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1080 FTW ACX 3.0 or ICX?

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rla1999 iCX Member Total Posts : 292 Reward points : 0 Joined: 8/18/2011 Status: offline Ribbons : 0 Thursday, February 23, 2017 2:55 PM (permalink) I am thinking of getting a single 1080 FTW and wanted to know which is best for me? I have an air cooled system and I play about once a week. ACX 3.0 is cheaper but has had issues. ICX is new technology and regular price. But with every new technology, there may be issues in the future Which should I go with? Do the ACX 3.0 cards on the market now are free of previous reported issues? Chassis: Cooler Master HAF X (Blue Edition) CPU: I7 5930K MB: Gigabyte X99 Gaming G1 RAM: 64GB's Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2666MHz GPU: GTX 1080 TI FE PSU: 1000W Rosewill Extreme SSD: 480GB Kingston HyperX SATA III 6GB/s HDD: 2TB Seagate Barracuda + 4TB Western Digital MONITOR: Acer Predator XB271HU OS: Windows 10, Version 1607 [/ #1 15 Replies Related Threads
3etatester iCX Member Total Posts : 270 Reward points : 0 Joined: 12/9/2007 Status: offline Ribbons : 1 Re: 1080 FTW ACX 3.0 or ICX? Thursday, February 23, 2017 3:04 PM (permalink) My acx 3.0 ftw's are working great but if you're trying to make up your mind, why not look at the hybrid? Get the benefits of water cooling minus the huge investment. The one thing I would do though is to move/replace the rad fan to the motherboard and control it there. Z97 Classified :: i5 4670k @4.2Ghz :: 2-way GTX 980 SC's :: 3440x1440 #2
trilegdog iCX Member Total Posts : 307 Reward points : 0 Joined: 10/3/2006 Status: offline Ribbons : 1 Re: 1080 FTW ACX 3.0 or ICX? Thursday, February 23, 2017 3:11 PM (permalink) rla1999 I am thinking of getting a single 1080 FTW ............. Which should I go with? ......... Go with the ICX. I doubt that in the future that you'd be sitting at your PC thinking "wish I had gotten the ACX instead of the ICX". Just my opinion. :) Asus Formula VIII, i7-6700k, Tt Riing 360 AIO, 16GB Corsair Dom/Plat 3K, EVGA GTX 1080Ti Black step-up, SS 850 Pro 512, 2xWD Blk 2TB, EVGA P2 1000w, Dual Boot Win7Pro64 /Win10Pro, Tt Core X-9, SS2693HM 1900x1200, Fuzzy Dice 6181-KR Step-Up began 29 June, queue hit 29 Aug = 62 days RMA 980Ti SC+ to EVGA 31 Aug. Recvd by EVGA 10:41 am 2 Sep UPS track # issued 8 Sep - delivered 13 Sep 2:54 PM EST HYBRID AIO 400-HY-5188-B1 Ordered 8 July - Recvd 15 July EVGA 780i, E8400, 8GB OCZ (4x2), XPpro/Vista64 EVGA 8800 GTS G92 512 SLI (2), OCZ900MXS PS EVGA 7950 KO SLI lead, follow, or get out of the way #3
the_Scarlet_one formerly Scarlet-tech Total Posts : 24080 Reward points : 0 Joined: 11/13/2013 Location: East Coast Status: offline Ribbons : 79 Re: 1080 FTW ACX 3.0 or ICX? Thursday, February 23, 2017 3:11 PM (permalink) The 1080 is being announced in 5 days. Also, what does the ftw have that you want so bad? Is it the rgb? If you dont care for rgb, just get a reference card. Gpu boost 3.0 will boost the clocks to the same as an ftw anyway, so save yourself a few bucks. If rgb is a must, then the ftw is the way to go. It has been ahown in every single benchmark possible that the ftw, 10+2 phases, and higher clock speed, that the reference board can still hold up to the ftw and sometimes exceed it. The reference board was made awesome by nvidia. TSgt Matthew Schwartz SrA Bryan Bell A1C Matthew Seidler SSgt Joseph Fankhauser #4
rla1999 iCX Member Total Posts : 292 Reward points : 0 Joined: 8/18/2011 Status: offline Ribbons : 0 Re: 1080 FTW ACX 3.0 or ICX? Thursday, February 23, 2017 4:23 PM (permalink) 3etatester My acx 3.0 ftw's are working great but if you're trying to make up your mind, why not look at the hybrid? Get the benefits of water cooling minus the huge investment. The one thing I would do though is to move/replace the rad fan to the motherboard and control it there. I am a light gamer these days so I would prefer a plug and play GPU since I have never dealt with a hybrid. Not enough time to so research on it Chassis: Cooler Master HAF X (Blue Edition) CPU: I7 5930K MB: Gigabyte X99 Gaming G1 RAM: 64GB's Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2666MHz GPU: GTX 1080 TI FE PSU: 1000W Rosewill Extreme SSD: 480GB Kingston HyperX SATA III 6GB/s HDD: 2TB Seagate Barracuda + 4TB Western Digital MONITOR: Acer Predator XB271HU OS: Windows 10, Version 1607 [/ #5
