BytalesXT
So that means 2063 without touching clocks and 2300 with overclock is faar better than your card!

sethleigh
You guys wanna see an EVGA Hydro Copper that you can actually get, today?

 
 

 
 
 
Oh wait, that's a 1080 SC sporting an EK full cover water block and the original EVGA backplate. And I've had the 1080 for nearly three months now, and the EK block on it for several weeks.

At some point you guys suffering with several year old cards gotta make a decision whether you're going to poop or get off the pot. If you're still using a 580 and really want a Hydro Copper, and EVGA is simply failing to sell you one, you have to decide whether you just keep waiting forever, or help yourself. While it might not be called the Hydro Copper and come like this out of the box, you are in fact able to help yourself to the final product right now, today, if you really want to.

If you're holding on because you're convinced that EVGA's eventual Hydro Copper will be a "special" 1080 that works better, then just go buy a 1080 FTW and put EK's new FTW water block on it. From what I read EK has finally released them.
 
I have no idea why EVGA can't seem to get this product out to you guys. It may be simply 1080 supply problems in general, or it could be that EVGA is simply working on too many different products with too few people, or who knows what the problem is. At this point we're over three months into the 1080, and you Hydro Copper fanbois have been waiting for months and months with nothing to show for it.
 
Either EVGA gives you some real info to tide you over, or releases a product you can actually buy, or you take the problem into your own hands and get the product that will satisfy your needs using what's actually available on the market today. Or keep waiting and missing out on games. To the guy who can't play The Division because his card is too slow, I have bad news for you: you missed the boat. The Division is dying a death through lack of new content, and only a small fraction of its playerbase is still plugging away. Don't get me wrong, I loved that game, warts and all, and I played it far, far longer than most of my friends, but even I haven't logged in to the Division in weeks. I just played it out.

yuskyi03
Zotac 1080 arctic storm jayztwocents
https://youtu.be/MwQ4N8ogLl8

sethleigh
You guys wanna see an EVGA Hydro Copper that you can actually get, today?

 
 

 
 
 
Oh wait, that's a 1080 SC sporting an EK full cover water block and the original EVGA backplate. And I've had the 1080 for nearly three months now, and the EK block on it for several weeks.

At some point you guys suffering with several year old cards gotta make a decision whether you're going to poop or get off the pot. If you're still using a 580 and really want a Hydro Copper, and EVGA is simply failing to sell you one, you have to decide whether you just keep waiting forever, or help yourself. While it might not be called the Hydro Copper and come like this out of the box, you are in fact able to help yourself to the final product right now, today, if you really want to.

If you're holding on because you're convinced that EVGA's eventual Hydro Copper will be a "special" 1080 that works better, then just go buy a 1080 FTW and put EK's new FTW water block on it. From what I read EK has finally released them.
 
I have no idea why EVGA can't seem to get this product out to you guys. It may be simply 1080 supply problems in general, or it could be that EVGA is simply working on too many different products with too few people, or who knows what the problem is. At this point we're over three months into the 1080, and you Hydro Copper fanbois have been waiting for months and months with nothing to show for it.
 
Either EVGA gives you some real info to tide you over, or releases a product you can actually buy, or you take the problem into your own hands and get the product that will satisfy your needs using what's actually available on the market today. Or keep waiting and missing out on games. To the guy who can't play The Division because his card is too slow, I have bad news for you: you missed the boat. The Division is dying a death through lack of new content, and only a small fraction of its playerbase is still plugging away. Don't get me wrong, I loved that game, warts and all, and I played it far, far longer than most of my friends, but even I haven't logged in to the Division in weeks. I just played it out.

lazarus83
You are right, I need to just get a card and slap a waterblock on it.  I originally had the gtx 480 hydrocopper but i got to do the stepup and got a reference gtx 580 that I put a massive copper waterblock on.  I am hesitant to get the gtx 1080 ftw because of all the forums reporting black screen issues.  I may just hold out for a classified ek block but i have a feeling that will just be the hydrocopper edition.  One of my coworkers talked me down last night from going balls deep and just ordering the titan xp and getting the block for it.

sethleigh

AHowes
Granted the fe cards usually will run 2050-2100+ overclocked but will the clocks will bounce all over the place from that single 8 pin connector and or the limited 5 phase power compared to custom cards like the classified that gives you overkill 14+3 phase power or the ftw with its 12+2 phases power.

With all that said your still limited by the silicon lottery with the chip itself. So all that extra overkill power regulation would mean squat if your chip don't wana budge over 2k.

I think about that, and worry that a second 1080 SC wouldn't turn out as well as my first one did, but two things make me think more positively about this:
 
1) we typically hear more of the bad than of the good on boards like this, so I'm not convinced the 1080 dud situation is as bad as it's made out to be, and
 
2) in SLI I'd probably be very satisfied with cards even if they don't clock as well as my 1080 SC does right now. I run this at 2139Mhz rock stable in various games and benchmarks (2152 but not rock stable), but with SLI I'd probably be more than satisfied just running the pair at 2025 or 2050. I mean, for my purposes, that would be a dream solution. I push for 2139 right now only because I have a single card and am not quite there yet for 4k/60 in some games. For lots of games though I'm well past 4K/60 with the single card. I was playing a game last night (granted, not modern AAA graphics quality) where I was getting 95-125 fps at 4K/ultra.
 
I play games that are fun to me, and it's a bonus if they look great too. I can't say that with my choice of games I'm not already well served by the single 1080. Two would be fantastic overkill, and even with a hypothetical future 120hz 4K gsync monitor I'd still be hitting 90-100 in the games that are currently not quite at 4K/60, and the rest would be pegged. That's certainly good enough for me for several years to come.

specialservice
I bit the bullet bought a 1080FTW in spite of all the reported problems and an EK FTW waterblock.  Tested the card for 4 days BF4, Folding, Overwatch etc. absolutely no issues.  Slapped on the waterblock today (kept the stock backplate, not difficult) and cranked it up to +152 Gpu +150 Mem. (130% power target) resulting in 2151 @ 42 deg. c.  As usual the quality of the EK block is great, however the stock cooler had a few scratches on the GPU contact surface I haven't seen that before.