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The Pascal GTX 1070 Owners Thread

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Personally, MSI has been my preference over the last few years. Their two-fan choices are solid, quiet, and look good. I've never had any problems with reliabilityin all my time with this brand.

The EVGA SC looks good, especially when it gets lit up with its white LEDs, and the latest ACX 3.0 cooler it has is very effective in cooling the card.

The Gainward is the highest boost-clocking card of the 3 and looks very nice. There are reviews of the 1080 variants for all three cards which I recommend viewing because they all have pretty much the same or very similar construction as their 1070 counterparts. The GLH 1080 seems very impressive, offering effective and quiet cooling, with very strong gaming performance for a good price.

They're all strong cards, but depite my MSI arriving tomorrow, I would have a hard time turning down the Gainward, with the EVGA coming in third as it is essentially the FE version with a better cooler and higher clock.

Thanks for reply

Going to look at the reviews now, very, very tempted by the Gainward GLH as that offers better bang for the money.
 
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Finally narrowed my choice down to the following 1070 cards

MSI gaming X
EVGA SC
Gainward GLH

Has anyone got any advice on which card to get? Most of my cards in the last ten years or so have been Sapphire AMD, so I'm a bit lost at the moment with the green team and which cards tend to have the better coolers\ less noise\ most reliable.

Really want to order one of these over the weekend.

I know the MSI has a custom PCB with 10 phase power delivery from reviews. I can say personally that it's quiet as living bejesus, looks amazing IRL, and critically it has a +26% power target. So far I've just plugged in settings that give me 2.05 GHz core and 9GHz mem, yet to actually see how far it can go.

Can't say much about the other models although I'd be wary of the SC if it really is just an FE with a cooler as that assumes a +12% power target. For my money though I'd also consider the KFA2 EXOC model if waiting isn't a huge issue, again assuming that model has a decent power target (can't find any info on this yet either).
 
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Good morning, and thank you OcUK. First (and not last) time buyer :)

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Doesn't the promotional material depict a black IO plate?

Yep.

Though, one of the images also has it in grey, on the official site here:
https://www.msi.com/Graphics-card/GEFORCE-GTX-1070-GAMING-X-8G.html#hero-overview
Scroll down to an image with the header "Catch the Vibe with Cool LED Effects"

All the review samples were grey too. However, if you catch the camera flash and the right angle, you can make it black :D

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Re-benchmarks, will look into it.
 
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Good morning, and thank you OcUK. First (and not last) time buyer :)

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Welcome and on TROH.:)

The Roll of Honour.

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Date 18/06/2016, Make MSI Gaming X, AliGoz, Link
Date 17/06/2016, Make MSI Gaming X, philo-sofa, Link
Date 16/06/2016, Make Palit Founders Edition, Biffa, Link
Date 16/06/2016, Make EVGA Founders Edition, Daaaveee, Link
Date 14/06/2016, Make EVGA Founders Edition, mankycrack, Link
Date 13/06/2016, Make NVidia Founders Edition, !bluetonic!, Link
Date 12/06/2016, Make MSI Founders Edition, yoyo59, Link
Date 11/06/2016, Make MSI Founders Edition, JamesM, Link



To get on the Roll of Honour all you have to do is post a pic with your user name on it of your GTX 1070.​
 
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So whats the actual RRP for non Founders Edition cards?, i thought it was supposed to be around £320 but the cheapest ive seen is like £380!?
No idea, but I'd suspect that someone is realising that the AIB cards are probably worth more than the FE cards, so they can charge FE prices or more... which probably won't change for a while.
 
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Managed to get a MSI 1070 Gaming X, ordered last night arrived today :) Superb so far, very quiet. Fans stop at idle so will be easy on the dust gathering too. Just fired up a Doom session at ultra @1440 - super smooth 63C max.

Very very pleased given this is the upgrade I've been waiting for my GTX 770 :)
 
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