Amazon.com: Customer reviews: MSI GAMING GeForce RTX 2070 8GB GDRR6 256-bit HDMI/DP/USB Ray Tracing Turing Architecture HDCP Graphics Card (RTX 2070 ARMOR 8G OC)

Excellent performance, cooling and tech support.

Reviewed in the United States on December 1, 2019

ASIDE FROM THE FACT THAT I HAD TO RMA THIS CARD THREE TIMES;
Yes, three times due to random failures,
This card is incredible.
Out of the box performance with the factory overclock definitely put this card forward. I am definitely impressed at how well everything is and how high my FPS count is, even in demanding games (paired with a ryzen 5 3600).
The cooler on this is a beast, albeit the card is huge. I have never seen temps higher than 63 C on this card, even on the most demanding games.
Great purchase. Go for it if you're looking at getting a 2070.

Side note: I had to go through 3 RMAs. MSI were incredibly helpful and I only had to pay for the first RMA. Everything else was covered by them. I always trust MSI, even after what I went through, as I do not blame them. These 20 series cards had extremely high failure rates, especially when they had just launched. I'm glad MSI had my back.

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Brandy Sampson

Great 1440P+ Card!

Reviewed in the United States on October 31, 2018

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I have just made a new rig, and this was the last part to complete it.
Specs:
I5 8600k
16GB 2400 DD4 Ram
Hyper 212 Evo Cooler
250 GB SSD Boot drive
2 TB HDD Main storage
A few other small pieces

So, I just put this card to replace a leftover GTX 970 that is slowly dying (the fans got SUPER loud and would not stop, and no fix was helping at all!).

This RTX 2070 is FAST. I can just about put full settings on every game I play at 1440P or even 4k, get amazing framerates, and this card runs cool and fast. I don't even hear the card while playing games, and it has been going for a while without any problems.

Monster Hunter plays almost locked at 60FPS at 1440P on max settings, and I can turn down to high settings and get it pretty locked. Doom plays in 4K no problem, Warframe the same (but that's an easy game to play). There are some other benchmarks out there, but this seems to be a great card if you want to play 1440P.

Even with such a big card, there is no GPU sag that I can see. The only thing I'd say is that if you have large screws holding the card to the back case, it may be a bit tricky as there is a not a lot of room by those screws (versus other cards). Other than that, this card was super easy to work with. I have not had time to dial down an overclock yet, but it seems to be super fast even right now.

There is a chipset difference between the factory OC RTX 2070s and the non-OC models. Keep that in note.

Overall, I'm happy with it given the limited time I've had with it. This even runs faster than a few GTX 1080s that my friends have!

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Michael H

Five months later I do not regret purchasing this card

Reviewed in the United States on May 1, 2019

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Thought I would wait a while to put in my thoughts considering the initial issues with some of the RTX line of cards having issues with DOA's/artifacts. After five months mine has had no such issues and has worked flawlessly since day one. I chose the Armor OC model as it has the binned 2070 chip which allows for higher over clocks than the standard version.

Performance has been stellar to say the least, and has only gotten better with driver updates. When playing games or benchmarking I am typically running around 2025 mhz. and I have memory over clocked to 16000 with no issues and temps only hitting 68c max. I have a Thermaltake Tower 900 case so lot's of volume and air flow. All the while the card stays very quiet.

After latest Nvidia update I am now beating most 1080ti's running Furmark 1080p preset (10788 latest score) and playing the games I have at 4k have had no issues running high or maxed settings and this card destroy's my previous 1070 ti.

If you are on the fence I say go for it, and if you have the extra cash go for the OC version. This card handles everything and is powerful as all get out while staying cool and quiet.

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Aaron

MSI 2070 Armor OC-Great card! Can run decently hot

Reviewed in the United States on December 25, 2018

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So I was very worried when I was looking at 2070's because all of the problems people were having with them. Honestly it seemed like over 50% of people who bought one had it fail. But since prices for 1080's was still a bit weird and 1080TI's are way to much I settled on the MSI RTX 2070 Armor 8GB OC. Originally I planned to get the MSI 2070 Gaming Z but it would have arrived almost a week after this card and I sold my old card for a bit of extra cash for my upgrade.

Initial thoughts: I read reviews about the card being a bit long for some people but I didn't think twice about it. The card BARELY fit into my case, I sorta had to put it in at an angle but once it was in, there wasn't much room left on the right side. My main concern was that the card was running very hot. it was hitting 79 degrees celcius which was much hotter than I remember my 1060 running. I thought this was because of the heating problem and my card might have been defective but then I realized it was running much cooler depending on what game I was playing. For example Overwatch was running it up to 79 but Black Ops 4 and Battlefield 5 were only running it to 60.

