If one GTX 1080 Ti is good, and a Strix OC is great, then the GTX 1080 Ti Strix SLI arrangement should be amazing.
ASUS GTX1080 Ti Strix OC SLI OverKILL3D Review
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ASUS GTX1080 Ti Strix OC SLI OverKILL3D Review
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If one GTX 1080 Ti is good, and a Strix OC is great, then the GTX 1080 Ti Strix SLI arrangement should be amazing.
ASUS GTX1080 Ti Strix OC SLI OverKILL3D Review
Excalabur50
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This was a very good review Tom and a lot of the comments you made were the reason I went away from SLI myself some time back, heat is a bit of a problem and living in a hot country it plays it's part, the fact that game dev's don't really support SLI much anymore just doesn't justify the price of having the second card.
I also agree with you wholeheartedly that 1440p is the sweet spot for a monitor
TBH I think that instead of buying two cards people would be better off buying one 1080 Ti and putting the money into something like a 34-35 1440p gsync monitor
I also agree with you wholeheartedly that 1440p is the sweet spot for a monitor
TBH I think that instead of buying two cards people would be better off buying one 1080 Ti and putting the money into something like a 34-35 1440p gsync monitor
If this review was to be described with a game's name, it'd probably be "Life Is Strange" 
It's really awesome to see this performance at 4k, finally! Still way too expensive though and what happened to the good old micro stuttering, I always heard of? Is this a thing of the past?
Funnily enough, with my 1080p60 monitor, I will soon be at a point, where my monitor is too bad, to play modern games, wtf
Also, Tom, the graph for 3D Mark Vantage has the top 4 card setups twice in it, but you'll probably already noticed that. Haven't watched the video yet.
It's really awesome to see this performance at 4k, finally! Still way too expensive though and what happened to the good old micro stuttering, I always heard of? Is this a thing of the past?
Funnily enough, with my 1080p60 monitor, I will soon be at a point, where my monitor is too bad, to play modern games, wtf
Also, Tom, the graph for 3D Mark Vantage has the top 4 card setups twice in it, but you'll probably already noticed that. Haven't watched the video yet.
Excalabur50
Well-known member
As Tom said in the video only go sli if you know your games will utilise it, there's not much point if they don't
QFT!! I game at 4K with a pair of 980s, and if the game properly supports SLI, I'm good (ie Fallout 4, after MUCH patching). Please god / flying spaghetti monster, let Vega be competitive, so Nvidia can stop tossing this "refurbed" Titan crap down our throats and charging retarded money for it. I'm starting to really DESPISE this crappy company (Nvidia).
This is the first time I've not gone SLI in many many years. I've had more than 6 series of cards in SLI before now.
And I just feel like NVIDIA doesn't give a !#@? anymore about SLI. So many games do not work with it and NVIDIA has not worked on a universal multicard solution to replace this horrible mess we've had to deal with for the past 10 years.
It is a complete waste of money to me and again I have had SLI for a long time. For the price of a second GTX 1080 Ti I could get an ultrawide 3440 G-Sync monitor and at-least that works in every 3D application.
One thing I sure don't miss is microstutter from SLI. Everything just feels so much smoother on a single card.
And I just feel like NVIDIA doesn't give a !#@? anymore about SLI. So many games do not work with it and NVIDIA has not worked on a universal multicard solution to replace this horrible mess we've had to deal with for the past 10 years.
It is a complete waste of money to me and again I have had SLI for a long time. For the price of a second GTX 1080 Ti I could get an ultrawide 3440 G-Sync monitor and at-least that works in every 3D application.
One thing I sure don't miss is microstutter from SLI. Everything just feels so much smoother on a single card.
Gripen90
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I have been running SLi Since 2006 and 3-way SLi since 2009. My 3 way SLi adventure ended this march with my 3x 980Ti when I replaced them with 1080Ti SLi since now nVidia officially dropped 3/4 way SLi support.
In more than at decade with permanent SLi solutions in my rigs I only ever encountered two issues. This may also be due to the fact that since the AGP card days, I no longer buy AAA titles on release because there are always bugs of all kinds than need sorting out and it's regardless if you're running one, two or three card, albeit it may be less noticeable with just one card.
So when I buy an AAA title it is usually 3-5months after the release and then most bugs are sorted and the game runs fine.
