I have an RTX 3090, but damn am I sad I missed out on the 1080Ti. Such an amazing value for a top tier GPU. I don't think we'll ever see something like this again.
Fixed the busted capacitor and noisy fan on mine and now it's working again. Just have to figure out what to do with it, since I bought a 2080Ti and 4090 in the mean time :X
@@00wheelie00 sounds like you now have the most ballin media center PC or streaming-focused PC with either the 1080Ti or the 2080Ti. That's all that means.
Considering these tests are at 2160p and it's a GPU that's going on 8 years old at this point... that's REALLY damned impressive. And I agree... one of the best looking GPU's ever. I will never get rid of my FTW3 Elite.
No need to go higher than 2160p unless it's 60-80 inch screen. This is where the resolution hype is grossly misunderstood. 4k is not better than 1080 but only when it comes to screen size, the smaller the screen the less resolution needed for a crisp clear picture. 4k is soley for 60" to 80" screens, larger than that is where 8k will come in. HD is still HD, the screen size dictates the need for higher resolutions. 24" monitors only need 1080.
1080ti was always my dream to own, but that was way too expesensive for a kid with dreams. Today i proudly say i fullfilled my wishes. And i am owner of MSI GeForce GTX 1080Ti Armor 11G OC.
Same here xd that cpu sucks, I'm planning to upgrade to 9800x3D or 7800x3D, just waiting for the realease to see if it's any good and gonna go for one of those. GPU probably gonna keep for a couple more years, cuz I'm playing at 1080p and can still run most games with high settings and decent fps, especially if you drop down extreme, ultra to high or do a mix of settings, you can get 70-100fps in new games. I don't play often AAA games, usually esport titles and 1080 Ti is enough for them. Don't feel like buying overpriced 8GB GPU, doesn't feel like an upgrade when ur downgrading ur vram.
3080 with that CPU here. Yes, I get bottlenecked at times but you kno what, I can still game 99% of games at 1440p Ultra. The real issue with the 10 series is the lack of DLSS support.
@@aFeect so that’s what I just did was upgraded to a 7800x3d make sure to check out under volting. I didn’t know that was a thing this is my first amd cpu. I had a 3080ti that I was running with the 77k but I was of course bottlenecked. So I just put the 1080ti put it back in and gave the pc to my kid. I upgraded to ddr5 and all that jazz it’s a beast now and my kid has a super awesome starter pc.
Still running the 7700K and only upgraded to the 4070 from a 1080ti because of Starfield. I honestly feel every other thing I do I could have gotten away with it. I've also umm'd and ahh'd about Ryzen 7800X3D but honestly can't just justify it ATM. However the power savings with an undervolt and underclock and I'm happy with the upgrade honestly. I bought at a time where prices had just dropped (December 2023) and it seems prices haven't changed that much even with the 4070 Super until just recently.
Same I upgraded from a 4790k to a 13600kf but kept my GPU. When the 5000 series/amd next gen cards come out next year I'll likely be upgrading to a 4070ti or amd equivalent though. $500 6 years of great service the card did everything I wanted. Plus I can probs get $150 on the used market so double good XD
My EVGA 1080 Ti got me through the pandemic, and I'm still using it today! It's getting replaced with a 4070 Ti Super next week, but I salute this champion of a card. It's my all time best purchase for PC gaming.
I really liked how you developed the topic in the video, but do you think that a bad Windows installation affected the performance of my graphics card?
@@princekells2 Because they realised they made it too good at a great price and you'd be fine without upgrades for a good while. That's why they give us crappy vram amounts for high prices now
@@bindogaming791 Wow even the 3080? I had the 3070 for 2 years and i just upgraded to a Radeon 7900 XT because my 3070 was having trouble with insufficient vram for running games in 2k high settings. I didn't have the money for a 4080 or 4090 and i wasn't feeling getting a 12GB Nvidia card either
Mann I miss my Ti beast. I recently jumped from 1080ti to 4080. And I miss fucking around with setting on new titles and being amazed that it can run it. Fuck man I was playing Helldivers2 1440p max textures only and i was getting 70-90 🤯
The 1080 Ti was by far the best graphics card ever made given its value and price at the time and it's longevity to follow. This, of course, made it Nvidia's biggest mistake because it was so good we had no reason to upgrade for the longest time. I doubt we'll ever see another 1080 Ti.
