Posted September 13, 2018 Is the EVGA 1080TI Founder's Edition a well made card? I can't find many being sold unless they're super over priced. Someone near me selling one for 550 but no RMA available. He says he's selling it so cheap because he's getting the RTX 2080 TI. So: 1: is it a good card? 2: Should I risk getting it without any way of getting a replacement? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted September 13, 2018 Just now, DVA said: Is the EVGA 1080TI Founder's Edition a well made card? I can't find many being sold unless they're super over priced. Someone near me selling one for 550 but no RMA available. He says he's selling it so cheap because he's getting the RTX 2080 TI. So: 1: is it a good card? 2: Should I risk getting it without any way of getting a replacement? It's a good card. If you want it yes it will run all games at 4K 60 high/ultra. Depending on the game. Ask him to show you it works before you buy it. Main PC: CPU: Intel Core i9 13900KS SP 116 (124P-102E) (6.1Ghz P-Cores 4.8Ghz E-cores) MC SP 88 CPU Voltage: LLC8 1.525V (real voltage 1.425V + - Temps 85-90 P-Cores, 70-73 E-cores) Cooled by: Supercool Direct Die 14th gen full nickel Motherboard: Z790 ASUS Maximus Apex Encore RAM: GSkill TridentZ 2x24GB DDR5 8600Mhz CL38 (OC from 8000Mhz CL40) GPU: RTX MSI 4090 Suprim X with EKWB waterblock Case: My own case fabricated out of aluminium and wood Storage: 4x 2TB Sarbent Rocket Plus Gen 4.0 NVMe, 1x External 2TB Seagate Barracuda (Backup) WiFi: BE202 WiFi 7 Tri-Band card module PSU: Corsair AX1600i with custom black and red cables with 2x Corsair 5V+ Load Balancer Display: Samsung Oddysey G9 240Hz Ver. 5120x1440 with G-Sync and Freesync Premium Pro 1008 Firmware Ver, and 1x Electriq USB C 1080p 15'8 inch IPS portable display for temperature and stats, MSI 23'8 144Hz G-Sync Fan Controllers: 6x AquaComputer Octo with 5 temperature sensors Cooling: Three Custom Loops: 1st Loop: 5x 480mm XE CoolStream radiators with 1x Revo D5 RGB pump and 1x Rajintek Antila D5 Evo RGB pump for GPU only cooling with 2x Koolance QDC3, red coolant 2nd Loop: 5x 480mm XE CoolStream radiators with 1x Revo D5 RGB pump and 1x Rajintek Antila D5 Evo RGB pump for CPU only cooling with 2x Koolance QDC3, purple coolant 3rd Loop: 1x 240mm PE CoolStream radiator with 1x EKWB Revo D5 pump (RAM ONLY) Total: 5x pumps and 13x radiators 50x 3000RPM Noctua Industrial fans Keyboard: Razer BlackWidow V3 RGB - Green switches Sound: Logitech Z680 5.1 THX Certified 505W Speakers Mouse: Razer Basilisk Ultimate Wireless with charging dock Piano: Yamaha P155 Phone: Oppo Find X5 Pro Camera: Logitech Brio Pro 4K VR: Oculus Rift S External SSD: 256GB Overclocking OS Laptop: MSI Titan GT77HX V13, RTX 4090 175W, i9 13980HX OC: P-Cores 5.8Ghz 3 cores and 5.2Ghz 5 cores and E-Cores 4.3Ghz, 192GB of RAM @5600Mhz @3600 (chipset limit), 12TB (3x4TB) of NVMe, 17'3 inch 4K 144Hz MiniLED screen, 4x 17'3 ASUS portable USB-C Monitors 240Hz, Creative Sound Blaster G6 Sound Card, Portable 16TB NVMe in TB4 enclosures (8x2TB), Razer Basilisk Ultimate Wireless with charging dock gaming mouse, Keychron K3 gaming keyboard with blue switches low profile, Logitech Brio 4K Webcam. Hand held: ROG Ally with XG Mobile RTX 3080 with Keychron K3 low profile keyboard (Blue Switches) and Razer Hyperspeed V3 mouse and 4TB NVMe upgrade (WDBlack SN850X), with 100W 20000Mah power bank and portable monitor ROG XG17AHP 17'3 inch 240Hz with built in battery, and 518Wh Power station for Camping. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted September 13, 2018 Define good card. There are customs cards out there with better coolers and therefor much quieter then a founders edition Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted September 13, 2018 4 minutes ago, DVA said: Is the EVGA 1080TI Founder's Edition a well made card? It's just an FE card manufactured by EVGA, it'll be basically identical to a 1080Ti FE bought directly from Nvidia. In the same way my Asus GTX 780 reference would be the same to a reference 780. 