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Bought a GTX 1070 Ti a week ago, which is continually being knocked back on colllection date...

Vexr

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I broke and finally bought a GTX 1070 Ti from a major retailer who assured me I'd be able to pick it up in store within 1-2 days (this was on 14th December).

It's now been a week, and no sign of it materialising. I got a call from the store I bought it from who said the warehouse sent a blank form regarding my purchase, but no actual graphics card, and they'd be chasing it up for the next delivery slot.

I'm time poor but relatively money rich right now, and the big itch I hoped I'd scratched with this order was getting the graphics card ASAP and well before Christmas. That's now going out of the window.

I have a GTX 970 running a 3440x1440 60hz display currently.

At this juncture, should I cancel it all in light of inevitable boxing day sales? Or the RTX 2060? Or 7nm Navi?

I've forked out £399 for this card - not the best deal for a 1070 Ti, but the big thing was getting it asap and scratching that itch. Now it looks like I'm not going to get to scratch that itch due to the delay and heaping buyers remorse.
 
Cancel it, grab a 1070Ti from OcUK for £340-£360 as pointless spending more and select Saturday delivery, job done. :)
 
Is that a hint about future prices?

I ordered an Asus Cerberus GTX 1070 Ti. Blower cards are out of the question for me as I value quiet, and the Asus 'fans off' approach appeals to me. My GTX 970 is an Asus STRIX, and I adore it's quietness and lack of even bothering to activate fans when it's not properly stressed, which as far as I've researched is the same on the GTX 1070 Ti Cerberus.

I have to love my repeated encounters with the company/store I've been chasing up about my purchase. I've got the impression from everyone I've talked to asking about my purchase that, on the tip of their tongue, is 'wtf is a graphics card', and instead they opt to take a receipt number after initially asking for the product type and exact name.

Feel like a right dork just enquiring after it :P
 
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Vexr said:
Is that a hint about future prices?

I ordered an Asus Cerberus GTX 1070 Ti. Blower cards are out of the question for me as I value quiet, and the Asus 'fans off' approach appeals to me. My GTX 970 is an Asus STRIX, and I adore it's quietness and lack of even bothering to activate fans when it's not properly stressed, which as far as I've researched is the same on the GTX 1070 Ti Cerberus.

I have to love my repeated encounters with the company/store I've been chasing up about my purchase. I've got the impression from everyone I've talked to asking about my purchase that, on the tip of their tongue, is 'wtf is a graphics card', and instead they opt to take a receipt number after initially asking for the product type and exact name.

Feel like a right dork just enquiring after it :p
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I'd stretch an extra £70 and get an MSI 2070 Armor.

Thank me later :)
 
yeah but maybe he wants a card thats not built on broken silicon?

I am guessing the model he wants is not on ocuk hence using the other retailer.
 
Tempting to go for an RTX 2070 instead, but I'm already forking out an extra £100 over my preferred budget of £300 just for the 1070 Ti and really don't want to go even higher. After upgrading from a GTX 970, I'll also be CPU bottlenecked despite the 3440x1440 resolution (only have an FX 8350 CPU at the moment) so getting an even more powerful graphics card may be a bit redundant.
 
Cancel the order and get another one elsewhere with next day delivery.... They have messed you around enough and you could have a new card on express delivery tomorrow.

You have been talking about scratching an itch..... Surely that means you want it yesterday and waiting for the 2060 is out of the question?
 
Vexr said:
Is that a hint about future prices?

I ordered an Asus Cerberus GTX 1070 Ti. Blower cards are out of the question for me as I value quiet, and the Asus 'fans off' approach appeals to me. My GTX 970 is an Asus STRIX, and I adore it's quietness and lack of even bothering to activate fans when it's not properly stressed, which as far as I've researched is the same on the GTX 1070 Ti Cerberus.

I have to love my repeated encounters with the company/store I've been chasing up about my purchase. I've got the impression from everyone I've talked to asking about my purchase that, on the tip of their tongue, is 'wtf is a graphics card', and instead they opt to take a receipt number after initially asking for the product type and exact name.

Feel like a right dork just enquiring after it :p
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No its prices on OcUK website:

OcUK GeForce GTX 1070Ti Blower 8192MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (ZT-P10710G-10P) @ £346.99 inc VAT https://www.overclockers.co.uk/ocuk...s-graphics-card-zt-p10710g-10p-gx-118-zt.html



ZT-P10710J-10B, Core Clock: 1607MHz, Boost Clock: 1683MHz, Memory: 8192MB 8000MHz GDDR5, Stream Processors: 2432, SLI Ready, VR Ready, PhysX/CUDA Enabled, 2 Years Warranty.



Only £346.99 inc VAT.

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Zotac GeForce GTX 1070Ti Mini 8192MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (ZT-P10710G-10P) @ £346.99 inc VAT https://www.overclockers.co.uk/zota...s-graphics-card-zt-p10710g-10p-gx-10s-zt.html



ZT-P10710G-10P, Core Clock: 1607MHz, Boost Clock: 1683MHz, Memory: 8192MB 8000MHz GDDR5, Stream Processors: 2432, SLI Ready, VR Ready, PhysX/CUDA Enabled, 5 Years Warranty.



Only £346.99 inc VAT.

