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mls1995
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I've been an admitted evga fanboy for many years, but there are a TON of complaints over on the evga forums (and some here) for their 1080 line. From the evga 8800 gtx card and up, I've had nothing but Evga cards. I'm not deluded into thinking their cards are necessarily better but their support has always made buying evga a smart idea.
Now some of these problems are certainly user error but there are just so many people with problems that it warrants a post.
A sampling (I'm too busy to grab from other sites):
Tomb Raider doesn't work and cooler sucks
EVGA Pricing on GTX 1080
Tomb Raider doesn't work
GTX 1080 issue with Rise of Tomb Raider - EVGA Forums
Cooler sucks
1080/1070 FAN NOISE? - EVGA Forums
More cooler sucks
GTX 1080 ACX 3.0 Buzzing noise & fan revving - EVGA Forums
Freezing
1080 SC Freezes in Doom - EVGA Forums
Coil whine
Any coil whine during high fps games? - EVGA Forums
Crashing
Games are starting to crash with 1080 - EVGA Forums
Poor performance
Help with GTX 1080 poor performance - EVGA Forums
More poor performance
GTX 1080 SC Issues, please help if you can. - EVGA Forums
Even more poor performance
Something is very wrong with my 1080 setup, need help - EVGA Forums
Boot error
EVGA GTX 1080 FE boot error that follows card - EVGA Forums
SLI problems
GTX 1080 SLI Stuttering issues in GTA 5 - EVGA Forums
Screen Tearing
Lines while mouse wheel scrolling in windows similar to tearing effect? - EVGA Forums
Texture Clipping
Gtx 1080 Clipping Texture and some little bug in Game Just cause 3 , The witcher 3 . - EVGA Forums
Artifacting
GTX 1080 artifacting issue - EVGA Forums
Display goes black
1080's causing my display to go black - EVGA Forums
Manufacturing problem of plastic under screws (30+ minutes of work to fix but annoying)
Really Evga? Acx 3.0 Fail - EVGA Forums
There's also a TON of people angry as heck that they preordered from evga and were promised first dibs on the FTW card (paying shipping and tax) and then newegg sold a batch before any of these people got their cards.
As I've posted before today, I rejected delivery of a 1080 SC card today as the 1080 SC card seems to have more complaints than any other card. And newegg's return policy sticks me with an SC forever if I had accepted delivery and opened it. I definitely have little confidence in the ACX cooler.
At this point, I'd jump from evga to MSI if their prices weren't so ridiculous. Guess I'm in a holding pattern and I'll check back in July I guess. I think the Asus strix looks nice but their support has such a bad rap. Meh, I'm waiting a few weeks to see what happens.
Now some of these problems are certainly user error but there are just so many people with problems that it warrants a post.
A sampling (I'm too busy to grab from other sites):
Tomb Raider doesn't work and cooler sucks
EVGA Pricing on GTX 1080
Tomb Raider doesn't work
GTX 1080 issue with Rise of Tomb Raider - EVGA Forums
Cooler sucks
1080/1070 FAN NOISE? - EVGA Forums
More cooler sucks
GTX 1080 ACX 3.0 Buzzing noise & fan revving - EVGA Forums
Freezing
1080 SC Freezes in Doom - EVGA Forums
Coil whine
Any coil whine during high fps games? - EVGA Forums
Crashing
Games are starting to crash with 1080 - EVGA Forums
Poor performance
Help with GTX 1080 poor performance - EVGA Forums
More poor performance
GTX 1080 SC Issues, please help if you can. - EVGA Forums
Even more poor performance
Something is very wrong with my 1080 setup, need help - EVGA Forums
Boot error
EVGA GTX 1080 FE boot error that follows card - EVGA Forums
SLI problems
GTX 1080 SLI Stuttering issues in GTA 5 - EVGA Forums
Screen Tearing
Lines while mouse wheel scrolling in windows similar to tearing effect? - EVGA Forums
Texture Clipping
Gtx 1080 Clipping Texture and some little bug in Game Just cause 3 , The witcher 3 . - EVGA Forums
Artifacting
GTX 1080 artifacting issue - EVGA Forums
Display goes black
1080's causing my display to go black - EVGA Forums
Manufacturing problem of plastic under screws (30+ minutes of work to fix but annoying)
Really Evga? Acx 3.0 Fail - EVGA Forums
There's also a TON of people angry as heck that they preordered from evga and were promised first dibs on the FTW card (paying shipping and tax) and then newegg sold a batch before any of these people got their cards.
As I've posted before today, I rejected delivery of a 1080 SC card today as the 1080 SC card seems to have more complaints than any other card. And newegg's return policy sticks me with an SC forever if I had accepted delivery and opened it. I definitely have little confidence in the ACX cooler.
At this point, I'd jump from evga to MSI if their prices weren't so ridiculous. Guess I'm in a holding pattern and I'll check back in July I guess. I think the Asus strix looks nice but their support has such a bad rap. Meh, I'm waiting a few weeks to see what happens.