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[Memorabilia]

I'm *very* tempted to pick one of these up to do some comparison benchies on all my rigs against the 480 I just bought. I actually like the FE blower design. But, I'm not thrilled about paying the FE tax, so will steer clear until these things go on "sale" closer to MSRP....

 

[Aztechnology]

I'm *very* tempted to pick one of these up to do some comparison benchies on all my rigs against the 480 I just bought. I actually like the FE blower design. But, I'm not thrilled about paying the FE tax, so will steer clear until these things go on "sale" closer to MSRP....

Put this guy on notify then.

http://m.newegg.com/Product/index?itemnumber=N82E16814125875

 

[Jibbajabbawockky]

Woohoo! Fedex finally came through! (even though they were definitely a day late on the whole 2 day shipping side of things...)

Nice packaging from EVGA:

And I nearly had a stroke when I took the 1070 FTW out of the box and realized how huge it was. Top card is my old 760, middle card is my 970 FTW and bottom one is the 1070 FTW:

The 1070 definitely has some heft to it and feels super solid. But I nearly freaked out when I took out my old 970 and tried fitting the 1070 inside. I've got an original Cooler Master Storm Scout case which should hold cards up to 10.5 inches long and man, it was a super tight fit but my 1070 is in there now.

Now to try out some games!

 

[Vulcano's assistant]

Nice packaging from EVGA:

super fancy compared to the transparent plastic they used for Maxwell cards.

 

[Jibbajabbawockky]

super fancy compared to the transparent plastic they used for Maxwell cards.

Definitely. I know its a stupid thing overall, but I appreciate that when I'm opening up a video card that's damn near $500, it at least feels like its a fancy piece of computer hardware and not just entombed in some cheap plastic clamshell.

Then again, you're talking to the guy that splurged on the FTW 1070 mostly so I could have fancy RGB LED lights

 

[theonerayman]

Anyone else with the EVGA 1070 SC, stock that can give me some temps? I'm idling around 31c but when I started up Ark I was pushing 71c and up. My old R9 290 used to run at 80c in Ark all the time but I know that card ran hot and I don't know exactly how warm this thing is suppose to be.

 

[CastleRybread]

Woohoo! Fedex finally came through! (even though they were definitely a day late on the whole 2 day shipping side of things...)


Nice packaging from EVGA:


And I nearly had a stroke when I took the 1070 FTW out of the box and realized how huge it was. Top card is my old 760, middle card is my 970 FTW and bottom one is the 1070 FTW:


The 1070 definitely has some heft to it and feels super solid. But I nearly freaked out when I took out my old 970 and tried fitting the 1070 inside. I've got an original Cooler Master Storm Scout case which should hold cards up to 10.5 inches long and man, it was a super tight fit but my 1070 is in there now.

Now to try out some games!

I went from 670s and I was surprised how big it was too. Snugly fit in my fractal r5.

 

[ZOONAMI]

Anyone else with the EVGA 1070 SC, stock that can give me some temps? I'm idling around 31c but when I started up Ark I was pushing 71c and up. My old R9 290 used to run at 80c in Ark all the time but I know that card ran hot and I don't know exactly how warm this thing is suppose to be.

I would change your fan curve, and potentially consider an rma/return. My 1070 FE has never even gone above 75 doing 3dmark and foesnt break 70 in games with Max fan speed at 75%.

Edit, misread thought you were saying the 1070 was doing 80+. 71 is fine. 80ish is where nv cards start to really throttle.

 

[Mothman91]

Just got my EVGA gtx 1070 and installed it. Do I need to reinstall drivers for this or something?

Also anyone have problems with very high settings on Rise of the Tomb Raider? I have the steam fps on and it's sitting around 20-30 fps, am I doing something wrong ?

 

[Timu]

Just got my EVGA gtx 1070 and installed it. Do I need to reinstall drivers for this or something?

Also anyone have problems with very high settings on Rise of the Tomb Raider? I have the steam fps on and it's sitting around 20-30 fps, am I doing something wrong ?

It should be way higher than that, check your drivers.

 

[Mothman91]

It should be way higher than that, check your drivers.

I know it should be, through geforce experience I'm "up to date". Maybe I shoudl reinstall drivers.

