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GTX 1070: MSI 8X or GB G1

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Hello guys, i am between those 2 cards and i can not decide, i like the design of the GB G1 a bit more but what holds me back is the issues that some people had with coil whine on almost all models of G1 cards...what you think?

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There aren't many review yet for me to make a conclusive decision.

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I doubt that anyone here would recommend the G1 over MSI's version.

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22 minutes ago, reystar said:

Hello guys, i am between those 2 cards and i can not decide, i like the design of the GB G1 a bit more but what holds me back is the issues that some people had with coil whine on almost all models of G1 cards...what you think?

Right... almost as if none of the reviewers for the MSI card mentioned whine.

 

Just go for the G1. Don't sweat about it.

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2 minutes ago, Imakuni said:

Right... almost as if none of the reviewers for the MSI card mentioned whine.

 

Just go for the G1. Don't sweat about it.

i dunno, just dont like that coil whine sound lol

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2 minutes ago, reystar said:

i dunno, just dont like that coil whine sound lol

Then you better start praying, for any card can be affected regardless of the model.

 

As I said, go for the G1.

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I would say go for MSI it's quieter and looks better.

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1 minute ago, Vortez said:

I say go for MSI it's quieter and looks better.

i dunno yet, cant decide but i will pick MSI most likely, i have the MSI 960 on my HTPC and im very happy with it, plus the orange color on G1 is weird. still cant decide

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2 minutes ago, reystar said:

i dunno yet, cant decide but i will pick MSI most likely, i have the MSI 960 on my HTPC and im very happy with it, plus the orange color on G1 is weird. still cant decide

It's only a tiny piece of orange that you'll most likely not even see, if that's your concearn...

 

Honestly, don't buy MSI's 1080. They did a great job with the cooler, sure, but so did everyone else. With the difference that other brands aren't faking reviews with different Bioses than retail and I'm rioting them for that reason alone. Feel free to support them regardless, if you judge it worth your money.

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Msi gets my vote. Even though the g1 also has custom pcb, the single 8 pin is still questionable to me.

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MSI get my vote too for 2 reason: the 6+8 pins and the backplate which I'm more likely to see all the time compare to the cooler itself, and the G1 backplate is just awful looking... 

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MSI GTX 1070 Gaming X review. In my opinion MSI is better card than gigabyte.

 

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The 970 G1 is an amazing card... I can only imagine the 1070 keeping up to that high standard of great overclocking, cooling and board design. Someone last night posted about about their G1 1070 and said they love it. Go check out the thread. 

 

Gigabyte also recently announced an Xtreme version of the 1070 but that will cost more and has a thicker cooler. 

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10 hours ago, Pohernori said:

Msi gets my vote. Even though the g1 also has custom pcb, the single 8 pin is still questionable to me.

 

Why do you think the 8 pin is questionable? What is the negative of the card only having a single 8 pin? Less performance?

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13 hours ago, reystar said:

Hello guys, i am between those 2 cards and i can not decide, i like the design of the GB G1 a bit more but what holds me back is the issues that some people had with coil whine on almost all models of G1 cards...what you think?

i have the 1070 G1,

No Coil Whine during gaming even in games like csgo that run around 400fps.

i only have noticeable coil whine in super high frames rate loading screens.

1 hour ago, tom11 said:

 

Why do you think the 8 pin is questionable? What is the negative of the card only having a single 8 pin? Less performance?

people need to stop about the single 8 pin cards lol, it really doesn't matter. it might matter if you're planning on using custom bios and voltages..

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1 hour ago, tom11 said:

Why do you think the 8 pin is questionable? What is the negative of the card only having a single 8 pin? Less performance?

 

Power throttling and stuttering issues. One of our members here found out that the strix 970 had those issues. Along with gpu usage drops. 

 

Will need to wait and see some indepth testing on the G1.

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Get the Sapphire firepro variant (herd it's the best)

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MSI...when in doubt...go with MSI. They never disappoint, especially the gaming series of GPU's the twinfrozr cooler always been epic on those.

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