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Timi

It's a good card for 2024 even though it's old.

Reviewed in the United States on March 24, 2024

Style: GTX 1070 G1 GamingVerified Purchase

It's very fast. Plays the newest games at medium settings 50+ FPS

Highly recommend it.
It looks beautiful too.

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N. Tufnel

Excellent buy, works as advertised, great for VR.

Reviewed in the United States on August 27, 2018

Style: GTX 1070 Gaming Box eGPUVerified Purchase

I purchased this as a boost to my integrated 1050 (2GB, mobile).
The TB3 link on my lenovo 720P Laptop (with UHD Screen) is "only" x2, so just the 20GBPS limits me slightly. There are other reviews that prove it but essentially a full x4 link will give you slightly better frames but the CPU itself is more dependent.
In other words, if you're torn between a laptop with a much better cpu and a x2 TB3 link vs a much slower one and a x4 TB3 link, get the faster CPU, the link doesn't matter quite as much except for one critical thing with VR (and I don't think x4 would help it a great deal.)

This box has extra USBs including a charging port (a keyboard/mouse doesn't effect frames) and this is critical because you'll likely need them.

VR:
The GPU will work great with VR but you'll want to connect a monitor via DVI, the Occulus via HDMI, and disable the laptop screen. Otherwise the eGPU will think you want to re-direct video back to the laptop and cripple your performance. In theory an x4 TB3 link would work much better but it will hamper your performance anyway so don't bother.
In short: If you needed an eGPU for VR, you're going to want a 2nd monitor to the EGPU and disable your onboard screen.

The box is quiet, installs in a snap and doesn't need special software. The "Aorus Engine" app is meh, I don't use it and if the LEDs can be controlled I have no idea how. Those could theoretically be distracting but they're hidden in my setup behind my monitor anyway. You'll never hear it with headphones on, and even without, your laptop is probably louder.

As far as performance goes, with the i7-7700HQ and TB3 link I was getting 4k@60+ ("Mein Leiben" settings) in Wolfenstein TNC. Not the newest game but it should give you a clue as to what to expect.

Based on all the research and reviews I did, I came to these conclusions:
1) CPU matters more than Link, ideally get something with a nice boost clock and 35-45Watt range, ideally NOT a 15 "U" processor (although this would work game well with it, miles better than integrated, you're tossing decent performance) at least not for VR.
2) Trying to use an eGPU on your internal monitor is probably not worth it, definitely not if you're only a x2 link on your TB3 port.
3) With a faster i7/i5 45W mobile CPU, you can expect about 20% performance drop from a DESKTOP version of the same graphics setup (native pcie x16 link) with TB3 x4 link (40GBp/s) and about a 25% performance drop with a TB3 x2 link (20GBp/s). Measurably slower, but hard to notice and works great, with my brandy new Occulus.

If money is no object, get the 1080, it will do a little better and is probably worth it, I went with this version as I got it from a Warehouse Deal under $500.

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Dominic

Awesome Graphics Upgrade! If you plan to purchase be sure to read the note at the end of my review

Reviewed in the United States on November 4, 2016

Style: GTX 1070 G1 GamingVerified Purchase

This thing is incredible. HUGE upgrade from my GTX 760 that I previously had. Runs most games at max or almost max settings at 2k well above 60 FPS. I average around 180-200 FPS when playing League of Legends at highest settings (not a super graphically demanding game, just stating as a reference). Something I consider a positive is that it only takes a single 8 pin power connector (some people may consider it a negative, but I list as positive because it makes it easier to SLI due to taking less PSU connectors). The lighting is a nice touch to add to my already well lit rig (I have multiple Blue LED fans). Fans are not noisy (at least I do not notice them over the game sound) and the Fan Stop feature on all the 10 series is a neat idea for lowering noise and saving fan life. The Geforce XTREME Gaming app is actually pretty good. Still not quite as good as MSI Afterburner, but still a nice, easy to use interface. There are of course the default "Eco, Normal, Gaming" settings and then also the custom settings for overclocking. I have not tried over clocking as I have not had a need, but the software seems intuitive and easy enough to use. All in all a really great card for the price. Easily powers through games and is relatively future proof with SLI. I plan to buy another in a year or two when game specs make the next jump. Only regret is the price dropped $20 the week after I bought it, but such is life. As reference I will list my current rig below:
CPU: AMD FX-8370E 8-Core (3.3 GHz, 4.3 OC)
GPU: Geforce GTX 1070 G1 Gaming (duh)
HDD: Seagate FireCuda SSHD 1TB
MOBO: Gigabyte Ultra Durable AM3+ (could not find which model I have, It's 5 years old at this point)
RAM: 4x4GB sticks of Mushkin Silverline DDR3 1333 (16GB total)
COOLING: 9 fans: 4 Antec fans (3 140mm, 1 120mm), 2 Corsair SP 120mm, 3 Thermaltake 140mm
PSU: Thermaltake Toughpower Grand 850W
CASE: Thermaltake Core X71

