Hey guys. I'm looking to upgrade my GPU from the GTX Titan to something new. Maybe the 1080.
But, i see so many card series etc. I assume that the 1080 is the top of the line card today?
I want to be able to play the newest games at max settings at 1440p. At 60 fps or higher.
 
My CPU is: Intel Core i7 4770K
Motherboard:  141-HW-E877
Ram: 32 gigs.

Are you joking? Have you been living under a rock? The entire 10xx lineup from EVGA is a mess. Get yourself Zotac, Gigabyte, ASUS Strix or MSI. 

imricko99
Are you joking? Have you been living under a rock? The entire 10xx lineup from EVGA is a mess. Get yourself Zotac, Gigabyte, ASUS Strix or MSI. 

Why do you think i go on here and ask?
Not everyone follows the latest trends.
 

dapgicc
Hey guys. I'm looking to upgrade my GPU from the GTX Titan to something new. Maybe the 1080.
But, i see so many card series etc. I assume that the 1080 is the top of the line card today?
I want to be able to play the newest games at max settings at 1440p. At 60 fps or higher.
 
My CPU is: Intel Core i7 4770K
Motherboard:  141-HW-E877
Ram: 32 gigs.

I purchased my cards in July and have not had any issues with them. I have ordered the thermal pad kits just as a precaution but any cards you purchase now will most likely have these "fixes" in place. You will also get great customer service so I personally would not have any reservations from buying a 1080 today

The new GTX Titan X is currently the best card and in your upgrade path since you all ready have a GTX Titan. The GTX 1080Ti, which will basically be the Titan X at a much lower cost... Is expected to be out somewhere around January/February next year.
 
This is currently the fastest card you can buy right now:
http://www.geforce.com/hardware/10series/titan-x-pascal
 
You will want the Pascal version, the Maxwell Titan X isn't as fast.
 
You could also find another one of your cards on eBay and run SLI... Or move over to something like a GTX 980Ti if you want to avoid the GTX 10 series issues.

DamZe

stalinx20

imricko99
Are you joking? Have you been living under a rock? The entire 10xx lineup from EVGA is a mess. Get yourself Zotac, Gigabyte, ASUS Strix or MSI. 

Definitely do not do that. MSI, I hear mixed reviews, they can give you the run around. Gigabyte - stay away. Asus - definitely stay away and don't even touch them with a 10ft pole. Zotac - don't have any comment, not enough info on them.
 
The 1080 is definitely not the best card out there.

That is completely biased and untrue. I've built several rigs for family members with ASUS/MSi cards, they work without any issue, there might be a defective card from time to time (as there is with every single brand), but nothing as stupid as not having VRM cooling or vRAM pads that make no contact as seen with EVGA's 10-series custom line up.

Well, then you're one of the very few that got lucky. I can pull up a lot of reports that show Gigabyte fraudulently damaging customer's products to refuse warranty service, and that includes the same for Asus. However, I have not found any reports showing that Asus damages customers' products, but they go in circles with the customers frequently. Biased? If you really want to go there I will be happy to show you articles if you want. It's not biased, I'm a victim myself.

stalinx20

DamZe

stalinx20

imricko99
Are you joking? Have you been living under a rock? The entire 10xx lineup from EVGA is a mess. Get yourself Zotac, Gigabyte, ASUS Strix or MSI. 

Definitely do not do that. MSI, I hear mixed reviews, they can give you the run around. Gigabyte - stay away. Asus - definitely stay away and don't even touch them with a 10ft pole. Zotac - don't have any comment, not enough info on them.
 
The 1080 is definitely not the best card out there.

That is completely biased and untrue. I've built several rigs for family members with ASUS/MSi cards, they work without any issue, there might be a defective card from time to time (as there is with every single brand), but nothing as stupid as not having VRM cooling or vRAM pads that make no contact as seen with EVGA's 10-series custom line up.

Well, then you're one of the very few that got lucky. I can pull up a lot of reports that show Gigabyte fraudulently damaging customer's products to refuse warranty service, and that includes the same for Asus. However, I have not found any reports showing that Asus damages customers' products, but they go in circles with the customers frequently. Biased? If you really want to go there I will be happy to show you articles if you want. It's not biased, I'm a victim myself.

I am certain there are scenarios which make it difficult to reach an agreement with the company with different circumstances and all. But telling people to stay away from the like of ASUS, MSi and Gigabyte isn't an option either. What would you tell people who want to buy an EVGA 10-series card? No company is perfect, but I can’t remember ever having a company completely skimp on QA when it comes to cooling on enthusiast level products like EVGA has done, and I can’t remember ever having to wait months to get the pads I need to make my product perform close to what it was originally advertised with.
 
Bottom line, no one is perfect, but EVGA has just positioned themselves as one of the worst offenders. I’d rather have some communication error with a company on an occasional dud/defective card, rather than have all the cards within a product line at risk of breaking. I can pretty much forget about resale value of my FTW 1070, it’s dead no one is going to take my word for it, having (eventually, if they ever decide to send those damn pads) installed some thermal pads DIY style on my Card as if some bloke looking for a card he can be comfortable with is going to take my word for it not frying due to overkill VRM setup and inadequate cooling. The FTW Cards have zereo performance advantage over other Cards, the increase 10+2 power phase setup is lame and only there to give the illusion of delivering cleaner power, tests show otherwise..    

