I have rejoined the master race.

Frank · Sep 2, 2015

What is it?

Terrik · Sep 2, 2015

Still a GTX 980 Ti but the ASUS Strix version of it.

Bubble181 · Sep 2, 2015

As long as it fits in your case, that's a big win

PatrThom · Sep 2, 2015

Yes. The new one is MUCH larger, so that of course means it will be better.

--Patrick

Bubble181 · Sep 2, 2015

PatrThom said:
Yes. The new one is MUCH larger, so that of course means it will be better.

--Patrick

"Strix" is the Greek word for "Owl". You may or may not be able to deduce why I'd call getting it a win.

GasBandit · Sep 2, 2015

Looks like a better cooling solution, though. My old 8800GTX tried to use one of those cage impellers like your old card, and it just overheated like crazy (not surprising given that it was factory overclocked). I ended up just removing the plastic shroud from the heat sink (rendering the stock fan completely useless) and sticking a dedicated fan card in the adjacent slot to blow air directly on the sink. Worked much better after that.

Terrik · Sep 2, 2015

After a few bumpy moments with the new Nvidia drivers (was getting weird FPS until I did a clean install from safe mode--maybe anti virus was screwing it up?), I was able to put every graphics setting for MGS:V to extra high and run it at a constant 60 FPS. Not bad at all.

PatrThom · Sep 2, 2015

Bubble181 said:
As long as it fits in your case, that's a big win
[...]
"Strix" is the Greek word for "Owl". You may or may not be able to deduce why I'd call getting it a win.

I thought you were just making reference ("big win") to his probable case manufacturer.

--Patrick

Bubble181 · Sep 2, 2015

PatrThom said:
I thought you were just making reference ("big win") to his probable case manufacturer.

--Patrick

Yes, of course I meant that one too.