The prices the GTX 1080 cards are selling for here in the UK due to low stock availability is ridiculous. I've seen some Founder's Edition cards list at £699 and higher! You'd have to be crazy to pay those kind of prices. Even the cards with third-party coolers are selling for MORE than the reference cards, which was the norm previously but with the additional £80 that NVIDIA added to the reference card, these should mostly be cheaper with higher end ones coming it at the same £619 price as the reference card. Mind you, I shouldn't complain as these prices are definitely helping me resist buying a GTX 1080 right now (assuming I could even find a non-Founder's Edition card that is actually in stock).
Which places are you checking prices? £525 with reference blower... https://www.overclockers.co.uk/kfa2...ess-graphics-card-80nsj6dhk5vk-gx-087-kf.html
EGVA Classified .... 2.2 Ghz Clock out-of-box https://twitter.com/dimitry49/status/740517917326970880
Funny but what I mean is that normally if you OC, your driver crashes and that's it. If you OC your memory you get artifacts, that's the information I have. And not that you apply a little bit of OC and suddenly the card starts to artifact but wait...you can go even higher and the card is stable, but the artifacts are there.
And if it is then it will be on a hell of a premium price, since afaik there are no other cards out there that do it. Maybe the MSI Lightning will too, but still, that will likely just be the maximum boost, and with 1070/1080 it's all about the average clock.
I had a 780 Classified that produced artifacts with minor OC's that my second Classified handled w/o issue. Evga accepted the RMA w/o question and cross-shipped another card. It definitely depends on the situation ....
Just sold my GTX 960 for an fair price now waiting for my GTX 1080 and gaming on the motherboard graphics in windowd mode
That just means your overclock is too high... that does NOT justify a RMA unless it artifacts at default clocks too.
I'm just asking since I've never had artifacts on core OC before, only on memory. And my OC is not high, it's low. Just compare it to any other HW review or people in this thread.
I'm planning on selling my 780GTX and moving onto my i7 glorious integrated graphics. I haven't quite made up my mind on AMD or NVidia this round, might hold out until mid July before making my choice.
I'm just wondering since when companies accept RMAs because of OC not working as expected... out of the box would be what I would care, everything beyond is the customer's problem and officially not supported (or allowed even?) but I'm not a graphics card board partner I was just surprised since I wouldn't be bold enough to try it :eyes:
Right now I'm at +100 core which is somewhere between 2025-2050MHz depending on the game. For example DS3 clocks at 2050 since it's capped at 60FPS and therefore the GPU load is really low (~55%) but Witcher 3 is more intense and the clock stays at 2038 but can drop to 2025. I'll post a video later. Stop beeing an azz, I'm just discussing the topic here and of course I'm not going to RMA just like that. I'm just trying to assess if there is something wrong with the card since I've never experienced artifacts just by OCing the core! Everyone calm down Like I wrote above, I'm just discussing the topic If everyone but me has experience artifacts while OCing then sorry There is a first time for everything. I'm still trying to find an OC which doesn't show artifacts in any game but so far no luck :3eyes:
Nothing wrong with asking questions mate, it's cool. I take it you have not artifacts at stock? How about running 2k on the core? Does it artifact?
