2017 Hardware Thread

specialkone said:

Yes pparks1, that's correct. I'm not sure but OldMike may have been thinking of getting an EVGA 1080 FTW2, then an EVGA FTW2 1080TI, and possibly settled on a an FTW 3 1080TI.

My point of course is these are ALL gaming GPU's, or as Nvidia says "the way it's meant to be played".

Ok maybe after I install my new GPU I'll play a game of Hearts ....

pparks1 said:

Please do. Makes me sad that a beast of a gaming card will never be utilized for its intended purpose. Do you video edit or 3D render or something?

Sorry no I don't ....just wanted a better GPU ....that is my only reason, also going to upgrade my monitor too at a later date. :)

specialkone said:

OK, the gaming pressure isn't working, so I give up. With an EVGA FTW 3 1080TI and an I7 7700K CPU, I hope you will at least show us a benchmark score, stock or otherwise.

How's this for a scare. If you don't do something to give that fine GPU some decent work, it may just become as lazy at dude's 1070.

I am just maxing out my build, to be as FAST as I can get her, thats all :) Without changing the MB, as I like this one at least for now. :)

specialkone said:

You are a marketing, ah, what's the word, CONUNDRUM

Not sure I am ....but I am a little crazy ....does that help??

Mike! My New England homeboy!
Nice choice in graphics cards.
You need a new monitor?
How about 3 new ones, with that card.
I mean a 3-way 8K setup

My lowly GTX 1080 AERO 8GB OC, doesn't even change a little bit, when running GPU-Z's render test, and switching between my 1080p and my 4K, so it has horsepower.(and I don't game either, but my virtual machines are monsters).

By the way GPU_Z was updated twice today: Download TechPowerUp GPU-Z | techPowerUp

GPU-Z is a lightweight utility designed to give you all information about your video card and GPU.
Version History

v2.1.0 (May 23rd, 2017)

• Various bugfixes

v2.0.0 (May 23rd, 2017)

• Advanced Tab added, with additional on info on VGA BIOS, CUDA, OpenCL, DirectX, Vulkan
• Added support for EVGA iCX Sensors
• Fixed BIOS saving on GeForce 900 Series and newer, on 32-bit OS
• NVIDIA PerfCap Reason "Util" renamed to "Idle"
• Added retry option to "Rendering doesn't work over remote desktop" message
• When log file can't be written to, stop trying until re-enabled by user
• Fixed DirectX Support detection on old ATI cards (R600 and older)
• Added support for NVIDIA Tesla P100 PCIe, Tesla M10, Quadro P5000
• Added support for Intel Graphics 615
• Added support for AMD HD 8350G

Cliff S said:

By the way GPU_Z was updated twice today: Download TechPowerUp GPU-Z | techPowerUp

Also new updated CCleaner Cliff ....:)