1080 TI founders edition's worth the $50 savings?

Elder III

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Quote from: -droid- on May 26, 2017, 12:49:42 PM

seems most FE's are $50ish cheaper than the next up aftermarket cooling options

is that worth the price savings?

I'm thinking resale on the aftermarket will be better, but for ROI the FE's are obviously the better choice

any thoughts?

I have an EVGA FE in my personal PC that mines very well. In a closed case with 50% fan it runs ~71C mining ZEC and I can't hear it unless I lean down by the case. We have 6 x Gigabyte GTX 1080 Ti, the ones with the while aftermarket 3 fan cooler and the EVGA FE hashes a tiny bit better then all of the Gigabytes do.

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Quote from: -droid- on May 26, 2017, 12:49:42 PM

seems most FE's are $50ish cheaper than the next up aftermarket cooling options

is that worth the price savings?

I'm thinking resale on the aftermarket will be better, but for ROI the FE's are obviously the better choice

any thoughts?

if you don't push the TDP very high and ok with the noise, FE is only slightly slower than aftermarkets cards. My FE could do ~680 on zcash with 80% TDP (200W) and 75% fan.

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seems most FE's are $50ish cheaper than the next up aftermarket cooling options

is that worth the price savings?

I'm thinking resale on the aftermarket will be better, but for ROI the FE's are obviously the better choice

any thoughts?

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