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MSI GeForce GTX 1070Ti Armor 8192MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card @ £364.99 inc VAT https://www.overclockers.co.uk/msi-...ddr5-pci-express-graphics-card-gx-348-ms.html



GeForce GTX 1070 Ti ARMOR 8G, Core Clock: 1607MHz, Boost Clock: 1683MHz, Memory: 8192MB 8000MHz GDDR5, Stream Processors: 2432, SLI Ready, VR Ready, PhysX/CUDA Enabled, 3 Years Warranty.



Only £364.99 inc VAT.

ORDER NOW
 
I actually want one of those Zotacs. How are they for noise opposed to my current Twin Frozr MSI GTX770? (I mean against the Twin Frozr, unfortunately those are a tad pricey for me this time around).
 
Finners said:
Can I ask why only Nvidia?

The Vega 56 for £320 plus 3 games is great value for money and a good jump in performance for you.
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Indeed as this is a better buy, similar performance, Freesync support and a better free games bundle, oh and cheaper too:



Sapphire Radeon RX VEGA 56 Pulse 8GB HBM2 PCI-Express Graphics Card (11276-02-40G) @ £319.99 inc VAT https://www.overclockers.co.uk/sapp...ess-graphics-card-11276-02-40g-gx-38f-sp.html



Our Bonkers Christmas Deal, grab this Vega 56 with 3 FREE games for this crazy price, valid until Wednesday 26th December!



Only £319.99 inc VAT.

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Finners said:
Can I ask why only Nvidia?

The Vega 56 for £320 plus 3 games is great value for money and a good jump in performance for you.
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Pretty much riffing off the time-poor vibe I had on Dec 14th - I don't want to be reinstalling games, let alone Windows right now. I'm also reluctant to start flashing graphics card bioses to get the proper Vega performance, and after using a silent Asus GTX 970 that can go into passively cooled mode 90% of the time, the idea of a very hot and power hungry AMD card doesn't appeal.

I also don't have a monitor that is either Gsync or Freesync, so am freerange from that POV despite being at 3440x1440.

As for the lure of game deals, I suspect I'd already be tempted to replay the games I already have on the 1070 ti vs the 970 (Witcher 3, Dishonoured 2, Dishonoured fall of the outsider, ROTTOR, SOTTOR, GTA V <- the only title CPU limited out of that bunch, but I'd look forward to prettying it up) , and am generally very picky about the games I buy, so I wouldn't be impressed by free games that I'd otherwise never buy.

Gibbo said:
No its prices on OcUK website:

OcUK GeForce GTX 1070Ti Blower 8192MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (ZT-P10710G-10P) @ £346.99 inc VAT



ZT-P10710J-10B, Core Clock: 1607MHz, Boost Clock: 1683MHz, Memory: 8192MB 8000MHz GDDR5, Stream Processors: 2432, SLI Ready, VR Ready, PhysX/CUDA Enabled, 2 Years Warranty.



Only £346.99 inc VAT.

ORDER NOW




Zotac GeForce GTX 1070Ti Mini 8192MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (ZT-P10710G-10P) @ £346.99 inc VAT



ZT-P10710G-10P, Core Clock: 1607MHz, Boost Clock: 1683MHz, Memory: 8192MB 8000MHz GDDR5, Stream Processors: 2432, SLI Ready, VR Ready, PhysX/CUDA Enabled, 5 Years Warranty.



Only £346.99 inc VAT.

ORDER NOW





MSI GeForce GTX 1070Ti Armor 8192MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card @ £364.99 inc VAT



GeForce GTX 1070 Ti ARMOR 8G, Core Clock: 1607MHz, Boost Clock: 1683MHz, Memory: 8192MB 8000MHz GDDR5, Stream Processors: 2432, SLI Ready, VR Ready, PhysX/CUDA Enabled, 3 Years Warranty.



Only £364.99 inc VAT.

ORDER NOW
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I hear the mini version of GTX 1xxx cards are hot, noisy, lose their value quickly, and perform / OC much worse that their 'full size' counterparts. I also heard on this very forum that the MSI armor series is hot and noisy, and has ropey build quality. I'm therefore not tempted.

Still not received any indication I'll be getting my GTX 1070 Ti, but if it really does roll over past boxing day sales, there's not much to stop me from cancelling, so will probably re-evaluate the situation should it get to that stage.
 
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my mini 1070s were not clocking as well as my palit 1070 when you look at simply from an afterburner offset perspective, but the actual chips I dont know if they were worse, because all that meant was the vendor bios used different voltage to speed bins. I never really tested the cards for clock stability as they were used for mining, they were undervolted and down clocked.
 
I was able to pick up the GTX 1070 Ti on Sunday, 9 days after I went in store to buy it but before Christmas at least. Definitely a nice upgrade for 3440x1440 over the GTX 970, I'm pleased. Hopefully that's that scratch itched without buyer's remorse in the coming months.
 
chrcoluk said:
my mini 1070s were not clocking as well as my palit 1070 when you look at simply from an afterburner offset perspective, but the actual chips I dont know if they were worse, because all that meant was the vendor bios used different voltage to speed bins. I never really tested the cards for clock stability as they were used for mining, they were undervolted and down clocked.
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Surely the difference is the cooler not the chip?
 
Vexr said:
I was able to pick up the GTX 1070 Ti on Sunday, 9 days after I went in store to buy it but before Christmas at least. Definitely a nice upgrade for 3440x1440 over the GTX 970, I'm pleased. Hopefully that's that scratch itched without buyer's remorse in the coming months.
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I'm having that experience with a car (truck) at the moment - paid on the 7th still waiting on it (main dealer - so not like a scam other than how dealer are :s) - supposedly should have it Friday.
 
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