 

[Copper]

Got my Asus Strix installed today. Gorgeous card love the aura lighting. Seem to run very cool as well. Haven't seen it hit much higher than 60. Tried Witcher 3 and it runs at a solid 60 fps at 1440p with a few settings turned down. Only place it dips is in novingrad but I feel that may be due to my aging CPU. Doom ran amazing too; cranked all settings to ultra with nightmare textures and TSAA and runs buttery smooth at 1440p as well. What is the best OC tool to use with this card?

 

[Xyber]

This 1070 is performing nicely, though. Some games I don't see a huge performance boost, like Crysis 3 or Ryse, but others like Fallout 4, let me run 4k@40FPS+.

Crysis 3 (and probably Ryse) can be very CPU heavy in areas so you are most likely bottlenecked there.

 

[Mothman91]

Reinstalled, realized borderless fullscreen was making me dip hard. Regardless, I'm hovering close to 50fps most of the time. I feel like I should be at 60, maybe Rise of the Tomb Raider is badly optimized? Oh well.

 

[theonerayman]

I would change your fan curve, and potentially consider an rma/return. My 1070 FE has never even gone above 75 doing 3dmark and foesnt break 70 in games with Max fan speed at 75%.

Edit, misread thought you were saying the 1070 was doing 80+. 71 is fine. 80ish is where nv cards start to really throttle.

I've been playing around with it some more and Ark gets my card to about 75 but I haven't seen it go any higher. I honestly think it's ark. I can play MGSV maxed out and it doesn't get above about 65ish. But Ark just drives these cards crazy,

EDIT: Is there an easy way to see what % my fan is running at if it's on auto? I tried precision POCX and MSI afterburner but they just seem to let you set where you want it, not actually show the % that it's running. I haven't had an NVIDIA card for years but it really seems for information the the Radeon control center is lightyears ahead of whatever NVIDIA has being put out by their 3rd parties.

EDIT 2: I got GPU-Z and it's saying that the fan is at 0% that is also what the POCX is saying. But since the card is running at about 30c idle it has to be running right?

 

[ZOONAMI]

I used MSI Afterburner on my 770... but on my 1070 im trying to see which tool will work best MSi Afterburner, EVGA Precision OCX ot the ASUS GPUTweak tool that came with my card.

EVGA Precision OCX would be my pick though because of the OC Scanner tool, too bad we who arent on EVGA cards cant use the neat OC Scanner Auto OC Feature where it auto overclocked the card with dynamic voltage targets at every power target step.

OC scanner is broken anyway. It will just driver crash your card or hard crash your system and it won't save the voltage points after a crash, so it's pretty useless. And precision x is super buggy in general compared to ab.

 

[ZOONAMI]

I've been playing around with it some more and Ark gets my card to about 75 but I haven't seen it go any higher. I honestly think it's ark. I can play MGSV maxed out and it doesn't get above about 65ish. But Ark just drives these cards crazy,

EDIT: Is there an easy way to see what % my fan is running at if it's on auto? I tried precision POCX and MSI afterburner but they just seem to let you set where you want it, not actually show the % that it's running. I haven't had an NVIDIA card for years but it really seems for information the the Radeon control center is lightyears ahead of whatever NVIDIA has being put out by their 3rd parties.

EDIT 2: I got GPU-Z and it's saying that the fan is at 0% that is also what the POCX is saying. But since the card is running at about 30c idle it has to be running right?

Under 40 degrees stock fan curve is set to 0. Click on the curve button in precision x to adjust fan curve. Advanced setting in ab to enable fan curve control. Px and ab have hardware monitoring graphs that include fan speed. Or download gpuz and log the monitoring to file.

 

[Jeff Stephen]

Reinstalled, realized borderless fullscreen was making me dip hard. Regardless, I'm hovering close to 50fps most of the time. I feel like I should be at 60, maybe Rise of the Tomb Raider is badly optimized? Oh well.

DirectX 11 or 12?

 

[CaptainZombie]

I'm considering the EVGA hybrid cooler for my SC ACX 3.0 even though the stock cooler does look nice.

http://www.evga.com/Products/Product.aspx?pn=400-HY-5188-B1

 

[Sydle]

Stumbled upon a MSI Gaming X yesterday at a small electronics store and couldn't help myself. I love it! Can't believe how quite it is.

