At Micro center, prepared to drop some serious coin

"Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing." (granfury)
07/21/2018 at 19:46 • Filed to: None

First-world problem here. I ’ve given up on the CL flakes and decided to buy from a retailer. However, this is going to cost me a little more than I expected. They didn’t have any returned 1070 Ti cards, so do I go with a returned 1080 or do I buy a new 1070 Ti? The price is about the same.

It seems kind of silly dropping over $400 on a video card for a $200 computer, but whatever. I figure I can move it to a newer machine later.

DISCUSSION (14)

TheTurbochargedSquirrel > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
07/21/2018 at 20:00

Remember the Clarkson rule of everything: MORE POWERRRR!!!!!!

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > TheTurbochargedSquirrel
07/21/2018 at 20:02

But I'm more of a cerebral, James May kind of guy...

NojustNo > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
07/21/2018 at 20:06

Is the warranty the same for the returned cards? If so then get returned cards.

facw > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
07/21/2018 at 20:07

I go with the 1080 (probably). If it works out of the box, it will probably keep working. This stuff normally doesn’t just die. If it doesn’t work out of the box, return it and try again.

TheTurbochargedSquirrel > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
07/21/2018 at 20:07

In that case you need to go find yourself a Voo doo.

For Sweden > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
07/21/2018 at 20:20

You: Dropping Loonies

Me: Graphics card is puny

Aremmes > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
07/21/2018 at 20:26

Allow me to give the minority opinion: get a Radeon Vega.

Montalvo > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
07/21/2018 at 20:31

I practically live at microcenter, that place is truly awesome. If there was a 1080 ti that was returned I would go with that but out of those two options I would probably go with the 1070.

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > Aremmes
07/21/2018 at 20:45

I was contemplating that, by the Hackintosh portion of this computer is all set up to use Nvidia and without doing a lot of research I'm not sure how well a Vega will work in my system.

random001 > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
07/21/2018 at 21:12

1080 ti FTW

TheTurbochargedSquirrel > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
07/21/2018 at 21:15

Apple uses AMD in their stuff so it's probably easier to set up than an Nvidia build.

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > random001
07/21/2018 at 21:30

Would be nice, but I can’t justify the expense. I bought the returned 1080, and not only was it reasonable there was also a $20 mail-in rebate...

random001 > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
07/21/2018 at 22:39

I understand. The 1080 is also really amazing!

I just put a water cooler on my 1080 ti. Played a couple hours of Destiny 2, hit 51 degrees C. So nice....

Nom De Plume > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
07/22/2018 at 04:41

Maybe you should return it and get the 1180 that will be out shortly. G DDR6 and more of it!