All in all I have been a very happy SLi user for 12 years
In more than at decade with permanent SLi solutions in my rigs I only ever encountered two issues. This may also be due to the fact that since the AGP card days, I no longer buy AAA titles on release because there are always bugs of all kinds than need sorting out and it's regardless if you're running one, two or three card, albeit it may be less noticeable with just one card.
So when I buy an AAA title it is usually 3-5months after the release and then most bugs are sorted and the game runs fine.
All in all I have been a very happy SLi user for 12 years
I have been running SLi Since 2006 and 3-way SLi since 2009. My 3 way SLi adventure ended this march with my 3x 980Ti when I replaced them with 1080Ti SLi since now nVidia officially dropped 3/4 way SLi support.
In more than at decade with permanent SLi solutions in my rigs I only ever encountered two issues. This may also be due to the fact that since the AGP card days, I no longer buy AAA titles on release because there are always bugs of all kinds than need sorting out and it's regardless if you're running one, two or three card, albeit it may be less noticeable with just one card.
So when I buy an AAA title it is usually 3-5months after the release and then most bugs are sorted and the game runs fine.
All in all I have been a very happy SLi user for 12 years
Well I went 1080Ti SLI and it ran like dog S**t in most games I played. Returned one card and so will not go SLI anymore. When I spend 16,000Nok on 2 cards I dont want games to run "fine" I want them to run spectacularly.
The Division resulted in 20fps less than single card solution, mainly because it doesnt support it. Since I don't play twitch shooters I really don't miss SLI after using that setup for 8 years. One 1080ti is enough to drive my swift monitor so I think I'm happy with that.
The way I see it now, SLI is just to push benching numbers. Until we see devs really pushing utilisation, it will possibly fade out over time. There are some making the effort but others just don't care. It has nothing to do with Nvidia, they provided the foundation here but the developers aren't building on it good enough. Maybe its tied to the complexity of getting SLI to work with game ports. I can't comment too much since Im not a developer or designer.
What I do know is that SLI is worse now than it has ever been in the past.
That's good to hear, I suppose its time for some googlage to see if I can get details on what issues are being addressed.
Excalabur50
Well-known member
About time SLI issues are addressed, will be interesting to find out what those differences are when it eventually happens
bartosz.bruhn
New member
Why overkill ? Latest games with SLI on 1440p is up to 70-100 FPS (Ghost recon, mass effect), for PC enthusiasts is not too much when aiming to 165 Hz monitor. Testing in old games this spec is strange (not stupid). For some games you can disable secend card and get 1440p/144FPS.
On secend head, CPU is bottelneck. I7 6850 with stock clock is just slow in games. It's starting "work" with 4.2 GHz.
True pcmasterace have to once at whole live get SLI. In my case wiating for 44 PCIe x299 processor and then get secend Strix.
I'm interesting how GPU clocks looks at 82c.
On secend head, CPU is bottelneck. I7 6850 with stock clock is just slow in games. It's starting "work" with 4.2 GHz.
True pcmasterace have to once at whole live get SLI. In my case wiating for 44 PCIe x299 processor and then get secend Strix.
I'm interesting how GPU clocks looks at 82c.
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NeverBackDown
AMD Enthusiast
You seem to have missed the point of the word Overkill.
happyguy82
New member
please do one for the new Titan Xp and add them to the charts too 
Kaapstad
Active member
please do one for the new Titan Xp and add them to the charts too
In normal use they won't perform much different to the non reference 1080 Ti's except for the extra noise and heat from the blower cooler.
AlienALX
Well-known member
It's not the profiles that have been the issue. It's the support from the game itself. If a game is not AFR friendly then Nvidia can do whatever they wish, it won't help much.
They need to get in there with game devs. Like they used to, before they got wrapped up in self glory.
AMD are working with Bethesda for this very reason. Nvidia need to bag a couple of big devs unless they want to see support slip away.
Hopefully we are over this hill of turd games and devs may actually spend some time working to get their games running well with multiple GPUs but I won't hold my breath, nor remove two PCI covers in the mean time.
Ed. Nvidia also need to put their money where their mouth is. Where are the dual GPU cards? if they don't want to invest they will get out of it what they put in.
Dawelio
Active member
Hehe Nvidia is like Trump in the GPU business :lol:
AlienALX
Well-known member
Any big American company is like Trump. Loud, brash, slag off the competition etc. Any dirty underhand tricks they can get away with.
If you needed to know more? just read the story of Edison and Tesla dude.