you got it wrong. The new titles we see now coming out were supposed to be the reason for an upgrade. They all suck. Like Starfield. Who the hell wants to upgrade to play that cra.p
this is always the card i wanted back in the day and didn't have the money for it and nividia has never made the same mistake of providing this much value in a card again just small incremental upgrades
I'm so lazy to upgrade and my pc keeps crashing with the blue screen. Ya, I just don't know what to get with this new stuff that is coming on the shelf soon
I currently have a 1080Ti founders edition paired with an i5 10400f. Bought it used on marketplace and I just love this thing. Ever since then I have been dying to find another founders card and try SLI for the first time, I know it's irrelevant in this day and age to have multiple GPU's in a rig but it's aesthetically pleasing to see 2 cards inside a gaming pc. My only wish is that SLI and NVLink didn't die out
Def try it now that these cards are cheap. In 2020 I was running dual 1080 Tis in SLI using high bandwidth bridge, triple 1440p screens (7680x1440) and ryzen 2700x and that resolution def pushed the cards to 100% gpu usage in optimized games like crysis 3 and GTA5
I have retired my 1080Ti after it's service for a 4070Ti Super - thinking of passing it onto my son to replace his RX580 8GB so it can serve him well too in 1080p. It was the best investment I made since I got 7 solid years out of mine. On the Sponsor spot - Amazon has a 20% off coupon right now on the jump-pack - I definitely recommend having one (Also I moved from being an Auto tech to IT and the troubleshooting practices were a 1 to 1 with the change)
I have an RTX 3080 in my main system, but I recently built a secondary PC with a 1080 Ti. Honestly I am surprised at how well it still works for playing older/lighter games.
I feel that, I sold mine because I wasn't using it and was able to get more for it than I paid for. Now I have a 980ti because it was $50 so I couldn't pass up
@@michaelneal2062 I added 1080ti FTW3 for 120$ last month... i am addicted i have 3 PC's even that i do not use them. I bought it only because EVGA do not exist anymore(kind of). And it is absolute banger. Top 3 favorite card in my 25 years of gaming.
My 1080 still destroys anything I throw at it. Have to turn down settings a bit for more modern stuff, but I can get 160-250 fps on most older games on high to ultra settings, and 70-100 on newer stuff on medium.
finding one of these under $200 is hard. At least in Canada it is. People are asking for ridiculous amount of money for used hardware. I just purchased an RX VEGA 56 for $125 CAD plus I bought a 1 year protection plan in case of a failure. This card is about equal to the RTX 2070 (non-super). For my Primary System I bought the ASRock PG RX 7600 8GB and this card is awesome for 1080p gaming on Ultra settings. I would recommend this card if your don't care about ray tracing, however this card can do ray tracing but only on low ray tracing settings.
right now my 1070 is still going strong. with my cpu upgrade to a 5700x3d i now get a solid 50fps in cyberpunk 2077 with fsr enabled. Pascal stands as a monument to how good Nvidia made them and never will again. because it took 2 to 3 generations later for people to even consider upgrading. the bang for buck was/is insane
Yes! Totally love my 1080 Ti! I have mine paired with a system that was built in 2011 and is 100% stable with this (systems) generation. Bought it used for $300 in '22. And I totally agree with the price/value chart that was shown. Everything newer is just not worth the asking price. RTX is just not big enough to sell them. I've gone with AMD (RX 6800 XT) for my newer rig and am totally happy with it.
I'm still rocking my EVGA GTX 1070 FE, and I'm still getting totally playable FPS at 1080p in all the games I play. Love to see it when some older hardware holds up for YEARS like the GTX 10 series has.
How much of an improvement did you notice over the 1060? I have a GTX 1060 6GB paired with an i7 8700k and would like to upgrade the GPU to the 1080ti if it's a worthy upgrade.
@@BREEZYM6015 the only game I really tested was Hogwarts Legacy and it was a pretty decent upgrade, went from medium settings at around 40 fps to high and around 60fps at 1440p. If you are running games at 1080p the 1080 ti is still pretty decent if you can get one for around $100.
it's great to see how well the 10 series stacks up. What I would like to see is a small series based around making budget builds for cards like this that have devalued to this point. for example you pick a 1080ti then see what it takes money wise to build a modern budget build (case, psu etc) including this card.
I used this exact card in high school and I loved it. Had to use a few pay checks plus birthday money to get it but it was so worth it. At one point, mine had a memory issue well outside of the warranty period but EVGA covered me anyway which was amazing. The 10 series was actually so legendary, a large step in performance while at the same time, a good value for the money across the board. We just don't see that anymore sadly.
Greg, love the video, thanks! I'm a big fan of the 1080ti, still running one in my back up rig. I did water cool it and am running a little EK D5 pump/reservoir. I paired it with my older 5700G, and everything is running nicely. I consider the 1080ti the GOAT of graphic cards!! My current rig is a 7800x3d with a 3080ti hydro copper version.
Greg, I'm rocking that same exact EVGA 1080ti at the moment, re-pasted with MX-6. Thanks for this video! I always enjoy your content and it's cool seeing some of you guys go back and review older tech that's stood the test of time. I'm playing 2440x1080 21:9 and still get 150+ fps on Planetside 2 with nearly maxed graphics. It runs WoW like a champ. Cata classic maxed out at 200fps, and FSR in games like CoD Warzone let this card shred even though it doesn't support DLSS. (Thank goodness for AMD tech!) Cheers dude! Looking forward to more content!