IMPORTANT: As a note the GTX 10 Series cards are designed to run hot, as such there are a couple of things to keep in mind:
1. Make sure if your rig already runs hot to keep an eye on temps when upgrading to this
2. Despite these cards being designed to take the heat I would caution watching GPU temp during gaming at least at first
3. I would advise going into the XTREME Gaming app and editing the fan curves, the default settings appear to allow the card to get absurdly hot, so I changed my curves to turn the fans on at a lower temperature and to ramp up to 100% fan speed faster

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Reviewer Pro

Great card. Only tiny issues. Fantastic 1440p/144hz performance on a 7700k with 16GB of RAM and no overclocking.

Reviewed in the United States on August 8, 2017

Style: GTX 1070 G1 GamingVerified Purchase

It has been about 7 months since I purchased this, so I feel like I can give a decent review.

I like this card.

Pros: Fast, easy to install, not terribly loud, good controls over fan and lights in the software, good overlocking software

Cons: Computer has failed to boot on more than one occasion with visual artifacts on the screen right after POST. I re-seated the card and the powe connectors and it seems to have fixed the issue, but I'm not sure if this will be a recurring problem. The other issue is the coil whine. Maybe it's just the nature of the beast, but the occasional whine gets a little annoying sometimes.

I play on a 144hz monitor and a machine with a 7700k and 16GB of DDR4. Real-life performance at 1440p (2560x1440) with no OC:

Overwatch: Ultra settings with only minor things turned down. No super sampling (100% scale): 120-135 fps even on the most demanding maps and busy battles.

Battlefield 1: Second-highest settings results in consistent 90fps with few dips.

CSGO: Everything completely maxed out yields about 280fps.

I can't imagine that I will need to buy a GTX 1080 or GTX 1080Ti for another year or two, once 4K/144hz monitors become popular and cheap.

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Amazon Customer

The GTX 1070 has done nothing but impress me and I would recommend it to anyone who is looking to play games ...

Reviewed in the United States on February 10, 2017

Style: GTX 1070 G1 GamingVerified Purchase

I built my first computer over this summer and I ordered this graphics card for it. The GTX 1070 has done nothing but impress me and I would recommend it to anyone who is looking to play games at a upper mid to high level with good FPS.

Positives
Quality
Appearance
Performance

Quality - The card feels well put together and does not feel like it is going to break. The plastic covering on it may feel a little flimsy but the aluminum backplate to it gives the card a nice touch.

Appearance - The card looks amazing and the color of it can fit in with a lot of builds. It also has customizable RGB lighting so that you can change the color of the lights to better match your build.

Performance - This was the big game changer for me. Going from a laptop with integrated graphics that could barely run most of the popular games at low settings, this card brought a new light to my eyes. I run pretty much any game that I play at usually the highest settings, whether it be league of legends (not a demanding game) or Ark survival (a very demanding game) it provides great fps for all games that I play.

Negatives - The only downside I would have to it is that it is very long, and the button that you push to take it out of the motherboard is located at a very inconvenient place. This may however just be because I have a micro motherboard.

To summarize what I've said, even though it is a little bit more money than others this card is definitely worth the buy and you will not be disappointed.

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marshmallow

It can play runescape and every game since

Reviewed in the United States on December 19, 2016

Style: GTX 1070 G1 GamingVerified Purchase

I love this video card however I will admit I haven't tried OCing it yet but that will come in maybe another week when I feel comfortable with it.