3 weeks later: At the time of this review I have been using the new card for 3 weeks. Overall I can max out all game settings and get very good fps. On Overwatch my 1060 was getting 120-150 fps on medium settings and this card is giving me 200-220 fps on medium settings. On more graphics heavy games I have a 75 fps cap on and it never drops below that mark. IMPORTANT: Every time I go to game I open up MSI Afterburner and set the temp limit to 65. A lot of games don't even take it up to there but a few seem to make it run warmer than others so I have gotten in the habit of always having it open. This is more for my own sanity to know it won't hit 79 or 80 with out it needing to.

Overall: The MSI 2070 Armor OC is a great card and it looks good too. It was a bit longer than I thought it would be and gave me a bit of a scare. The card runs pretty hot but with a simple program you can set a temp limit and almost negate that concern. I would totally recommend this card but who knows, maybe I just got lucky with mine so far.

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Aly Miles

Great Quality and runs amazing for my needs...

Reviewed in the United States on August 27, 2019

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I am enjoying my MSI Armor 2070 OC! I do wish I would have held out now that supers arrived, but I cannot complain. The card is doing everything I need and achieving my objective I had when I set out to build my first computer in 15+ years. The subtle RGB MSI logo is perfect in my build and the MSI software works like a charm. My card stays cool and has not seen any temp issues in play testing. I've been playing multiple titles at 4k and it looks great and plays smooth. I am playing Metro Exodus with RTX enabled on a 4K Vizio Monitor and it runs it like a champ, getting close to the 50 fps range and since its 4K on a 60hz monitor I personally have no complaints. I have done no additional overclocking, using the card straight out of box.

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Ian Kasper

solid card, good warranty, I have 6 of them

Reviewed in the United States on September 23, 2020

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MSI is one of the best gpu companies ive dealt with. Warranty is great, only company that competes with that is evga but msi tends to have beefier heatsyncs so I prefer them in general. Price and options are awesome, only cards I find cheaper are terrible in comparison. MSI value to quality ratio is the best imo. I own 6 of these for mining, running strong for almost 2 years.

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K

Replaced a dead Gigabyte 980 ti

Reviewed in the United States on March 6, 2019

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Update 6/19: still works great. No space Invaders or other issues

I am satisfied with this purchase.

So far I've pushed it for about 8 hours under medium/light loads straight out of the box, no OC. No artifacts or anything these reviews had me worried about so far.

Nvidia's currently having some issues between recent drivers and their RTX line, and it's not exactly ideal, but rolling back to 471.71 seems to be a reliable workaround until they get everything sorted out (which should be later this week according to Nv).

Will handle most "esport" titles at Ultra, 1080p, 144hz. For QHD you'll need to make some fidelity tweaks here and there if you want to keep those framerates up.

If you're running 1080p, 60fps, this thing is overkill for most games and I'd almost recommend saving a few hundred and going for the 2060.

Price point should be a little lower but they have no reason to charge less until AMD gets back into the market.

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Amazon Customer

Dead

Reviewed in the United States on March 28, 2019

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Before you buy, look around. I wanted this card cause my build needed some more white accents, Literally, that's why I went with this MSI version, It worked good for about a month. I started getting random hangs, and crashes getting a lot of different BSOD, after pulling out piece by piece and trying to run my pc it fell down to this card. I have sent it back, and definitely plan on buying a different 2070. So here I sit, writing a review, without a gpu….

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AlphaCentauri

Good Value; Beware it's large length.

Reviewed in the United States on June 22, 2019

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I've been looking to upgrade my PC from an MSI GTX 970 Gaming to a newer GPU and since the 970 has done well I decided to stick with MSI and go with the RTX 2070 OC.* It's been running well, 30*C when not gaming and has been very quiet. Only-thing I was concerned with was the size, as this card is longer and slightly girthier than my previous card. If you have a Mid-case like the Cooler Master Haf 912 be prepared to pull out the 'modular' HDD bay to get it to fit.

Will keep an eye out for failures in a couple weeks, as recent reviews show the card failing.

Jul 22nd - Card is still running perfectly fine. Upgraded to a Ryzen 3700x and an x570 mobo, got a new case that's slightly smaller and lacks the bay area for disc drives and the card fits way better (Phanteks p600s case.)

Sept 15th - Still haven't seen artifacting or degrading, rarely runs too hot. Now with the Supers out there's no reason to grab this, but it was (and still is for me) a good purchase.

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superfreac7

Nice looking and solid performance

Reviewed in the United States on August 3, 2019

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This card is very well built and I appreciate there being a backplate and RGB on it. The price is still a little high but that's the market so not really anything to do about it. It tears through any game I want to play on max settings and holds solid above 60 fps for 1080p gaming. My only complaint is that on certain demanding games it gets a little loud but in my opinion I'd rather have it loud and low temp than quite and burning up. On that topic I've never had over 80 degrees c even when running battlefield 5 max so theres that to consider.

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