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Nvidia Geforce GTX 1070 Review Thread

I wish I could have ordered from Amazon for the 2-day Prime shipping, but tax where I live would add another $30 on top of the price. Ended up doing newegg and taking slower shipping but saving ~$30. Mine is set to arrive next Friday, but maybe it'll end up being faster.
 
anyone got Zotac card? how do I change LED color for the GPU?

i just received my Zotac AMP edition, haven't run benchmark yet because I'm too excited playing Vive tutorial lol

Going From GTX 750 Ti, I don't think I need Overclock this card yet :)
 
Beautiful Ninja said:
I too bought the 399.99 Gigabyte card, looks like Newegg has got some good stock of GTX 1070's lately. Figured a 2 fan solution should be plenty on a 150w card, no need for anything fancier than that, will still be better than a stock blower.

Only worry is I hear Gigabyte's customer service is the absolute drizzling shits, so let's hope our cards don't break guys.
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My current card is a Gigabyte 280X Windforce which was formerly a 7970 with a reference cooler except that it died at 2.5 years. They gave me a 280X replacement because it was still within the 3 year warranty and they no longer had any 7970s so I was pretty content with that upgrade. As such, I'm okay with their customer service.
 
First thoughts on the Nvidia FE:

I was able to get a really solid overclock immediately with no real trouble and not pushing the card as far as it will go. It looks like about a 10% performance boost from stock. Hitting just over 2000MHz. Really happy with that.

The blower is not nearly as loud as I expected based on what some people say. It makes noise for sure, but it's a more subtle and pleasant sound than my Windforce 970 which could sound like a jet at times.

My temps are higher than I'd like but not dangerous. Although it's like 100 degrees where I live right now, so I'm sure those will drop.

Overall very happy. Unless something major changes, I'm just going to keep this card and not worry about trying to get my hands on an AIB. I love the way it looks.
 
thematic said:
anyone got Zotac card? how do I change LED color for the GPU?

i just received my Zotac AMP edition, haven't run benchmark yet because I'm too excited playing Vive tutorial lol

Going From GTX 750 Ti, I don't think I need Overclock this card yet :)
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Should be able to do it in Nvidia Geforce Experience.
 
For those of you that got a Gigabyte GTX 1070 G1 Gaming, did your card come with any kind of cellophane or seals on the flaps? I just got mine and there are zero seals of any kind on the box.
 
When should we start expecting Nvidia offering their game promotions thing? Deus Ex Mankind Divided and Mafia III seem likely candidates.
 
Rellik said:
Should be able to do it in Nvidia Geforce Experience.
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Thanks, but GeForce Experience can't change the LED

I actually found out how a little while ago
we need to install Zotac's FireStorm latest version (download from the web). there's a new "tab" Spectra to modify the LED

HOWEVER, my Zotac AMP can't display Red and Yellow
either I got broken LED or they cheap out a bit with this card.

anyone with Zotac GPU can try changing LED color to Red/Yellow?
 
TharpDaddy said:
I've never had coil whine. How loud is it? Something that I'd hear through my headphones or would be picked up on my microphone?



Thank you!
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coil whine is a light high pitched buzz. you certainly wont hear it in headphones and it wont get picked up on your mic. the only way i could see that happening is if your computer sits right up on your desk a few inches away from the mic.
 
Boss★Moogle;208325313 said:
For those of you that got a Gigabyte GTX 1070 G1 Gaming, did your card come with any kind of cellophane or seals on the flaps? I just got mine and there are zero seals of any kind on the box.
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No, nothing at all. Box was pretty barbones inside too, gpu in a bag, check.

Also, don't install the OC Extreme utility, it wrecked my pc.
 
LostDonkey said:
No, nothing at all. Box was pretty barbones inside too, gpu in a bag, check.

Also, don't install the OC Extreme utility, it wrecked my pc.
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At my Frys yesterday they had a ton of the founder's edition and a few Gigabyte cards. The Gig one looked cheap, imo but I only glanced at the box. The actual card is probably fine.
 
LostDonkey said:
No, nothing at all. Box was pretty barbones inside too, gpu in a bag, check.

