Yeah i was on a 290, wanted more 1440p perf so went 1070 as its arguably the only 10xx series card that makes sense from a price to performance perspective, while i was waiting on Vega.. well lets just ignore that series of AMD cards, too late to the party, too heavily overpriced and clocked to their max out of the box etc. The mining boom did not help matters, the Vega cards should be £150 MSRP lower than they were tbh for the level of performance they offered.
So im holding onto this 1070 for now, will give it to the kids when i move to a new CPU / Mobo , will buy them a 24" G-Sync screen to use to go with it, that'll last them for a few years as they are 9 and 6 and think Roblox is the height of PC gaming lol.
Im debating whether to jump now on a 2700X or just ride it out on the 1700 til Zen2 next year and then just move across, by then we should have solid info on Nvidia products and maybe news on anything AMD can do to salvage their currently horrendous GPU reputation. First the Fiji debacle, then Polaris (its actually a great series for the segment it targets) and lately Vega, all have had issues of one kind or another, making AMD's last great GPU the 290/X Hawaii cards.
AMD need another set of cards like Hawaii that come to the market and offer brilliant performance to restore some faith in their ability to build a decent GPU. Oh i also forgot Intel are rumored to be showing GPU's soon as well, thats an unknown quantity, however im not holding much hope as Raja is a bell end.
So anyhow, for the people who have upgraded from Ryzen1 to Ryzen+, for those who kept the same motherboards, did you notice much uplift in performance? for those that also swapped motherboards, have you noticed much benefit in doing so?