Jay Deah

memtest86 is pretty much the defacto standard

This has got to be dumbest thing I have heard in a while.

None of this is true.

if it makes you feel better i did the EXACT SAME THING with the springs when i fitted my first waterblock

That's bad practice

Can't tell if trolling or completely clueless... I'll be nice and assume the first, in which case it's against the CS. 

i hope this is a joke, even then you owe an apology because its a stupid one.

The card is perfectly fine. It's price - performance ratio isn't as good as the 1060.

There might be a few stutters but I think the 1070Ti would be only a little held back by the CPU. 1440p is quite demanding though so I'm not too sure.
If I were you I'd get the 1070Ti now and save up for a new CPU and motherboard (and possibly RAM) later.

Seems too low to be legit, but if this is for a local listing you could ask the seller for proof that it works or if he'll let you check the card out in person first.

Personally I got a 1070 recently for the same price and with the same sort of use you're describing.  Video cards age all the same, but you can count on getting about 5-7 years of driver support.  You can look at it as an investment in that sense, but price:performance in that many years is an unknown. 

are you sure that power cable is plugged in the right way round?
 
it shouldn’t fit in the wrong way round so may be a dumb question but I can’t see the clip.
 
also try it without the power plugged in. It should boot with a black screen with white text saying ‘ok stupid, you forgot to plug in the power cable’ at least if you see that you know the card is alive

First check if your motherboard will actually support a pascal GPU.  The 600series cards were the last to fully support non-UEFI bios and your CPU comes from a time where UEFI wasn’t on everything.
 
if it is compatible, then I would upgrade GPU first then the rest. You will get a bigger performance boost (in games) from the GPu upgrade and later when you have more money to upgrade the rest of the platform you can keep using the same GPu.

then ehy are you going 2011? Thats a pretty power hungy system. Go with a ryzen based system if you care about power and sell the ram you have.

Yes.

No it actually won't. You'll be perfectly fine with a 1070 ti. 

no

Wroth is subjective.
Depends whether the performance increase is worth that much money to you.

No, because he said 6GB *VRAM* Meaning Virtual, so some of the memory would be located externally, rather than within the gpu

Physx is pointless these days. 

Put a piece of duct tape over it. Problem solved. 

well that cpu is good but 824 mhz ram?? why not 1333? that is going to slow you down (budget-gaming wise)

buy a ssd and a 1050ti = 200-250$
buy a ssd 970 second hand
buy a ssd 16gb ram at 1333 minimum (i thought ddr was 1333 min ) look for 970 4gb second hand 

The price of that card and price of aio stuff... Why not just upgrade to a card that's going to cost what the aio route will plus sell it for a upgrade... At the end of the day that card doesn't need a aio. 

I was shocked at just how much of a difference the delid made. Before delidding the fans would kick in high all the time. Now they barely kick in!
 
it was also super easy!

Field Value Sensor Properties Sensor Type Nuvoton NCT6793D (ISA A00h) GPU Sensor Type Diode (NV-Diode) Motherboard Name Asus Maximus IX/X Code / Formula / Hero Chassis Intrusion Detected No Temperatures Motherboard 42 °C (108 °F) CPU 56 °C (133 °F) CPU Package 62 °C (144 °F) CPU IA Cores 62 °C (144 °F) CPU GT Cores 55 °C (131 °F) CPU #1 / Core #1 61 °C (142 °F) CPU #1 / Core #2 60 °C (140 °F) CPU #1 / Core #3 61 °C (142 °F) CPU #1 / Core #4 60 °C (140 °F) CPU #1 / Core #5 60 °C (140 °F) CPU #1 / Core #6 59 °C (138 °F) PCH 60 °C (140 °F) Power Supply #1 60 °C (140 °F) Power Supply #2 48 °C (119 °F) VRM 70 °C (158 °F) GPU Diode 53 °C (127 °F) Samsung SSD 960 PRO 1TB 66 °C (151 °F) Samsung SSD 850 EVO 500GB 46 °C (115 °F) WDC WD3003FZEX-00Z4SA0 (WD-WMC1F1626179) 51 °C (124 °F) Cooling Fans CPU 1403 RPM Chassis #1 575 RPM Chassis #2 494 RPM Power Supply 552 RPM Water Pump 2758 RPM GPU 0 RPM (0%) Voltage Values CPU Core 1.360 V +3.3 V 3.313 V +5 V 5.047 V +12 V 12.031 V +3.3 V Standby 3.376 V VBAT Battery 3.216 V CPU PLL 1.265 V VCCIO 1.344 V VCCMP 1.322 V VCCSA 1.336 V VCC Sustain 1.025 V PCH Core 1.016 V DIMM 1.328 V Power Supply 230.000 V GPU Core 0.981 V Current Values CPU 52.00 A +3.3 V 0.94 A +5 V 4.50 A +12 V 31.50 A Power Values CPU 70.72 W CPU Package 3.80 W +3.3 V 3.11 W +5 V 22.71 W +12 V 378.98 W DIMM 3.63 W Power Supply 404.80 W GPU TDP% 97% For context, this is with nicehash miner doing mining on CPU+GPU. not quite as heavy on the CPU as other workloads, but gives you a good example of what i see during gaming... <60deg on both
 
as you can see this also has a very relaxed fan profile. only 1500rpm at this level.

Sounds like you’ll be fine.
 
i personally run a 5ghz OC delidded 8700k and 1080ti all cooked by a single 360 rad (EK MLC Phoenix AIO) and it cools it all absolutely fine. I’m sure your 420 setup will be more than enough.
 
just remember you’ll need to run the case in the ‘alternate layout’ to fit the rad in andyoull also need to lose the dvd drive bay