rla1999 iCX Member Total Posts : 292 Reward points : 0 Joined: 8/18/2011 Status: offline Ribbons : 0 Re: 1080 FTW ACX 3.0 or ICX? Thursday, February 23, 2017 4:24 PM (permalink) trilegdog rla1999 I am thinking of getting a single 1080 FTW ............. Which should I go with? ......... Go with the ICX. I doubt that in the future that you'd be sitting at your PC thinking "wish I had gotten the ACX instead of the ICX". Just my opinion. :) Thanks. Noted Chassis: Cooler Master HAF X (Blue Edition) CPU: I7 5930K MB: Gigabyte X99 Gaming G1 RAM: 64GB's Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2666MHz GPU: GTX 1080 TI FE PSU: 1000W Rosewill Extreme SSD: 480GB Kingston HyperX SATA III 6GB/s HDD: 2TB Seagate Barracuda + 4TB Western Digital MONITOR: Acer Predator XB271HU OS: Windows 10, Version 1607 [/ #6
rla1999 iCX Member Total Posts : 292 Reward points : 0 Joined: 8/18/2011 Status: offline Ribbons : 0 Re: 1080 FTW ACX 3.0 or ICX? Thursday, February 23, 2017 4:28 PM (permalink) Scarlet-Tech The 1080 is being announced in 5 days. Also, what does the ftw have that you want so bad? Is it the rgb? If you dont care for rgb, just get a reference card. Gpu boost 3.0 will boost the clocks to the same as an ftw anyway, so save yourself a few bucks. If rgb is a must, then the ftw is the way to go. It has been ahown in every single benchmark possible that the ftw, 10+2 phases, and higher clock speed, that the reference board can still hold up to the ftw and sometimes exceed it. The reference board was made awesome by nvidia. Which 1080 is being announced in 5 days? I have not seen many reference cards with ACX 3.0 available. At Amazon there are some but FTW is cheaper now. At least, the ACX 3.0 ones. The ICX are there at regular prices. Don't care much about rgb. I like my two 980s reference. Good cards Chassis: Cooler Master HAF X (Blue Edition) CPU: I7 5930K MB: Gigabyte X99 Gaming G1 RAM: 64GB's Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2666MHz GPU: GTX 1080 TI FE PSU: 1000W Rosewill Extreme SSD: 480GB Kingston HyperX SATA III 6GB/s HDD: 2TB Seagate Barracuda + 4TB Western Digital MONITOR: Acer Predator XB271HU OS: Windows 10, Version 1607 [/ #7
the_Scarlet_one formerly Scarlet-tech Total Posts : 24080 Reward points : 0 Joined: 11/13/2013 Location: East Coast Status: offline Ribbons : 79 Re: 1080 FTW ACX 3.0 or ICX? Thursday, February 23, 2017 4:30 PM (permalink) Sorry, the 1080ti. I missed part of what i was typing. At least give the ti a chance to be releasex and see if it has any affect of pricing for the 1080 before you buy TSgt Matthew Schwartz SrA Bryan Bell A1C Matthew Seidler SSgt Joseph Fankhauser #8
rla1999 iCX Member Total Posts : 292 Reward points : 0 Joined: 8/18/2011 Status: offline Ribbons : 0 Re: 1080 FTW ACX 3.0 or ICX? Thursday, February 23, 2017 5:03 PM (permalink) Scarlet-Tech Sorry, the 1080ti. I missed part of what i was typing. At least give the ti a chance to be releasex and see if it has any affect of pricing for the 1080 before you buy Oh cool. Didn't know they were coming out this soon. If performance vs price ratio works, I may get that. But i know it will be in high demand so we ll see. Thanks Chassis: Cooler Master HAF X (Blue Edition) CPU: I7 5930K MB: Gigabyte X99 Gaming G1 RAM: 64GB's Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2666MHz GPU: GTX 1080 TI FE PSU: 1000W Rosewill Extreme SSD: 480GB Kingston HyperX SATA III 6GB/s HDD: 2TB Seagate Barracuda + 4TB Western Digital MONITOR: Acer Predator XB271HU OS: Windows 10, Version 1607 [/ #9
scott@bjorn3d SSC Member Total Posts : 693 Reward points : 0 Joined: 11/20/2006 Status: offline Ribbons : 2 Re: 1080 FTW ACX 3.0 or ICX? Thursday, February 23, 2017 5:06 PM (permalink) Have on of the very first FTW's and have never had an issue at all. It Folds 24/7 when not gaming on it. #10
