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Review: EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti SC2 Gaming

by Tarinder Sandhu on 15 May 2017, 13:45

Tags: EVGA, NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA)

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Conclusion

The SC2 Gaming, priced at $749 and, coincidentally, £749, offers the GTX 1080 Ti served up in an attractive, restrained package that takes up only two slots..

GeForce GTX 1080 Ti cards continue to come thick and fast and Nvidia's partners aim to entice eager, well-heeled enthusiasts before AMD has a chance to upset the apple cart.

Said partners are familiar with how to construct effective, robust cooling for cards that are equipped with a 250W TDP, and EVGA harnesses its latest iCX technology this time around.

The SC2 Gaming, priced at $749 and, coincidentally, £749, offers the GTX 1080 Ti served up in an attractive, restrained package that takes up only two slots.

Punching a little lower than others due to real-world core boost being more conservative, you can expect 4K60 performance in most games, though do be warned that this card may not be the ideal choice if super-quiet gaming is high on your list.

At the same price point we'd have to give the nod to the MSI Gaming X, but if you are a fan of EVGA and like the form factor, this one deserves a look-in.

The Good
 
The Bad
Looks good
Dual-slot form factor
250W TDP
Extra monitoring from iCX
 
Noisier than we'd like



EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti SC2 Gaming iCX

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I bought one of these and had better results out of the box with the card boosting to 1950 and sometimes as high as 1974.
Unforunately I can't get it to overclock at all. Anythinmg over +50 on the core means that 3d apps won't run. Am I doing something wrong ?
I aslo cannot hear it all - but it is inside an R4 silenced case.
The gaming benchmark numbers for the SC2 seem to be way low - they should at the very least be well above the standard 1080 Ti scores.
Thinking you either got a bad card, are having driver issues or possibly fans are set to lowest setting and it's running into heat issues.
Why bother with thermal pads on the VRMs if the heatsink's only contact plate is over the GPU core? Surely the pads are doing more to restrict airflow than improve heat transfer?
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Why bother with thermal pads on the VRMs if the heatsink's only contact plate is over the GPU core? Surely the pads are doing more to restrict airflow than improve heat transfer?

The bottom of the fins over the pads are bent over to increase contact area, and you can see corresponding impressions in the thermal pads. So it's still making some contact, just without a separate contact plate