DamZe

stalinx20

DamZe

stalinx20

imricko99
Are you joking? Have you been living under a rock? The entire 10xx lineup from EVGA is a mess. Get yourself Zotac, Gigabyte, ASUS Strix or MSI. 

Definitely do not do that. MSI, I hear mixed reviews, they can give you the run around. Gigabyte - stay away. Asus - definitely stay away and don't even touch them with a 10ft pole. Zotac - don't have any comment, not enough info on them.
 
The 1080 is definitely not the best card out there.

That is completely biased and untrue. I've built several rigs for family members with ASUS/MSi cards, they work without any issue, there might be a defective card from time to time (as there is with every single brand), but nothing as stupid as not having VRM cooling or vRAM pads that make no contact as seen with EVGA's 10-series custom line up.

Well, then you're one of the very few that got lucky. I can pull up a lot of reports that show Gigabyte fraudulently damaging customer's products to refuse warranty service, and that includes the same for Asus. However, I have not found any reports showing that Asus damages customers' products, but they go in circles with the customers frequently. Biased? If you really want to go there I will be happy to show you articles if you want. It's not biased, I'm a victim myself.

I am certain there are scenarios which make it difficult to reach an agreement with the company with different circumstances and all. But telling people to stay away from the like of ASUS, MSi and Gigabyte isn't an option either. What would you tell people who want to buy an EVGA 10-series card? No company is perfect, but I can’t remember ever having a company completely skimp on QA when it comes to cooling on enthusiast level products like EVGA has done, and I can’t remember ever having to wait months to get the pads I need to make my product perform close to what it was originally advertised with.
 
Bottom line, no one is perfect, but EVGA has just positioned themselves as one of the worst offenders. I’d rather have some communication error with a company on an occasional dud/defective card, rather than have all the cards within a product line at risk of breaking. I can pretty much forget about resale value of my FTW 1070, it’s dead no one is going to take my word for it, having (eventually, if they ever decide to send those damn pads) installed some thermal pads DIY style on my Card as if some bloke looking for a card he can be comfortable with is going to take my word for it not frying due to overkill VRM setup and inadequate cooling. The FTW Cards have zereo performance advantage over other Cards, the increase 10+2 power phase setup is lame and only there to give the illusion of delivering cleaner power, tests show otherwise..    

How is EVGA the worst offender? At least they admitted their problems they were having. I'd like to see Asus or even Gigabyte do that at least one time; I would pay them to see them do that. What would I tell people who want to buy an EVGA 10 series card? Stick with the reference cards, always. That's the 1st step. Don't be so naïve to think EVGA tried to hide their mistake.

lebel
*People that buy their components to use and then sell on will be put off by buying evga 10 series cards with all that's transpired. I would have to agree, regardless of actual failure rate.
*People that have already bought their expensive evga 10 series cards and now feel either cheated, disappointed, disillusioned or just plain angry. I really do sympathize. Having a quality aftercare service will not please or satisfy everyone, especially when they bought into the brand because of their products and not the other way round.
 
just my one and a half cents

Until I see my pads arrive, I will not call it "quality aftercare", 4 weeks and counting..

DamZe

lebel
*People that buy their components to use and then sell on will be put off by buying evga 10 series cards with all that's transpired. I would have to agree, regardless of actual failure rate.
*People that have already bought their expensive evga 10 series cards and now feel either cheated, disappointed, disillusioned or just plain angry. I really do sympathize. Having a quality aftercare service will not please or satisfy everyone, especially when they bought into the brand because of their products and not the other way round.
 
just my one and a half cents

Until I see my pads arrive, I will not call it "quality aftercare", 4 weeks and counting..

Quality of service, I don't see them failing here. Time of turnaround or one's impatience is a subjective feeling.
 

I would not go EVGA this time around.  You never know what you will get, old , new, modded, updated bios, 3-4% chip issue, who knows.  They cut a lot of corners and built cheap but sold for a premium price.

Gawg36

dakon
I would not go EVGA this time around.  You never know what you will get, old , new, modded, updated bios, 3-4% chip issue, who knows.  They cut a lot of corners and built cheap but sold for a premium price.

I understand your thinking and think it is totally reasonable for this Pascal gen. I'm sure others will agree too, and this will affect EVGA's bottom line this financial year, maybe longer?
But I don't think this was done to cut corners, I mean the thermal pads are probably the cheapest part, but of course there is QC to which should have found it. I think it was big mess up by an otherwise reliable company. I suppose that does't make it any better and the result is the same whatever.
One thing for sure. If any thing similar happens again with EVGA I would totally agree with you and would boycott them for life. This time, after my initial fury I can give them a pass on this. Just.
Not happy about it of course, and it is pretty much inexcusable but I'm willing to give them another chance, mainly because of their support service. But this is only my opinion, and you may be right.

 
That is one of the best and most civil responses I have seen on this forum in a long time.  I agree with what you said.
 
I have a long memory though.  EVGA had issues way back in the day with their motherboards, and we had to RMA them as there was a chip issue.  It was a pain as I went through 3 boards till I got a good one.  It was a ton of work.

EVGA is the only nvidia GPU manufacturer I buy, but I wouldn't buy a 10 series evga GPU.
 
The absurd price and now hardware issues definitely hit them in the reputation department. I'll be looking at upgrading to the next generation of nvidia GPU, but there is a very good chance I might go to a different manufacturer now.