Nice card, but going to wait to upgrade - until I have anything better than 1080p
personal experience would shy me away from MSI but others have had ok experiences
thanks for the tip op

typical - I took the plunge yesterday on this at £379.99

I assume Amazon will refund the difference - any hints on the simplest way to request that? I couldn't see anything obvious on the website

edit - I found it. going through the help section, contact us. It lets you select an order and then they call you. If you go direct to teh order, there's no option to contact them. Anyway, sorted within 5 mins as an "exception" as it had only just been delivered. Can't complain.

Anyway - hot from me obviously as I'd given in and paid at a slightly higher price!

Hi gw42

Last time this happened to me I was told by Amazon they have changed their policies and I would have to return the order and reorder at the lower price... ideal!

They are not what they once were.

Well done m8. Obviously I got the wrong person when I had same issue as you.

Nice to see. Well done Amazon.

The chap I spoke to did emphasise that he could put through the refund because it had been delivered only 30 minutes ago. Maybe if I'd have called tomorrow (and the same person) it would've been a different result.

Hmm. Trying to decide between this and the zotac AMP , any opinions?

Will have this tomorrow and build by the weekend hopefully be able to comment by then

Great card, but it's too big to fit in my Dell XPS 8700. Need one that's about the size of the Zotac 970 and it looks like the Gigabyte Mini is the only one.

Yeah, I have zero experience in building PCs! :stuck_out_tongue:

This price @ Overclockers.co.uk too.

Made the jump from GTX 970 last night by ordering this card. I think it will do me for 3 or 4 years @ 1440p until 4k becomes more mainstream.

Am slightly worried about the price going down to below £270 by the end of next year but gotta live for now, eh? Just don't tell my wife.

Wonders if this has Samsung ram

Then it's win-win! A first-time build should provide enough experience for a level-up!

As above, mine was delivered this morning and the box says made in China. the reports of memory issues with MSI 1070's seemed to be about the Chinese made ones using micron rather than Samsung ram, stop I'm a bit nervous. I'll try and report back if I have any issues

If made in Taiwan, you are ok

well, fingers crossed, but so far so good. It is Micron memory, but I've not seen any visual issues or other problems that some people are apparently having. In fact, card is doing extremely well, though I may play with the profile as it's a tad noisier than my last card under heavy load.

I'm coming from a 660ti, so it's a huge leap - Elite Dangerous looks amazing with all settings turned up and in 4k. Everything's pretty much full except I disabled AA (I don't see much need on 4k), and it's averaging 50fps+ which is more than I was expecting and very playable for me.

The PCB on this specific card is big though, as it's a good couple of cms wider than my old card, and a bit longer as well. it fits in my case fine, but I'd recommend checking sizes in all 3 dimensions of the card if your case is not a full size desktop case.

At the moment 397 (Based on Amazon.) Though I'n the end I decided to go with the zotac, doubt there is too much difference, but liked this one more.

Im still torn between a 1070 and a 1080. I can afford either....but im not sure I NEED the extra grunt a 1080 brings. I have an Asus ROG 144hz monitor and I believe that a 1070 would be more than enough to get the best out of it. I have a GTX 770 at the moment.....please someone talk some sense into me!

How does this compare to a GT210?

Man the UK is getting gouged on these, just paid £260 equivalent for an EVGA one in the states.

I would be really grateful if someone who has a 1070 could play elder scrolls online if they have it and have afterburner monitor the GPU then tell me what afterburner says is the GPU usage.

Because something strange is happening to me . I see 100% "gpu usage" in the character select screen then it drops to around 50% when I get into the game. This of course has an effect on the frame rate.

I just don't know if this is a problem with my card or not.

Is swapping cards out an easy job? I would have to swap the power supply as well.

Just adding this in, do these cards throttle like the 9 series due to heat ?

i nearly jumped on this deal since i have been meaning to pick up a 1070 by msi. i was originally going for the gaming x but this seems incredible value. been googling the difference between the 2 versions and they seem minuscule. any tips?>

​Well nows the Time to learn

Went from a GTX 760 2GB to this card as I've just started to order parts for my new build. Bought this card couple days ago waiting for it to arrive. Going with a i5 6600K

Just bought a GTX 1080 for less than this on Amazon warehouse so happy days.

No I don't.

That could be it then. The character select screen won't be very demanding, and is probably running with an uncapped frame rate due to some programming laziness, hence it just goes up to as many FPS as the house can manage hence causing the 100% usage. Then once ingame there are other bottlenecks so the GPU doesn't manage that. Try putting vsync on and see if that helps.

I have the card above this, the gaming X 8G. It's the faster version but I imagine this card isn't far behind. The 1070 is a super card and so quiet.the price for this card seems very good. It's a big step up from my 970 4g. The 970 is a fast card but it's new brother is so much faster. At this price it's a steal. Forget about anything other than nvidia if you want fast 4K gaming.

Got this installed last night. Rise of the Tomb Raider was around 100fps, min 59fps at full settings 1080p. Max temp doing this hit 56C with air cooling... awesome card!
Didn't try any higher resolution yet. My card does have the Micron memory, haven't noticed any problems yet so fingers crossed.

Founders edition

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"Promotion applied" ?

20% off for Amazon Students in warehouse

So technically if you applied your 20% discount to this product, it would be < £300 thus cheaper than the 1080 you bought? No doubt the 1080 you bought with the discount was a good deal but not really worth bragging about, comparing it to a none discounted item in this case.

You cant get 20% off a new item, which the OP has posted. Only amazon warehouse stock.

Well that just amplifies my point lol :smile:

So you think I should have bought an inferior 1070 for more money than I paid for the GTX 1080? Or am I missing something?

No I am commenting about your first post "I just got a 1080 for less than this" which was double discounted and on the warehouse section. Not really fair to compare them.

Ah right fair enough. I was extremely happy at the time (as you can imagine) and wanted to share in my good fortune. Guess I was in the right place at the right time.

The monster is currently purring away in my PC...its like night and day compared to my old card

The luck was real with finding this one, almost hit the halfway mark with that price. I would take a 1070 for that price let alone a 1080

If you unplug it, where is it going to discharge to? The CORRECT way is to leave the cable plugged in and turn off at the wall AND the back of the PSU.

You, are welcome, you can thank me later.