08-31-2017, 02:03 PM
You need Founders Edition cards, which unfortunately seem to be out of stock everywhere at the moment.
Even though 1080TI-FE cards are sold under a variety of brands (NVIDIA itself, EVGA, ASUS, etc) they are supposed to be exactly the same: the partners either get the GPU chip from NVIDIA and build the PCB around it by strictly following NVIDIA blueprints, or ready-to-use cards that they just package with their branding.
The only reasons left to prefer a brand over another is differences in warranty, RMA and each partner's own touch like step-up program (see EVGA) or freebies.
Ubuntu should be fine. Not sure why you would use 14.04 though: just choose between the current LTS or the very latest release
I wouldn't call SSD a must have, and 32GB should be plenty; buy what makes you happy at the moment, you can always add faster storage and/or more RAM later when you have a better idea of what you need depending on your style of password cracking.
Even though 1080TI-FE cards are sold under a variety of brands (NVIDIA itself, EVGA, ASUS, etc) they are supposed to be exactly the same: the partners either get the GPU chip from NVIDIA and build the PCB around it by strictly following NVIDIA blueprints, or ready-to-use cards that they just package with their branding.
The only reasons left to prefer a brand over another is differences in warranty, RMA and each partner's own touch like step-up program (see EVGA) or freebies.
Ubuntu should be fine. Not sure why you would use 14.04 though: just choose between the current LTS or the very latest release
I wouldn't call SSD a must have, and 32GB should be plenty; buy what makes you happy at the moment, you can always add faster storage and/or more RAM later when you have a better idea of what you need depending on your style of password cracking.