Asus 1070 or msi?

[Seb86]

Hi guys, I was wondering witch gpu vendor should I choose to retire my old evga 570 hd edition , and I narrow it into these two: Asus 1070 8g dual (white plastic model) or the 1070 msi x gaming card , I like the way the msi have that silent cooling, but since I read about the Asus quality build against the msi I'm in a crossroad, I have another mid range budget pc with a zotac 970 and I don't want to hear any coil whining , I played some games and I had to use closed headphones so I won't get annoyed by that hellish noise, so that would be another subject to have on consideration, I know that my cpu might be a bottleneck but just hang with me

 

My current specs

Amd 8350

Asus sabertooth 990fx rev 2

32 gb ram gskill sniper (oced@ 2133)

1tb hhd ( 2 500gb wd caviar black  on raid 0 just for fun)

Psu thermaltake tr2 750 watts

[Morgan MLGman]

Your CPU will bottleneck the card quite heavily, I'd advise you to either upgrade the CPU along with the GPU or to get a MSI GTX 1060 6GB (It might bottleneck even the 1060 a bit in some games). MSI has better customer support than ASUS.

[dragoon20005]

The Pascal GPUs pretty much perform the same other than the different manufacturer putting bling onto the GPUs

 

*cough* Asus *cough*

 

take the cheapest among the two, usually MSI and OC.

[thenastyjbenny]

Grab a used 680 on craigslist or something for a 100 bucks, that should help a lot. I would save up for a new CPU, Mobo, and RAM combination. Wait for Zen or not, doesn't matter. Right now, any upgrade you make to pascal will be bottle necked, unless you want a 1050 ti, and even in some cases that could affect it as well.

[bboysania]

Get yourself an Asus one. They are a bit smaller then MSI pascal cards. The MSI are a bit higher in size which will require a special SLI bridge in case you go SLI one day. Asus is also better for mATX cases like in my case. I own an Asus GTX 1080 OC and it is a very good GPU i can only recommend it. I think GTX 1070 from Asus has the same shape as my gtx 1080. Here is also one video from gaming nexus, he explains very well what i have written above.
 

 

[Seb86]

well, i´m planning on using the card on me next pc, maybe april or may, dont know if ill wait for "ryzen" or get a new i7, so i dont know if i should wait and see or buy in case the price go higher (i live in a 3rd world country where the local coin fluctuate a lot, like 400 usd could be a nice deal and at the next week could be half of my monthly pay), thats my other crossroad

p.d. i´m playing a lot of star citizen if that could make a diference