The Pascal GTX 1070 Owners Thread

pastymuncher · 26 Jul 2016 at 13:33

Finally got enough money together and while I think the prices are a joke I don't see them coming down anytime soon so I may as well bite the bullet. Currently looking at the Gigabyte G1 and the Palit Super Jetstream.

Those of you that have the Palit Super Jetstream, does it have warranty void stickers on the rear of the card? If it does then I may as well go for the Gigabyte as they allow cooler removal.

_Jimlad_ · 26 Jul 2016 at 13:47

I really want one with a single 6 pin power entry beacusd I am a but anal about wires and looking nice in my case

Raikiri · 26 Jul 2016 at 14:04

pastymuncher said:
Finally got enough money together and while I think the prices are a joke I don't see them coming down anytime soon so I may as well bite the bullet. Currently looking at the Gigabyte G1 and the Palit Super Jetstream.

Those of you that have the Palit Super Jetstream, does it have warranty void stickers on the rear of the card? If it does then I may as well go for the Gigabyte as they allow cooler removal.

I have the Palit GameRock and haven't noticed any stickers that would be damaged if removing the cooler.

pastymuncher · 26 Jul 2016 at 14:15

Raikiri said:

I think you need to go to specsavers because your own picture shows it to have two stickers.

Vimes · 26 Jul 2016 at 14:15

The Palit Gamerock is too expensive here sadly.

Troop · 26 Jul 2016 at 14:36

Super Jet Stream has the same two stickers.

_Jimlad_ · 26 Jul 2016 at 14:44

So prices not set to fall anytime soon ? Supply and demand issue ?

pastymuncher · 26 Jul 2016 at 14:45

Thanks Troop. Gigabyte G1 it is then.

Troop · 26 Jul 2016 at 15:00

^^ have to say the Super Jetstream is a good clocker...Just starting but with NO volt increase, with more to come

. http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/13625391

bru · 26 Jul 2016 at 15:12

So the question is, do any of the more expensive models actually clock any better, or is it a case of they will all do 2000MHz and more than that is the silicon lottery.

From what I've read so far, pretty much all the dual fan cooler are good enough to keep the cards fairly cool, with the triple fan models not making a massive difference, just a few degrees.

Do companies like Zotac bin the cores between the AMP and AMP extreme editions?

It just comes down to the warranty, with Zotac being out in front with 5 years, with most others offering either 2 or 3 years.

If any of the cards boost to over 2GHz al by themselves, then maybe that would be an option as then there would be no need to run afterburner all the time.

Amatsubu · 26 Jul 2016 at 15:21

So it seems my final overclock is 2076mhz/+600mem and won't budge any futher in Rise of the Tomb Raider. If I push the core clock even 1mhz more (+171), I get 2088mhz in game and sometimes even 2101mhz but it'll eventually crash :mad:

Besides, the clock throttles to 2076mhz anyways as soon as the card reaches 66c (which is still bloody cool in relatively high ambient temps, so I don't get why it has to downclock :confused:

).

Raikiri · 26 Jul 2016 at 15:23

pastymuncher said:
I think you need to go to specsavers because your own picture shows it to have two stickers.

Haha oh yeah, I was looking at the back end of the card not the screw holes... not hard to take them off carefully though.

Dave2150 · 26 Jul 2016 at 15:57

chrcoluk said:
70C is too high, I have never liked my gpus running at those temps, my palit with fans that cannot be heard over case fans and keeping temps at 60C is brilliant. No longer will I be fooled by the evga/asus tax.

70C is nothing for a GPU. NVIDIA designs them to have a temperature target of 83C.

pulsemyne · 26 Jul 2016 at 16:43

Dave2150 said:
70C is nothing for a GPU. NVIDIA designs them to have a temperature target of 83C.

Even my Freddie Kruger with it's not too great blower never goes above 81C and that's in a stupidly hot case. With a more aggressive fan profile than the standard one it never goes above 78C. Certainly going to get a new case though as the mini itx Elite 120 has really bad airflow. Thinking of a Fractal design nano S or the bit phoenix phenom.

chrcoluk · 26 Jul 2016 at 17:12

Dave2150 said:
70C is nothing for a GPU. NVIDIA designs them to have a temperature target of 83C.

they do but I like to run cooler.

V F · 26 Jul 2016 at 17:52

How loud are the blower fans? I'm not keen on these huge double/triple fan designs...

Cleeecooo · 26 Jul 2016 at 18:41

_Jimlad_ said:
Thanks for the info mate. I bet all of them run cooler and less noise than my MSI 290x. It's like a hair dryer under load

No worries, it should be a nice upgrade in terms of noise!

_Jimlad_ said:
So prices not set to fall anytime soon ? Supply and demand issue ?

Sadly, I very much doubt it

It seems more to be the case that there's no competition so NV are charging what they like.

V F said:
How loud are the blower fans? I'm not keen on these huge double/triple fan designs...

Why don't you like the multi-fan cards?

Here's a noise chart form hexus

LINK if that image doesn't load

Amatsubu · 26 Jul 2016 at 21:38

Damn, I was severely mistaken, my card can boost to above 2100mhz stable but it just won't due to aggressive thermal throttling.

+170 on the core is the stability limit. RotR sits at 21xx something and drops to 2088 after a while, then to 2076 (and stays that way) when temps reach 66c.

Throttling on these cards is really bonkers and it''s kinda hard to stay under 66c in a demanding game which uses up to 80% of the GPU and when it's hot outside.

I take it there's no other way around it than a custom fan profile? Not that I'm not happy with 2076mhz, just curious.

What are your overclocking results?

McGraw · 26 Jul 2016 at 22:47

V F said:
How loud are the blower fans? I'm not keen on these huge double/triple fan designs...

Mine is a lot quieter than my old zotac twin fan 970.

But it's noticeably louder than my stepson's his 7850 iceq.

Evian · 27 Jul 2016 at 00:13

Amatsubu said:
Damn, I was severely mistaken, my card can boost to above 2100mhz stable but it just won't due to aggressive thermal throttling.

+170 on the core is the stability limit. RotR sits at 21xx something and drops to 2088 after a while, then to 2076 (and stays that way) when temps reach 66c.

Throttling on these cards is really bonkers and it''s kinda hard to stay under 66c in a demanding game which uses up to 80% of the GPU and when it's hot outside.

I take it there's no other way around it than a custom fan profile? Not that I'm not happy with 2076mhz, just curious.

What are your overclocking results?

I think most people are getting stuck on the throttling.