Soooo, like a lot of you my 1080 gave me the black screen and it never booted up again. While I am waiting for my new one to arrive Monday, I decided to put an old 960 in my current rig just so I have something. I am getting a little frustrated because I am seeing VERY VERY close performance in frames on WoW and League of Legends. I have not tried any other game, but what gives. Anyone have any ideas.

mjs2425
Soooo, like a lot of you my 1080 gave me the black screen and it never booted up again. While I am waiting for my new one to arrive Monday, I decided to put an old 960 in my current rig just so I have something. I am getting a little frustrated because I am seeing VERY VERY close performance in frames on WoW and League of Legends. I have not tried any other game, but what gives. Anyone have any ideas.

You'd have to give us more details on the rest of your hardware. The two titles you listed are not very graphic intensive is another thing to consider.

This is my build, I guess it is really hard to explain now without the 1080. I feel like the 960 is giving it everything its got, while the 1080 was barely even running. (My whole build is running hotter now).
 
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CPU: Intel Core i7-6700K 4.0GHz Quad-Core Processor ($329.99 @ Newegg)
CPU Cooler: Corsair H100i v2 70.7 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler ($94.99 @ Newegg)
Motherboard: Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO ATX LGA1151 Motherboard ($199.99 @ B&H)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws V Series 32GB (2 x 16GB) DDR4-3200 Memory ($194.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Samsung 950 PRO 512GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive ($314.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 8GB FTW Gaming ACX 3.0 Video Card ($679.99 @ B&H)
Case: Cooler Master MasterCase Maker 5 ATX Mid Tower Case ($169.99 @ B&H)
Power Supply: EVGA 850W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply ($118.99 @ NCIX US)
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mjs2425
Soooo, like a lot of you my 1080 gave me the black screen and it never booted up again. While I am waiting for my new one to arrive Monday, I decided to put an old 960 in my current rig just so I have something. I am getting a little frustrated because I am seeing VERY VERY close performance in frames on WoW and League of Legends. I have not tried any other game, but what gives. Anyone have any ideas.

Both those games are cpu intensive. What resolution are you running?

Sajin

mjs2425
Soooo, like a lot of you my 1080 gave me the black screen and it never booted up again. While I am waiting for my new one to arrive Monday, I decided to put an old 960 in my current rig just so I have something. I am getting a little frustrated because I am seeing VERY VERY close performance in frames on WoW and League of Legends. I have not tried any other game, but what gives. Anyone have any ideas.

Both those games are cpu intensive. What resolution are you running?

 
1080p 

Yes WoW is very CPU intensive and I believe there is a frame cap on the game, you can edit this in the config file if you wish. With this game it is very rough to stay over 100 fps in general areas. 
 
For League of Legends please make sure you are not capping the frames (this should be in settings if they haven't changed it). If you have Vsync enabled in either the game settings or in Nvidia Control Panel you can turn it off for higher framerate. 

If those are the only games you play why did you buy a 1080?

EVGATech_HudsonH
Yes WoW is very CPU intensive and I believe there is a frame cap on the game, you can edit this in the config file if you wish. With this game it is very rough to stay over 100 fps in general areas. 
 
For League of Legends please make sure you are not capping the frames (this should be in settings if they haven't changed it). If you have Vsync enabled in either the game settings or in Nvidia Control Panel you can turn it off for higher framerate. 

There is no FPS cap in WoW, other than vSync, I can get 120+ FPS on ultra @ 4K with a GTX 1080 Hybrid, but my 4.4Ghz Hex core is slammed.  OP is most definitely CPU or Addon bound on WoW.