The Pascal GTX 1070 Owners Thread

Vish Petrol · 6 Jul 2016 at 11:14

The gigabyte 3 fan seems to cost £30 extra over the 2 fan, is it worth it?

Amatyr · 6 Jul 2016 at 11:25

Only an MSI Aero OC 1070 in this, as I plan to swap to a 1080Ti when that's out. But for now, this is the right owners thread for me!

wellibob · 6 Jul 2016 at 11:28

I've just installed my Gigabyte 1070 WINDFORCE OC (2 fan) an hour or so ago. It's dead quiet even at full load. It boosted itself to 1946 without me even touching anything. Ran Valley 1440p ultrawide for 30 mins. Max 63 degree's (room temp 24.5). Had a quick manual OC and seems to hit 2100 without issue. Still running Valley now, Temps 63 on this and I'm stunned coming from a good 980 OC. Rock on.

Only downside is no backplate on this bad boy and the cooler housing isn't solid like my 980 was. It's a non issue for me as I never see inside my case and I've not had any previous sag (had a msi 970 with no backplate and was fine for me)

Seems to me it's a very good silicone lottery with any Non Founders 1070, and that you'll get a good OC from it and be happy. My only issue with some of the Palit cards and "cheaper" branded cards was a weaker warentee and I'm bound to have this card 18 months odd and passing it on with warentee is key and you can't go wrong with Gigabyte returns in the UK.

It's very unlikely I'll ever waste my money on a top end "superblock OC extreme Amped thunderbolt lighting edition with go faster strips and led lighting" EVER. Closed case so on it goes and away it goes.

Still going strong @ 2108 OC on Valley and fluctuations between 62 to 63. Happier days.

McGraw · 6 Jul 2016 at 12:18

Amatyr said:
Only an MSI Aero OC 1070 in this, as I plan to swap to a 1080Ti when that's out. But for now, this is the right owners thread for me!

You absolute peasant

Aretak · 6 Jul 2016 at 13:13

Vish Petrol said:
The gigabyte 3 fan seems to cost £30 extra over the 2 fan, is it worth it?

I'd imagine it'll be slightly noisier and run slightly hotter, given that it's using the same small fans as the tri-fan version, just with one removed. It also lacks the backplate of the G1. It shouldn't matter too much though, as it's not like the 1070 requires a monster cooler and they all overclock to about the same level anyway.

Daaaveee · 6 Jul 2016 at 13:35

wellibob said:
I've just installed my Gigabyte 1070 WINDFORCE OC (2 fan) an hour or so ago. It's dead quiet even at full load. It boosted itself to 1946 without me even touching anything. Ran Valley 1440p ultrawide for 30 mins. Max 63 degree's (room temp 24.5). Had a quick manual OC and seems to hit 2100 without issue. Still running Valley now, Temps 63 on this and I'm stunned coming from a good 980 OC. Rock on.

Only downside is no backplate on this bad boy and the cooler housing isn't solid like my 980 was. It's a non issue for me as I never see inside my case and I've not had any previous sag (had a msi 970 with no backplate and was fine for me)

Seems to me it's a very good silicone lottery with any Non Founders 1070, and that you'll get a good OC from it and be happy. My only issue with some of the Palit cards and "cheaper" branded cards was a weaker warentee and I'm bound to have this card 18 months odd and passing it on with warentee is key and you can't go wrong with Gigabyte returns in the UK.

It's very unlikely I'll ever waste my money on a top end "superblock OC extreme Amped thunderbolt lighting edition with go faster strips and led lighting" EVER. Closed case so on it goes and away it goes.

Still going strong @ 2108 OC on Valley and fluctuations between 62 to 63. Happier days.

Sounds like you got a good one

See how much you can get out of the core and memory on Firestrike Standard, I scored 21750 GPU last night but I would imagine there will be some better clockers out there!

Kaapstad · 6 Jul 2016 at 13:43

Amatyr said:
Only an MSI Aero OC 1070 in this, as I plan to swap to a 1080Ti when that's out. But for now, this is the right owners thread for me!

Welcome and on TROH.

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bfar · 6 Jul 2016 at 13:45

Jono8 said:
Gbp to usd is 1.29 now! If anything prices might go up if the pound keeps falling through the floor.

It's almost a certainty that goods produced outside the UK will go up in price in the UK as the value of sterling falls. GPUs fit neatly into that category.

Paul_cz · 6 Jul 2016 at 13:47

My machine is almost 6 years old 2500K at 4ghz (with box cooler, never changed paste), 8GB DDR3 1600 and new Palit GTX 1070.
Here are my results from overclocking via MSI Afterburner, with adding 200mhz on core and 600mhz on memory. I did not modify voltage, only the clocks and power limit. Dirt rally is 1440p all maxed incl. MSAA and advanced blending. Witcher runs 1440p, ultra with shadows medium and hairworks off. Unigine are maxed in 1080p.
dirt rally def - https://abload.de/img/drt_def0ysab.png - 51.5 fps
dirt rally oc - https://abload.de/img/drt_oc9qsbn.png - 59.2 fps
witcher 3 def -https://abload.de/img/witcher3_def7zs1z.png - 59 fps
witcher 3 oc - https://abload.de/img/witcher3_ocmbs8c.png - 67.2 fps
valley def - https://abload.de/img/valley_defrls9w.png - 83.2 fps
valley oc - https://abload.de/img/valley_ocmnsyc.png - 91.4 fps
heaven def - https://abload.de/img/heaven_def5yssf.png - 88.2 fps
heaven oc - https://abload.de/img/heaven_ocpcsv6.png - 98.9 fps

Troezar · 6 Jul 2016 at 14:09

Not bad with a 2500k. Looks promising once I get my 1070. Should be a good deal cooler than my 7970xf, I won't miss the heatstroke although the performance was very good.

