05-10-2016, 03:48 PM
I guess it's just NV's excuse to sell reference cards with NV's own fan/heatsink design at a premium...
Remember how many people were dying for a GTX 970 with an exhaust cooler just like GTX 980? Nvidia finally released one months after GTX 970 launch, and people were happy to pay around $50 extra for this.
Now GTX 1070 FE is $80 extra over vanilla version, I think.
And GTX 1080 FE is $100 extra.
These are the cards people would be buying for SLI, unless they're waiting for a water-cooled version. I guess they would happily pay extra for NV-quality exhaust cooler.
Remember how many people were dying for a GTX 970 with an exhaust cooler just like GTX 980? Nvidia finally released one months after GTX 970 launch, and people were happy to pay around $50 extra for this.
Now GTX 1070 FE is $80 extra over vanilla version, I think.
And GTX 1080 FE is $100 extra.
These are the cards people would be buying for SLI, unless they're waiting for a water-cooled version. I guess they would happily pay extra for NV-quality exhaust cooler.