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MSI officially announces GTX 1070 quality problems in China

Thanks for the info guys - worth noting and thanks Gibbo for the update to your stock situation - appreciate it.

Hope the issue get resolved - not good new for anyone!
 
Well I dialled the overclock right back to a +125 Core and a mere +200 on the memory and it hasn't artefacted since. It's strange as it wouldn't artefact in game like a traditional memory issue it would only do it on the desktop and games would either crash to desktop/Reboot or hard freeze the OS.

So it seems the micron compared to the Samsung is dire at overclocking.
 
It is almost certainly the memory - the Micron stuff doesn't seem to have much headroom at all - anything above ~400 seems to be unstable for me - thought it would go a bit higher but more extensive checking showed problems above 400.
 
Can we get a few more comments from people with the MSI 1070 X card please?

Price has dropped to £420 which is more reasonable than the £470 at it's peak.

Anyone order one of these recently (i.e. August) and can confirm which type of RAM they got..?
 
Seems quite a few of the MSI GTX 1070 Armor OC sold in the UK have the Micron memory and potentially this artifacting problem.

I wonder what the chances are that some of the MSI GTX 1060 Armor OC cards also have the same issue? I notice the price of these has been dropping pretty steadily since this news was announced. The 1060 Armor OC is currently on sale here for £259.99. Nice price, but not so tempting if it's got the dodgy Micron memory. Can anyone at OCUK clarify the situation perhaps?
 
I'd imagine you're probably still fine with the 1060s, as they came out more recently. The 1060 SC I bought last week has Samsung memory. It's usually the case that all the early runs of Nvidia cards have Samsung memory, and then they switch it out for crappier stuff after a while (i.e. Elpida/Micron chips that don't overclock for ****).
 
ShakeNBake said:
Can we get a few more comments from people with the MSI 1070 X card please?

Price has dropped to £420 which is more reasonable than the £470 at it's peak.

Anyone order one of these recently (i.e. August) and can confirm which type of RAM they got..?
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I have the card and it has been a solid purchase. It has micron memory and I have overclocked it to test how good it is.

The core was happy and stable with an extra 170 mhz. The memory while not being as good as samsung chips was fine with 300 mhz.

I not bothered about it as it's fully functioning and I don't run overclocks in general gaming, only benching.

Coil whine is minimal and the fans are practically silent.

I have no complaints with this card at all.
 
I've done some pretty heavy gaming on my MSI GTX 1070 Armor OC now over the last 10 days and haven't had any problems. Unfortunately it has a bit of coil whine and the inferior Micron memory but it can handle +150 core, +400 memory without artifacting so I'm happy enough. I didn't even intend on overclocking when I bought it anyway so anything is a bonus :p. As above, fans are really quiet even under load which is nice.
 
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Aretak said:
I'd imagine you're probably still fine with the 1060s, as they came out more recently. The 1060 SC I bought last week has Samsung memory. It's usually the case that all the early runs of Nvidia cards have Samsung memory, and then they switch it out for crappier stuff after a while (i.e. Elpida/Micron chips that don't overclock for ****).
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Perhaps you're right. Would like to be sure though.

Has anyone recently bought a MSI 1060 Armor OC and checked the memory. Was it Samsung or Micron?
 
Just took delivery of a 1070 Gaming X 'Made In China'. Pretty sure its going to come with Micron so I'm in two minds as to whether to open the box but I suppose if MSI have admitted issues then a return should be straightforward.
 
Ugh, I should have looked into this. I literally bought an Armor OC this morning for delivery tomorrow because I wanted to take advantage of the bank holiday and my girlfriend being away to install it and play around, but now I'm concerned I'm going to have a borked card.

What's worse, is that I didn't buy the Zotac AMP card only because my friend has one and I wanted to be different.

But the issues only crop up if I overclock the memory right? If I keep it at ~8000MHz or don't beyond about ~8300MHz, I should be fine?
 
trickycurve said:
Ugh, I should have looked into this. I literally bought an Armor OC this morning for delivery tomorrow because I wanted to take advantage of the bank holiday and my girlfriend being away to install it and play around,
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Feeling your pain. 100% OK from my card so far. It does have Micron and I havent OCd it yet though.
I think if the box comes and its 'made in China', thats going to mean Micron memory - you can return hassle free at this point.
 
pr2thej said:
Feeling your pain. 100% OK from my card so far. It does have Micron and I havent OCd it yet though.
I think if the box comes and its 'made in China', thats going to mean Micron memory - you can return hassle free at this point.
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Yeah, but frankly I'm not sure I can be bothered. I was really stoked and had my entire bank holiday planned, so I think I'm just gonna look on the bright side (that it seems the issues only appear after a modest memory OC) and enjoy performance increase from upgrading. I've never been one to eek out every bit of performance anyway.

And if I'm lucky it'll have Samsung memory, so there's that.
 
Some artifcating has shown up this weekend on my 3 week old MSI Armour OC 1070 with Micron memory. Frustrating, but these things happen :( time for an RMA.
 
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