Friday, May 20th 2016
Colorful and Bykski Announce Liquid Cooling Ready GTX 1080 FE Bundle
Colorful and China-based liquid cooling components maker Bykski announced GeForce GTX 1080 Founders Edition graphics cards with bundled full-coverage water blocks, at a $100 premium (so that's a $100 premium over a $100 premium, over the $599 MSRP, totaling $799 for a card based on the second-biggest "Pascal" chip, kudos!). At this time, Colorful seems to be playing safe, and merely bundling the block with the card, so you could fit it yourself, just so it could get the bundle out on the shelves by May 27. In the near future (after NVIDIA has milked early adopters dry), Colorful could launch a "custom design" product (think of it as NVIDIA reference PCB with this block factory-fitted), which could likely lack the "Founders Edition" badge, and perhaps even be $100 cheaper.
26 Comments on Colorful and Bykski Announce Liquid Cooling Ready GTX 1080 FE Bundle
Genius.
After all, why not release your custom cooled card at $700, if people are obviously willing to pay $700 for the junk stock cooler, theyll pay that much for a good cooler.
it will be interesting to see which price partner cards mostly come at.. $599 or $699.. i recon the latter.. i dont see many at $599.. he he
trog
1080 is rated to go up to 92 or 97C so temps (what was there, 87?) alone weren't a problem.
Although, chips are more effective at lower temps, so it would still help with OCing.
PS
Have you seen this guys?
"XFX leaked that 490x is coming in June"
(I wonder if that was a "surprise" AMD was talking about and if that's the reason there are no benches of 1070 so far)
(some random chat on semiaccurate, so take it with a sack of salt :D)
I'll believe it when they hit the market at that price.
I find this to be very dumb yet smart... Its stupid because why are you paying the premium for the shroud if your not going to use it. The smart part comes in from the bonus money they are getting from it... I guess they think we want it for an expensive wall hanger?
And beyond that, it's possible that this will go the way of Zotac's design for the GTX 980 Amp! Extreme : www.gamersnexus.net/hwreviews/1666-zotac-gtx-980-extreme-benchmark-review-overclocking?showall=1
On the 490X BS. Are you serious? They don't even have the 480X ready for show(tentatively scheduled for release on July 1st). But the 490X will be here even sooner!!! Yeah right!!! The successor to "Grenada"/390(X) is "Vega10"/490(X). "Vega" isn't coming until October. If even then. AMD will be close to tits up by then. And "Vega" will not likely save their ass from going bust even if they make it that long. "Navi" is a pipe dream and a half. AMD will be long dead by then.
What to believe? Nothing. Not until a retail board is in someone's hand.
My current stance on this release is that it's only really good for those in the market for second hand 980ti. Those are already getting dirt cheap and they will turn out to be *very* cost effective purchases now. Over here, 450 eur is now the price for a 3-6 month old 980ti. Now consider the launch price of 1080 FE at 739 eur.... Yup :)
Basically all this card release does is flood the market for second hand upgraders, because the actual perf gain will be so limited. And that is something neither Nvidia or AMD have anything to gain from - they only lose, and they both do. I think many people don't realise that this 1080 is not 'the 4K card', it is the 1440p card. The 1080 is benched on games at 4K and produces 30-40 fps... playable but far from worth investing in. Now how big is that market really? If you want 4K, you're sitting on a 980ti SLI right now or you've invested in Fury X, if you're upgrading, it will be super marginal gain, and since 970 was one of the best selling cards on the market, anyone below the 980ti price point is already more than sorted.
Hope you see where I'm getting at with this: the timing of this release , while most are convinced otherwise, is really not a good time. And to release the 104 SKU first in the current marketplace, with so many people looking at new tech (4K, VR) and very high perf levels, may very well give AMD the time they need to go big on their next release. They already (say) they moved Vega up, and Polaris will offer a 104 SKU equivalent in any case. AMD gets to strike back and not get swamped because let's face it, that happened with the 970 already and those people have almost no incentive whatsoever right now. They are not going to spend the end result of 1,3 - 1,4 times the price of a 980ti to get to near-980ti perf levels, which is the 1070.
anyone'severyone's list at present. What most folks want now is a relatively cheap card(GTX 1070) that destroys everything else on the table except for the spendier stuff(and arguably some of that stuff too). And Nvidia can easily stand to lose some sales to the second-hand market. Where as it's going to seriously hurt AMD. So in that sense AMD is doubly screwed now. They are probably going to be toast. And soon I'm afraid. No joke. It scares me. As soon as the news about the GTX 1070 hit, my heart sank. It spells disaster for AMD a clearly as it can be written on the wall. The GTX 1070 is what most of us want. What most of us can afford. And loyalty to AMD is not going to prevent most of us from either buying a 1070 or one of the second-hand 970/980s you speak of. "Near-980Ti perf levels" is a bit of a misnomer. Since the 1070 is not only slightly faster, it's more future proof with higher bandwidth/GBs. I'm willing to spend a little more for that. And get a brand new card as opposed to a used one. But that's just me. I don't know for sure. But I tend to side with W1zzard. I'm betting the lack of power supply through a single 8-pin and/or an under powered VRM is going to limit OC potential.www.techpowerup.com/reviews/NVIDIA/GeForce_GTX_1080/30.htmlJust maybe they have tried a 6+8 pin to get some idea on the Ti version too, one fits all kinda thing. All so would allow AIB's to buy PCB and chip on board for the AIB's to save money.
I noticed this right away, since they mentioned "dual FET"... then I looked at review PC shots, and only a single FET package was there for each phase on most review cards. So I thought maybe the FE might come with those dual FETs...
...which might add some power handling capabilities or if not, at least it would give better, more consistent voltage supply...
Yet there are some FETs that are input driver plus two FETs in single package (DrMOS), but it's hard to tell what exact FETs are in place, and if those are single FETs on review cards... that's pure BS marketing they gave during launch presentation...
With dual FETs, maybe 8+6 pin might make sense.... and maybe there would be the possibility of like 3GHz+ clocks on LN2... which would make the post above your make even more sense...