Still got my 1080ti Sc black , I got it in 2017 at my first job with my second pay check for £700 , still going strong to this day it’s been on water all it’s life
All late as usual to a video like this but, I love this card!! I bought a used 1080ti FTW3 water cooled without the cooling shroud with the intention of water cooling myself. My dumb ass was wrong!!! However, I flipped this card at my own expense and bought an Arctic Cooler shroud with 3 fans and used thermal adhesive to “glue” heat sinks to the majority of chipsets on this board. Got a small bump on the core but a big 500 MGhz+ bump on the RAM. All that to say, this card is such a dream… it’s relevant 7-8 years later. Ray tracing is still on its infancy and rasterization is still 👑. Thinking of surprising my son with an upgrade over his 1650ti this Christmas at no extra cost to me!!!! These cards are the last bastion of consumer advantage left. We all see how it is now 🤦♂️
Gave my brother my old pc which has a Asus 1080ti turbo (blower) and a 8700k. had it for 7-8 years and its a good gaming pc thats still lasting :D Looking forward to the next video.
While i am now onto the rtx 3080 (debating biting the bullet on a 7900xtx) the gtx 1080ti served me very well for many many years. I bought a MSI gaming X second hand about 8 months after launch for only $450 and it spent its life water blocked. Now its retired with the OG cooler back on, watching over me on the shelf cool old stuff us tech guys all have.
Admittedly no DLSS support is a little shame but FSR3 coming to the rescue on more recent titles. Hmmm...that being said. I think im due a repaste 😂 I'm deffo running a bit warmer than you are. 😅
had my 1080Ti as my main for the longest time, only changed up to a 3080 when i was building a new rig for storage purposes and put the 1080 in that. Now my nephew has that system :)
Bought an EVGA 1080Ti when they first came out. Then got the liquid cooler add on kit as soon as it became available. Ran great, sold it in early 2021 during the graphic card shortage for as much as I paid for it and the AIO kit combined.
@GregSalazar 3:04 You would be wrong. The DVI was perfectly suited for many, many 1080p displays and even a few 1440p models. I used the DVI port exclusively. A lot of others did the same.
I have that exact card which I stuck a waterblock on and fitted in a custom loop that I managed to build for cheap from used parts many years ago, and it has held up incredibly well to this day. Paired with first a 7700k when it was new, then a 10600k, now I am finally considering upgrading my system to take advantage of my new 144hz 4k tv but it will be a shame to part with my 1080ti still running modern games like a champ at high resolution as well as it ever did.
I build/sell pcs and I've been buying these locally for around 125US. I've bought several decided to keep the last one for my own arcade pc just to have one to keep. They are such classics.
I have the EVGA 1080 and bought it when it was released. Still using it til now and have replaced my motherboard and PSU twice but this one is still alive and kicking :D
I owned that exact card, bought it after the Ethereum crash used for cheap, used it for over a year before it quit and was still under warranty so I got it replaced, great card even today
1080ti was truly that halo product. Don't think we will get that ever again. I remember when i got my 1080 ti. It was a special experience. I could throw pretty much any 1080p games at it, all at ULTRA settings, and still stay above 140fps for my 144hz monitor. Truly an amazing experience.
I gave my buddy my EVGA 1080 because his brother wanted a gaming PC and he gave his brother his 1070. I really miss that card. It was such an incredible card.
I got this on eBay too for £155 and I love it, play most games on 4k high. I can't afford the latest top tier cards so buying second hand and just re-pasting is a great option imo :D thumbs up
Oh, man, I love it. I really like using the thermal pads. Just one thing to keep in mind is that no Jumpstarter will stay fully charged forever. Especially for those of us up north, these things should get topped off every year.
The only reason I’m looking at the card is because not only it’s still very good but my current build will not take anything beyond this without upgrading my mobo and cpu so having this card is a blessing.
I still have a 1080 Ti running in a homelab. An underrated aspect of it is that this card is also a GPU compute beast. I often run GPU-accelerated workloads on this card, and this old dog can still go.
The EVGA FTW3 version was the 1080ti I wanted but I did not want to wait a month and a half for that one to come out. Instead I bought a FE version about 5 days after launch then I slapped one of those EVGA AIO coolers to it. The Gaming temps went down from 83c to 52c. The AIO cooler still works but the 1080ti I have has not been in service much over these last 2 years. Back then the 1080ti could power through most new games at 4k while getting +60fps, Max settings. It had no problems running games at 4k with an overclocked i7-4930k and 32GB of DDR3-2400 RAM.... later upgraded the CPU to the E5-1680 v2 which overclocked better than my 4930k.
My i7-4790K w/Liquid Metal (stock), on a GA-Z97X-UD5H-BK, running Corsair 4x8GB (32GB) @ 2400Mhz, along with my EVGA 1080Ti FTW3. When Mechwarrior no longer runs at ULTIMATE settings above 60fps, I will be forced to upgrade. MW: Clans comes out next month. And, my current system will still crush it. So... Maybe 2 - 3 more years???
I have a 1080 Ti SC Black and while it doesn’t have the same ACX niceties as the SC2, it’s still a perfect pairing with my 5600 and been running it for about 2 years now loving it ever since
I'd still be using mine, determined not to give in to the outrageous prices that followed the 10-series, if it didn't finally give out a couple months ago. I have to say it served me well, and I'm happy it was the card I chose when I built my first pc. Now I'm finally trying out AMD, with an all AMD setup. So far, so good.