Also, don't install the OC Extreme utility, it wrecked my pc.
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Thanks. Yeah, I didn't plan on installing it. I've always only used MSI Afterburner. Thing is I forgot to uninstall it before I sold my 970. I hope its smart enough to disable itself if it detects new hardware.
 
jrh2 said:
First thoughts on the Nvidia FE:

I was able to get a really solid overclock immediately with no real trouble and not pushing the card as far as it will go. It looks like about a 10% performance boost from stock. Hitting just over 2000MHz. Really happy with that.

The blower is not nearly as loud as I expected based on what some people say. It makes noise for sure, but it's a more subtle and pleasant sound than my Windforce 970 which could sound like a jet at times.

My temps are higher than I'd like but not dangerous. Although it's like 100 degrees where I live right now, so I'm sure those will drop.

Overall very happy. Unless something major changes, I'm just going to keep this card and not worry about trying to get my hands on an AIB. I love the way it looks.
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Same. Does over 2000mhz in FireStrike (close to 20k graphics score) and seems to like to sit at about 1949-1987mhz in games. Memory is at 8600mhz. Pushing witcher 3 mostly high settings at 4k, 50+ fps.
 
Question for folks far me knowledgable than me:

Overclocking gpus; it's a bit of a roll of the dice, correct? You hope that you get a card that can OC well, but there's no guarantee. Getting a factory OC card is giving you certainty that your card can go up to a certain level (at least when OC mode in enabled). When you buy more expensive cards, you're paying for that guarantee, and theoretically, a better cooling solution to account for that OC. You could always get a standard card, but the OC ability will be unclear, and you'll likely need to install a better cooler if you do OC or you'll just end up throttling the card.

Sound correct?
 
BRocknRolla said:
Question for folks far me knowledgable than me:

Overclocking gpus; it's a bit of a roll of the dice, correct? You hope that you get a card that can OC well, but there's no guarantee. Getting a factory OC card is giving you certainty that your card can go up to a certain level (at least when OC mode in enabled). When you buy more expensive cards, you're paying for that guarantee, and theoretically, a better cooling solution to account for that OC. You could always get a standard card, but the OC ability will be unclear, and you'll likely need to install a better cooler if you do OC or you'll just end up throttling the card.

Sound correct?
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Yes, but even among AIB cards or reference boards with upgraded coolers, there is somewhat of a lottery. It's a crap shoot in terms of how much further you can push them.
 
So, now that I have a 1070 on the way, I'm kiiiiiiinda thinking I might wanna upgrade my cpu and mobo. Y'know, just while I'm in there?

Anyway, I'm currently running an i5 2500K overclocked to 4.5 Ghz with Kingston HyperX Fury 16GB DDR3-1866 ram on an Asus P8Z68-V PRO motherboard.

Anyone have any recommendations? The ram is fairly new so I'd like to carry it over. I wouldn't even upgrade the mobo, but I know I'm gonna have to. I don't need anything top of the line, but I just don't want my CPU to become a bottleneck down the road. Hoping for this GPU to last me three years.
 
Iced said:
So, now that I have a 1070 on the way, I'm kiiiiiiinda thinking I might wanna upgrade my cpu and mobo. Y'know, just while I'm in there?

Anyway, I'm currently running an i5 2500K overclocked to 4.5 Ghz with Kingston HyperX Fury 16GB DDR3-1866 ram on an Asus P8Z68-V PRO motherboard.

Anyone have any recommendations? The ram is fairly new so I'd like to carry it over. I wouldn't even upgrade the mobo, but I know I'm gonna have to. I don't need anything top of the line, but I just don't want my CPU to become a bottleneck down the road. Hoping for this GPU to last me three years.
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Are you just aiming for 60FPS at 1080p? A 4.5GHz 2500k should still be fine for the most part for a couple more years. I'm holding off until either early next year or late next year depending on Kaby Lake and what we start hearing about Cannonlake or I might hold off until Icelake in 2018 (as I've planned for a few years now) depending on when I really start feeling pressure to upgrade from my own 2500k at 4.5GHz. I am going to go with an i7 though that much I'm set on, unless Intel puts out hex core i5s. Hopefully AMD starts to actually be competitive again with Zen.
 
spazchicken said:
At my Frys yesterday they had a ton of the founder's edition and a few Gigabyte cards. The Gig one looked cheap, imo but I only glanced at the box. The actual card is probably fine.
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Anything but tbh, build quality is great and it performs fantastically. It's my first Gig card, I usually buy EVGA, and I haven't any complaints at all with the gpu, Jus the software for the OC tool/fan control, but Ive ended up using afterburner anyway.
 
