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that would be my guess. i play forza 6 at 1080p on high settings with a lot less than it claims is needed. i use an i5-4690k and an r9-280 for that with no issues. i'd guess that the 4k suggestion is also a bit high. we won't know for sure of course until the card is out and it can be tested but i'd say it is a safe guess to make based on what we know.

it's not the most demanding game out there from what i have seen.


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On a 1440 display the 1070 should do just fine. On 4k the 1070 or a 980 ti or AMD furyx are really the single entrance card. For just $120 more than a partners cooled 1080 you should be able to buy 2x1070 for sli which should be a very competent 4k setup. 2x1070s appears to me at least to be the sweet spot in the new Nvidia line up balancing cost and performance.
 


I think in the future it's going to go back and forth. We'll have slow times and very very fast times. I believe for now it's going to be slow for the duration of sillicon. It won't be until biological computers come out that tech will again move insanely fast.
 
Most futurists predict the technological singularity somewhere in the next 5-20 years. Then we'll see if our new robot overlords decide to turn us into batteries or not 😛

An AI improving on 70 years of human physics in under an hour is pretty damn impressive.
 
TechyInAZ:
Computers are (and have been for a long time), much faster and more exact in, you know, computing stuff then any human in history. We wouldn't be able to calculate even approximate solutions to most types of differential equations without them. They are also better at perspective drawing (the 1080 is even the fastest perspective drawer in human history) and anything that can be automated.

They are however not good at emulating brains. While any gpu can process a signal faster and more efficient then any brain, no gpu or computer can do the same calculations as the brain because we haven't figured out how it works yet. So saying your phone is less powerful then your brain is a bit like saying the PS3 is more powerful then your new gaming rig. It might be technically correct that the rig can't consistently emulate the PS3, but that is just because the hardware is not compatible and you need to software emulate stuff.

TLDR: computers are MUCH faster then brains, but we don't understand our brain so we can't program our computers to emulate it.
 
here is the 3rd water block for the founder's edition 1080 i have seen so far http://videocardz.com/60229/ek-shows-off-geforce-gtx-1080-water-block

seems silly since we already know the card is going to be limited by the power connection so the oc won't get any higher. think i'd wait for custom cards and these waterblocks for a true oc experience :)

i have thought of trying something like this myself and might do it with the new build later this year. thought of trying out a custom water loop and might go stupid and add in a nice high end gpu like this with a new skylake i7. i wonder how small i can get the case yet still include a custom water loop.
 


the thing is we still don't know if nvidia will allow "extreme" OCed 1080 to be build by board partner. we know nvidia did not allow for board partner to go aggressive with the voltage of their card or they will lose warranty from nvidia.
 
Since the GTX 1080 is marketed with 3xVR power of the 980, I thought chat about VR was OK for a bit. I thought also it was relevant to mention the drawback of VR and why I think VR is dead in the water. Using your eyes to focus on a screen only centimetres away will damage eyesight. (That advert for the Samsung Galaxy S7 is crazy. He clips the S7 onto a gadget and puts it only about 10cm from his eyes: madness.)

Anyway back to the GTX 1080. Me not really being an over-clocker will be happy with a single eight-pin. I can't even figure out how to over-clock my Strix 980 with the current version of GPU Tweak. I need to uninstall it and put the old version back on.

However I think other manufacturers of the 1080 will have more power on board for factory over-clocks. Wait and see as someone said; sit tight.

@Math Geek, by the way, sexy water cooler. I never saw one of those before.
 
Even without overclock my 970 alreasy quite fast in games that i played. Most of the time i just do it for fun and usually just revert them back to stock setting later. with all those boost clock and such i don't really care about OC anymore. Lol to be honest i have more fun overclocking my GTX460. Same with my older E7500.
 
I know some people have genuine interest with VR. GPU maker also do many things so the performance and be improved upon making the tech is more accessible to everyone. But in the end the guys like Oculus that will kill VR.

http://www.nextpowerup.com/news/28179/oculus-rift-update-keeps-exclusive-games-from-playing-on-htc-vive/

 
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