I finally had to replace my Strix 1080ti. Almost 8 years of service. It did not have the power for my Varjo Aero VR headset to shine. Replaced it with a Strix 4090 oc. Now my VR experience is awesome. The ti lives on in my wife's pc playing Mahjong and Solitaire. It deserves the rest. :)
I remember wanting this card so bad but could only afford a 1060, decided to go all AMD last year with a Ryzen 5 5600, 32GB RAM and a 6700xt, it's an absolute beast for so little money. I know people will murder me for this but I'm still using my CX500 Corsair PSU from 2012, still works great, original fan.
This was the last time we had a card that was worth what you paid for it. Still using today in a second PC to play games on a TV and it still performs well.
To think that Beast is still my main GPU, EVGA FTW3 one (it still happily hits 2Ghz on its own). It still does pretty much all I need. Definitely was a crazy deal for its price to performance then, and even when the 20 series replaced it, I can't say nvidia has done such since.
I bought my first gaming pc in 2017 with a 1080ti in it and used it for 5 years until it finally died. I’d probably still be using it but now it makes a sweet decoration. 1080ti is the GOAT
just updated my rig to a 10900k/ 1080ti (same model as in the video (from a 4790 and a 1070ti) and its doing just fine. FSR 3 really helps out keeping the fps in the 70-90 range for new titles at 1440p. RoboCop and SP 2077 are in the 70-80 range with high settings.
man, YOU consider GTA V "modern gaming", it came out for the PS3 , now we at the half life of the PS5 you should have tested FF16 demo or late Unreal engine 4 games3...
I have an RTX 3090, but damn am I sad I missed out on the 1080Ti.
Such an amazing value for a top tier GPU.
I don't think we'll ever see something like this again.
The 4090 is pretty much the closest thing to it. If you bought one at launch, its insane value despite the insane price. Its just soo good.
@@aquifer9480 Made white build and got my self a gigabyte AERO 4090 and its nice card indeed💪 but daaam its expensive 😅
@@aquifer9480 so should we just skip out on the ultimate rtx 5090 48gb TI Super gpu?
@@aquifer9480 4090 is not insane value at all...
@@aquifer9480 4090 is no doubt a beast but its just too expensive even for rich guys i mean 2000dolars/euros is just whole pc
man i spent 800 bucks on my 1080ti back then, well worth the price still using it on another pc
Yeah i bought one for like 500 euro 6 years ago, still going strong
Fixed the busted capacitor and noisy fan on mine and now it's working again. Just have to figure out what to do with it, since I bought a 2080Ti and 4090 in the mean time :X
Same here using it in my music rig👍
@@00wheelie00 sounds like you now have the most ballin media center PC or streaming-focused PC with either the 1080Ti or the 2080Ti. That's all that means.
i actaully sold my Rtx 3050 my RTX 4060 and im happy that i done that this 1080TI Series is Absolute G.O.A.T
Considering these tests are at 2160p and it's a GPU that's going on 8 years old at this point... that's REALLY damned impressive. And I agree... one of the best looking GPU's ever. I will never get rid of my FTW3 Elite.
No need to go higher than 2160p unless it's 60-80 inch screen. This is where the resolution hype is grossly misunderstood. 4k is not better than 1080 but only when it comes to screen size, the smaller the screen the less resolution needed for a crisp clear picture. 4k is soley for 60" to 80" screens, larger than that is where 8k will come in. HD is still HD, the screen size dictates the need for higher resolutions. 24" monitors only need 1080.
@@animalyze7120 Sounds like coping. I have a 27" 4K120 monitor and nothing to complain.
@@RuruFIN4k at 27” is fckn stupid 😂 at that size it’s damn near the same as 1440p lol
@@animalyze7120 Cutoff is closer to 40" on my 55"4k 1080 looks pretty bad.
1080ti was always my dream to own, but that was way too expesensive for a kid with dreams. Today i proudly say i fullfilled my wishes. And i am owner of MSI GeForce GTX 1080Ti Armor 11G OC.
Me watching on my 1080ti and i7 7700k lol
Man my pc up to about 3 weeks ago it was the best pc I’ve ever owned! It’s my sons now and it’s still a beast!
Same here xd that cpu sucks, I'm planning to upgrade to 9800x3D or 7800x3D, just waiting for the realease to see if it's any good and gonna go for one of those. GPU probably gonna keep for a couple more years, cuz I'm playing at 1080p and can still run most games with high settings and decent fps, especially if you drop down extreme, ultra to high or do a mix of settings, you can get 70-100fps in new games. I don't play often AAA games, usually esport titles and 1080 Ti is enough for them. Don't feel like buying overpriced 8GB GPU, doesn't feel like an upgrade when ur downgrading ur vram.
3080 with that CPU here. Yes, I get bottlenecked at times but you kno what, I can still game 99% of games at 1440p Ultra. The real issue with the 10 series is the lack of DLSS support.
@@aFeect so that’s what I just did was upgraded to a 7800x3d make sure to check out under volting. I didn’t know that was a thing this is my first amd cpu. I had a 3080ti that I was running with the 77k but I was of course bottlenecked. So I just put the 1080ti put it back in and gave the pc to my kid. I upgraded to ddr5 and all that jazz it’s a beast now and my kid has a super awesome starter pc.