 

[Aztechnology]

I'm considering the EVGA hybrid cooler for my SC ACX 3.0 even though the stock cooler does look nice.

http://www.evga.com/Products/Product.aspx?pn=400-HY-5188-B1

Just letting you know many of us have maxed our clocks on these babies and aren't even hitting 70c. So there's really not a thermal limit to be worried about when OC'ing. The air coolers can more than handle it.

 

[ZOONAMI]

Does anyine have an answer for if it makes any kind of sense to drop in a dedicated phsyx 750 ti with a 1070 or 980 ti?

 

[gamma]

Does anyine have an answer for if it makes any kind of sense to drop in a dedicated phsyx 750 ti with a 1070 or 980 ti?

I'm gonna guess and say hell no. I haven't heard anything about dedicated PhysX cards in years. Not sure if it was ever really beneficial.

 

[LordCanti]

Well that was a good catch on your part, I do indeed hope we both with the silicon lottery with our cards.

BTW dude its been a while since I remember seeing you on GAF, good to see your still around bro!

I mostly hang around the OT these days but VR and some games made me decide to upgrade finally. I've been on basically the same system since we played BF3 (which was brand new at the time, but still, it's been too long).

Let me know what yours overclocks to when it gets in. Mine had the shipping delayed due to "we sent it to the wrong shipping company and they had to ship it back" (thanks Amazon)

 

[desu]

Just letting you know many of us have maxed our clocks on these babies and aren't even hitting 70c. So there's really not a thermal limit to be worried about when OC'ing. The air coolers can more than handle it.

While is most likely true, aren't the cards starting to throttle before 70°C already? Which means the cooler the card is, the higher the chance to keep your max overclock?

 

[Beautiful Ninja]

Does anyine have an answer for if it makes any kind of sense to drop in a dedicated phsyx 750 ti with a 1070 or 980 ti?

My understanding is that if you use a dedicated PhysX card with a significant performance gap with your main GPU, all it does it bottleneck the good GPU and lowers performance overall. It seems basically dead at this point as well with practically no new games supporting it.

 

[nataku]

Woohoo! Fedex finally came through! (even though they were definitely a day late on the whole 2 day shipping side of things...)


Nice packaging from EVGA:


And I nearly had a stroke when I took the 1070 FTW out of the box and realized how huge it was. Top card is my old 760, middle card is my 970 FTW and bottom one is the 1070 FTW:


The 1070 definitely has some heft to it and feels super solid. But I nearly freaked out when I took out my old 970 and tried fitting the 1070 inside. I've got an original Cooler Master Storm Scout case which should hold cards up to 10.5 inches long and man, it was a super tight fit but my 1070 is in there now.

Now to try out some games!

That's huge. I was considering getting one but now I'm not sure it'll fit in my case. Length wise it's fine, but that thing looks a lot taller than my 670 FTW. Maybe it'd fit if I got rid of the side intake fan. Hmm.

 

[Aztechnology]

While is most likely true, aren't the cards starting to throttle before 70°C already? Which means the cooler the card is, the higher the chance to keep your max overclock?

No they are not throttling before 70c. Throttling doesn't occur until the 85c range stock and you can increase the thermal limit. Keep in mind this pretty much only happens on rare situation with the founders edition when fans are kept low on auto not an issue. The issue is they are a actually bios limited on overclock. My card can reach 2100mhz without a voltage increase. Increasing the voltage does not allow me to go past 2100mhz at all. The stability is lost at that point. I'm not exactly sure what the deal is and why they're limiting it. But yea.

 

[Mineshaft_Gap]

Should I exchange my card? I can't boost greater than 100+ GPU/500+ MEM. Anything above about 2035 MHz on the core clock crashes Heaven Benchmark.

I've got the MSi GAMING X version

 

[Aztechnology]

Should I exchange my card? I can't boost greater than 100+ GPU/500+ MEM. Anything above about 2035 MHz on the core clock crashes Heaven Benchmark.

I've got the MSi GAMING X version

If that 3% difference from the highest end of the silicone lottery is that important then sure. Can you do 2000mhz core and +700 memory without a crash?

 

[ZOONAMI]

Should I exchange my card? I can't boost greater than 100+ GPU/500+ MEM. Anything above about 2035 MHz on the core clock crashes Heaven Benchmark.

