Want to own the world's fastest GPU? Then don't beat around the bush, go out and buy yourself Nvidia's new flagship, the GeForce GTX 1080 . It should be as simple as that, yet the decision has been muddied somewhat by the introduction of a Founders Edition model that offers consumers a true...

Factory overclocked; FE-beating cooling capacity; Fans switch off at idle; Built like a tank; Customisable RGD LEDs; FanConnect is a good idea

Carries a hefty premium; Aura software needs work

ASUS obviously has a very nice product at hand with the STRIX. Now first let me deal with the elephant in the room, all AIB card perform roughly the same, aside from a few FPS here and there.

The past few weeks have been some of the most exciting we've experience in the computer tech industry. Not least because of the spate of interesting announcements at Computex 2016 but taking centre-stage was one of the most significant GPU releases in recent times.

+ Aggressive styling; + Customisable LED lighting; + Comes with factory overclock; + Low-noise; + Effective cooling; + Excellent performance; + DirectX 12 ready; + 2 years warranty

The Asus ROG Strix GeForce GTX 1080 takes Nvidia's flagship graphics processor and transforms it into something faster, more feature-rich and a whole lot prettier. Here's our Asus ROG Strix GeForce GTX 1080 review

Was hesitant to go with the Asus since I've always gone with EVGA GPU's and have never been disappointed but so far I'm loving the card! Solid build, easily overclocks and whisper quiet. Also, it's cheaper than almost all the other 1080 cards. Definitely best bang for the buck in the 1080 series!

- $40 cheaper than the OC version; Install the software from Asus and it overclocks with one click; Had mine up to 2035mhz in about 2 minutes of trying - Runs very cool - fan has yet to get over 59% speed with the card never once going over 70 C - Quiet - cant hear it at all below 60% fan speed -...

- This card is seriously long - had to take out my hard drive racks in my mid size case to make it fit; Seriously, measure to make sure it fits in your case

NVidia's GTX 1080 is the fastest consumer graphics processor you can buy right now, outpacing even the mighty, and hideously expensive, GeForce Titan X. However Nvidia's own-label version, the Founders Edition, reviewed, lacks many of the bells and whistles we have come to expect from third-party...

- If given the choice, I should have passed this one for the little improvement it provided for my config. It may bring more significant improvements for others with different resolution but for me the improvement was not worth the money spent.

- I run all the games I can at 5760*1080 and it never goes under 30fps; - Reasonably priced for those in need of upgrade - Fans are not very loud, temps go as low as 38C in idle and less than 60C at max load; - You can set the colors of the backplate

- It was touted to provide more than 30% increase versus 2 980Ti in SLI but in reality I get maybe 10% improvement versus my 2 970 in SLI

Max setting on everything no problem.

I've come from a Radeon 5870 so this is obviously a big jump but this card is amazing. By far the quietest card I've ever had (most of the time the fans don't even spin up!!!) and of course its fast (GTA V and Doom 2016 on max settings are both super smooth!

For those of you wondering, this is the 1607MHz base clock model. It didn't specify on the site. I was a little disappointed at first until I opened up GPU Tweak. After testing several different settings over 2 to 3 days I found that this card runs consistently well at 2100MHz overclock.