Still running the 7700K and only upgraded to the 4070 from a 1080ti because of Starfield. I honestly feel every other thing I do I could have gotten away with it. I've also umm'd and ahh'd about Ryzen 7800X3D but honestly can't just justify it ATM.
However the power savings with an undervolt and underclock and I'm happy with the upgrade honestly. I bought at a time where prices had just dropped (December 2023) and it seems prices haven't changed that much even with the 4070 Super until just recently.
I did a full case up budget rebuild three years ago, to a 5 5600x, and kept my GTX 1080 TI, still works for me.
Yep, Ray tracing is still over hyped nonsense and not really needed except in media creation like CGI and such.
@@animalyze7120Exactly
I have the same set up. Mines doing really well at 1440p
@@animalyze7120 its amazing in some games like cyberpunk but unless you have a 3070 or up its still not that worthwhile
Same I upgraded from a 4790k to a 13600kf but kept my GPU. When the 5000 series/amd next gen cards come out next year I'll likely be upgrading to a 4070ti or amd equivalent though. $500 6 years of great service the card did everything I wanted. Plus I can probs get $150 on the used market so double good XD
My EVGA 1080 Ti got me through the pandemic, and I'm still using it today! It's getting replaced with a 4070 Ti Super next week, but I salute this champion of a card. It's my all time best purchase for PC gaming.
Nooooo not a 4070ti
I just bought a GTX 970 for £29. Price vs performance its the best GPU on the used market imo.
I really liked how you developed the topic in the video, but do you think that a bad Windows installation affected the performance of my graphics card?
I think that of all the PCs, it is better to use BNH Software to be calm.
1080 ti: Nvidia's greatest mistake.
@@dragonman910 why?
@@princekells2 Because they realised they made it too good at a great price and you'd be fine without upgrades for a good while. That's why they give us crappy vram amounts for high prices now
@@Mirra2003-f9sYeah, like my rtx 3080 is already showing its age by 10 gb vram
@@bindogaming791 Wow even the 3080? I had the 3070 for 2 years and i just upgraded to a Radeon 7900 XT because my 3070 was having trouble with insufficient vram for running games in 2k high settings. I didn't have the money for a 4080 or 4090 and i wasn't feeling getting a 12GB Nvidia card either
@@Mirra2003-f9s Well yeah, Nvidia was greedy and gave the rtx 3080 only 10 gb of vram.
Mann I miss my Ti beast. I recently jumped from 1080ti to 4080. And I miss fucking around with setting on new titles and being amazed that it can run it. Fuck man I was playing Helldivers2 1440p max textures only and i was getting 70-90 🤯
I had a 1080 Ti from launch all the way until March 2023. It was amazing.
The 1080 Ti was by far the best graphics card ever made given its value and price at the time and it's longevity to follow. This, of course, made it Nvidia's biggest mistake because it was so good we had no reason to upgrade for the longest time. I doubt we'll ever see another 1080 Ti.
you got it wrong. The new titles we see now coming out were supposed to be the reason for an upgrade. They all suck. Like Starfield. Who the hell wants to upgrade to play that cra.p
this is always the card i wanted back in the day and didn't have the money for it and nividia has never made the same mistake of providing this much value in a card again just small incremental upgrades
Still rocking a Strix that I bought new in 2017. With how GPU pricing has been, I probably won't be able to upgrade until I finish grad school...
Lol same
I'm so lazy to upgrade and my pc keeps crashing with the blue screen. Ya, I just don't know what to get with this new stuff that is coming on the shelf soon
I currently have a 1080Ti founders edition paired with an i5 10400f. Bought it used on marketplace and I just love this thing. Ever since then I have been dying to find another founders card and try SLI for the first time, I know it's irrelevant in this day and age to have multiple GPU's in a rig but it's aesthetically pleasing to see 2 cards inside a gaming pc. My only wish is that SLI and NVLink didn't die out
Def try it now that these cards are cheap. In 2020 I was running dual 1080 Tis in SLI using high bandwidth bridge, triple 1440p screens (7680x1440) and ryzen 2700x and that resolution def pushed the cards to 100% gpu usage in optimized games like crysis 3 and GTA5
I got the same model of 1080ti, used is for 4 yrs, sold is last year and switch to 6800xt. You will always be missed. Legend.
How much better is the 6800xt over the 1080ti?
First Tech YES and now Greg talkin about the 1080 ti? I am spoiled!
i am still on my 2080ti and i am still super happy with 12900k and this card no problems at all
I was able to snag a founders edition barely used for $100 on ebay. Amazing card for playing older titles in my living room pc.
Incredible price!
I have retired my 1080Ti after it's service for a 4070Ti Super - thinking of passing it onto my son to replace his RX580 8GB so it can serve him well too in 1080p. It was the best investment I made since I got 7 solid years out of mine.