5 minutes ago, DVA said: 2: Should I risk getting it without any way of getting a replacement? If EVGA's warranty hasn't run out, then you should be able to use that even if you aren't the original owner. I've heard of EVGA honoring their warranty to secondhand owners in the past. Quote or tag me( @Crunchy Dragon) if you want me to see your reply If a post solved your problem/answered your question, please consider marking it as "solved" Community Standards // Join Floatplane! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted September 13, 2018 Author 7 minutes ago, Crunchy Dragon said: It's just an FE card manufactured by EVGA, it'll be basically identical to a 1080Ti FE bought directly from Nvidia. In the same way my Asus GTX 780 reference would be the same to a reference 780. If EVGA's warranty hasn't run out, then you should be able to use that even if you aren't the original owner. I've heard of EVGA honoring their warranty to secondhand owners in the past. That's my biggest fear of buying one. If it ends up dying than I have no way of getting a replacement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted September 13, 2018 I would recomend getting a custom design for the card. One with at least 2 fans I would say just for the extra cooling power, they cost relatively little more and are worth it The owner of "too many" computers, called The Lord of all Toasters (1920X 1080ti 32GB) The Toasted Controller (i5 4670, R9 380, 24GB) The Semi Portable Toastie machine (i7 3612QM (was an i3) intel HD 4000 16GB)' Bread and Butter Pudding (i7 7700HQ, 1050ti, 16GB) Pinoutbutter Sandwhich (raspberry pi 3 B) The Portable Slice of Bread (N270, HAHAHA, 2GB) Muffinator (C2D E6600, Geforce 8400, 6GB, 8X2TB HDD) Toastbuster (WIP, should be cool) loaf and let dough (A printer that doesn't print black ink) The Cheese Toastie (C2D (of some sort), GTX 760, 3GB, win XP gaming machine) The Toaster (C2D, intel HD, 4GB, 2X1TB NAS) Matter of Loaf and death (some old shitty AMD laptop) windybread (4X E5470, intel HD, 32GB ECC) (use coming soon, maybe) And more, several more Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted September 13, 2018 If he's selling it on eBay, there's the money back guarantee PC: CPU: i5-9600k - CPU Cooler: be quiet! Dark Rock Pro 4 - GPU: Sapphire Radeon RX 5700 XT 8GB GDDR6 - Motherboard: ASRock - Z370 Extreme4 - RAM: Team - T-Force Delta RGB 16 GB DDR4-3000 - PSU: Corsair - TXM Gold 550 W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply - Case: Thermaltake - Core G21 TG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted September 13, 2018 Author 3 minutes ago, lmeneses said: If he's selling it on eBay, there's the money back guarantee It's Offer Up, no buyer protection of any kind. My wife suggests I just get a brand new EVGA 1080ti SC for 700 + taxes because if anything goes wrong then I can exchange it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted September 13, 2018 2 minutes ago, DVA said: It's Offer Up, no buyer protection of any kind. My wife suggests I just get a brand new EVGA 1080ti SC for 700 + taxes because if anything goes wrong then I can exchange it. I mean, if your wife says yes then why not. I would just have him run some tests that you can see, and make your decision off that PC: CPU: i5-9600k - CPU Cooler: be quiet! Dark Rock Pro 4 - GPU: Sapphire Radeon RX 5700 XT 8GB GDDR6 - Motherboard: ASRock - Z370 Extreme4 - RAM: Team - T-Force Delta RGB 16 GB DDR4-3000 - PSU: Corsair - TXM Gold 550 W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply - Case: Thermaltake - Core G21 TG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted September 13, 2018 Buy cheapest reference card and add AIO water cooler to it. Main PC: CPU: Intel Core i9 13900KS SP 116 (124P-102E) (6.1Ghz P-Cores 4.8Ghz E-cores) MC SP 88 CPU Voltage: LLC8 1.525V (real voltage 1.425V + - Temps 85-90 P-Cores, 70-73 E-cores) Cooled by: Supercool Direct Die 14th gen full nickel Motherboard: Z790 ASUS Maximus Apex Encore RAM: GSkill TridentZ 2x24GB DDR5 8600Mhz CL38 (OC from 8000Mhz CL40) GPU: RTX MSI 4090 Suprim X with EKWB waterblock Case: My own case fabricated out of aluminium and wood Storage: 4x 2TB Sarbent Rocket Plus Gen 4.0 NVMe, 1x External 2TB Seagate Barracuda (Backup) WiFi: BE202 WiFi 