2017 Hardware Thread

essenbe said:

Did anyone notice in the Bjorn "Review" the screenshot of Precision? It is showing a max power target of 117%. Seriously? It looks like he also has K boost enabled.

I don't know if he missed the 120 on the power target slider. K Boost is definitely enabled. I don't know if he enabled it to show the max clock at idle so he could take that screenshot or if he used K Boost through the benchmark.

I have already discounted the performance side of this review as not having enough info and relatively useless. The Gamers Nexus review should be better from a performance perspective, and likely also with every review to follow.

worf105 said:

Well the Loch Ness ti has been found but no sign of the monster as of yet.

Good news Worf. Whatever voodoo you are doing to get Nessie to you quicker, keep it up.

essenbe said:

I agree totally with your assessment of that review. I just wish a decent review would come out before mine ships. But, looking at the review of Worf's Zotac, it looks fairly similar in the overclocking part anyway. Guru3D at least does know how to overclock.
http://www.guru3d.com/articles-pages...-review,1.html

Yes, I agree Guru3D does know how to OC. And yes, notice this part from the Guru3D review. Perhaps the Ti's are already moved closer to their max OC potential by the more aggressive AIB's and their clocks out of the box.

"Now +25 MHz on the core, you might feel that our sample is not the best overclocker on the GPU core right? But you need to revise that idea, ZOTAC already nearly maxed out the overclock for you by tweaking it so close to its maximum capability. More Voltage, 100% offset applied was stable. Once overclocked keep this in mind; due to the dynamic nature of the boost clock, your frequency is not fixed.

So the card runs, give or take, 8% faster compared to reference. And once we tweak it manually it is roughly 13% faster compared to the reference card and thus 5% faster compared to the default clocks. This was with the TDP Power Limiter tweak maxed out. The increased TDP certainly did raise the performance a little overall (but not heaps)."

essenbe said:

You may be right because the Zotac showed pretty much the same as the Bjorn review on the FTW 3. The Bjorn review showed 2075 MHz. From the Zotac review at Guru3D

So, it may just be the limitations Nvidia puts on the cards and AIB partners.

Way too early to tell, but yes that's what I'm thinking. Although I personally think a 10555 graphic score in Time Spy is spectacular, notice also Solarstarshines mentioned he struggles moving beyond that.

I thought the EVGA cooling (15 degrees C cooler than FE) would make a difference. Hard to tell from whatever Bjorn3D is doing.

Makes me think that if ever dudeTI got his hands on a TI he would be seeing lots of driver crashes.