My MSI GTX 1070 Gaming (non-X) arrived and I'm impressed at how quiet this card is. I briefly benched it and the fan never spun past 50%. It easily pushed 2Ghz and 9200Mhz without breaking a sweat. I can't exactly justify paying 20$ more for the X model when this card does it without much effort.
 
Vaettir said:
My MSI GTX 1070 Gaming (non-X) arrived and I'm impressed at how quiet this card is. I briefly benched it and the fan never spun past 50%. It easily pushed 2Ghz and 9200Mhz without breaking a sweat. I can't exactly justify paying 20$ more for the X model when this card does it without much effort.
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That's an insane memory oc.
 
PHOENIXZERO said:
Are you just aiming for 60FPS at 1080p? A 4.5GHz 2500k should still be fine for the most part for a couple more years. I'm holding off until either early next year or late next year depending on Kaby Lake and what we start hearing about Cannonlake or I might hold off until Icelake in 2018 (as I've planned for a few years now) depending on when I really start feeling pressure to upgrade from my own 2500k at 4.5GHz. I am going to go with an i7 though that much I'm set on, unless Intel puts out hex core i5s. Hopefully AMD starts to actually be competitive again with Zen.
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Actually I have a 144hz g-sync monitor. The more frames I can get, the better. I mostly play games that are available on consoles though, so nothing ever terribly cpu intensive, but I don't want my cpu to hold me back either.
 
Iced said:
Actually I have a 144hz g-sync monitor. The more frames I can get, the better. I mostly play games that are available on consoles though, so nothing ever terribly cpu intensive, but I don't want my cpu to hold me back either.
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Holy shit I just remembered my monitor is 144hz too. My 760 can't run games at that frame rate. I'll actually get to experience 144fps next Friday.
 
My MSI Gaming X is running at 1582 even though I have clicked on "OC Mode" in the MSI Gaming App. The product listing shows 1582 as the core speed for "Gaming Mode" though.

Not sure why I'm not getting the 1607 MHz I'm supposed to.
Not that I imagine it'd make that much of a difference. I'll have to hope I can get Afterburner working now (errors since Win10 update) to go for the 2000 MHz others seem to be aiming for.
 
ZOONAMI said:
Same. Does over 2000mhz in FireStrike (close to 20k graphics score) and seems to like to sit at about 1949-1987mhz in games. Memory is at 8600mhz. Pushing witcher 3 mostly high settings at 4k, 50+ fps.
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Can you or anyone share what you used to get an overclock? Programs? Settings etc?
I have the Gigabyte FE.
Even a bump of 10% would be helpful. Thanks!
 
Now I know this is a specific question but anyone with a MSI 1070 Gaming or Gigabyte G1 Gaming playing the Witcher 3 and Overwatch with 144hz @1080p and unlocked framerate, what are your temps looking like?
 
billmcdougal said:
My MSI Gaming X is running at 1582 even though I have clicked on "OC Mode" in the MSI Gaming App. The product listing shows 1582 as the core speed for "Gaming Mode" though.

Not sure why I'm not getting the 1607 MHz I'm supposed to.
Not that I imagine it'd make that much of a difference. I'll have to hope I can get Afterburner working now (errors since Win10 update) to go for the 2000 MHz others seem to be aiming for.
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MSI published the OC Bios that reviewers got for the Gaming X if you're looking for a reason as to why your clocks aren't read properly. Are you using Afterburner 4.3.0 Beta? I had issues trying to OC the 1070 because 4.2.0 didn't read the card properly and thought it was voltage locked.
 
Vaettir said:
MSI published the OC Bios that reviewers got for the Gaming X if you're looking for a reason as to why your clocks aren't read properly. Are you using Afterburner 4.3.0 Beta? I had issues trying to OC the 1070 because 4.2.0 didn't read the card properly and thought it was voltage locked.
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I believe the BIOS simply makes OC mode clocks the default. I should still be set to OC mode clocks if I set it to that mode in the MSI software, if I'm not mistaken.

