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I am looking at upgrading my GTX 970 to a 1070. Would this be a good card? I found it for $380 USD.

 

EVGA GeForce GTX 1070 SC GAMING ACX 3.0 Black Edition, 8GB GDDR5, LED, DX12 OSD Support (PXOC) 08G-P4-5173-KR

 

It seems like a good deal since it has RGB lighting, but I am not sure since I have been out of the GPU market for quite a while. 

 

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1 minute ago, CmzPlusHardware said:

I am looking at upgrading my GTX 970 to a 1070. Would this be a good card? I found it for $380 USD.

 

EVGA GeForce GTX 1070 SC GAMING ACX 3.0 Black Edition, 8GB GDDR5, LED, DX12 OSD Support (PXOC) 08G-P4-5173-KR

 

It seems like a good deal since it has RGB lighting, but I am not sure since I have been out of the GPU market for quite a while. 

 

Yes that is a great card

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@CmzPlusHardware Awesome card! That's the card I'm using right now! With GPU boost 3.0 I'm hitting 2035 MHz on my core clock :)

GAMING RIG:

CPU: i9-14900k

MOBO: Gigabyte Z790 Aorus Elite AX

RAM: 64GB G.Skill Ripjaws S5 @ 6000MHz

GPU: Gigabyte Gaming OC ICE 16GB 9070XT

STORAGE: Crucial 1TB NVME (Boot Drive) / 2TB Crucial NVME / 4TB 990 EVO Pro NVME SSD

CASE: Dimas Tech EasyBench V3.0

 

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6 minutes ago, CmzPlusHardware said:

It seems like a good deal since it has RGB lighting

According to EVGA's website, this GPU does not have RGB lighting. RGB is reserved for the FTW cards.

if you have to insist you think for yourself, i'm not going to believe you.

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1070 is a bit better than Titan X (Maxwell) in performance, so yes it's a big upgrade from a 970. Go for it and enjoy.

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@Suika Yeah mine doesn't. It works for me cause I have white LEDs anyways :)

GAMING RIG:

CPU: i9-14900k

MOBO: Gigabyte Z790 Aorus Elite AX

RAM: 64GB G.Skill Ripjaws S5 @ 6000MHz

GPU: Gigabyte Gaming OC ICE 16GB 9070XT

STORAGE: Crucial 1TB NVME (Boot Drive) / 2TB Crucial NVME / 4TB 990 EVO Pro NVME SSD

CASE: Dimas Tech EasyBench V3.0

 

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1 minute ago, CmzPlusHardware said:

Ok that makes sense. So will the SC Black with the real base clock of 1594 MHz be good? 

Yes! I had the 970 like you did too. Major difference in performance. In Rise of the Tomb Raider I have all settings Ultra and not skipping a frame at all. Rock soild above 60fps :)

GAMING RIG:

CPU: i9-14900k

MOBO: Gigabyte Z790 Aorus Elite AX

RAM: 64GB G.Skill Ripjaws S5 @ 6000MHz

GPU: Gigabyte Gaming OC ICE 16GB 9070XT

STORAGE: Crucial 1TB NVME (Boot Drive) / 2TB Crucial NVME / 4TB 990 EVO Pro NVME SSD

CASE: Dimas Tech EasyBench V3.0

 

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