Hardware & Technical GTX 1080 TI coming soon

[Serpent]

Did anyone test a GTX 1080 Ti with Elite Dangerous yet?

 

[jmg]

Did anyone test a GTX 1080 Ti with Elite Dangerous yet?

I've played it on my titans, on 3x 4k monitors with surround, it's butter smooth. ti's will do at least as well.

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I have the EVGA GTX980ti Hybrid currently, am awaiting for the 1080ti series to have the same style - a liquid loop. However, the price right now on the 1080 series is waaaaaay too high for my piggy bank.

the hybrid cooler for the 1080 works on the titan/ti, just need to be a little handy with a dremel
(or just wait until evga releases the hybrid for the ti )

 

[CMDR MAIN SEQUENCE]

Did anyone test a GTX 1080 Ti with Elite Dangerous yet?

Yeah this guy: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/336438-Gtx-1080-ti-Elite-Dangerous

I have the EVGA GTX980ti Hybrid currently, am awaiting for the 1080ti series to have the same style - a liquid loop. However, the price right now on the 1080 series is waaaaaay too high for my piggy bank.

Frontier give this man a pay rise stat!

Can't you persuade David to get you one, you know, for ED testing purposes?

 

[Patrick_68000]

However, the price right now on the 1080 series is waaaaaay too high for my piggy bank.

It's true that Nvidia exaggerates on the prices

 

[proffrink]

Hard not to when you're the only person making a decent high-end card. The 1080 did take quite the price hit when the Ti came out though. I bought one when I couldn't justify the exchange rate making the Ti not really good enough value because of the silly pricing/weak pound

 

[Blian]

Exactly-- don't pay money for fancy coolers, don't pay for factory overclocking. Get the bone stock refernce card, overclock at your leisure, and change the cooler later if you want-- you can get a nice aio liquid cooler, and still come in under what it would have cost to by a souped up version from EVGA or Zotan or whatever.

Well this is the conclusion I came to as well, EVGA FE ordered

 

[proffrink]

Only thing is FEs are blower design which can be much more noisy as they're generally less efficient at shoving that air over stuff - also harder to clean. It depends on your case as much as anything though I guess.

 

[Blian]

Only thing is FEs are blower design which can be much more noisy as they're generally less efficient at shoving that air over stuff - also harder to clean. It depends on your case as much as anything though I guess.

The case will not be a problem, it is a huge case, open from the front, top and back, and have some holes for the PSU too on the bottom On the other hand ED makes my 980's fans spin 13%, so I don't really expect any hairblower style action from this one either.

 

[jmg]

Hard not to when you're the only person making a decent high-end card. The 1080 did take quite the price hit when the Ti came out though. I bought one when I couldn't justify the exchange rate making the Ti not really good enough value because of the silly pricing/weak pound

Exactly, hard not to expect high prices when AMD can't even come close to competing at the top.

 

[proffrink]

The case will not be a problem, it is a huge case, open from the front, top and back, and have some holes for the PSU too on the bottom On the other hand ED makes my 980's fans spin 13%, so I don't really expect any hairblower style action from this one either.

That's good. I usually avoid FE cards for this reason but these days the reference designs are quite decent.