I've got the MSi GAMING X version

No. The reality is that most cards are hitting right around that range, lotto winners 2100. You can do the return a card until you get one that does, but you theoretically may have to go through several cards to find a winner. If you just return once it's possible the other card you get has worse stable core and memory ocs than what you have. You have a good core and memory clock imo. You are saying +1000mhz to memory correct, so 9000mhz effective speed?

 

[twdnewh_k]

Has anyone here gone from a 980 to a 1070?

Do you feel it was worth the upgrade? How much of a performance improvement can I expect? Im sticking to 1080p for now.

 

[theonerayman]

Under 40 degrees stock fan curve is set to 0. Click on the curve button in precision x to adjust fan curve. Advanced setting in ab to enable fan curve control. Px and ab have hardware monitoring graphs that include fan speed. Or download gpuz and log the monitoring to file.

At about 5am this morning after screwing with things I realized the fan didn't kick on until higher temps (I personally have never had a card that the fan didn't run at around 20% or so all the time) That being said if i'm NOT OC'ing and i'm just running it stock with decent airflow do I need to worry about adjusting the fan curve? I let ark run for a couple hours last night and watched it. The temp never went above 74c and the fan was really only running about 45%

 

[Hoffelcopter]

So I finally pulled the trigger and ordered my EVGA SC today. Its going into my 2500K build until I decide to build a new PC which will probably be near the beginning of next year. Newegg is telling me I'll have mine Thursday. Hopefully I'll get it a day or two earlier.

I have my 1070 SC in my rig with a 2500k and DDR3 memory. Still okays Witcher 3 max settings at 1080p at 90 FPS.

 

[Freshmaker]

How do you increase the voltage with after burner? I go into the setting and check unlock voltage and the slider doesn't care.

 

[Jayne]

So I'm thinking of getting the MSI Aero, blower design:

Any impressions on this particular card so far?

Reasons I'm considering it over something like the EVGA SC or FTW, is the price point ($419 on amazon atm) and the fact that I'll be putting it into a Fractal Design Define Nano S (also, the black/white color scheme fits perfectly with my case). There is currently about half an inch of space between my current EVGA gtx 970 SSC and my PSU, which worries me a bit. Granted it's a 140mm PSU, so there is a bit more room horizontally for fans, but I think the blower design might be better suited for the case. Anyone have any thoughts for me? They'd be much appreciated.

 

[Copper]

So I'm thinking of getting the MSI Aero, blower design:

Any impressions on this particular card so far?

Reasons I'm considering it over something like the EVGA SC or FTW, is the price point ($419 on amazon atm) and the fact that I'll be putting it into a Fractal Design Define Nano S (also, the black/white color scheme fits perfectly with my case). There is currently about half an inch of space between my current EVGA gtx 970 SSC and my PSU, which worries me a bit. Granted it's a 140mm PSU, so there is a bit more room horizontally for fans, but I think the blower design might be better suited for the case. Anyone have any thoughts for me? They'd be much appreciated.

My brother got one and had to RMA it.

 

[Jayne]

My brother got one and had to RMA it.

Yikes, that's not great. Do you know why it had to be RMA'd?

 

[rtcn63]

Anyone own the MSI Gaming X or Gigabyte G1 with a 430w power supply? If I were to buy one, I wouldn't OC past what's factory.

Also Asrock Z77 owners chime in please.

 

[MuchoMalo]

Just letting you know many of us have maxed our clocks on these babies and aren't even hitting 70c. So there's really not a thermal limit to be worried about when OC'ing. The air coolers can more than handle it.

The cards perform best at ~50C and below. Watercooling does help a little bit, while better air coolers don't really do much.

 

[Mineshaft_Gap]

If that 3% difference from the highest end of the silicone lottery is that important then sure. Can you do 2000mhz core and +700 memory without a crash?

Not 700MHz. No. 500-600 is the closest I can get before I start seeing graphical anomalies.

 

[PHOENIXZERO]

Woohoo! Fedex finally came through! (even though they were definitely a day late on the whole 2 day shipping side of things...)


Nice packaging from EVGA:


And I nearly had a stroke when I took the 1070 FTW out of the box and realized how huge it was. Top card is my old 760, middle card is my 970 FTW and bottom one is the 1070 FTW:


The 1070 definitely has some heft to it and feels super solid. But I nearly freaked out when I took out my old 970 and tried fitting the 1070 inside. I've got an original Cooler Master Storm Scout case which should hold cards up to 10.5 inches long and man, it was a super tight fit but my 1070 is in there now.

