EVGA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti SC GAMING 08G-P4-5671-KR 8GB GDDR5 ACX 3.0 & Black Edition

Pros: - Stays at 70 C under full load in my jam-packed micro-ITX case. 11 C cooler than the 970 at load. - Runs Witcher 3 @ rock-solid 60fps, 1440p with ultra settings (hairworks turned off). - Able to turn on 1.7-1.8 super-sampling in RoboRecall (Oculus Rift) - Running FurMark, the clock boosted up to 2GHz, which is way beyond the specs on the box. Super cool to see. - No apparent coil whine (970 suffered from this) - Fans are near silent up until they hit 50% (which I've only seen when trying out some Bitcoin mining) - Nice looking card

Cons: - For my use a 2nd HDMI port (or an included adapter) would have been preferable over 3 DisplayPorts and 1 HDMI -- I'll need to buy a $26 adapter to get a 4k signal to my TV while keeping my Rift plugged in. That said I knew this was the port config when I purchased it. Oddly I've never once owned a screen with a DisplayPort input, yet all modern GPUs are brimming with DisplayPort outs! - Purchase price ($469.99) was steep.

Overall Review: I was somewhat hesitant to upgrade from my 970 -- my rule of thumb is to upgrade every other generation, so I was planning on skipping the 10-series altogether. I also assume the 11-series will come out mid next year, so buying into the 10-series this late in its lifespan seemed a bit silly to me. But, I had some old camera gear to sell, and I was tired of feeling like the 970 was just a bit underpowered to really shine with what I wanted to do with it (1440p and VR gaming, specifically). That said, I was pretty nervous I'd be disappointed in the upgrade since I've never bought into a single generation upgrade before. Thankfully, that hasn't been the case. Running The Witcher 3 at 1440p/60fps/Ultra is absolutely beautiful. I'm pleasantly surprised at what an improvement it is over the 970, which in its defense, was a scrappy little beastie that can arguably still hang with the big boys. With the 1070 Ti, though, having the extra headroom to keep the FPS 100% steady at 60 (and in QHD!) is a dream. I'm super excited to dive into some new and old games, which is exactly what you want from a GPU purchase. I did overclock my monitor to 110Hz for a bit and ran The Witcher 3 @ 1080p/110FPS, but I honestly couldn't tell the difference from 60FPS. Apparently it's supposed to be night & day, but I don't see it. Please don't hurt me. VR gaming is a less dramatic change -- the games are all built around the 970 as baseline, so my 970 was obviously doing fine with it. The headsets themselves are also the biggest limiting factor in how VR looks -- small "sweet spots" for focus, bloom, and screen door effect (SDE) are all *much* larger factors affecting the beautify of the game compared to the graphics settings and FPS. However, the 1070 Ti gives me the ability to crank up what settings I can and do some super sampling, which helps (RoboRecall @ high settings and 1.6x super sampling is a noticeable improvement over what the 970 could do). Overall I highly recommend this card to anybody with a 970 or less (and some money to burn). GPU prices are absurd, yes, but if you've accepted that and are still in the market, the 1070 Ti (and especially this model with it's great cooling) is, in my opinion, the best bang-for-your-buck in the enthusiast space. It easily overclocks to stock 1080 speeds, so the only reason I'd look higher is if 4k gaming is your goal. Personally, my eyesight isn't good enough to tell the different from QHD to UHD on my TV from the couch, so the 1070 Ti is the card for me.

Pros: Overclocked to +150 core / +400 mem right away without issue. Runs cool.

Cons: A little pricey, but with $40 worth of free newegg gift cards and a 5% off Promo code, bringing this to around $400~ it was a no brainer.

Pros: -Stellar performance, can play most games in 1080p at 144 hz with no issue at all -Great cooling, runs with load at 55 degrees C in my mid tower case -Pretty good looking card

Cons: -Big, any modern mid case can house it easily but be careful if you're still running an older case -Pulls a good amount of power, be prepared if your PSU is lower wattage or old

Overall Review: I bought this card a year ago to replace a 760, so obviously i was extremely pleased with the 1070 ti's performance almost instantly. Then and now, the performance per dollar spent for this card is amazing. I would recommend this to anyone who wants to make a serious gaming PC without breaking the bank for the RTX's.

Pros: Reasonable cost for good specs, easy to set up and utilize the software to boost performance even more. Nice looking in a visible build with lighting

Cons: None so far

Overall Review: Does run a bit warm but does a good job of regulating temperature. If it dies young, I'll update!

Pros: It does the job. This is my first high end graphics cards so I am a unsure of the technical points, but I have been able run all new games at 1440p on max settings no issues. You can also overclock configure with the software. Takes about 15 minutes, but automatically overclocks to your best possible clock speed after you run a system test.

Cons: None so far. Fans are constantly running as I do not have liquid cooling. I can literally feel my office get hotter, but the card never reaches above the 75, so I know it is working properly.

Overall Review: Not really sure what to compare too as the only other card I have had is the 1050ti and this is way better than that so thumbs up in my opinion.

Pros: The card works great runs all games i throw at it at ultra settings

Cons: gets hot super quickly My card came in stained with water where the backplate would go It also had this white powdery material on the side of the card, which obviously shouldnt be there Are these cards used before they are sent?

