The Ampere RTX 3070 Owners Thread

Szydero · 30 Oct 2020 at 12:16

Do u know where I can upload to make it work?

Martin James · 30 Oct 2020 at 14:29

Well this just arrived!

EE5FAE6B-743E-4D1B-863A-11292CD35580 by martin james, on Flickr

Invertigo · 30 Oct 2020 at 15:44

MSI Trio been shipped for delivery tomorrow, typically I've been looking to move from ITX to ATX with a new AMD system and thus need a new case. Buying the big chungus of the MSI has significantly expedited the case buying procedure, so this is also coming tomorrow. Going to look absolutely ridiculous having a mid tower with an ITX board and a 323mm long GPU hung off it

MrPils · 30 Oct 2020 at 18:18

Mine arrived about mid day, waiting on a full cover waterblock and getting a 5950x before it gets installed though. New Bykski cpu block, CH8 Impact and a G.Skill C15 4000mhz kit are waiting with it. Its bloody heavy for its size, a right chunky monkey!

Dontrocktheboat · 30 Oct 2020 at 18:26

MrPils said:
Mine arrived about mid day, waiting on a waterblock and getting a 5950x before it gets installed though. New Bykski cpu block, CH8 Impact and a G.Skill C15 4000mhz kit are both waiting with it. Its bloody heavy for its size, a right chunky monkey!

lovely mate. Tell us how it performs.

And pls for the love of god take the stickers of the monitor. Thats so chav.

MrPils · 30 Oct 2020 at 19:00

Dontrocktheboat said:
lovely mate. Tell us how it performs.

And pls for the love of god take the stickers of the monitor. Thats so chav.

Stickers and peel stay on for resale reasons not for looks - I don't even notice I've been doing it for that long. Have done this with my last 4 monitors and when advertised they always sell within a day or two. Probably more superstition by this point as I've not had to do a screen RMA for years either...though I never buy anything without a power brick anymore either and that seems to have helped too. Having said that I love this screen and can't see myself changing it any time soon, its already 2 years old.

Definitely not a style statement anyway!

delvey · 30 Oct 2020 at 19:49

I am quite underwhelmed by mine.
Battlefield V is unplayable (think it always has been) and I am getting 50 fps at 1080p
The Division 2 is about an extra 20 fps over my old Vega 64
Hitman 2, pretty much the same FPS (about 90).
I have a 2600, do not think it is being bottle necked?

RavenXXX2 · 30 Oct 2020 at 19:50

delvey said:
I am quite underwhelmed by mine.
Battlefield V is unplayable (think it always has been) and I am getting 50 fps at 1080p
The Division 2 is about an extra 20 fps over my old Vega 64
Hitman 2, pretty much the same FPS (about 90).
I have a 2600, do not think it is being bottle necked?

Yeah big time, bag a 3600 or a 5600X

Venommm · 30 Oct 2020 at 19:58

anyone got there queue position number for 3070 strix oc?

MrPils · 30 Oct 2020 at 20:27

delvey said:
I am quite underwhelmed by mine.
Battlefield V is unplayable (think it always has been) and I am getting 50 fps at 1080p
The Division 2 is about an extra 20 fps over my old Vega 64
Hitman 2, pretty much the same FPS (about 90).
I have a 2600, do not think it is being bottle necked?

Depends on your cpu and memory overclock/tweaking as to the extent, but you will definitely be being bottlenecked at 1080p (though im surprised you're only getting 50fps in BF5 @ 1080p). My 3900xt @ 4.5ish bottlenecks hard at 1080p with a 1080ti so your 2600 with a Vega 64 will be even more. Check average cpu usage and memory usage using hwinfo during a gaming session, if you're hitting 70%+ on either its a bottleneck and you should see corresponding low GPU usage/temperature to confirm it. Your choice of components is definitely unbalanced for 1080p though, I'd have upgraded your cpu and memory instead of the GPU as the Vega 56 and 64 will do just fine in anything at 1080p. You should be looking at the 3070 for 1080p/1440p high refresh rate gaming and low refresh rate 4k DLSS, as a consequence of that you should be matching it with a fast 6 or 8 core cpu and a good 2x8gb memory kit.

Things to check:

Make sure memory is running correct frequency and timings using CPUz.
Check cpu temperature for throttling under load using hwinfo64.
Check for HDD and Memory errors - error correction and HDD reseeking reads can really screw with your gaming experience.
Run 3dmark, check cpu score against other 2600 based systems.
Run Geekbench (any version), check cpu and memory score against other systems.

delvey · 30 Oct 2020 at 21:32

MrPils said:
Depends on your cpu and memory overclock/tweaking as to the extent, but you will definitely be being bottlenecked at 1080p (though im surprised you're only getting 50fps in BF5 @ 1080p). My 3900xt @ 4.5ish bottlenecks hard at 1080p with a 1080ti so your 2600 with a Vega 64 will be even more. Check average cpu usage and memory usage using hwinfo during a gaming session, if you're hitting 70%+ on either its a bottleneck and you should see corresponding low GPU usage/temperature to confirm it. Your choice of components is definitely unbalanced for 1080p though, I'd have upgraded your cpu and memory instead of the GPU as the Vega 56 and 64 will do just fine in anything at 1080p. You should be looking at the 3070 for 1080p/1440p high refresh rate gaming and low refresh rate 4k DLSS, as a consequence of that you should be matching it with a fast 6 or 8 core cpu and a good 2x8gb memory kit.

Things to check:

Make sure memory is running correct frequency and timings using CPUz.
Check cpu temperature for throttling under load using hwinfo64.
Check for HDD and Memory errors - error correction and HDD reseeking reads can really screw with your gaming experience.
Run 3dmark, check cpu score against other 2600 based systems.
Run Geekbench (any version), check cpu and memory score against other systems.

