel Core i7 6700k, 4x4.0 GHz CPU-Cooler: be quiet! Dark Rock Pro 3 RAM: Kingston HyperX Fury 16GB, DDR4-2666 CL 15-17-17 MB: ASUS Z170-A Case: NZXT Phantom 530 windowed PS: be quiet! Pure Power L8-CM 730W ATX 2.31 It's my first build and I'd like to know your opinion about this.

if anyone can check the build is it an overkill for gaming at 3440*1440 at 100hz max or is this good to make the system future proof kinda of

Hello currently have a havestryx 1080 and a 2700x plan on upgrading to a 3080 shortly play on 2k 165hz monitors. Question is want to upgrade base to a b550 itx motherboard and a newer processor better off going a 5600x or a 3700x same price currently really on gaming no other workloads which am i better off with once i get the 3080?

So, after now buying several parts I realized I've actually picked a piss poor time to build a PC. Just watched a video now and saw that Vega was out to rival the 1080 for $100 less, and I had planned to put a 1080 in my new PC. So, my question is: should I buy all my components now and just throw in my dinky 1060 into a $2000 system and wait for Vega, or go for the 1080 now? Additionally, I heard that Volta, the new NVIDIA architecture, is gonna come early 2018. So, if I'm buying a $630 1080, is it just going to be made obsolete by the Volta series xx80? So then, what should I do? Help me out here: 1080, Vega, or maybe even Volta?

Good day dear reader I wanted to get your opinions on my current situation.... I have a GTX970 and will be upgrading to a GTX1080 soon... I cant seem to decide if its better to sell the 970 or to keep it as a dedicated physics card, I watched some videos and I don't think it would really do much for game play but what I couldn't figure out is if this will help anything with video editing in Premier Pro and After effects. As far as I know these software are more CPU focused than GPU thanks for your help

source: https://www.guru3d.com/articles-pages/nvidia-geforce-gtx-1080-review,30.html holy mother of god, those prices if you live anywhere outside US and want one of these cards .. good luck, mate - for a card that replaces the GTX980, those are some GTX980Ti range prices I wonder how far will they go with the GTX1080Ti and the next Titan yes, I completely get that the GTX1080 is faster than GTX980Ti, that's not the point - the point is that it's marketed as GTX980 replacement --- after seeing some more info on the GTX1080, I don't get what's the point behind this card the cooling solution is completely inadequate it has a power limit of 180W + 20% offset (via EVGA Precision software) you get it because of a tight space case? that's completely fine but what about the rest? you'd get one to put a water block on it an OCit? you might wanna think again: once you get rid of the thermal problem you'd be facing the power limiter - this card needs more than the 8pin PCIe power connector for serious and consistent OCing I suspect AIB cards with custom cooling solution will provide all of the above from my understanding, and this hasn't been confirmed or denied by nVidia - it seems that AIB partners will launch their cards alongside the "founders edition"