Ordered an EVGA 1080

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Ordered an EVGA 1080

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I know, early bird pays more. But my wife has been having some serious heart issues (which are clearing and she'll be ok) but she's on light duty for 6 weeks, so I'll be hanging around the house more than usual.

Ordered from newegg and status says it's in packaging.

Couldn't get an in-stock at amazon, but somebody in this thread http://www.nowinstock.net/computers/vid ... a/gtx1080/ posted Newegg links and I got in on one of those.
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Nice. I'd like to rationalize buying one, but my GTX 980 still more than does the job, and having just sunk a bunch of bread on the new workstation, don't feel like taking the ding in the wallet.

Maybe at the end of the year or when some must-have game isn't giving me the sustained 75+ FPS I demand nowadays.
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Re: Ordered an EVGA 1080

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Nice. Like FP my 980ti is going strong. Honestly, I'll probably keep en eye on the prices and pick up another for SLI.
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This will definitely be a step up from my 970. I don't really overclock anything anymore and this will be more than fast enough. Folks with 980s and 980 GTIs will be able to pick up 2nd cards for cheap for sure.
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Well, I got it on Wed, but really haven't had a chance to stretch it out on anything because my internet has been down most of the week (Frontier=3rdWorldNet) and I can't download patches to any eye candy games like Witcher3 or demos like firestrike.

It is slightly larger than my MSI 970, and the solid cover made it a little challenging to get into my mobo. The bottom end comes down on top of some sata plugs.

The first time I installed it, my system wouldn't post. Swapped back the old one, same result. I guess I must have jiggled something when I was cleaning the case out. of course couldn't look up the post codes 'cause no internet.

reset ram, etc., and got it to post > corrupt bios message> use default bios > post. Then it was good to go.

Played with the EVGA overclocking a little bit, and it reported getting over 2000 on the gpu. It does a fraps type display, but I couldn't find anything challenging enough to really push it. Looks like it will jump to lowest idle whenever possible. seems pretty quiet.

more later.
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