rla1999 iCX Member Total Posts : 292 Reward points : 0 Joined: 8/18/2011 Status: offline Ribbons : 0 Re: 1080 FTW ACX 3.0 or ICX? Thursday, February 23, 2017 5:12 PM (permalink) scott@bjorn3d Have on of the very first FTW's and have never had an issue at all. It Folds 24/7 when not gaming on it. Good to know. Thanks Chassis: Cooler Master HAF X (Blue Edition) CPU: I7 5930K MB: Gigabyte X99 Gaming G1 RAM: 64GB's Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2666MHz GPU: GTX 1080 TI FE PSU: 1000W Rosewill Extreme SSD: 480GB Kingston HyperX SATA III 6GB/s HDD: 2TB Seagate Barracuda + 4TB Western Digital MONITOR: Acer Predator XB271HU OS: Windows 10, Version 1607 [/ #11
d.burnette CLASSIFIED Member Total Posts : 3508 Reward points : 0 Joined: 3/8/2007 Status: offline Ribbons : 17 Re: 1080 FTW ACX 3.0 or ICX? Thursday, February 23, 2017 5:38 PM (permalink) I too have one of the original 1080 FTW cards, has always ran great for me. ICX may get you a little cooler temp but certainly no guarantee on any additional performance. Don EVGA Z390 Dark MB \| i9 9900k CPU @ 5.2 GHz all cores \| EVGA RTX 3090 FTW3 Ultra \| 32 GB G Skill Trident Z 3200 MHz CL14 DDR4 Ram \| Corsair H150i Pro Cooler \| EVGA T2 Titanium 1000w Power Supply \| Samsung 970 Pro 1TB m.2 Nvme \| Samsung 970 Evo 1TB m.2 Nvme \| Samsung 860 Evo 1TB SATA SSD \| EVGA DG 87 Case \| #12
rla1999 iCX Member Total Posts : 292 Reward points : 0 Joined: 8/18/2011 Status: offline Ribbons : 0 Re: 1080 FTW ACX 3.0 or ICX? Thursday, February 23, 2017 5:47 PM (permalink) d.burnette I too have one of the original 1080 FTW cards, has always ran great for me. ICX may get you a little cooler temp but certainly no guarantee on any additional performance. Oh I see. Seems the ACX would work for me since I don't play for long periods nor Oc my cards much. Only slightly. Chassis: Cooler Master HAF X (Blue Edition) CPU: I7 5930K MB: Gigabyte X99 Gaming G1 RAM: 64GB's Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2666MHz GPU: GTX 1080 TI FE PSU: 1000W Rosewill Extreme SSD: 480GB Kingston HyperX SATA III 6GB/s HDD: 2TB Seagate Barracuda + 4TB Western Digital MONITOR: Acer Predator XB271HU OS: Windows 10, Version 1607 [/ #13
DuRKe Superclocked Member Total Posts : 164 Reward points : 0 Joined: 5/15/2008 Status: offline Ribbons : 3 Re: 1080 FTW ACX 3.0 or ICX? Thursday, February 23, 2017 5:50 PM (permalink) Scarlet-Tech Sorry, the 1080ti. I missed part of what i was typing. At least give the ti a chance to be releasex and see if it has any affect of pricing for the 1080 before you buy Source? EVGA Affiliate Code: 4L5-TLY-XCOQ EVGA Z170 Classified K \| 6700k \| EVGA 1080 Ti FTW3 \| EVGA 750 G3 \| 12GB Corsair RAM \| 950 pro m.2 \| 850 Evo \| H100iv2 \| Win 7 64-bit \| 378.78 \| Precision XOC 6.1.0 #14
the_Scarlet_one formerly Scarlet-tech Total Posts : 24080 Reward points : 0 Joined: 11/13/2013 Location: East Coast Status: offline Ribbons : 79 Re: 1080 FTW ACX 3.0 or ICX? Thursday, February 23, 2017 6:05 PM (permalink) DuRKe Scarlet-Tech Sorry, the 1080ti. I missed part of what i was typing. At least give the ti a chance to be releasex and see if it has any affect of pricing for the 1080 before you buy Source? Nvidia.com. the timer is for the release of the ti, which is why is shows as Time and when videos play, it fades and ti remains, as me disappears. TSgt Matthew Schwartz SrA Bryan Bell A1C Matthew Seidler SSgt Joseph Fankhauser #15
rla1999 iCX Member Total Posts : 292 Reward points : 0 Joined: 8/18/2011 Status: offline Ribbons : 0 Re: 1080 FTW ACX 3.0 or ICX? Friday, February 24, 2017 6:29 PM (permalink) For those of you with icx, how is it compared to ACX? Still debating which to get. Chassis: Cooler Master HAF X (Blue Edition) CPU: I7 5930K MB: Gigabyte X99 Gaming G1 RAM: 64GB's Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2666MHz GPU: GTX 1080 TI FE PSU: 1000W Rosewill Extreme SSD: 480GB Kingston HyperX SATA III 6GB/s HDD: 2TB Seagate Barracuda + 4TB Western Digital MONITOR: Acer Predator XB271HU OS: Windows 10, Version 1607 [/ #16

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