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Nvidia Geforce GTX 1070 Review Thread
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MagicWithEarvin
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I'm on a 4GB 770 EVGA SC right now and waiting for my $399 Gigabyte card from Newegg. I've held off on playing my games until then!
dgrdsv
Member
The smaller the cooler the harder it needs to work to push the heat off the chip. Means higher temps, more noise and potentially more frequency drops because of thermals. Basically if you don't have any issues with space in your case - you shouldn't get one of these.
Smaller radiator also means no fans off at idle. :\
MagicWithEarvin
Member
Newegg finally shipped my Gigabyte card. Does anyone here have an i7-4790K that they pair with the 1070?
get a gsync, then you can turn vsync off and avoid the input lag
No estimated date in the site. The last time I talked to amazon reps they told me July 28.
Braag
Member
Hmm, it's been 2 weeks since I ordered a MSI GTX1070 Gaming X and still no word on when they will have those in stock here. I wont be home next week anyway so at least another week of waiting. But if there wont be any word within next 2 weeks I'll probably cancel my order and rethink on which card I plan on buying seeing as Nvidia is running dry.
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I don't think so, but I did change the power settings in the Nvidia control panel from "Best Power" to "Maximize Performance" cause I read to do so in a guide for optimizing ARK.
It seems obvious now that that would do it
Yep, that would be the cause.
Possible [but not guaranteed] premium pricing, and compromised cooling/noise. But even with that, performance should still be top notch.
dgrdsv
Member
Well, that depends on the implementation but in general, yeah, those usually keep rotating even in idle.
Caayn
Member
It looks like a custom bowler style cooler. But sadly none of the reviewers and journalists seem interested in reporting on it.
billmcdougal
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My 70fps overwatch on 60hz monitor seems like unsmooth/jittery scrolling if i watch scenery pass by. Do i need vsync or triple buffering or something?
That's sad since I'm interested in the card :/
opticalmace
Member
I'm not sure if they're binned slightly differently or what. For the difference in cost I went with the X (seems all the reviews are for the X), and have had very good luck overclocking it.
Set a global fps cap of 60 in rivatuner statistics server.
Bog
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Yeah, that's my setup.
Nyteshade517
Member
Finally tried a game out now that my CPU cooling issues are fixed...tried Rise of The Tomb Raider and the performance on my EVGA 1070 SC was like night and day
With the bad CPU cooling I was getting garbage performance all around...now I got excellent performance in the Geothermal Valley even on the higher settings than the Very High preset (VXAO caused crashes though so I had to leave that off)...temps only got to 49 C for the CPU
With the bad CPU cooling I was getting garbage performance all around...now I got excellent performance in the Geothermal Valley even on the higher settings than the Very High preset (VXAO caused crashes though so I had to leave that off)...temps only got to 49 C for the CPU
MagicWithEarvin
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Also running a 4790k and 1070. No complaints and running anything and everything at max settings, but I'm connected to my 1080p plasma so YMMV if you're pushing to higher resolutions. No overclocking because nothing has even come close to dipping below 60fps.
Beautiful Ninja
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Holy moley is the new Gigabyte OC software the most godawful pile of shit I've ever seen. Decided to try it because I have a Gigabyte GPU and wanted easy access to the various modes for testing and it was a terrible, terrible mistake. Couldn't even figure out how to turn on the OSD or if it even had an OSD.
I'll be sticking with MSI Afterburner.
I'll be sticking with MSI Afterburner.
I'll take a look a importing again. I checked Amazon and the cheapest 1070 I could find was still $450-$500USD so wasn't really that cheap. I'm thinking UK would be the better way to go our Aussie dollar is doing well against the pound.
I definitely think the 1070 will be the better upgrade in pure power. It'll be a substantial increase it I can justify at that price.
Beautiful Ninja
Member
Newegg was doing their yearly inventory check in their warehouses, nobody's packages were shipping the last couple days.
Witcher 3 at 60fps feels like I'm finally playing the real game. Still had to turn the hair shit down to low to get consistent performance. With it on high (2 AA) l the game went down to like 45 when I fought a pack of wolves.
On my 1080p TV I'm gonna have to downsample basically everything.
On my 1080p TV I'm gonna have to downsample basically everything.
Lockjaw333
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I was literally walking by my computer when I got the nowinstock alert for the SC. Sat down, opened the amazon page, add to cart, proceed to checkout....item is no longer available.
You people are animals!!!
Last_colossi
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Well I finally bit the bullet and bought the EVGA 1070 FE from newegg.
I waited for the RX 480 reviews to see if it was worth buying but the performance was just too low IMO, so I decided to go with the 1070 FE as newegg is selling it for $648 AUD (including shipping) which is cheap as shit compared to any retailer here in Australia (cheapest I could find here is $779 not including shipping) so all in all I am super excited as I've been rocking a 960 2GB for the last year and a bit so the 1070 will feel like a god tier upgrade for me.
