Conclusion
...performance is in line with expectations and at £690 the card is cheaper than fashionable offerings from more glamorous brands.There are many ways to build a custom graphics card, but with the appeal of SLI being slowly eroded, there's less call for single-slot solutions and little harm in going back to tried-and-trusted techniques.
Palit takes the GTX 1080 Ti, applies a healthy factory overclock and attaches it to a giant heatsink and four fans. It's hardly rocket science, yet the end result is fast, cool and reasonably quiet.
This is very much a case of Palit doing what Palit does best. The GameRock Premium Edition isn't the most aesthetically pleasing card and value adds such as RGB lighting and software customisation are rough around the edges, but performance is in line with expectations and at £690 the card is cheaper than fashionable offerings from more glamorous brands.
Bottom line: the GameRock Premium Edition isn't the most stylish GTX 1080 Ti you'll ever see, but it remains a solid performer and is worth a look at under £700.
Cooler, quieter and faster than reference
Undercuts many competitors on price
Massive framebuffer
Still a lot of money for a single GPU
Palit GeForce GTX 1080 Ti GameRock Premium Edition
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