2070 Hardware Problems

gu3miles · January 18, 2019

Hi,

I'm in the market for a small upgrade to my system. I already have a g-sync monitor so I'm planning on staying with Nvidia, either a 2060 or 2070. I've been seeing a lot of bad reviews on newegg and amazon for a lot of 2070 cards from many manufactures. Basically there are defective cards/fans/software all over the place. Now most of those were sort of that post black friday/xmas run, and maybe a few weeks later the bad apples in the early batches have been shook from the tree.

I'd maybe prefer to get a 2060 and save my money up for a CPU upgrade (I have a 6600k now, would like to jump to 9700k, but they are expensive so might just wait until next year to get 10nm intel). But the 2060's are just coming out and there's no reason to believe they will be any more reliable than the problem plagued 2070's. Should I continue to wait? Should I just get one from EVGA and hope I don't get a dud?

Thanks!

CharminUltraStrong · January 18, 2019

6 minutes ago, gu3miles said:

Hi,

I'm in the market for a small upgrade to my system. I already have a g-sync monitor so I'm planning on staying with Nvidia, either a 2060 or 2070. I've been seeing a lot of bad reviews on newegg and amazon for a lot of 2070 cards from many manufactures. Basically there are defective cards/fans/software all over the place. Now most of those were sort of that post black friday/xmas run, and maybe a few weeks later the bad apples in the early batches have been shook from the tree.

I'd maybe prefer to get a 2060 and save my money up for a CPU upgrade (I have a 6600k now, would like to jump to 9700k, but they are expensive so might just wait until next year to get 10nm intel). But the 2060's are just coming out and there's no reason to believe they will be any more reliable than the problem plagued 2070's. Should I continue to wait? Should I just get one from EVGA and hope I don't get a dud?

Thanks!

The likelihood of you getting a dud is low. Also, I'd recommend just grabbing a 9600k. They run like beasts with 6 cores and 6 threads, I have mine running at 5.2 Ghz with a 5 Ghz OC on the Cache as well. Coffee Lake i5's will outperform a 6600k, 6700k, 7600k and 7700k. Save yourself that extra dough and put it into a GPU budget.