Got another 1080 FTW Hybrid from Microcenter last night and so far so good, no BS100% yet during a battery of benchmarks, F1 2016, and Gears 4. My serial is 16825xxxxxx00495. I think there are more issues with these cards than just the BS100%, and they may all be related. I just returned a 1080 Classified due to the card hitting the voltage limit, power limit, and even temp limit while gaming...yet temps were under 70 degrees. I had massive stuttering when the core clock would drop down to base value. Granted this was with a mild OC. At stock settings, the core clock and voltage would still go down for no apparent reason (2012 to 1721 occasionally) and I'd still get stuttering. NVCP was set to "max performance."
I am curious about all of this now because my 1st 1080 Hybrid downclocked under load for no reason- it's a Hybrid, temps were under 60 degrees. And it had the BS100%. The 2nd card I had did not have BS100%, but the voltage would always fluctuate and core clock would downclock again for no reason.
My new Hybrid behaves very differently. I've only tried Heaven @ 1080p for 15 mins, Firestrike Ultra, Extreme, and basic, and Sky Diver. Also played F1 for an hour and a half. I have never, even once, seen the core clock drop even 1 mhz the entire time. And this is with an OC. Similarly, my voltage line in Precision monitor is a steady 1.093 the entire time the card is under full load during the tests and it doesn't fluctuate like all 3 prior cards. Lastly I've never hit the power, voltage, or temp limit in Precision with this card which caused massive stutter on the old cards due to downclocking when that happens.
Why is my current FTW card seemingly rock solid and 3 other separate cards (2 FTW) were all over the place?
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