Also I'm curious, when I do swap over my GPU with the 1070 I shouldn't have to reinstall any drivers should I?
I waited for the RX 480 reviews to see if it was worth buying but the performance was just too low IMO, so I decided to go with the 1070 FE as newegg is selling it for $648 AUD (including shipping) which is cheap as shit compared to any retailer here in Australia (cheapest I could find here is $779 not including shipping) so all in all I am super excited as I've been rocking a 960 2GB for the last year and a bit so the 1070 will feel like a god tier upgrade for me.
Also I'm curious, when I do swap over my GPU with the 1070 I shouldn't have to reinstall any drivers should I?
Aceshighhhh
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Did the Gigabyte G1 actually become available on Newegg today? Had mine on backorder and it's still showing backordered =/
Witcher 3 with hair turned on seems to be the only game that get's a significant load out of the 1070 at 1080p/60.
To be honest I mainly got this card to prepare for what's coming later this year and next year. My previous card struggled to run DOOM but I didn't want to wait for a 480 (or a 1060), especially due to DOOM's current Steam sale price.
Now I'm thinking about installing Forza Apex sometime soon. That's a DX12 game right?
To be honest I mainly got this card to prepare for what's coming later this year and next year. My previous card struggled to run DOOM but I didn't want to wait for a 480 (or a 1060), especially due to DOOM's current Steam sale price.
Now I'm thinking about installing Forza Apex sometime soon. That's a DX12 game right?
Use nowinstock.com and check all the brands for 1070. Easier that way.
Don't buy from other retailers on Amazon, it'll be a lot more difficult involving a third party if you need to make a return. Plus their prices seem a lot higher across the board than either Amazon/newegg as they seem to be trying to take advantage of the stock shortage.
I haven't checked Amazon UK but they could def be cheaper.
EDIT: its nowinstock.net
TharpDaddy
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It's so over-designed, it looks like fake software you'd see in a TV show. I don't have the crashing issues that other's are having but it's not a great piece of software; It does what I need though. I was able to set my card into OC mode through it and change the LED to blue which is very important in my completely closed case where I can never see it.
triplestation
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just ordered myself a strix 1070 and it should be here in a week!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Unknown Soldier
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You need an open case so you too can have a light show in your computer!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdrVazdb2Ws
There's actually a large fan in the side panel of my Cooler Master HAF 932 which partly blocks the view of the video card when it's on, but I can see into the case clearly through the unused 5.25" drive bays and so I can enjoy my light show that way.
MSI Afterburner is the original and best. Accept no substitutes.
The downsampling thread seems pretty dead so I guess I should ask here for tips on how to do it.
My main question is about doing it on TVs. Is there any difference from doing it on a monitor? Will there be issues with the bandwidth of my HDMI cable?
Edit: Just found the "Dynamic Super Resolution" setting in GeForce Expereince, but the only option it seems to offer me outside 4K is 2715 x 1527. Is that just the integer scale between 1080p and 4K? I assumed that was 1440p.
My main question is about doing it on TVs. Is there any difference from doing it on a monitor? Will there be issues with the bandwidth of my HDMI cable?
Edit: Just found the "Dynamic Super Resolution" setting in GeForce Expereince, but the only option it seems to offer me outside 4K is 2715 x 1527. Is that just the integer scale between 1080p and 4K? I assumed that was 1440p.
I got my UK card for 330 pounds, but, I think that was an outlier just as the pound crashed/Brexit happened. The card is back to 399 from Amazon now
HungOverOnATues
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It's double the pixel count. (1527 / 1080) = sqrt(2).
Cuban Legend
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from Amazon US?
Hoffelcopter
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The EVGA 1070 SC I ordered back on Tuesday finally shipped from Newegg. Going to be here next Tuesday.
drotahorror
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Yes. Good idea, I'm gonna install it too. I've heard it's awful on nvidia, haven't really looked into it much though.
Nah, game runs maxed @1440p on a gtx 970.
drotahorror
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Word, never dropped below 60 with everything maxed out (nothing dynamic) with the exception of MSAA I put at 4x.
Makoto-Yuki
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i have the msi gaming x too and it lets me select to unlock voltage but i can't actually adjust the slider. as for my core/memory, i can only get it to +90/+120 before it gets unstable. not sure if that's good or not. temps never pass 70C and haven't seen my fans go past 40%. so i'm guessing it's the voltage that's holding the card back from any more overclocking.
I believe Crysis 1 is CPU bound.
billmcdougal
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This.
Beta works on my Gaming X.
I noticed hwinfo64 doesn't show a voltage though, and gforce experience has a monitor that shows 0 voltage.
Is everyone turning up to +100% core voltage?