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MSI officially announces GTX 1070 quality problems in China

My card has now become defective. Black lines in some games, bright flashes in others and this is running stock clocks.

So I have had it for just over a week. Going for a evga ftw I think or the zotac amp extreme.
 
Davanius said:
My card has now become defective. Black lines in some games, bright flashes in others and this is running stock clocks.

So I have had it for just over a week. Going for a evga ftw I think or the zotac amp extreme.
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did you have the armor model or the gaming X?

also can you confirm when you ordered and what brand of RAM the card has..? (use GPU-Z or something)
 
ShakeNBake said:
did you have the armor model or the gaming X?

also can you confirm when you ordered and what brand of RAM the card has..? (use GPU-Z or something)
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I have a gaming x with micron memory. Ordered just over a week ago.

Edit: Seems I jumped the gun a bit. My Card is ok. The graphics corruption I was getting was due to the latest driver as I saw it with my 960 card as well. The last few drivers have been awful from nvidia.

Sorry peeps. :o
 
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Gibbo said:
Hi there

All our 1070 FE stock is Samsung. :)

Gigabyte 1070 G1 is Samsung.
Gainward is all Samsung.
Inno3D is all Samsung.
KFA2 is all Samsung including blower one at £368.99 :)
Zotac is all Samsung.

Cannot comment on Asus and MSI, as the batches are small and often so there could be a mix of Samsung and Micron, impossible to seperate.
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Just want to point out that this is not/no longer true, was actually one of the reasons why Zotac was the brand I went with, was this post.

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Omg, that's sad news.

I have MSI 1070 Gaming, factory overclocked mode, no problems so far. I'll check the memory type when I get back home.
 
Not surprised. My last 2 Nvidia cards were MSI and the quality was shocking. The 780 fried itself about a week after the warranty expired. Luckily the retailer still gave me a partial refund. The 470 I had before it started to become unstable after a while and I had to underclock it, it eventually died completely. Obviously I won't be buying any more of them!
 
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Nasher said:
Not surprised. My last 2 Nvidia cards were MSI and the quality was shocking. The 780 fried itself about a week after the warranty expired. Luckily the retailer still gave me a partial refund. The 470 I had before it started to become unstable after a while and I had to underclock it, it eventually died completely. Obviously I won't be buying any more of them!
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That's some bad luck. I've had nothing but good experiences with MSI cards and keep one of their GTX 570s around as a backup. Regardless, this isn't an MSI issue. They were just the first company to switch to Micron memory, but most of the others are using it as well, and it exhibits the same artifacting on those cards. An Nvidia rep suggested a couple of weeks ago that they've made some changes to the reference BIOS to try and squash the bug, but it's up to board partners to push that update out for their cards. Not sure any have as yet.

https://forums.geforce.com/default/topic/963768/geforce-drivers/gtx-1070-memory-vrm-driver-or-bios-bug-in-micron-memory-1070-cards-/post/4986835/#4986835
 
LoadsaMoney said:
EVGA also suffering from a hotspot problem :p
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Looks like this may be the case:

https://www.reddit.com/r/buildapc/comments/58hnzb/word_of_warning_the_evga_1080_blackscreenfan_bug/

If so... when do we get a statement from EVGA about this????????????????????

From a personal point of view, I bought EVGA this time because of their supposed reputation and warranty... starting to wonder now.

Not like these cards are cheap either!

PS. Quote from comment at bottom of first post "There also seems no response from evga so far. "
 
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Just wondering if a custom fan curve might be a good idea?
So that at say under 60C, the fans are still spinning at say 20%, rather than just passive cooling!

This comment also worries me:
"A few 1070 ftws have set on fire in the evga forums":eek::eek::eek::eek:
 
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