This card comes with 3 fans and a nice radiator between it and the card itself. It stays cool all the time! I heard issues with the 1080 where they would catch on fire but never the 1070, plus the 1070 at the moment is significantly more affordable and there's no need for that extra horse power which is pretty negligible.

I've used this with my Oculus, Skyrim (Legendary fully modden and SE), GW2 at max everything including word boss raids, and just about every other game I could throw at it and it has no problem running the maximum framerate of my display (60monitor 75oculus). You want to run 4K? Sure, this beast of a card will run any game for you at 4k. I was running Black Desert Online at its highest possible setting on one monitor and GW2 on another with literally no frame drop! Kindly note that I am using a shader mod for GW2 which demands much more out of it.

For my build I paired the 1070GTX with a intel i7 6700k (unlocked), water cooled, corsair vengence LPX 16GB DDR4 @ 3200mhz, and a samsung SSD drive. The mobo itself is a GA-Z170X-Gaming 7 and it is beautiful. The 1070 is serious business and I would strongly recommend it to anyone wanting to game and not have their video card catch on fire. I do feel however that games released in 2-years will be pushing this card beyond its capabilities and perhaps VR titles will become more intensive once it becomes more mainstream.

I don't remember what the base clock on this is, but I know it can go over 1800mhz in OC mode which is a big jump from my previous card which clocked at 600mhz. Some people will wait until the next gen cards to come out so they can get their hands on the 1080 for cheaper but that's the name of the game, how long are you willing to wait before playing games nicely? Remember that games take about 3-5 years to develop and cross-platform games are often developed for a console which puts us back in visuals by quite some time. I'm pretty confident we will be able to breeze by 2018 with this card.

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St. Clouds

Buggy driver is buggy... and still is

Reviewed in the United States on July 12, 2016

Style: GTX 1070 G1 GamingVerified Purchase

Updated 021417

Still sucks!

Unstable driver. Please just get AMD. I had one and the thing was stable. This thing makes my computer freeze, everyday. Nvidia kept releasing drivers in varying degrees of poor.

Yes this card is faster than anything AMD has currently, but I'll take the slower working card that doesn't make my system completely unusable and forces me a reboot once a day. What's the point of faster card if it wastes hours of your time.

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Updated 07152016

Got it working by uninstalling pluggable USB dock. This dock has HDMI and DVI ports, and apparently didn't play well with NVidia driver. Never had this issue with the 390x or even my older GTX 760.

I had to turn off 1 of my 4 monitors, before steamvr would even start. Annoying to have to do this everytime. Didn't have this issue with AMD driver either, ran 4 monitors and VR headset simultaneously w/o having to disconnect anything. It took longer than I like to discover this.

Surround display functionality is buggy. Taskbar is in one monitor, but start menu shows up in another. Also maximize window works funky in this mode, it overlaps taskbar where it shouldn't, and leave gaps when it should have gone full screen. Toggling surround on/off often leaves other monitors disconnected. AMD Eyefinity is less featured, but it was also less buggy.

Card is fast, really fast and runs way cooler, quieter than the old 390x which's the main reason I went for this. Plus 390x just struggles with newer vr games on decent setting. Decent here, means everything maxed out, since 2x 1080p on your eyeballs actually feels very low res already. Some claims about 2X VR performance is also misleading, it requires software rewrite... no game out there has been written specifically for Pascal. VR games as is lack market share, most releases are attempting to make games playable on standard monitors and HMDs to broaden their audience. Targeting Pascal specifically sounds like a fiscal mistake.

Don't expect card to overclock to 2000MHz+, mine goes up to low 1900MHz, before it starts to show artifacts and flickers.

I updated rating to 4 Stars, for being fast - 1 Star for driver that shouldn't be out of closed Beta yet.

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Crash and more crashes.

Unplug monitor, crash

Launch Steam, crash.

SteamVR broke, compositor could not be started.

Multiple restarts, had to remove all usb from device manager.

Done everything I could think of short of buying a new computer or doing a clean OS install, like scrubbing drivers and such.

This thing might be fast, but I could never tell because it doesn't WORK! My old 390x is slow, and annoyingly hot, but hey it WORKS and hardly crash! Notice the emphasis on "WORK" there NVidia? I thought the point of paying $450+ for one is to get a WORKing product.

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Alex E.

