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Demanding games like Doom or BF4 seem to load it with stock fan to 67-70C. If I bump the fan to 50% I am in high 50s to low 60s while overclocked.

What does your card clock to? I seem to top out around 2100mhz which to be honest seems to be fairly decent. I've seen a few people complaining on the EVGA forums their cards can't break 2000mhz.

 

mine is sitting at 2101mhz right out of the box in OC mode. i ran a couple of benchmarks right after i installed it and got it to about 2135 before Heaven started crashing. +500 on the memory clock. i didn't go any higher because i don't think the memory clock really effects performance as much as OC'ing the core clock speeds.

i just got done with a GTA V session on almost everything max eye candy. i played for about an hour and a half and the card's temp was hovering in the high 40's to mid 50's. i set a custom fan curve that's basically 45% @45*c, 60% @50*c, and 70% @60*c. the Strix cooler is working perfectly because it'll hold the core clock at 2101, pretty much, the whole time during my gaming/benching. only dips down to 2088 once in a while and then back up to 2101.

 

See how far you can go on that bad boy. Looks to solid right out of the box. Highest I've seen so far on other cards was around 2150mhz stable. Most crash beyond that.

 

yeah, my MSI Founders Edition peaked at 2152mhz and i didn't take it farther than +500 on the memory clock.

i benched my Asus right after it was installed and was able to get it up to about 2132mhz or 2135mhz in Heaven benchmark. any higher and it started crashing. my FE might've hit a higher peak by about 20mhz, but the Strix can hold the 2101mhz to 2132mhz during the whole duration of my gaming/benchmarking period. the lowest it dipped to was 2088 and that was only for a split second before it went back up to it's peak -- all while staying relatively quiet with my custom fan curve. the FE was loud at 100% fan speed and still couldn't hold it's peak for very long. it would bounce around from the 1900's to 2000's. while doing the same tasks, my Strix is operating at about 10*c cooler than my FE did.

i'm going to let my Strix 1080 settle in for about another week then try to take it on another max core clock run. that seemed to help my FE 1080 a bit because it's first max core clock was about 2130mhz before crashes. about a week later, i tried another run with it during some 3DMark runs and was able to achieve the 2152mhz.

an extra 50mhz will not net u any additional FPS. personally, i feel that if a 1080 can hold a stable clock of 2100mhz then the owner should be happy. i am a happy owner =)

 

2100mhz? Wow. Gtx's in my country are worse . Cant go past 2098mhz... Even aftermarket

 

that sucks. where are u from?

most 1080's, even the ones with reference PCB's, are hitting around 2050ghz - 2100ghz without any problems with an aftermarket cooler setup -- air or water.

 

Are you guys keeping them cool enough? Which country are you from too?

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this is after an hour and a half of GTA V @ 3440x1440 resolution. GPU is using stock 'OC Mode'. almost everything on max without AA on:







those CPU and GPU peaks are just there before the fans start ramping up. using the stock cooling mode on my Kraken x61 and my GPU's fans are off below 35*c. during gaming, my CPU stays in the 40's and my GPU hovers around high 40's to low 50's. zero throttling.

 

not sure why, but i've only been getting 60FPS in games lately.

my monitor is set to 80Hz refresh rate in the Nvidia control panel. nothing has changed in my built, so i'm not sure why it's not getting up to 80FPS like it used to.

 

I had a situation where a game update reset a FPS limit in the game, it was BF1.