Thanks. I do have a 144hz monitor.
The battlefield V issue was related to V sync.
I may return the 3070 and get a 3600 instead.
Or wait it out and get a 5600
I have 16GB if 3200mhz memory.
I think the battlefield issue is isolated but hitman 2 and division 2 are quite a bit lower than the benchmarks

MrPils · 30 Oct 2020 at 21:54

delvey said:
Thanks. I do have a 144hz monitor.
The battlefield V issue was related to V sync.
I may return the 3070 and get a 3600 instead.
Or wait it out and get a 5600
I have 16GB if 3200mhz memory.
I think the battlefield issue is isolated but hitman 2 and division 2 are quite a bit lower than the benchmarks

Glad you sorted the BF5 problem, 50fps was way too low. On the subject of your upgrade, if you cant afford to get both cpu and gpu upgrade then I would sell the 3070 rather than return it, you'll make a tidy profit that you can put towards a 5600x over the 3600. If you do go for a Ryzen 3600 or 5600 (strong recommendation for a 5000 series over a 3000 series, the gaming performance looks to be much better) get some faster memory - 3600mhz C16 or faster. Depends how into tweaking you are really, you can save some money by tweaking up a 3200mhz C14 kit or go straight for a 3600mhz C14 kit if you want to make sure there's minimal bottleneck there.

no_1_dave · 31 Oct 2020 at 01:33

MrPils said:
Glad you sorted the BF5 problem, 50fps was way too low. On the subject of your upgrade, if you cant afford to get both cpu and gpu upgrade then I would sell the 3070 rather than return it, you'll make a tidy profit that you can put towards a 5600x over the 3600. If you do go for a Ryzen 3600 or 5600 (strong recommendation for a 5000 series over a 3000 series, the gaming performance looks to be much better) get some faster memory - 3600mhz C16 or faster. Depends how into tweaking you are really, you can save some money by tweaking up a 3200mhz C14 kit or go straight for a 3600mhz C14 kit if you want to make sure there's minimal bottleneck there.

Upgrading his ram will make zero difference to FPS and if he's struggling to afford the upgrade as it is then changing the ram is an unnecessary expense.
Upgrading the CPU is needed. Either sell the 3070 and upgrade the CPU instead or put up with lower performance while saving for a CPU upgrade

Nickl245 · 31 Oct 2020 at 05:58

She's a beaut and she smells amazing. Arrived yesterday. Now waiting on the 5600x

Big upgrade from a 1060 imo

$ilent · 31 Oct 2020 at 08:10

I received my Zotac 3070 Twin Edge yesterday, tested doing folding at home. The card boosts nicely to 1950mhz core with temp and power limit max. This card seems to be limited by the cooling and power I feel. I managed to get it up to 2040mhz core without any voltage adjustment.

delvey · 31 Oct 2020 at 08:18

no_1_dave said:
Upgrading his ram will make zero difference to FPS and if he's struggling to afford the upgrade as it is then changing the ram is an unnecessary expense.
Upgrading the CPU is needed. Either sell the 3070 and upgrade the CPU instead or put up with lower performance while saving for a CPU upgrade

MrPils said:
Glad you sorted the BF5 problem, 50fps was way too low. On the subject of your upgrade, if you cant afford to get both cpu and gpu upgrade then I would sell the 3070 rather than return it, you'll make a tidy profit that you can put towards a 5600x over the 3600. If you do go for a Ryzen 3600 or 5600 (strong recommendation for a 5000 series over a 3000 series, the gaming performance looks to be much better) get some faster memory - 3600mhz C16 or faster. Depends how into tweaking you are really, you can save some money by tweaking up a 3200mhz C14 kit or go straight for a 3600mhz C14 kit if you want to make sure there's minimal bottleneck there.

Thanks both. I can afford a new CPU but it is trying to justify spending another £200. I could sell the 3070 and make a profit but that is not me. I could return it (I'm sure the retailer will have no issues selling it on).
Decision decisions

Invertigo · 31 Oct 2020 at 08:29

So what's everyone's thoughts, is an i5 8600 non-k going to hold back the 3070? I'm honestly very close to picking up a 5600x next week anyway, but just a curiousity really.

RBImGuy · 31 Oct 2020 at 09:32

Invertigo said:
So what's everyone's thoughts, is an i5 8600 non-k going to hold back the 3070? I'm honestly very close to picking up a 5600x next week anyway, but just a curiousity really.

People dont understand how gaming on pc works.
Buys a gpu that is held back by the cpu, big time.
then complains about no difference or not enough.
You want to have a 5600x series cpu from amd to not be cpu limited. (Intel is)
My sisters kid reason the same and I just tells him how it works.
The cpu even bottlenecks on 1440p now.
its why I planned the upgrade to ryzen 5600x.

Invertigo · 31 Oct 2020 at 09:35

RBImGuy said:
People dont understand how gaming on pc works.
Buys a gpu that is held back by the cpu, big time.
then complains about no difference or not enough.
You want to have a 5600x series cpu from amd to not be cpu limited. (Intel is)
My sisters kid reason the same and I just tells him how it works.
The cpu even bottlenecks on 1440p now.
its why I planned the upgrade to ryzen 5600x.

I must have missed the part where I apparently complained? I merely asked a question, and as I said I was already pretty set on a 5600x regardless.

MikeTimbers · 31 Oct 2020 at 13:12

$ilent said:
I received my Zotac 3070 Twin Edge yesterday, tested doing folding at home.

what ppd for what work unit please?