7 Tri-Band card module PSU: Corsair AX1600i with custom black and red cables with 2x Corsair 5V+ Load Balancer Display: Samsung Oddysey G9 240Hz Ver. 5120x1440 with G-Sync and Freesync Premium Pro 1008 Firmware Ver, and 1x Electriq USB C 1080p 15'8 inch IPS portable display for temperature and stats, MSI 23'8 144Hz G-Sync Fan Controllers: 6x AquaComputer Octo with 5 temperature sensors Cooling: Three Custom Loops: 1st Loop: 5x 480mm XE CoolStream radiators with 1x Revo D5 RGB pump and 1x Rajintek Antila D5 Evo RGB pump for GPU only cooling with 2x Koolance QDC3, red coolant 2nd Loop: 5x 480mm XE CoolStream radiators with 1x Revo D5 RGB pump and 1x Rajintek Antila D5 Evo RGB pump for CPU only cooling with 2x Koolance QDC3, purple coolant 3rd Loop: 1x 240mm PE CoolStream radiator with 1x EKWB Revo D5 pump (RAM ONLY) Total: 5x pumps and 13x radiators 50x 3000RPM Noctua Industrial fans Keyboard: Razer BlackWidow V3 RGB - Green switches Sound: Logitech Z680 5.1 THX Certified 505W Speakers Mouse: Razer Basilisk Ultimate Wireless with charging dock Piano: Yamaha P155 Phone: Oppo Find X5 Pro Camera: Logitech Brio Pro 4K VR: Oculus Rift S External SSD: 256GB Overclocking OS Laptop: MSI Titan GT77HX V13, RTX 4090 175W, i9 13980HX OC: P-Cores 5.8Ghz 3 cores and 5.2Ghz 5 cores and E-Cores 4.3Ghz, 192GB of RAM @5600Mhz @3600 (chipset limit), 12TB (3x4TB) of NVMe, 17'3 inch 4K 144Hz MiniLED screen, 4x 17'3 ASUS portable USB-C Monitors 240Hz, Creative Sound Blaster G6 Sound Card, Portable 16TB NVMe in TB4 enclosures (8x2TB), Razer Basilisk Ultimate Wireless with charging dock gaming mouse, Keychron K3 gaming keyboard with blue switches low profile, Logitech Brio 4K Webcam. Hand held: ROG Ally with XG Mobile RTX 3080 with Keychron K3 low profile keyboard (Blue Switches) and Razer Hyperspeed V3 mouse and 4TB NVMe upgrade (WDBlack SN850X), with 100W 20000Mah power bank and portable monitor ROG XG17AHP 17'3 inch 240Hz with built in battery, and 518Wh Power station for Camping. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted September 13, 2018 Author 4 minutes ago, lmeneses said: I mean, if your wife says yes then why not. I would just have him run some tests that you can see, and make your decision off that That's a great idea! She says yes but then again she has given me a "no limit" type of thing but I'm trying to cap the PC build to 2000 usd after taxes. I figure if i save 200 bucks I can allocate it to a 144hz 1ms monitor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted September 14, 2018 Wouldn’t be too worried about it. Is the seller any good? Has a lot of items sold? nothing wrong with buying used. If the add says it’s in working condition, then eBay will protect you. That simple. Main RIg Corsair Air 540, I7 9900k, ASUS ROG Maximus XI Hero, G.Skill Ripjaws 3600 32GB, 3090FE, EVGA 1000G5, Acer Nitro XZ3 2560 x 1440@240hz Spare RIg Lian Li O11 AIR MINI, I7 4790K, Asus Maximus VI Extreme, G.Skill Ares 2400 32Gb, EVGA 1080ti, 1080sc 1070sc & 1060 SSC, EVGA 850GA, Acer KG251Q 1920x1080@240hz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted September 14, 2018 Author 23 minutes ago, Mick Naughty said: Wouldn’t be too worried about it. Is the seller any good? Has a lot of items sold? nothing wrong with buying used. If the add says it’s in working condition, then eBay will protect you. That simple. It's not from eBay. It's ok. I found this great deal on a MSI 1080 ti. https://m.newegg.com/products/N82E16814137142?ignorebbr=1&nm_mc=AFC-C8Junction&cm_mmc=AFC-C8Junction-PCPartPicker%2c+LLC-_-na-_-na-_-na&AID=10446076&PID=3938566 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted September 14, 2018 As long as it’s better than thier other versions. Also finding it in stock at that price. Main RIg Corsair Air 540, I7 9900k, ASUS ROG Maximus XI Hero, G.Skill Ripjaws 3600 32GB, 3090FE, EVGA 1000G5, Acer Nitro XZ3 2560 x 1440@240hz Spare RIg Lian Li O11 AIR MINI, I7 4790K, Asus Maximus VI Extreme, G.Skill Ares 2400 32Gb, EVGA 1080ti, 1080sc 1070sc & 1060 SSC, EVGA 850GA, Acer KG251Q 1920x1080@240hz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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