Using the Aorus GTX 1080 Gaming Box with an XPS 15 9560

[DP News-Robot]

TLDR: Everything is twice as fast

I recently purchased an Aorus GTX 1080 Gaming Box (see review) for my 9560 (i7, 1 TB SSD, 32 GB ram). I have been playing with an testing it for a few days and am pretty happy with my purchase.

Initial impressions

Initial impressions are mostly good.
Setup was annoying
Recognition of the card when hot plugging is OK, but not outstanding. Typically takes 20 seconds for the card to recognised and my external monitor to be activated.
The internal clearance is a bit tight. When it arrived, the gpu fan was hitting the casing. I had to remove the case (6 screws) and do some precision adjustment with pliers to resolve this.
Set up

Initial setup is a pain in the arse, although it would probably have been easier if I had found the CD and read the instructions.

To set it up properly you should do the following:

1. Install the 16.2 thunderbolt drivers from Intel
1. Plug in the box and let windows recognise it
1. Reinstall the graphics drivers
1. Install the latest firmware from gigabyte. This requires the 16.2 thunderbolt drivers
1. Install the latest thunderbolt drivers from Intel.
1. Profit



Performance

Gaming performance on an external monitor is much improved as you would expect. For every config that i have tried, I get 2 to 2.5 times the fps compared to the internal 1050 card.

Gaming on the internal monitor was also improved, but not as dramatically. I got an extra 25% fps compared to the internal card. However the minimum fps was much better.

I did quick and dirty benchmarking with the Far Cry 5 benchmarking tool.

I also tried testing with Farcry 4. Unfortunately I couldn't turn off vsync, so with the gaming box I got a solid 60fps @ 1440p with everything on ultra. Using the internal card I averaged 28fps.


In Final Fantasy 15, I am getting 50 fps on highest settings.


Overall I am pretty happy with this. Every game that I have tried has been able to run at 1440p on highest/ultra settings at a playable framerate.

Weiterlesen...