On the Sponsor spot - Amazon has a 20% off coupon right now on the jump-pack - I definitely recommend having one (Also I moved from being an Auto tech to IT and the troubleshooting practices were a 1 to 1 with the change)
I have an RTX 3080 in my main system, but I recently built a secondary PC with a 1080 Ti. Honestly I am surprised at how well it still works for playing older/lighter games.
Great Vid Chief!!
Just posted 🤦🏾♂️
@@ThestDon ???
@@SpanishSimp you said great video as soon as the vid was posted you haven’t even watched it yet…
i own the EVGA 1080ti FTW3 and man do i miss selling it! such a beast!
I feel that, I sold mine because I wasn't using it and was able to get more for it than I paid for. Now I have a 980ti because it was $50 so I couldn't pass up
I have the same card (now displayed on the wall above my PC). It and the Voodoo 2 are my favorite cards of all time.
@@michaelneal2062 I added 1080ti FTW3 for 120$ last month... i am addicted i have 3 PC's even that i do not use them. I bought it only because EVGA do not exist anymore(kind of). And it is absolute banger. Top 3 favorite card in my 25 years of gaming.
Mine died about 1.5 years, and I was absolutely devastated.
@@Aaron_Jensen Sorry for your loss.
My 1080 still destroys anything I throw at it. Have to turn down settings a bit for more modern stuff, but I can get 160-250 fps on most older games on high to ultra settings, and 70-100 on newer stuff on medium.
I used the dual link dvi for my 1080p 144hz display. Still a decent port.
The Matt Watson reference was on point.
Very happy to see you testing The Finals. Great vid!
I was just thinking about doing a “nostalgia build” yesterday. This card was/still is special.
The legendary Pascal Architecture
Should consider starting a cars fix or flop too, would be fun to watch and some diverse content.
1:09 Wait, you mean we can't go to Micro Centre to spin the wheel and buy these?
I almost got a 1080ti. =\
The EVGA SC2 looks slick. But I think that the FTDub3 looks even better. It is SICK. What a behemoth.
finding one of these under $200 is hard. At least in Canada it is. People are asking for ridiculous amount of money for used hardware. I just purchased an RX VEGA 56 for $125 CAD plus I bought a 1 year protection plan in case of a failure. This card is about equal to the RTX 2070 (non-super). For my Primary System I bought the ASRock PG RX 7600 8GB and this card is awesome for 1080p gaming on Ultra settings. I would recommend this card if your don't care about ray tracing, however this card can do ray tracing but only on low ray tracing settings.
Damn
Same in aus better off just getting 4060 new for a little more
right now my 1070 is still going strong.
with my cpu upgrade to a 5700x3d i now get a solid 50fps in cyberpunk 2077 with fsr enabled.
Pascal stands as a monument to how good Nvidia made them and never will again. because it took 2 to 3 generations later for people to even consider upgrading.
the bang for buck was/is insane
Solid 50fps is great since you can use lossless scailing frame gen and enjoy a 100fps
Yes! Totally love my 1080 Ti! I have mine paired with a system that was built in 2011 and is 100% stable with this (systems) generation. Bought it used for $300 in '22. And I totally agree with the price/value chart that was shown. Everything newer is just not worth the asking price. RTX is just not big enough to sell them. I've gone with AMD (RX 6800 XT) for my newer rig and am totally happy with it.
I'm still rocking my EVGA GTX 1070 FE, and I'm still getting totally playable FPS at 1080p in all the games I play. Love to see it when some older hardware holds up for YEARS like the GTX 10 series has.
I picked up a 1080 Ti founder's edition last week locally for $100 cash. Replaced my wife's 1060 with it.
How much of an improvement did you notice over the 1060? I have a GTX 1060 6GB paired with an i7 8700k and would like to upgrade the GPU to the 1080ti if it's a worthy upgrade.
@@BREEZYM6015 the only game I really tested was Hogwarts Legacy and it was a pretty decent upgrade, went from medium settings at around 40 fps to high and around 60fps at 1440p. If you are running games at 1080p the 1080 ti is still pretty decent if you can get one for around $100.
What a coincidence! I just bought myself 1080Ti yesterday for 150... It should arrive tomorrow. Hopefully, it still works xD
Edit: It works!
I bought one for 119 bucks. Will get it in a day or two.
Still have and am using my EVGA SC2 Hybrid 1080ti. Never goes above 60C and clocks to 2070Mhz.
Simply timeless.
it's great to see how well the 10 series stacks up.
What I would like to see is a small series based around making budget builds for cards like this that have devalued to this point.
for example you pick a 1080ti then see what it takes money wise to build a modern budget build (case, psu etc) including this card.
I used this exact card in high school and I loved it. Had to use a few pay checks plus birthday money to get it but it was so worth it. At one point, mine had a memory issue well outside of the warranty period but EVGA covered me anyway which was amazing. The 10 series was actually so legendary, a large step in performance while at the same time, a good value for the money across the board. We just don't see that anymore sadly.
Greg, love the video, thanks! I'm a big fan of the 1080ti, still running one in my back up rig. I did water cool it and am running a little EK D5 pump/reservoir. I paired it with my older 5700G, and everything is running nicely. I consider the 1080ti the GOAT of graphic cards!! My current rig is a 7800x3d with a 3080ti hydro copper version.