Now to try out some games!

I have the same case and that's been a bit of concern in how tight of a fit it'd be how close does it come from touching the side of the case?

 

[RyudBoy]

Any < $400 1070s yet?

Also, which is the best in terms of cooling/noise?

 

[arm812]

I have my 1070 SC in my rig with a 2500k and DDR3 memory. Still okays Witcher 3 max settings at 1080p at 90 FPS.

What other games do you have? Are you noticing the CPU causing games to struggle with the 1070?

 

[Trigg]

I have my 1070 SC in my rig with a 2500k and DDR3 memory. Still okays Witcher 3 max settings at 1080p at 90 FPS.

Could try faster ram.

What other games do you have? Are you noticing the CPU causing games to struggle with the 1070?

A properly overclocked 2500k will be fine in any game.

Here is a relevant video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TScpVAGNdcI

 

[Jibbajabbawockky]

Oh man, I installed my 1070 mostly to play The Witcher 3's DLC. Install my 1070 and update the drivers, go into Steam and hit play on The Witcher. Nothing. Acts like its starting the game, Steam says its running for about a second or two then acts like it never even launched the game. No error message or anything. Every other game works fine but The Witcher isn't working and that's the game I was mostly getting my 1070 for. Ughh, now for endless troubleshooting. Any suggestions? I've tried verifying the game cache and that didn't solve anything. I'm wondering if I need to roll back the drivers maybe? Granted, I can only go back 1 driver with the 1070 but I never had this issue with my 970 and The Witcher, although I don't think I had really played it since May, so I don't know if any game patch or update may have messed things up in between then and now.

I have the same case and that's been a bit of concern in how tight of a fit it'd be how close does it come from touching the side of the case?

I have 2 fans on the side window of my Storm Scout and height wise, the card seems ok, but its a tight fit depending on how your cables are managed. Length wise its literally as tight as can be and that's after I did some long overdue cable management. The 1070 FTW is just right up to the hard drive cage in the case with just a tiny sliver of space in between the card and the HDD cage. I previously had the main motherboard power cable right there so I had to snake that around back to clear out space.

 

[Freshmaker]

Oh man, I installed my 1070 mostly to play The Witcher 3's DLC. Install my 1070 and update the drivers, go into Steam and hit play on The Witcher. Nothing. Acts like its starting the game, Steam says its running for about a second or two then acts like it never even launched the game. No error message or anything. Every other game works fine but The Witcher isn't working and that's the game I was mostly getting my 1070 for. Ughh, now for endless troubleshooting. Any suggestions? I've tried verifying the game cache and that didn't solve anything. I'm wondering if I need to roll back the drivers maybe? Granted, I can only go back 1 driver with the 1070 but I never had this issue with my 970 and The Witcher, although I don't think I had really played it since May, so I don't know if any game patch or update may have messed things up in between then and now.

I've hit that two times. Both on boot. I reset the system and everything launched fine in both instances afterwards however.

 

[PHOENIXZERO]

I have 2 fans on the side window of my Storm Scout and height wise, the card seems ok, but its a tight fit depending on how your cables are managed. Length wise its literally as tight as can be and that's after I did some long overdue cable management. The 1070 FTW is just right up to the hard drive cage in the case with just a tiny sliver of space in between the card and the HDD cage. I previously had the main motherboard power cable right there so I had to snake that around back to clear out space.

I have a fan on the bottom half since I couldn't fit one and the upper part due to my cooler I adjusted my cables last year so I should be good on that front if I get a FTW in the Fall.

 

[Aztechnology]

Any < $400 1070s yet?

Also, which is the best in terms of cooling/noise?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125875

Only one I've seen.

Can't really tell you which is the best they're all pretty close. Best to to with the one you like the look and features/ports on most.

 

[Type2]

Im honestly out in the dark on what kind of monitor to get for my new card. Ive never experienced 144hz or any of the blur/light tech thats around nor have I experienced gsync.


I want something in the 27inch range but would go down to 24 if it fits better with my budget. Gsync monitors are really expensive and im left wondering if I need to experience it with this new card.