1070 Gigabyte or MSI

They are starting to show up and was curious which one might be better than the other.
Cooling and longivity.
not thinking about oc...their max boards are already overclocked.

Gigabyte all day long. Just my opinion after owning 4 different G1 cards in the past few years.

Recently I've read on a couple of tech forums where people have had bad experiences with Gigabyte RMA. With that said, I am currently running a Gigabyte video card and have had no problems and have had no problems with the other two Gigabyte cards. The one MSI card I had many years ago was DOA.

Also running a 1070 Gigabyte G1 -- very happy with it and it's buttery smooth at 1440 with gsync

Ive had gigabyte motherboards forever... pretty solid. Even though I favor MSI (and the way their cards look) MSI seemes to want to pocket anothehr 20 or 30 dollars on their entire line of Pascal cards. Fuck that - they want more money for the same or less performance. MSI wants $459 for their gaming X card, and across the board their clocks are worse than the regular Gigabyte G1 model that's 30 dollars cheaper. Sorry, looks aren't THAT important to cough up another 30 dollars.

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yeah, I noticed that too. MSI customer service was A++ during my days of mining, so I would prefer to purchase an MSI card. But my buddy also had a few Gigabyte cards and had to RMA a couple. He had an excellent experience as well. In one case, they even upgraded his Radeon 290 to a 390X because Gigabyte was out of 290's.

So, I've pre-ordered a Gigabyte G1 GTX 1070 for $430.

This will be my first Geforce card since the 8800GT (excluding my HTPC card).
nVidia pissed me off real bad when I had purchased 2 laptops with the Geforce Go 7600 and both laptops died just outside of the 1 year warranty. The laptops cost me $700 each. They were off-brand, so I wasn't covered in the class-action lawsuit. I was able to fix one of them by unplugging the fan, wrapping it in towel and let it cook itself to death. It worked, so I promptly sold it on craigslist for peanuts.

Yes, I'm still bitter and would love to spend $400-500 on a Radeon.

collegeboy69us said:

Also running a 1070 Gigabyte G1 -- very happy with it and it's buttery smooth at 1440 with gsync

Ive had gigabyte motherboards forever... pretty solid. Even though I favor MSI (and the way their cards look) MSI seemes to want to pocket anothehr 20 or 30 dollars on their entire line of Pascal cards. Fuck that - they want more money for the same or less performance. MSI wants $459 for their gaming X card, and across the board their clocks are worse than the regular Gigabyte G1 model that's 30 dollars cheaper. Sorry, looks aren't THAT important to cough up another 30 dollars.

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I have the same 1070. And personally I think the g1 looks better.

J Macker said:

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This will be my first Geforce card since the 8800GT (excluding my HTPC card).

Yes, I'm still bitter and would love to spend $400-500 on a Radeon.

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I had that 8800GT too. Moved to a nvidia GTX 285 using the EVGA step-up program from a GTX 260. Then I moved to AMD cards eventually selling my Radeon HD 7870 crossfire setup and R9 380x.

I was all stoked to get the RX 480 thinking that it might compete with the nvidia 980 BUT it couln't surpass the 970. So, when evaulating where I wanted to put my hard hearned many I bought the Gigabyte 1070. I'd don't want to spend money on new technology that has performance numbers from 2 years ago (nvidia 970).

My Gigabyte 1070 should arrive next week. Should be fun! My next upgrade item is a monitor. Holding out for the viewsonic XG-2703-GS but haven't heard one lick of news about it since April 2016.

My debate is the Windforce or the ACX 3.0.... I like the looks of EVGA's new coolers, however $399 for the Gigabyte's Windforce 1070 is pretty appealing.

I like, and have used, MSI and Gigabyte cards. They're both good. I went MSI on a previous generation because their cooler had two, larger, fans and Gigabyte used three small high rpm fans. Sound level was important to me and it seemed that MSI won for that particlar card.

Not sure which one I'd pick for 1070.

My wife found an MSI GTX 1080 Armor OC Edition at Fry's for me. It lasted 4 hours before something failed, the temperature rose to 83C and stayed there (fans on full), causing thermal throttling and frame rates dropping to 30 FPS or so from 60. We didn't do anything but run it at factory setting. YMMV

Too bad, it was really sweet before it broke. Fan noise was inoffensive but audible when running full-out.
We returned it to Fry's, now we are back to waiting for a pair of ASUS ROG GTX 1080 Strix to be available ...