[Advice needed] MSI 1070Ti Armor or iGame 1070Ti Vulcan X

[M150]

I'm going to buy a new card and these 2 are having a similar price at my location:

1. MSI 1070Ti Armor: https://www.msi.com/Graphics-card/GeForce-GTX-1070-Ti-ARMOR-8G/Overview

2. Colorful iGame 1070Ti Vulcan X: http://www.colorfly.eu/iGame/Colorful iGameGTX1070Ti Vulcan X.html

 

MSI is a well-known brand, and Colorful is not... but there're some reviews stated that this card has custom PCB + high OC potential (not really sure if those reviews are just for marketing or not). So, please let me know your experience if you're using 1 of these 2 cards right now, regarding performance, OC potential (max core + memory clock), temperature, build quality... Great thanks.

 

[Essence_of_Darkness]

3 minutes ago, M150 said:

I'm going to buy a new card and these 2 are having a similar price at my location:

1. MSI 1070Ti Armor: https://www.msi.com/Graphics-card/GeForce-GTX-1070-Ti-ARMOR-8G/Overview

2. Colorful iGame 1070Ti Vulcan X: http://www.colorfly.eu/iGame/Colorful iGameGTX1070Ti Vulcan X.html

 

MSI is a well-known brand, and Colorful is not... but there're some reviews stated that this card has custom PCB + high OC potential (not really sure if those reviews are just for marketing or not). So, please let me know your experience if you're using 1 of these 2 cards right now, regarding performance, OC potential (max core + memory clock), temperature, build quality... Great thanks.

 

My brother is using Colorful iGame 1070 and its pretty good overclocker and has good cooling compared to MSI.

[Princess Luna]

I have no experience with iGame cards but the MSi Armor is not a very good cooler and the Armor and Aero gets the worse GPU chips after MSi does its binning process to ensure their higher end models like the Gaming X and Corsair Hydro gets better chips...

 

I don't know... I think I might of take the chances with the iGame card.

[Damascus]

3 hours ago, Princess Cadence said:

Armor and Aero gets the worse GPU chips after MSi does its binning process to ensure their higher end models like the Gaming X and Corsair Hydro gets better chips...

Aero yes, armor no.  The armor has the fantastic gaming X PCB and with an aftermarket cooler its the best value option

[M150]

2 minutes ago, Damascus said:

Aero yes, armor no.  The armor has the fantastic gaming X PCB and with an aftermarket cooler its the best value option

Yup, I agreed about the PCB of Armor as it's the same with gaming X. But I'm not sure about it's cooler + OC potential vs Colorful iGame as like Princess Cadence said above, MSI gave their high-end cards all the best chips already.

[Damascus]

3 hours ago, M150 said:

Yup, I agreed about the PCB of Armor as it's the same with gaming X. But I'm not sure about it's cooler + OC potential vs Colorful iGame as like Princess Cadence said above, MSI gave their high-end cards all the best chips already.

yup, are there any other options?

[Colin Donoghue]

9 minutes ago, Princess Cadence said:

I have no experience with iGame cards but the MSi Armor is not a very good cooler and the Armor and Aero gets the worse GPU chips after MSi does its binning process to ensure their higher end models like the Gaming X and Corsair Hydro gets better chips...

 

I don't know... I think I might of take the chances with the iGame card.

The board partners cant bin the chips. Nvidia did this so it wouldn't affect 1080 sales

[M150]

Just now, Colin Donoghue said:

The board partners cant bin the chips. Nvidia did this so it wouldn't affect 1080 sales

So you mean it's only a lucky draw regarding OC potential no matter it's a high-end or medium range card, well-known brand or no-name? 

[Princess Luna]

2 minutes ago, Colin Donoghue said:

The board partners cant bin the chips. Nvidia did this so it wouldn't affect 1080 sales

Oh no what nVidia did was forbid factory overclocking, binning has always been normal business practice.

[Colin Donoghue]

1 minute ago, Princess Cadence said:

Oh no what nVidia did was forbid factory overclocking, binning has always been normal business practice.

 

1 minute ago, M150 said:

So you mean it's only a lucky draw regarding OC potential no matter it's a high-end or medium range card, well-known brand or no-name? 

I was wrong, I just did a little more reasearch and @Princess Cadence is right

[M150]

19 minutes ago, Damascus said:

yup, are there any other options?

The other option is Palit 1070 Ti Dual ($50 less) or with $100 more, they're MSI 1070 Ti Gaming X and Asus ROG Strix 1070 Ti Advance Edition. But honestly with that $100, I'd rather spend on replacing stock cooler with an AIO water cooling.

[Damascus]

3 hours ago, M150 said:

The other option is Palit 1070 Ti Dual ($50 less) or with $100 more, they're MSI 1070 Ti Gaming X and Asus ROG Strix 1070 Ti Advance Edition. But honestly with that $100, I'd rather spend on replacing stock cooler with an AIO water cooling.

The dual isn't the worst cooler in the world, I would consider it + an AIO 

[M150]

Palit card is having high RMA percentage and bad reputation of customer service in my country - so I'd like to avoid it.