Greg, I'm rocking that same exact EVGA 1080ti at the moment, re-pasted with MX-6. Thanks for this video! I always enjoy your content and it's cool seeing some of you guys go back and review older tech that's stood the test of time.
I'm playing 2440x1080 21:9 and still get 150+ fps on Planetside 2 with nearly maxed graphics. It runs WoW like a champ. Cata classic maxed out at 200fps, and FSR in games like CoD Warzone let this card shred even though it doesn't support DLSS. (Thank goodness for AMD tech!)
Cheers dude! Looking forward to more content!
Still got my 1080ti Sc black , I got it in 2017 at my first job with my second pay check for £700 , still going strong to this day it’s been on water all it’s life
All late as usual to a video like this but, I love this card!! I bought a used 1080ti FTW3 water cooled without the cooling shroud with the intention of water cooling myself. My dumb ass was wrong!!! However, I flipped this card at my own expense and bought an Arctic Cooler shroud with 3 fans and used thermal adhesive to “glue” heat sinks to the majority of chipsets on this board. Got a small bump on the core but a big 500 MGhz+ bump on the RAM. All that to say, this card is such a dream… it’s relevant 7-8 years later. Ray tracing is still on its infancy and rasterization is still 👑. Thinking of surprising my son with an upgrade over his 1650ti this Christmas at no extra cost to me!!!! These cards are the last bastion of consumer advantage left. We all see how it is now 🤦♂️
Gave my brother my old pc which has a Asus 1080ti turbo (blower) and a 8700k.
had it for 7-8 years and its a good gaming pc thats still lasting :D
Looking forward to the next video.
While i am now onto the rtx 3080 (debating biting the bullet on a 7900xtx) the gtx 1080ti served me very well for many many years. I bought a MSI gaming X second hand about 8 months after launch for only $450 and it spent its life water blocked. Now its retired with the OG cooler back on, watching over me on the shelf cool old stuff us tech guys all have.
the EVGA 1080ti FTW3, to this day, is still my favorite GPU I have ever owned. Nvidia knocked it out of the park with that chip!
I'm still rocking the 1080ti FE that i won in a giveaway in 2017 and i love it.
Still rocking mine from day 1. Love it!!
Admittedly no DLSS support is a little shame but FSR3 coming to the rescue on more recent titles.
Hmmm...that being said. I think im due a repaste 😂 I'm deffo running a bit warmer than you are. 😅
had my 1080Ti as my main for the longest time, only changed up to a 3080 when i was building a new rig for storage purposes and put the 1080 in that. Now my nephew has that system :)
Nvidia's best mistake. This card is still a boss even at 7 years old! Aged like fine wine too!
Still using this card. Amazing component!
I remember being a kid and wanting one so bad. It's still my favorite graphics card ever released
Bought an EVGA 1080Ti when they first came out. Then got the liquid cooler add on kit as soon as it became available. Ran great, sold it in early 2021 during the graphic card shortage for as much as I paid for it and the AIO kit combined.
Have the same cards. Had 2 in SLI. They were absolute beast.
@GregSalazar
3:04 You would be wrong. The DVI was perfectly suited for many, many 1080p displays and even a few 1440p models. I used the DVI port exclusively. A lot of others did the same.
I have that exact card which I stuck a waterblock on and fitted in a custom loop that I managed to build for cheap from used parts many years ago, and it has held up incredibly well to this day.
Paired with first a 7700k when it was new, then a 10600k, now I am finally considering upgrading my system to take advantage of my new 144hz 4k tv but it will be a shame to part with my 1080ti still running modern games like a champ at high resolution as well as it ever did.
I build/sell pcs and I've been buying these locally for around 125US. I've bought several decided to keep the last one for my own arcade pc just to have one to keep. They are such classics.
I have the EVGA 1080 and bought it when it was released. Still using it til now and have replaced my motherboard and PSU twice but this one is still alive and kicking :D
I owned that exact card, bought it after the Ethereum crash used for cheap, used it for over a year before it quit and was still under warranty so I got it replaced, great card even today
I had a Gigabyte 1080 Ti Gaming OC Black until the end of 2022 and I truly loved that card.
I’ve just now upgraded from my 1080 to a 4080 super. Went strong for the 8 years I’ve used it.
Mine is sitting in my #2 workstation, still a solid card after many years.
1080ti was truly that halo product. Don't think we will get that ever again. I remember when i got my 1080 ti. It was a special experience. I could throw pretty much any 1080p games at it, all at ULTRA settings, and still stay above 140fps for my 144hz monitor. Truly an amazing experience.
been using a 1080 ti with an aftermarket cooler, thing works like magic
Used it for full seven years...
Amazing GPU!
Now on 7900xtx Love it.
I gave my buddy my EVGA 1080 because his brother wanted a gaming PC and he gave his brother his 1070. I really miss that card. It was such an incredible card.
I got this on eBay too for £155 and I love it, play most games on 4k high. I can't afford the latest top tier cards so buying second hand and just re-pasting is a great option imo :D thumbs up
I have a pre build with 1080ti 7years ago, still running 60fps at 1440p for most recent game titles
I was given the water cooled variant as a gift, and I love it.
