My GTX780 died on me

[nex]

You're right on that one Art   

[Art Blade]

 

[LowPolyOWG]

 

[BinnZ]

I still got some time to think it over. Will compare different brands. I tend to go for MSI, which never failed me in the past. My broken GTX780 was a solid ASUS, didn't expect it to die on me

[LowPolyOWG]

Good to hear 

[Art Blade]

better the GPU dies alone than taking the rest of the PC with it as it once happened to me.

[nex]

I'm with you BinnZ, Since I experienced problems with Asus products a few years ago
I stay away from it.
MSI and EVGA have always served me well. only one MSI card failed on me, it got fried
by lightning strike.

[LowPolyOWG]

  I am running two Sapphire Rx 480s in my rig. Yes, games scale rather poorly in CF , but cryptomining performance is doubled

Prior to this, I ran a single MSI R9 290. Ran video games maxed out, but I had issues with the amouth of VRAM. Newer games use more than 4 GB memory so I had to upgrade.

[LowPolyOWG]

Cancel your 1080 and get this instead?

Seeing how Nvidia has stopped GTX 1080Ti production, expect they already did that unannounced with your GTX 1080

[PZ]

 

Will be interesting to see how this all shakes out

[LowPolyOWG]

Yep, with miners buying everything (including directly from the factories) and memory manufacturers keeping prices inflated for their own greed (they deliberately reduced DRAM production ), not much retailers can do.

[BinnZ]

It's a shitty situation where I am in, together with lots of other gamers who need replacement for their GPU's.
I'm so lucky I still got that good ol GTX570 working here, man

[LowPolyOWG]

Yep, I feel sorry for you I just checked the American retailers (Newegg/MicroCenter). No 1080s in stock

[BinnZ]

My retailer never has them in stock, only sometimes a few expensive cards pop up as being on stock at the wholesaler, but that's only a matter of hours I guess until it's finished

[LowPolyOWG]

 Damn