Great card overall, great performance on all games, one or two things to consider

Reviewed in the United States on May 19, 2017

Style: GTX 1070 G1 GamingVerified Purchase

I was checking prices between this card and the ASUS Strix. At las this card got a price reduction, and I went for it. Great card overall, runs as I expected, the RGB lighting is a great plus. I'm giving this card 3 stars because the annoying coil whine this card has when I run my games. I got a 4k /60Hz monitor and I must activate Vsync if i dont want to hear that annoying sound. Althoug this card is louder that I expected, the coil whine make it worst, and I cant return it because I live in Ecuador. Im going to search forums, to try to reduce the coil whine. I will update this review.

Edit: After a lot of research, I found that overclocking can reduce coil whine almost complety. But then I was having temps near the 80°C (load), so I re arrange my entire fan/radiator setup, and now I have 40°C Idle and 65°C load on the GPU, and the coil whine is barely noticiable, but is still present. There is a final flaw that was keeping me for giving this product 5 stars; when the card is not in use, the fans are suposed to be at full stop, and the led indicator lights up, but after using it for gaming, when u close the game and do other stuff that no requieres the card to be in load, 2 of the 3 fans will still run at very low speed, and the led wont light up. A little anoying, but I will give the card 5/5 stars for the performance (runing WoW on 4k at 80+ fps)

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Jonathan Hoyos

Good fps for gaming, very noisy and broken.

Reviewed in the United States on January 24, 2024

Style: GTX 1070 G1 GamingVerified Purchase

Okay so.. Its a great GPU for Performance and Quality, 100fps in COD on Medium settings, 200-300fps in Valorant on Low, and with 420 mods w/ shaders 100fps on Minecraft. Now the GPU when it came in it was very Plasticity and had cheap feel. Now I was building my first ever Desktop Computer but, when gaming one of the GPU fans will spin, making a clicking or rattling noise, then stop spinning, over and over again, it wasn't to much of a problem but it is a little annoying, but with a headset it wasn't to much of a problem. Now while using my GPU later on my PC kept freezing and the GPU usage kept spiking to %100, could've been caused by something else. i will try some troubleshooting and than replacing it and see how that goes.

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Cortez

MSI GS60 Ghost Pro eGPU experience.

Reviewed in the United States on October 7, 2017

Style: GTX 1070 Gaming Box eGPUVerified Purchase

Taking 1 star away cause amazon sent me a used product even though I PAID $600 for new. The box had a large rip, the cables where everywhere and with ripped plastic bags stuffed in the cardboard box.I assume the last owner was very impatient and just started tearing into the box in a bid to get everything out as fast as possible.

I didn't return it though since the actual eGPU looked to be in relatively new condition. The previous owner probably only used it for a little bit. I assumed this because when I turned it one it made this horrible whining noise that I assume came from one of the fans (only moving parts). Taking this into consideration I presume that the previous owner returned it cause of the noise. Maybe he thought it was broken or something. I open it up and saw that one of the tiny fans was making a god awful amount of noise. Luckily for me I bought two Noctua fans to replace the tiny fans that came with this GPU.

I did research on this product and learned that the tiny fans that come with it were pretty noisy (really low quality fans). Therefore I bought some Noctua fan replacements. These fans are easy to replace since the fan kits come with some splice connectors. Just cut the wires that connects to the old fans and splice it using the included splice connector with the new noctua fans. I also bought a 6.6ft active TB3 cable so that I can put my GPU out of the way.

My laptop didn't have thunderbolt enabled but it did support it. Had to do a bios update then install the TB3 drivers. After that I connected the eGPU and everything worked. The computer would say that it doesn't support eGPU and/or not all functions supported but it's completely wrong. Everything in the gaming box worked perfectly. Just ignore the warning messages. This eGPU is WAY BETTER than my internal gtx 970m.

WHO SHOULD GET THIS?
get it < GTX 1060 (Any computer than has less than a GTX 1060 in performance)

I've done testing and its only slightly faster than a desktop OC edition GTX 1060.

P.S. - Buy the below items to improve your experience. Just type the below into the amazon search window. The TB3 cable comes in 3.3ft & 6.6ft.
**DONT FORGET TO GET 2 fans**

FANS: NF-A4X10-FLX 5V
Optional: TB3 Cable: Cable Matters Thunderbolt 3 (40Gbps)

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