Any opinions on what makes a good used 1080?

[Bombastinator]

So apparently I may need a 1080.  An old one.  Maybe reference.  I don’t know what models are decent.  In particular it’s got to have a dual-link dvi port.  It’s a hard requirement and the only reason I’m even looking at these things.

[emosun]

do you actually need a 1080 or just any gpu with dual link dvi? becuase plenty other cards have dual link dvi

[Bombastinator]

1 minute ago, emosun said:

do you actually need a 1080 or just any gpu with dual link dvi? becuase plenty other cards have dual link dvi

Heh.  I need one that works with this weirdo monitor I got.  It’s real possible that the last one that worked right was the 900 series and apparently mine is busted or the Nvidia drivers for the 900 series are horked.

 

i can conform that an rx580 doesn’t.

[emosun]

According to past posts your monitor requires a dual link port specifically.....

..... however you didn't actually confirm that your computer has an issue that required replacing the gpu.

The rx580s have dual link ports so it would seem you have a totally different issue

[Mark Kaine]

Didn't you just tell me in the other thread you weren't looking for a new card?  @.@  

What happened? 

 

Also welcome (back?) to Team Green!  

 

 

21 minutes ago, Bombastinator said:

apparently mine is busted or the Nvidia drivers for the 900 series are horked.

Hmm, did you try DDU?

 

I have around 15 or so older NVIDIA drivers saved,  I can hook you up!

 

 

PS: I would actually recommend to DDU your drivers and download the previous version or the one you're sure worked fine from NVIDIA website, they usually keep a bunch of older ones,  just the really old ones are being pulled after some time apparently. 

 

 

 

 

[Bombastinator]

4 minutes ago, Mark Kaine said:

Didn't you just tell me in the other thread you weren't looking for a new card?  @.@  

What happened? 

 

Also welcome (back?) to Team Green!  

 

 

Hmm, did you try DDU?

 

I have around 15 or so older NVIDIA drivers saved,  I can hook you up!

Yep.  That got me to be able to successfully reinstall the drivers which I finally completed.  I used the gigabyte ones because they’re leftovers from 2017, and set my internet to “metered” to keep them from being updated automatically.  Same problem.

 

the rx580 just gave me black screen.  SOP when the port isn’t actual dual-link dviD.

[Bombastinator]

18 minutes ago, emosun said:

According to past posts your monitor requires a dual link port specifically.....

..... however you didn't actually confirm that your computer has an issue that required replacing the gpu.

The rx580s have dual link ports so it would seem you have a totally different issue

It’s not impossible that it needs something else.  Someone mentioned that the last cards that did the kind of dual-link dvi I need were the 900 series.  The 980tis only had 6gb though.  The monitor may just be toast.  I know a guy with a 1080ti in town I’m trying to arrange to try it on.

[Mark Kaine]

Damn. Well you could really try some older ones from NVIDIA, although I know that can be annoying / time consuming. 

 

 

Also you can turn of automatic driver updates btw,  I don't really recall how though. (I just turned off updates completely, or rather my "organization" did and I'm on the yearly update thing)  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[Mick Naughty]

If it’s reference, it’d be all the same. But I like the evga acx stuff with reference boards.