Aretak · 6 Jul 2016 at 14:47

Seems that 2063MHz is the best I can do on mine (as a stable clock). Even with 100% on the voltage slider, 2076MHz crashes. Memory is fine at 9.4GHz though, which just tips it over the 300GB/s mark in GPU-Z. Crazy to see regular GDDR5 hitting those kinds of speeds. I wonder how much that'll be affected when they start cycling out the premium Samsung chips for Hynix and *spit* Elpida for later production runs. The Elpida trash on my GTX 780 could only manage 6.2GHz before falling over, whereas earlier 780s with Samsung chips could hit 7GHz without issue.

Troezar · 6 Jul 2016 at 17:57

Anyone got any opinions on Palit cards?

Dervious · 6 Jul 2016 at 18:11

Troezar said:
Anyone got any opinions on Palit cards?

Mine is on it's way.

The Gamerock Premium isn't the best looking card, but the specs are really good. It's one of the fastest 1070's @ default settings, has a dual BIOS, and is supposed to be a very quiet card even when under load (mind you, they're all supposed to be pretty quiet anyway). One of the cheaper custom cards too.

If you aren't too fussed about the slightly odd colour scheme, and can accept the 2 year warranty, then it's got to be a card to seriously consider buying.

Daaaveee · 6 Jul 2016 at 18:43

Aretak said:
Seems that 2063MHz is the best I can do on mine (as a stable clock). Even with 100% on the voltage slider, 2076MHz crashes. Memory is fine at 9.4GHz though, which just tips it over the 300GB/s mark in GPU-Z. Crazy to see regular GDDR5 hitting those kinds of speeds. I wonder how much that'll be affected when they start cycling out the premium Samsung chips for Hynix and *spit* Elpida for later production runs. The Elpida trash on my GTX 780 could only manage 6.2GHz before falling over, whereas earlier 780s with Samsung chips could hit 7GHz without issue.

Seems like your stable clock is pretty much the same as mine. I could hit 2114/2502 (10ghz!) for a run of Firestrike but for every day gaming and rock solid stability I've backed it off to +110/+600 which on a 1:1 fan profile levels out to 75c and 2063mhz after a few hours of gaming

wellibob · 6 Jul 2016 at 20:42

Had a good few hours with my 1070. Getting over 2ghz appears very easy and 600+ on the memory seems so far to be no bother. Very happy with Pascal and the Windforce OC from Gigabyte. Not interested in synthetic benchies, just in game and stable. See how I go through next few weeks. Temps are amazing BTW. Not seen it go above 64 degrees.

nemtizz · 6 Jul 2016 at 21:56

EVGA 1070 SC worth the extra £70 over the 980Ti SC+?

efish · 6 Jul 2016 at 22:32

Dervious said:
Mine is on it's way.

The Gamerock Premium isn't the best looking card, but the specs are really good. It's one of the fastest 1070's @ default settings, has a dual BIOS, and is supposed to be a very quiet card even when under load (mind you, they're all supposed to be pretty quiet anyway). One of the cheaper custom cards too.

If you aren't too fussed about the slightly odd colour scheme, and can accept the 2 year warranty, then it's got to be a card to seriously consider buying.

I have a Palit Jet Stream arriving Friday. Seemed the best buy at the moment. Decent cooler cheap (well relatively) colour scheme's more subdued than the gamerock.

Was going to pick up an msi gaming x but at £54 less it was the jetstream + a new s.s.d. for me instead.

chrcoluk · 6 Jul 2016 at 22:48

Just pulled the trigger on the Palit.

Never heard of them until today but just researched it and the good feedback here I went ahead with it, for me its crazy to spend this much on a GPU so I hope I do not regret it. Will sell my 970 to fund half of the cost.

Was going to get a 980ti but that may have needed me to buy a new psu which would have negated the cost advantage.

LumpyVR · 7 Jul 2016 at 08:30

So I've had my eye on the 1070 availability and prices since they were released in the belief I had lots of time to pick one up due to the fact my Oculus Rift would be at least a month away.

Had a shock yesterday when I received an email to say its been shipped and arrives tomorrow!

I really don't want to pay the currently inflated prices but it looks like I have no choice as currently I'm running a 960 4GB (temporary measure waiting for Pascal).

As I'm now pretty poor after giving all my money to Oculus I'm torn with what to get to give me the best bang-for-buck. I considered a discounted 980TI but I really want a 1070 in the hope that the VR features get implemented and for long term support etc.

I currently have a Gigabyte Windforce in my basket here for £419 (could have bought this elsewhere for £25 a couple of days ago, sob...) which looks pretty good. I fancied the Zotac AMP extreme but that's another £25 on top so quite a jump. Its £10 or so cheaper on a competitors site but I think I'd prefer to give OC my money as they seem to have a great reputation and customer service is important to me

Any recommendations?

Daaaveee · 7 Jul 2016 at 08:44

LumpyVR said:
Any recommendations?

If I were buying today I would go for the cheapest non-blower style card in stock, which is this

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/inno...ddr5-pci-express-graphics-card-gx-068-in.html

They pretty much all can overclock to 2000mhz anyway, anything over that is only giving a minuscule difference in frame rate.

If you want to pay a little more for a design you prefer or a manufacturer you like then fair enough but any performance gain wont be worth it IMO