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1 hour ago, Dan Castellaneta said:

So orange is being beat into the ground but no one wants to touch purple.

Hm, you might be on to something there...

 

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1 hour ago, patrickjp93 said:

Fractal made Orange sexy.

You mean bequiet?

Thats that. If you need to get in touch chances are you can find someone that knows me that can get in touch.

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45 minutes ago, thekeemo said:

You mean bequiet?

No, Fractal. BeQuiet! did as well, but both.

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Too much extra plastic makes it too big and ugly.

 

I like Evga design the most but MSI armor look very decent and is cheaper than others.

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You know, I rather appreciate how EVGA and NVIDIA reference cards exhaust hot air out of the BACK of the chassis, this does make a difference for those of us without Super Amazing PC cases. 

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54 minutes ago, SplAdam said:

You know, I rather appreciate how EVGA and NVIDIA reference cards exhaust hot air out of the BACK of the chassis, this does make a difference for those of us without Super Amazing PC cases. 

Super amazing = $49.99+? Even the most basic of cases these days will have airflow good enough that you'll see the benefits of an open air cooler.

 

Plus, blower cards are not specific to EVGA... Both MSI and Galax have their own blower style coolers as well.

 

 

 

 

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9 hours ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

Agreed...

Does anyone else notice that the fans don't seem to line up well with the heatsinks?

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Yup, Gigabyte was feeling nostalgic about the Windforce Lip of the 600 and 700 series. 

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7 hours ago, patrickjp93 said:

Are you joking? Look at the way the blades curve! The scoop side is always the side the air pushes out from.

why so serious? i know how fans work btw.

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14 hours ago, valdyrgramr said:

Why are the new Nvidia cards so ugly?

Because...gamers. "oh lok dis is soo shinnyy, i liek de new EVGA cardz over th3 olde ones cuz rgb and so many linez and meshes annd hol3s, it lok liek a spacesh1p, so co0l." One of my friends at uni is like this, always drools over at gamery-looking things.

I don't read the reply to my posts anymore so don't bother.

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My PC is in a server rack so it could be beige for all I care, not that I can use anything except Blower Style coolers anyway...

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I will buy it if its cheap the 1000s are a temp card for me and im looking for the cheapest 1070 I can find. 

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So far most of the non-founders 1070/1080's have been quite ugly, excpet for the MSI cards. Not sure why but it just seems like they're either not trying at all or trying too hard with their designs.  

 

The proportions of this card look way off. Not a good look IMO.

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On 6/18/2016 at 11:12 PM, -BirdiE- said:

Super amazing = $49.99+? Even the most basic of cases these days will have airflow good enough that you'll see the benefits of an open air cooler.

 

Plus, blower cards are not specific to EVGA... Both MSI and Galax have their own blower style coolers as well.

 

 

 

 

This is the reason I say that, my last build had a $49 case (Rosewill bare bones) and I saw a drop in thermals on both my CPU and my GPU when I installed an EVGA that vented out of the back of the chassis. Obviously super amazing is not $49 dude, that's why expensive cases have fancy thermal solutions, they work better. 

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On ‎6‎/‎19‎/‎2016 at 1:47 AM, IncompetentProdigy said:

Source: http://wccftech.com/gigabyte-gtx-1070-windforce-oc-features-a-dual-fan-configuration/

Thoughts? 

 

 

Personally I was going for the G1 gaming or the ACX 3.0, however depending on how this compares to the founders edition I think it could be a good value 1070.

If you were looking for value then the 1070 shouldn't be your top choice.

 

Something like a RX 480 would be a better choice for Value.

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12 hours ago, SplAdam said:

This is the reason I say that, my last build had a $49 case (Rosewill bare bones) and I saw a drop in thermals on both my CPU and my GPU when I installed an EVGA that vented out of the back of the chassis. Obviously super amazing is not $49 dude, that's why expensive cases have fancy thermal solutions, they work better. 

Unless it's an mITX build, it sounds like you made a poor case choice, or were doing something wrong. Any basic Mid-Tower cases with a couple of case fans should be fine. More expensive cases are generally more expensive because they're built with higher quality materials, they look better, and they have convenience features like toolless drive cages and stuff... But they don't have any "special thermal solutions" that make them significantly cooler.

 

A case like this for $50 would get the job done

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I don't like the look of the card, it looks like it's trying too hard for attention.

 

I would much rather have a card that has no RGB or any kind of lighting for that matter and is just black. I have a side window on my case but I'm the only one that ever sees the inside (windowed version of the case was cheaper for some reason) so I couldn't care less about all the aesthetic changes that are being made to the cards this generation. It's just stupid IMO.

 

Edit: Also to address the complaints about not meeting MSRP, that is the price that NVidia is selling the card to their partners. The partners then have RnD put into different cooling solutions and then factor in the cost of materials and the fact that they still need to make a profit off of them. If they were selling these cards at MSRP they would actually be loosing money on them. The fact that these cards are not averaging $150 more than MSRP for custom coolers tells me that they are being very conservative with their pricing.

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On 6/18/2016 at 7:30 PM, patrickjp93 said:

No, Fractal. BeQuiet! did as well, but both.

I'm not sure i can think of a single Fractal design product including orange except PSU with mustard cables.

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Did the AIB partners for Nvidia just agree to all make ugly cards? None of the new cards look good at all (except the Gaming X from MSI, in my opinion).

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I was glad we were moving towards more neutral colours and rgb. Why the hell would they put orange lines that match with almost nothing?

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I am not good at photoshop or any other type of image editing software..

But I am a bit OCD about that top left corner is missing.

So,,,,,,

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If it is not broken, let's fix till it is. 

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47 minutes ago, UnknownSentientBeing said:

I was glad we were moving towards more neutral colours and rgb. Why the hell would they put orange lines that match with almost nothing?

I think that since Asus is changing their color scheme from red and black to orange and black, so gigabyte is trying to follow the trend.

Just like iphone comes out then a lot of other companies are trying to copy their design.

I don't like the orange that gigabyte use either. 

If it is not broken, let's fix till it is. 

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9 hours ago, DragonTamer1 said:

 

Edit: Also to address the complaints about not meeting MSRP, that is the price that NVidia is selling the card to their partners.

No. MSRP is manufacturer's suggested RETAIL price.

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