GTX 1080 custom (non-Founders Edition) cards

[Grooveriding]

So in the end at launch founders edition is an early adopters tax cash grab. The only cards available at launch, with that $100 premium.

Titan, particularly Titan X, was a sort of early adopters tax for getting the flagship GPU before it released under a higher volume numerical geforce SKU. They applied an early adopter Titan tax to the 1080, only providing a noisy and hot reference card as your early bonus.

 

[tential]

no value for the consumer that is. The tax is sure tasty to nvidia.

Honestly, why hasn't a company from nvidia just taken the Fury X design and slapped it on their own card? Like maybe change it slightly but who cares. That card was beautiful.

Imagine a 980Ti design like that that lights up and says "EVGA" or something....

With HBM, it's possible to make that card nice like that. That's such a great design. With how the architecture likes WC for OCING, THAT should be the reference design for the 1080ti. For the $100 premium. Now if Nvidia did that, I would be very happy. Let the AIBs handle the crappy blowers.

I want a premium product from Nvidia if they plan on making ANY reference design.

 

[jabroni619]

Guys, what's your advice: should I buy GTX 1080 Founders Edition, or wait for the custom builds to show up? From what I read the custom editions may not be really a lot cheaper after all.

I doubt they'll be any cheaper then FE cards, but they will be better.

 

[nitromullet]

I doubt they'll be any cheaper then FE cards, but they will be better.

EVGA says they'll be cheaper too!

 

[tviceman]

Good news if true:

"The ASUS ROG STRIX will be available in two variants, a stock clocked variant that will be priced at $619.99 US and a factory overclocked variant that will be priced at $639.99 US."
http://wccftech.com/nvidia-geforce-gtx-1080-custom-model-round-up/

The Strix OC has 1936 boost. Still, think about it, if a good 1080 is $619-639+, it's becoming highly doubtful that 1080Ti will be $649 or even $699 like 980Ti/780Ti were. Prices continue to increase. What's ironic is that we are now half-way into the PS4/XB1 generation. Remember the 2nd half of Xbox 360/PS3 gen? Towards the end of the generation high end PC hardware is held back by outdated games/engines which cater to ancient and weak consoles. Come 2018 with Volta and we should have a $400 4K GPU, meaning for 90%+ of PC gamers on 1440p and below a $300 card will max almost everything.

1070 for under $400 will be the card to get for cost-effective upgraders. I guess that's about the same pricing as the gtx 670, although the argument could be made that the 670 could reach 680 speeds when OC'd. If you want to be a glass half full guy, 4 years and 3 months gets almost a 3x improvement in performance and 4x the memory for a slightly lower MSRP.

I'm not going to be shelling out big bucks on a new GPU until Pascal refreshes or Volta hits. When I rebuild I'll either get a used 390x and undervolt or used GTX 980 again.

 

[selni]

I doubt they'll be any cheaper then FE cards, but they will be better.

Announced pricing so far has been cheaper than the FE even for the high end variants. The whole everything will be $699 or more theory isn't playing out at all, although I haven't seen a card that's exactly $599 announced yet either.

 

[ShintaiDK]

I've been wishing they drop making reference cards completely and let AIBs handle it all.

With the $100 markup for a far worse product, it seems we really should just let AIBs handle everything. Nvidia has added no value with the Founder's Edition card at $700.

The problem is that AIBs tend to make awful blower type cards. And these are needed in large volumes.

 

[ShintaiDK]

Honestly, why hasn't a company from nvidia just taken the Fury X design and slapped it on their own card? Like maybe change it slightly but who cares. That card was beautiful.

Because its a useless design for many, specially OEMs.

 

[sam_816]

Announced pricing so far has been cheaper than the FE even for the high end variants. The whole everything will be $699 or more theory isn't playing out at all, although I haven't seen a card that's exactly $599 announced yet either.

I think that's because of the uproar on almost every online forum. Trend suggests that prices will range from 625-699(more for aio versions) and there is one msi version with malnutrition-ed blower that might get a price tag of $599.

 

[tential]

The problem is that AIBs tend to make awful blower type cards. And these are needed in large volumes.

Examples of aib awful blowers from aibs who vend Nvidia cards that are worse than the reference?

 

[ShintaiDK]

Examples of aib awful blowers from aibs who vend Nvidia cards that are worse than the reference?

MSI 1080 Aero, even MSI themselves told me it

Else something like this:

If you dispute it, show me better blowers from AIBs

 

[sam_816]

Not disputing it but I think this one had potential. It has vents on the back too and pcb is the small form factor one so the power connector is almost in the middle.

sent from Nokia Lumia 1520 using tapatalk

 

[crisium]

If you dispute it, show me better blowers from AIBs

Disupte what? Dispute that you posted pictures?

