ASUS ROG 1080

[Duchess]

ASUS STRIX GTX1080 8G Advanced Edition Gaming Graphics Card

 

ASUS GeForce GTX 1080 8GB ROG STRIX OC Edition

 

How much difference does the OC stuff make???  Is it worth almost 100 dollars?

[Duchess]

Good talk guys...

[kir13y]

I have the non OC one.  You can just manually OC it yourself.  I have gotten an even better OC than the OC model comes with.

[Duchess]

Just now, kir13y said:

I have the non OC one.  You can just manually OC it yourself.  I have gotten an even better OC than the OC model comes with.

So its just a difference in how much effort the factory put into overclocking it?  Or is it "binned" (I dont know if that applies to GPUs)

[kir13y]

Just now, Duchess said:

So its just a difference in how much effort the factory put into overclocking it?  Or is it "binned" (I dont know if that applies to GPUs)

I couldn't figure out if its binned.  I am pretty sure it isn't binned though.  I mean its up to you and when I bought mine, the non OC model was like 50 bucks cheaper and I get even better performance.

[Lays]

"Sometimes" the reason OC models and non OC models exist because the non OC models weren't good enough to meet the criteria they sort for in the OC model.  It may not just be "does it overclock as well" it may be, does it have a higher power draw to reach that overclock than what they need, etc.

[JoshM813]

8G has standard 1080 BIOS, and the O8G has a custom ASUS BIOS I believe is really the difference. I could possibly wrong but I remember reading that somewhere.

[Duchess]

1 minute ago, JoshM813 said:

8G has standard 1080 BIOS, and the O8G has a custom ASUS BIOS I believe is really the difference. 

Im sorry I dont know about BIOS, does the ASUS one make it better?

[Duchess]

11 minutes ago, kir13y said:

I couldn't figure out if its binned.  I am pretty sure it isn't binned though.  I mean its up to you and when I bought mine, the non OC model was like 50 bucks cheaper and I get even better performance.

Does yours still have all the lights and whistles on it?  The non oc model is like 100 bucks cheaper now

[JoshM813]

It made it easier for a higher stable overclock due to it being able to draw more power.

[Duchess]

11 hours ago, JoshM813 said:

It made it easier for a higher stable overclock due to it being able to draw more power.

Ok thanks, That makes all the complicated stuff a little easier to understand.  I feel like they do this on purpose to trick dummies like me into spending too much

[Mick Naughty]

I bought the non oc version. A friend spent the extra for the oc version. Mine boosts higher then his. So I'd say it isn't worth it. Kinda pointless when you can oc. Also pointless if you think you'll notice that small oc in fps, unless you're playing a crappy game like bo3.