Review: ASUS Republic Of Gamers GeForce GTX 1080 STRIX 8GB

#5290469 Posted on: 06/16/2016 08:36 AM

---

That's what I meant, because it also happened that all my latest GPUs were MSI, so I wasn't sure.

#5291096 Posted on: 06/17/2016 04:40 AM

---

Coil whine and only 2 DP ports.. No thanks.

If all the cards perform the same thanks to the new limitations/GPU boost, then I'll get the card that has the best silence/cooling and best I/O and reliability. If the Strix has coil whine, then it damn well can't be all high quality components.

I'll be going 3 DP monitors and probably a VR kit in future. 3/1 with an auxiliary DVI is the best setup in my eyes.

Now if only I didn't have to decide on getting this, or saving some money and getting a 1070 then waiting for the 1080 Ti. Either one is a big upgrade over my 2x 780's, but uggh, money limitations and not wanting to be SCREWED again are holding me back from choosing.

Agreed!! I have been looking at the Asus GTX 1080 Strix and the Gigabyte GTX 1080 G1 Gaming for 3 weeks now on Newegg and I missed the short time they were available in stock.

But I do not regret waiting because in the meantime the reviews started to come out for both cards and the Asus seems to have quality control flaws and I quote from Newegg. and luckily 2 hours ago I was able to buy the Gigabyte 1080 G1 within the 10min window it was available before it sold out again probably who knows for how long (ive been refreshing the newegg page for 2 weeks every 30-15min and did not catch it till finally today):

1. I developed coil whine after a few days of use. Not noticeable over the sounds of games but quite annoying when just surfing around on the internet.
2. my card is getting so hot is due to a major manufacturing QC issue. The card is missing the memory thermal pads underneath the heat sink (not making any contact).
3. HOT HOT HOT, as soon as I boot up a game BAM 85 degrees
4. Games freeze within the 1st minute of play and I get a system message saying video card driver has crashed
5. I believe I got a defect card, as soon as I turned on any benchmarks/games the card would skyrocket to 90+ degrees Celsius

Anyways avoid the Asus like the plague until a new batch comes out hopefully fixing all those issues. On top of it the overclock doesnt really give a boost at 4K, I mean 1-3fps over he Gigabyte and MSI is nothing. I'm happy with my cheaper Gigabyte G1 cant wait to run it

#5291352 Posted on: 06/17/2016 05:23 PM

---

Well i phoned them up again and they said July, f**k that cancelled it and looked at alternatives said hmm what about the MSI 1070 G8 says eta today, he says urm they been and gone thats next month, thats needs to be updated. LMFAO got the same card on ebuyer for less and they are currently instock but they are dropping damn quick. Should get mine tomorrow shame no 1080 but oh well still save over £210

#5322866 Posted on: 08/18/2016 04:54 AM

---

The Strix GTX 1080 Overclocking Guide can be found here By Chino
The long awaited guide that everyone has been looking forward to
https://rog.asus.com/forum/showthread.php?87087-Overclocking-the-Strix-GTX-1080

#5347150 Posted on: 10/17/2016 07:31 PM

---

Thank you for the review but there is a small mistake in yours and almost all other reviews of this card.
Have been trying to figure out what card to get for a new setup. Budget is not an issue as it is for work as well as play.
Issue with this card is the HDMI ports are NOT 2.0b but 2.0 therefor there is no support for HDR over HDMI.
I have confirmed this with with ASUS over there support. Once by email and another time by phone.
I'm looking for something that will provide all the features of the standard card, not remove some of the newest technologies.
I am debating going with the Titan X (Pascal) directly from Nvidia after your review of it, but it seems to have some throttling issues when pushed to its limits and i really don't want to use a custom water cooling system in a work computer.
I really would like a review of the EVGA 1080 FTW Hybrid as i think that would be a good all round card to go with.
Any advice on which graphics card will be very much appreciated.

The rest of the spec for the workstation is as follows:

Corsair Obsidian Series 750D - Airflow Edition
Asus X99 Deluxe II (really want the Rampage V Edition 10 but it seems not to have support for the Thunderboltex 3 card and i really need thunderbolt.)
EVGA SuperNOVA P2 80 Plus Platinum Power Supply, Modular - 1600 Watt
Intel Core i7-6950X Extreme 3,5 GHz (Will be Overclocked to 4Ghz on all cores)
Corsair - Hydro Series™ H115i 280mm Extreme Performance Liquid CPU Cooler
Corsair Dominator Platinum (4 x 16gb) 64gb DDR4 3000MHz CL15
2 x Corsair Dominator Airflow Platinum Fan
Samsung 960 Pro NVMe M.2 1TB Solid State Drive (once its released this month)
BitFenix Alchemy 2.0 Magnetic RGB LED Strip - 60cm x 3
Corsair ML140 Pro Premium Magnetic Levitation Fan 140mm

And ill be adding a Acer Predator X34P once its released.