I haven't tried installing Afterburner since installing the 1070, I was using it with my previous card and having issues with the program itself (couldn't autostart with windows since win10 upgrade, task scheduler errors).

Also, it seems LED control through Nvidia Experience doesn't work right on the Gaming X, while the MSI app lets me control it. However, many color choices result in a scrolling band of two different colors (if I select orange, red and yellow stripes will scroll). Is that normal? :P
 
SaiyanRaoh said:
Can you or anyone share what you used to get an overclock? Programs? Settings etc?
I have the Gigabyte FE.
Even a bump of 10% would be helpful. Thanks!
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Download msi afterburner. Start with 50mhz or so increments and do firestrike benchmark runs. Keep adding until things get unstable. Then dial back a bit. Memory seems safe to do bigger increments, like 100+ uncreases per test. In my experience things might get unstable in FireStrike at your highest clocks but you might be rock solid in games. Witcher 3 is a very taxing game, if you get any hangs or crashes in that you've hit your limits and need to dial back a bit. I can do +200 core and +800mhz memory in games no problem, but firestrike isn't exactly stable at +200 core and +500mhz memory.

Remember that your memory is listed as dual channel in afterburner, so adding +500 memory in afterburner is actually adding 1000mhz.

Download the after burner beta 4.3 version to unlock votage. Crank your voltage and power sliders to max.

Have fun! Watch a videor on afterburner on YouTube, that will help a lot.
 
PHOENIXZERO said:
Are you just aiming for 60FPS at 1080p? A 4.5GHz 2500k should still be fine for the most part for a couple more years. I'm holding off until either early next year or late next year depending on Kaby Lake and what we start hearing about Cannonlake or I might hold off until Icelake in 2018 (as I've planned for a few years now) depending on when I really start feeling pressure to upgrade from my own 2500k at 4.5GHz. I am going to go with an i7 though that much I'm set on, unless Intel puts out hex core i5s. Hopefully AMD starts to actually be competitive again with Zen.
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FYI, resolution isn't really a factor when talking about CPU bottlenecks.
 
billmcdougal said:
I believe the BIOS simply makes OC mode clocks the default. I should still be set to OC mode clocks if I set it to that mode in the MSI software, if I'm not mistaken.

I haven't tried installing Afterburner since installing the 1070, I was using it with my previous card and having issues with the program itself (couldn't autostart with windows since win10 upgrade, task scheduler errors).

Also, it seems LED control through Nvidia Experience doesn't work right on the Gaming X, while the MSI app lets me control it. However, many color choices result in a scrolling band of two different colors (if I select orange, red and yellow stripes will scroll). Is that normal? :P
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I didn't use the Gaming app extensively since it messed with my monitor calibration. I just found it interesting it was even RGB LED.
 
irishcow said:
I also ordered a G1 on June 15th. It hasn't shipped yet. The last time I talked to customer service they quoted July 28th ship date for me. I hope it ships soon!
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July 28th is really late. My amazon order online, updated by itself this week. I didn't speak to a customer service agent, they probably gave you a safe date just in case. If you ordered on the same date, you should get your card soon, though the order page was up for quite a long time on that date, so maybe they got lots of orders in.
 
MuchoMalo said:
FYI, resolution isn't really a factor when talking about CPU bottlenecks.
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I added 1080p for the reason you got replied to on... A 1070 is going to have a lot easier time doing 1080p at frame rates way over 60 than it would at 1440 or 4K with the same or similar settings and 100+FPS (if it manages to make it that high even) at 1080p with a 2500K even at 4.5GHz is going to have trouble with really high frame rates with a lot of newer games than a more modern i5 or especially i7 would. Seeing as who I was replying to has a 144Hz G-sync monitor they obviously wants to get the most out of it so the 2500K is pretty much ready for retirement.

I also have a 2500k at 4.5GHz and a 144Hz monitor but I'm still holding out longer.
 
RamaTheVoice said:
Everything I've read about OCing GPUs suggests that this isn't a great idea.
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BIOS locks you out from anything remotely dangerous so it really doesnt matter at all, just max it out.

the second my 1070 gets here i'll crank voltage/power limit to max then start looking for my max OC :D
 
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