EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti FTW3 Gaming, 11GB GDDR5X, iCX Technology - 9 Thermal Sensors & RGB LED G/P/M, 3X Async Fan Control, Optimized Airflow Design Graphics Card 11G-P4-6696-KR

Fantastic graphics card, I used it for quite a few years until my motherboard burned out. I bought a new PC with an asus 3080 and sold the EVGA 1080Ti to my brother a couple years ago and he is still using it.

The short version is that this card is really fast and it's pretty quiet but not as quiet as you would expect. It's really big so make sure you have room. Keep reading for more details.This is an absolute beast of a card. I only play at 1920x1080 with a 60hz monitor, this card is total overkill for that. Actually this card is overkill in general, it's overclocked to like 1950mhz and it runs ridiculously cool and quiet. There's not just a good backing plate but a solid case around the whole thing. It feels really sturdy and even though it's heavy it doesn't sag when it's installed in the case and the case is standing.There are plenty of sites you can look at for actual test results and performance data, just google it. Basically this is the fastest card you can get besides the Titan which only gets you like 15% more FPS but costs almost 50% more.To cool the radiator we're provided just one wire with a 3 pin plug. You can set a custom fan curve through some very nice EVGA software. With only one fan it can either run cool or run quiet but not both. It's quieter than my old card but not as quiet as I expected considering the watercooling and whatnot. Maybe you could find an adapter to hook up two 3 pin fans of your choice and they could still be controlled by the card. (2 working together wouldn't have to run as fast. Slower is quieter) I replaced mine with two 2000 rpm Noctua PWM fans that are controlled based on the motherboard temperature. The fans stay pretty quiet most of the time and the card never gets much hotter than 50c.Beware that this thing is HUGE. It hangs over my SATA connectors along the edge of the motherboard, actually touching them. Because of that it was hard to push the card down into the PCI slot and lock it in. That seems like a pretty obvious design flaw but the card is already so big they couldn't have made it any taller. The hoses coming off the top of the card already get kinda squished when I put the side panel on my case.Some reviewers complain about pump noise. To prevent that, with any of these all-in-one type watercooling systems you want the radiator above the pump, with the hoses at the bottom of the radiator. That way any air bubbles will get trapped at the top of the radiator and stay there. If you mount it wrong you could get noisy air bubbles in your pump. I'm not saying everyone with a noisy pump did something wrong but that might help.

I bought this almost 2 months ago, after waiting more than 2 years, mostly because the R2080 came out and this line was being discontinued. The R2080 has a better feature set, but at the time it was about 75% more than this card, and had teething problems. And, I don't care that much about super high refresh rates, but a lot about screen size. I currently have a 24" Samsung 245T, and want to upgrade, eventually to a curved 38" monitor. The 780 will handle a 34" monitor, but not a 38" monitor.Installation was fairly straightforward. This was a direct replacement for the EVGA 780 Classified, so the EVGA driver was already installed. The card was wrapped in an anti-static bag, and the contacts were protected by a rubber strip.The card's external dimensions are larger than the 780's but my Thermaltake Chaser case (no longer available) has a lot of room, and I had no problems with interference. The EVGA motherboard has a gap between slots one and two, so this card only consumes one PCI-E slot.Installation was straightforward, but when I powered the PC on the first time, it said I needed to connect the PCI-E cables, but I already had. I'd seen this problem before:corroded connectors, which I have the remedy for.In the process of cleaning the connectors (which probably didn't need cleaned), I saw one of my 2 pin 6 pin to 8 pin connectors wasn't fully inserted, so once the connectors were cleaned, I made sure the 2 pin connectors were pushed down even with the 6 pin connectors. I had no issues with dangling cables.The next time I powered the computer on, I got the sign on screen, but in very low resolution mode. The computer recognized my mouse, but not my keyboard. When all else fails, restart, which is what I did, and no problems since.All of my screens seem to load faster. They load so fast that it seems like they bounce when they stop loading. :-)And, less of the 1080 is needed to run FSX than of the 780 Classified. As a rough guess, it would be 50% to 33% faster than the 780 Classified.I have the DT (for detuned) version, so I'm not sure if there is much chance of over-clocking if the additional monitor area is too much for the card to keep up with at 30 FPS. I can always set the frame rate slower, from 30 PFS to maybe 25 or 20 FPS. I can also move the sliders to the left, as well.Simultaneous opening of multiple tabs on Internet Exploder also happens faster; but sometimes so fast the CPU gets saturated!

I just received this card, installed and benchmarked. I will update this review as time goes on if necessary, but so far so good.I installed the card with no hassle. I was a bit surprised with the quality of the metal plate of the card on the back of it. It was either bent or I bent it while installing, it is surprisingly soft for a component of this quality. I just bent it back to the correct shape and it's all good.I threw several benchmarks at it, temps stayed normal. Uningine Valley gave me about 200 FPS with Ultra settings, GPU never went over 83c. 120 FPS with full rain and clouds. Not bad, this is what's expected for this card.Ran F1 2018, MS Flight Simulator, X-Plane 11 and a couple more games. All played with no issues, decent FPS and normal in-game temps.I also kept the computer awake for some time to check idle temps. The card stays at 32c at idle with the computer awake. I realized I accidentally left a chrome window open with a YouTube video playing on it and still got good idle temps.This is what a recently bought graphics card should be. Seems ready to stand the test of time. We'll see.10/10 would recommend seller.8/10 would recommend card. I would give it 10, but if they cheaped out on the metal plate by the ports, I wonder what else they might have cheaped out on. I didn't expect that from EVGA, unless the plate was replaced after market.