Where's the evidence showing AIB blowers having hotter temps, louder noises, or more throttling than Nvidia branded blowers?

Or do you have an alternate metric that we can deduce from those pictures? Do the aesthetics displease you?

 

[Head1985]

Asus GTX 1080 ROG Strix should cost 800euro in EU
http://www.pcgameshardware.de/Nvidi...News/Asus-Geforce-GTX-1080-ROG-Strix-1196597/

Asus confirmed that the ROG Strix GTX 1080 is in the delivery and "be available in the next two to three weeks in sufficient quantities" is; the MSRP is 799 Euro

 

[96Firebird]

Announced pricing so far has been cheaper than the FE even for the high end variants. The whole everything will be $699 or more theory isn't playing out at all, although I haven't seen a card that's exactly $599 announced yet either.

Whaaaaattt?! You mean the fear mongering that all 1080s will be priced higher than the FE cards was wrong? I heard it from enough people on these forums that you'd think it was fact, guess they can't be trusted...

 

[ShintaiDK]

Asus GTX 1080 ROG Strix should cost 800euro in EU
http://www.pcgameshardware.de/Nvidi...News/Asus-Geforce-GTX-1080-ROG-Strix-1196597/

The Rog Strix OC is 150DKK cheaper than the FE in Denmark.

 

[tential]

MSI 1080 Aero, even MSI themselves told me it

Else something like this:

How are these cards worse than the reference? Show me data. Those are just pictures.

Original Question for Reference:

Examples of aib awful blowers from aibs who vend Nvidia cards that are worse than the reference?

 

[Freddy1765]

The Rog Strix OC is 150DKK cheaper than the FE in Denmark.

Prices in Denmark are messed up at the moment. What's the deal with EVGA selling their card substantially cheaper than everyone else? It's literally 100 euro less than Asus'. Meanwhile the MSI Gaming is vastly overpriced.

 

[ShintaiDK]

Prices in Denmark are messed up at the moment. What's the deal with EVGA selling their card substantially cheaper than everyone else? It's literally 100 euro less than Asus'. Meanwhile the MSI Gaming is vastly overpriced.

The EVGA is selling at its price. Just some of the rest that is too high.

 

[AtenRa]

[Special] Hands-On: ASUS ROG GTX 1080 STRIX

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qv_B-zc0kcE

 

[Cloudfire777]

The Rog Strix OC is 150DKK cheaper than the FE in Denmark.

Asus Strix OC is Cheaper than Founder`s Edition in my country as well.

Also cheaper in UK

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/evga...ress-graphics-card-08g-p4-6180-gx-297-ea.html

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/asus...dr5x-pci-express-graphics-card-gx-401-as.html

Also a lot cheaper in US.
$640 for Asus STRIX 1080 OC vs $699 for Founder`s Edition.
http://pcdiy.asus.com/2016/05/this-is-the-asus-strix-geforce-gtx-1080-pascal-on-another-level/


I feel sorry for those that doesnt know and get the 1830MHz reference card over the Asus STRIX that does 2030MHz. The Asus card have vastly better thermals and power for overclocking.

 

[imaheadcase]

[Special] Hands-On: ASUS ROG GTX 1080 STRIX

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qv_B-zc0kcE

He keeps calling it Aces. Is that how they pronounce it in other countries? lol

 

[AtenRa]

He keeps calling it Aces. Is that how they pronounce it in other countries? lol

Well its the accent i believe.

 

[AtenRa]

Asus Strix OC is Cheaper than Founder`s Edition in my country as well.

Also cheaper in UK

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/evga...ress-graphics-card-08g-p4-6180-gx-297-ea.html

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/asus...dr5x-pci-express-graphics-card-gx-401-as.html

Also a lot cheaper in US.
$640 for Asus STRIX 1080 OC vs $699 for Founder`s Edition.
http://pcdiy.asus.com/2016/05/this-is-the-asus-strix-geforce-gtx-1080-pascal-on-another-level/


I feel sorry for those that doesnt know and get the 1830MHz reference card over the Asus STRIX that does 2030MHz. The Asus card have vastly better thermals and power for overclocking.

The ASUS Strix with a better board/power circuit and much much better cooler its cheaper than the NVIDIA FE that is $100 more because of the craftsmanship according to NV themselves. :whiste:

And people fell for the higher price BOM to justify the price increase :sneaky:

 

[tential]

The ASUS Strix with a better board/power circuit and much much better cooler its cheaper than the NVIDIA FE that is $100 more because of the craftsmanship according to NV themselves. :whiste:

And people fell for the higher price BOM to justify the price increase :sneaky:

Do you have a source that shows the bill of materials is higher? That's just a claim right now.