Tried catching up in the thread... so are we looking at May for the ftw3 release?

pathfindercod
Tried catching up in the thread... so are we looking at May for the ftw3 release?

Don't think so, Pax East start today, so during the next 3 days we should have more information about the new Evga TI , SC - SC2 and FTW3 .
But May for the FTW3 i hope not, April will be good, just have to wait like 20days . Just need to wait for Pax East

pathfindercod
Thanks fellas. Out of the loop lately. Work has had me away from my fun stuff. Lol

I haven't seen you around a lot lately. Hopefully you are doing well. I've been working in NYC for a month now. I get to go home tomorrow :-D

essenbe
I saw one of the You Tube Reviewers of the 1080 TI say it will be April. I have no clue if he knows what he was talking about.

Yeah , it was BitWIt ?
And someone ask this on twittter : Rumors are that partner 1080 Ti cards won’t launch till May. You guys hearing this as well? @JayzTwoCents @bitwitkyle @paulhardware JayzTwoCents, respond no. So probably End of March - April will be good !

Damn, i saw on the videocardz post, that the MSI Lightning TI will have : 
Power Connectors : 1 × 6-pin, 2 × 8-pin 

essenbe

123Testing123

essenbe
I saw one of the You Tube Reviewers of the 1080 TI say it will be April. I have no clue if he knows what he was talking about.

You mean Kyle here:
 @ about 3:15 ?
 
Hmm.. can't seem to post the YouTube video link, sorry.

I can't remember which one it was, I watched so many.

I know which one it was, just wasn't able to post the link here.
How do you post the link of a YouTube video here?
 
 
 

TDBMadness
Damn, i saw on the videocardz post, that the MSI Lightning TI will have : Power Connectors : 1 × 6-pin, 2 × 8-pin 

That was what the K|ngp|n 980ti had. Its not uncommon. The card is meant for Liquid Nitrogen overclocking for a reason. Thats why air users should never waste their money on them.

So, uh... what page should we be refreshing?
 
Thanks...

123Testing123
I know which one it was, just wasn't able to post the link here.
How do you post the link of a YouTube video here?
 

Get the youtube share link https://youtu.be/whateverthesharecode is. Put it in bracket [tube]sharelinkhere[ /tube] (no spaces in the brackets. I use spaces so you can see it.)

Scarlet-Tech

TDBMadness
Damn, i saw on the videocardz post, that the MSI Lightning TI will have : Power Connectors : 1 × 6-pin, 2 × 8-pin 

That was what the K|ngp|n 980ti had. Its not uncommon. The card is meant for Liquid Nitrogen overclocking for a reason. Thats why air users should never waste their money on them.

Oh ok , thx for the info ( i'm still new on pc and never see that aha ! 

TDBMadness

Scarlet-Tech

TDBMadness
Damn, i saw on the videocardz post, that the MSI Lightning TI will have : Power Connectors : 1 × 6-pin, 2 × 8-pin 

That was what the K|ngp|n 980ti had. Its not uncommon. The card is meant for Liquid Nitrogen overclocking for a reason. Thats why air users should never waste their money on them.

Oh ok , thx for the info ( i'm still new on pc and never see that aha ! 

Ok, that makes more sense ;-)

The extra 8 pin is supposed to help provide a lot more voltage and stability when pumping crazy high clocks for record breaking benchmarking. For air, it is 100% unnecessary. Anyone that tells you it is, is honestly incorrect. Two 8pins will do more than necessary on air.

This was the 980ti KPE:



It was great for ln2 and extremely overpriced for air. Air users will always always always try to justify buying it, even though it is unnecessary.

123Testing123

Scarlet-Tech

123Testing123
I know which one it was, just wasn't able to post the link here.
How do you post the link of a YouTube video here?

Get the youtube share link https://youtu.be/whateverthesharecode is. Put it in bracket [tube]sharelinkhere[ /tube] (no spaces in the brackets. I use spaces so you can see it.)

Got it, thanks!

You better try it :-P. I didnt type that to try and guess which video you wanted to link. I want to watch too! Lol. I am exhausted...

Without going to youtube, i can tell you think pink is incorrect, but the brackets are correct:

https://www.youtube.com/w...xX1_mmmQAA&t=1Http

This is correct:

https://youtu.be/lxX1_mmmQAA&t=196s

Very minor change. No www. And no .com/watch?v= that is the only difference between a share link and a url :-D. Hopefully that helps.

ctmatlock86
Just got an email from nvidia, all cards (asus,msi,evga,etc) will be available at 10am PST, 12pm CST today .. not sure if they will have any non-reference but if its like 980 ti release they will. 

Been saying that for days.. they put that out over a week ago, and now they are reminding the naysayers :-D

TDBMadness
Ok got it ! thank you so that's why the FTW have 2 x 8 pins or the SC 1 x 6 + 1 x 8.
Thank you

Exactly. The classified will have 2 x 8pins as well. The difference between the FTW and classified is VRM module count. The classified has always used 14+3 vrm (14 core vrm modules, and 3 memory vrm modules) that does nothing for air overclocking, but can help a tiny bit on water cooled.

The ftw usually has 2 extra vrm over the reference card, but on the 1080, they doubled it from 5+1(reference) to 10+2(ftw) and classified kept 14+3.

The kingpin uses the 14+3 as well, but there are other major changes also, like vram heater for subzero cooling, vdroop switches to apply an extra 50mv of power, different lighting, split hest soreader so the vrm can keep its spreader while the vram is uncovered. Lots of changes that are useless on air.