2018 Hardware Thread

Hey Kol12, if you watercool the card, you can get a less expensive one that is not pre-overclocked to the bleeding edge and do it yourself

doorules said:

You read a lot about how these 2080ti's are supposed to be binned but I am not having much trouble keeping up with most other supposedly faster 2080ti's. I just took the first one I could get and flashed the bios and away we go.

See how it handles BF5 in a few days.

Also your temps sometimes are the same as mine, seeing how I get lots of my cold weather from Canada LoL

Cliff S said:

Hey Kol12, if you watercool the card, you can get a less expensive one that is not pre-overclocked to the bleeding edge and do it yourself

I might disagree on the adding a closed loop water kit ....if you add that price to a cheap card ....price goes up quite a lot I think.

OldMike65 said:

I might disagree on the adding a closed loop water kit ....if you add that price to a cheap card ....price goes up quite a lot I think.

Only after you build it the first time.
After that you only will need the new block for the graphics card, and sometimes not even then.

Cliff S said:

Only after you build it the first time.
After that you only will need the new block for the graphics card, and sometimes not even then.

Still a lot more money.....and more maintenance involved in the water kit ....draining and cleaning every 6 months to a year.
I've thought about it .....still going to pass, at least for now.

My old 1080Ti has beaten every other 1080Ti with no water cooling on it. Only cards I can't beat are the Titans and these new 2080Ti's and that was expected.
This will change thou.....just got to wait a while longer.

OldMike65 said:

My old 1080Ti has beaten every other 1080Ti with no water cooling on it. Only cards I can't beat are the Titans and these new 2080Ti's and that was expected.
This will change thou.....just got to wait a while longer.