The Pascal GTX 1070 Owners Thread

adger1971 · 31 Jul 2016 at 23:30

Thoughts on the EVGA cards guys? Particularly the sc gaming and the ftw models
Thank you.
Ps I hear EVGA have excellent after sales support,and are based in the uk? That true.
Cheers

chrcoluk · 1 Aug 2016 at 01:00

Jono8 said:
I don't know really. I just tested this. Fired up heaven looping and my amp extreme goes to 2037mhz straight away then to 2025, then settles down to 2012mhz. It will probably go to 2000mhz eventually.

Max reading for TDP and voltage in gpuz however is only 68.1% with 1.0620v on the volts.TDP mostly around the 60-65% mark. Temps settle to ~60 degrees whilst looping.

I think it just how they work ( this is all at stock/out of the box by the way)

The boost is very variable on what is going on. For example playing Arkham Knight with vsync on at 60fps it never boosts. Just stays at the base clock of 1632 MHz because gpu usage is only around 50% most of the time.

yeah as I concluded earlier in the thread, the zotac amp extreme's have a much higher TDP limit, but most 1070s have a much lower TDP limit than the zotac's.

Sadly my comments on this seem to have got very little attention (both on here and other sites), but the few people who I have discussed with have also discovered different cards even from the same vendor have different TDP limits, e.g. a palit jetstream has a lower TDP limit in the bios than the gamerock premium. Also that the zotac (non extreme model) has a lower TDP limit than the extreme but still higher than palit.

I did play with the curve in msi afterburner on my card and surprisingly it is stable at 1.06v at 2140 clock speed but I wont run it like that for gaming, just did it for a test. The card cannot sustain higher than 1.06v at high load due to the TDP limit, it is what it is. These cards are sold as power efficient cards hence the aggressive TDP limits.

Rom · 1 Aug 2016 at 09:52

This arrived last week!

Currently running +165 core +450 mem, stock power, stock fan profile. Sits low 60s in game.

Though i get an error message in Firestorm when i start it, saying power target cannot be 0!

Any ideas ?

Kaapstad · 1 Aug 2016 at 09:55

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Rroff · 1 Aug 2016 at 11:03

chrcoluk said:
The card cannot sustain higher than 1.06v at high load due to the TDP limit, it is what it is. These cards are sold as power efficient cards hence the aggressive TDP limits.

I'm curious how well the cards can hold upto higher current levels - haven't really had a chance to look into it.

tommybhoy · 1 Aug 2016 at 16:59

Rom said:
Though i get an error message in Firestorm when i start it, saying power target cannot be 0!

Any ideas ?

Get the newest version from Zotac's site.

Smrtka · 1 Aug 2016 at 19:36

Hmm I am about to choose between MSI gaming X and Zotac, I like the 5y warranty but WHY IS IT YELLOW JEEEEEZ....I got gaming 5 red MSI mobo.... color<warranty or color>warranty ?

_Jimlad_ · 1 Aug 2016 at 20:18

Ha ha I did not even check what warranty came with mine. I like to think the 1070 will be pretty s### in 5 years time

Smrtka · 1 Aug 2016 at 22:55

_Jimlad_ said:
Ha ha I did not even check what warranty came with mine. I like to think the 1070 will be pretty s### in 5 years time

Well im rocking by several years old 570gtx...so I tend to keep stuff thats fairly decent.

Tropicocity · 1 Aug 2016 at 23:02

Smrtka said:
Well im rocking by several years old 570gtx...so I tend to keep stuff thats fairly decent.

Fairly decent as in, it's still alive after this long, or fairly decent in that it can run everything on medium at 900p?

Smrtka · 1 Aug 2016 at 23:47

Tropicocity said:
Fairly decent as in, it's still alive after this long, or fairly decent in that it can run everything on medium at 900p?

It can run bf4 on absolutely the lowest settings at like 100 fps at 1080p

but that doesn't answer my question if zotac amp X or msi gming x

V F · 2 Aug 2016 at 00:39

Rom said:
This arrived last week!

I think this will be the card I'll go for. I'm 98% sure it'll fit in my Lian-Li mid tower but I'll have to double check the depth. So glad the power connectors are on the side. Hated AMD put them on the front side facing the front of the case on the 5870's. They say it is the fastest of the 1070's. I've been going through so many reviews checking everything out.

This'll be my first NVIDIA since 2006, 7800GS+.

It looks beetchin!

Scougar · 2 Aug 2016 at 01:58

I .... almost .... caved in this evening after waiting for a 1060 or 480 I actually liked to come into stock. Saw a 1070 for $392 (dollars) and was closed close to pressing 'pay' after putting my details in lol. It was only an Asus 'DUAL' model, so no back plate, but had a reasonable simple white shroud that would go nice with my case, but too be honest I wouldn't see that with it facing bottom lol.

Scougar · 2 Aug 2016 at 03:07

Well I hope I just became an owner.... I caved when I saw an ASUS ROG Strix GeForce GTX 1070 8GB Gaming Card for $383 (dollars). Fairly decent card for what is at present a good price.

This is the fastest and most expensive card I have ever bought. Should hopefully do me for quite a few years.

Reality is, I just got fed up of waiting for a custom 480 or custom 1060 I wanted.

bakes0310 · 2 Aug 2016 at 11:45

Will I be disappointed with a 1070 for maxing out games at a res of 3440x1440? I was thinking of getting the zotac amp and maybe a second one shortly after.

Scougar · 2 Aug 2016 at 14:16

If I were wanting consistent performance at that res, I would be looking at the 1080 or better (i.e. next Titan)

Hodders · 3 Aug 2016 at 01:30

Quick question....

Running a Palit GTX Dual 1070 here. Should the fans drop to zero ?

The min speed they ever get to is 1000rpm.

Do I need to use the thundermaster utility to manually override the fan settings, or should it do it out of the box ?

*EDIT* Just installed the thundermaster utility - the minimum fan setting appears to be 32% which is about 1000 rpm - hmmm ?

Scougar · 3 Aug 2016 at 08:39

Waiting for my 1070 to arrive from California now..... darnit.. hurry up Fedex! lol

djxput · 3 Aug 2016 at 10:55

Ok narrowed down my search ... looking at the asus strix oc or the msi gaming x. Both have silent play and cool really good. And dont spin up loud.

Seems most go with the msi but I have a strix 970 here and I really like it; pretty much silent.

Amatsubu · 3 Aug 2016 at 11:47

djxput said:
Ok narrowed down my search ... looking at the asus strix oc or the msi gaming x. Both have silent play and cool really good. And dont spin up loud.

Seems most go with the msi but I have a strix 970 here and I really like it; pretty much silent.

I had a Strix 970 and my MSI 1070 is significantly quieter. I could hear the Asus at load, whereas this is virtually inaudible.

Don't know about the 1070 Strix though but I went with MSI anyways because I hate triple fan designs. Pointlessly big and completely unnecessary in terms of cooling performance. Also, didn't want to pay the Asus tax.