Still rocking my 1080 Ti SC2, hits 1970mhz on its own
Try playing alan wake 2, portal rtx and see how this overrated gpu runs
10 fps and rtx doesnt exist on that card
@@TriggerzConnors don't care about RTX. I get 120-140 warzone 1440p medium with FSR so I'm happy with it still
Oh, man, I love it. I really like using the thermal pads.
Just one thing to keep in mind is that no Jumpstarter will stay fully charged forever. Especially for those of us up north, these things should get topped off every year.
The only reason I’m looking at the card is because not only it’s still very good but my current build will not take anything beyond this without upgrading my mobo and cpu so having this card is a blessing.
I have it coupled with my mini pc via thunderbolt in the living room, it now lives a non watercooled life.
And in my new PC works a watercooled 4090
I still have a 1080 Ti running in a homelab. An underrated aspect of it is that this card is also a GPU compute beast. I often run GPU-accelerated workloads on this card, and this old dog can still go.
I've got a 1080 ti FTW3 that died about a year and a half ago. Absolutely heartbreaking when it happened.
I got into computers when 20 series and 5000 series rolled out, but wow the 10 series aged very well
The EVGA FTW3 version was the 1080ti I wanted but I did not want to wait a month and a half for that one to come out. Instead I bought a FE version about 5 days after launch then I slapped one of those EVGA AIO coolers to it. The Gaming temps went down from 83c to 52c. The AIO cooler still works but the 1080ti I have has not been in service much over these last 2 years.
Back then the 1080ti could power through most new games at 4k while getting +60fps, Max settings. It had no problems running games at 4k with an overclocked i7-4930k and 32GB of DDR3-2400 RAM.... later upgraded the CPU to the E5-1680 v2 which overclocked better than my 4930k.
My i7-4790K w/Liquid Metal (stock), on a GA-Z97X-UD5H-BK, running Corsair 4x8GB (32GB) @ 2400Mhz, along with my EVGA 1080Ti FTW3. When Mechwarrior no longer runs at ULTIMATE settings above 60fps, I will be forced to upgrade. MW: Clans comes out next month. And, my current system will still crush it. So... Maybe 2 - 3 more years???
Insane card. Great work Greg. 👍
I have a 1080 Ti SC Black and while it doesn’t have the same ACX niceties as the SC2, it’s still a perfect pairing with my 5600 and been running it for about 2 years now loving it ever since
This card served me well for many years!
I'd still be using mine, determined not to give in to the outrageous prices that followed the 10-series, if it didn't finally give out a couple months ago. I have to say it served me well, and I'm happy it was the card I chose when I built my first pc. Now I'm finally trying out AMD, with an all AMD setup. So far, so good.
I had the same 1080ti but with the black shroud. My brother still gaming on it.
Yeah, I’ve got the 1080 FTW. Had it since 2017 and it is awesome still does the job with heavy graphics load I throw it.
I finally had to replace my Strix 1080ti. Almost 8 years of service. It did not have the power for my Varjo Aero VR headset to shine.
Replaced it with a Strix 4090 oc. Now my VR experience is awesome.
The ti lives on in my wife's pc playing Mahjong and Solitaire. It deserves the rest. :)
Truly a legendary card. I doubt we'll ever see something like that ever again.
Still running my 1080ti as I type this. GOAT card.
EVGA Pascal Cards, my beloved. I have my 1070 SC2 on display. Never selling it.
I remember wanting this card so bad but could only afford a 1060, decided to go all AMD last year with a Ryzen 5 5600, 32GB RAM and a 6700xt, it's an absolute beast for so little money. I know people will murder me for this but I'm still using my CX500 Corsair PSU from 2012, still works great, original fan.
This was the last time we had a card that was worth what you paid for it. Still using today in a second PC to play games on a TV and it still performs well.
To think that Beast is still my main GPU, EVGA FTW3 one (it still happily hits 2Ghz on its own). It still does pretty much all I need. Definitely was a crazy deal for its price to performance then, and even when the 20 series replaced it, I can't say nvidia has done such since.
I bought my first gaming pc in 2017 with a 1080ti in it and used it for 5 years until it finally died. I’d probably still be using it but now it makes a sweet decoration. 1080ti is the GOAT
My favorite card. I had the 980ti, and upgraded to 1080ti. Had that card for a long time until I got a 3080 and now a 4070.
This is still in my system. I’m going to be sad when I have to upgrade. It’s definitely going in a display case when it retires.
got one used for $400 about 7 years ago and sold it 4 months ago for about $250. Definitely got my moneys worth!
just updated my rig to a 10900k/ 1080ti (same model as in the video (from a 4790 and a 1070ti) and its doing just fine. FSR 3 really helps out keeping the fps in the 70-90 range for new titles at 1440p. RoboCop and SP 2077 are in the 70-80 range with high settings.
man, YOU consider GTA V "modern gaming", it came out for the PS3 , now we at the half life of the PS5
you should have tested FF16 demo or late Unreal engine 4 games3...