Overall Review: would recommend if they can send clean and new cards, seen tons of reviews of people with the same issue as me Only purchase if its on sale

Pros: Excellent performance EVGA cooler is very efficient so the temperatures stay around 60C under full load. Good overclocking potential

Cons: Price? If the GTX 2070 is released in January and near this price point it'll be a hard sell at that time.

Overall Review: For the miners out there, here's my comparison between the 1070 and 1070 Ti, both EVGA cards, using NiceHash Miner and 388.13 drivers. GTX 1070 Mining speeds Equihash 425.596 H/s Pascal 935.377 MH/s Decred 2.491 GH/s Sia 1.581 GH/s Lbry 270.138 MH/s Blake2s 3.670 GH/s Lyra2REv2 37.152 MH/s DaggerHashimoto 31.306 MH/s DaggerHashimoto/Pascal 26.721 MH/s - 285.037 MH/s DaggerHashimoto/Decred 28.416 MH/s - 909.301 MH/s DaggerHashimoto/Sia 28.031 MH/s - 448.499 MH/s Keccak 708.378 MH/s CryptoNight 614.105 H/s GTX 1070 TI Mining speeds Equihash 479.848 H/s Pascal 1.126 GH/s Decred 2.988 GH/s Sia 1.887 GH/s Lbry 323.992 MH/s Blake2s 4.380 GH/s Lyra2REv2 44.805 MH/s DaggerHashimoto 31.686 MH/s DaggerHashimoto/Pascal 29.54 MH/s - 315.092 MH/s DaggerHashimoto/Decred 30.553 MH/s - 977.700 MH/s DaggerHashimoto/Sia 30.312 MH/s - 484.999 MH/s Keccak 852.378 MH/s CryptoNight 680.661 H/s Performance increase over GTX 1070 Equihash 12.747% Pascal 20.379% Decred 19.951% Sia 19.354% Lbry 19.935% Blake2s 19.346% Lyra2REv2 20.599% DaggerHashimoto 1.213% DaggerHashimoto/Pascal 10.549% - 10.544% DaggerHashimoto/Decred 7.520% - 7.522% DaggerHashimoto/Sia 8.137% - 8.138% Keccak 20.328% CryptoNight 10.837%

Pros: - Great performance (above expected. Had to remind myself that benchmarks use ultra and many inefficient settings a lot of the time just to really bring GFX cards to their knees) - OCing, while extremely easy, is also not as required as I expected it would be to really push this card (Nvidia's GPU boost already does a lot of that automatically from the get go, which can be added to simply with EVGA's bundles one click OC software) - Good build quality and Looks great (minimal, neutral, sleek look; sporting a elegant while GTX 1070 ti LED logo on the side) - First time using Nvidia after being a big AMD/ATI, best bang for your buck, broke gamer for the last decade. Straight away I noticed how much more feature packed the drivers are compared to AMD's smaller package (although AMD does know how to use it well, more on that in the next section). - Outperformed the Vega competition at a lower price point (and at that point Vega was out of stock everywhere and only had the stock blower style cooler which I was avoiding due to trying to run a quiet case). - The card surprised me requiring simply 1 8-pin power cable despite being so much more powerful than my old 280x (which required two connectors) - Good construction, with a hefty premium feel - CUDA cores can be both more efficient and extensively utilised in some of the photo/video suites I use compared to Open CL/GL

Cons: - Fans are louder than I expected when ramped up aggressively (more noise than my old MSI 280x Gaming ed.) Although I may have been spoilt before as this is really nitpicking, particularly as I don't often notice it due to using headphones while gaming a lot more. - I bought for a great price not long after launch (seems miners hadn't destroyed this one which is why I pounced despite originally aiming for a regular 1070.) Although currently seems to be sold out and prices for other 1070 ti's are CRAZY! - At first outputted a 24Hz signal through DP to my 165Hz 1440p display with no option to change it. Thought it was DOA and then unplugged a DVI cable that was plugged into the ti's other port and all of a sudden everything worked! Very odd issue and concerning as the DVI cable was only plugged into the graphics card and not to anything else on the other end! I haven't tried to hook up my old display (which only has a single DVI input) however, if this causes issues with me running my new beaut gaming monitor in multi monitor configs that's a HUGE DISADVANTAGE! I will try hooking up the second monitor again soon once I have the desk real estate and am eagerly hoping that recent Nvidia updates/a good connection/logic prevail and all runs smooth. I'll update my rating once I've done this. If i doesn't not work I will update this review warning other from buying this card and amending this review.

Overall Review: Also to note, I've had more in-game crashes with this card than i ever did with my 280x (which I don't remember crashing at all). I didn't want to put this in the con section because I'm uncertain at this point if it is due to the card, Nvidia's drivers/bloatware, multiple overlays (steam, uplay, nvidia control panel and EVGA Precision XOC contenders among others), or the games themselves (Wolfenstein NC and Watch_Dogs 2 (especially) were notorious for this, although PUBG (and maybe another title that I've forgotten about) recently crashed to desktop as well. Saying that, I've been gaming a whole lot more than i used to now that I have more free time and feel the need to justify the ton of money I have spent on this GPU and an almost perfect gaming monitor. Therefore, my experience running into crashes/bugs may just be due to spending more times, in more games, than I have in many years. Visually couldn't be happier with the result and shadowplay/nvidia recording is great and simple for beginners!