NVIDIA Geforce GTX 1070 Thread

[DamZe]

My FTW card seems to max out at 2050mhz in various benchmarks, going over this introduces artifacts etc. Memory OC is comfortable though and it sits nicely at 9ghz. I doubt the card is bandwidth starved though, perhaps at higher resolutions the memory OC can come handy.

 

[raasco]

I must have the dud of FTW cards. Overboost to 1912mhz out of the box and gets into the 70s when running fullout. At least it looks pretty.

Does the card boost higher when using the secondary bios or is that just a failsafe for overclocking? I haven't bothered to test mine out.

 

[sze5003]

Does the card boost higher when using the secondary bios or is that just a failsafe for overclocking? I haven't bothered to test mine out.

I haven't touched the secondary bios either. No clue how to flash stuff on there either way. If you have a custom bios I'm sure you could make it boost higher. I've seen it got to the 1980's during some benchmarks.

 

[AznAnarchy99]

Got my card. After having some weird Windows lock up issues trying to boot into safe mode (which I ended up unseating my RAM and got it to boot), I got the card installed and running. Only played WoW but I have it maxed out, CMAA, 4K resolution, 45-60 FPS steady at all times.

 

[sze5003]

Got my card. After having some weird Windows lock up issues trying to boot into safe mode (which I ended up unseating my RAM and got it to boot), I got the card installed and running. Only played WoW but I have it maxed out, CMAA, 4K resolution, 45-60 FPS steady at all times.

Nice glad you are enjoying it. Have you got the 372.70 drivers? 372.54 was giving me horrible artifacts and screen flicker on my monitor. I have not updated to .70 so I'm still on 369 drivers.

 

[AznAnarchy99]

Nice glad you are enjoying it. Have you got the 372.70 drivers? 372.54 was giving me horrible artifacts and screen flicker on my monitor. I have not updated to .70 so I'm still on 369 drivers.

Yup I'm on 372.70. No issues I've noticed so far. I have this weird feeling that I think things aren't as smooth as they should be but its probably all in my head or maybe because of the graphics settings change. I gotta test faster paced games and see how they feel.

 

[sze5003]

Yup I'm on 372.70. No issues I've noticed so far. I have this weird feeling that I think things aren't as smooth as they should be but its probably all in my head or maybe because of the graphics settings change. I gotta test faster paced games and see how they feel.

If you are running 4k it could be chugging along on some titles. But I think you will be fine. The drivers I've noticed can have some weird side effects. Like the .54 ones lowered OC potential for some people but some said this was ok as the card was working within its power limits.

 

[Thinker_145]

So I finally ordered the Zotac Amp! Edition. I am so excited as so many games waiting for me.

The first game I would play is actually the original Crysis as I am only now going to "properly" max it lol.

Can someone tell me what would be the correct procedure to install it if I am using AMD right now?

Uninstall AMD driver
Turn off PC
Remove AMD card
Plug in Nvidia card
Turn on PC
Install Nvidia driver

Is that the correct way?

Sent from my HTC One M9

 

[sze5003]

So I finally ordered the Zotac Amp! Edition. I am so excited as so many games waiting for me.

The first game I would play is actually the original Crysis as I am only now going to "properly" max it lol.

Can someone tell me what would be the correct procedure to install it if I am using AMD right now?

Uninstall AMD driver
Turn off PC
Remove AMD card
Plug in Nvidia card
Turn on PC
Install Nvidia driver

Is that the correct way?

Sent from my HTC One M9

Yea do that but also download DDU and run it in sage mode after uninstalling your old drivers.

 

[Thinker_145]

Yea do that but also download DDU and run it in sage mode after uninstalling your old drivers.

And I should do that while running with the AMD card?

Sent from my HTC One M9

 

[sze5003]

And I should do that while running with the AMD card?

Sent from my HTC One M9

Yea so once you download DDU and uninstall the and drivers, DDU has an option to boot to safe mode. Do that. Then open DDU in safe mode, choose amd as cleaning profile and run the program. One of the options in there is clean and reboot or clean and shut down. Do clean and shut down and install your 1070.

 

[Thinker_145]

Yea so once you download DDU and uninstall the and drivers, DDU has an option to boot to safe mode. Do that. Then open DDU in safe mode, choose amd as cleaning profile and run the program. One of the options in there is clean and reboot or clean and shut down. Do clean and shut down and install your 1070.

Sounds perfect thanks.

Sent from my HTC One M9

 

[nerp]

Some GPU porn.

 

[Puffnstuff]

I wish that I could afford a new gpu right now and replace my aging gtx 780 ti but alas more pressing matter prevail.

 

[Leyawiin]

Well that was a bit of a letdown. I expected my new Gigabyte GTX 1070 Mini ITX to max Fallout 4 @1920x1200 (including Ultra Godrays and HBAO+ enable) and keep 60 FPS everywhere. Nope. A number of wooded areas will drop down to the 40s and 50s. This is with an i7-4790k. Wow. Ran around all over the game world for about an hour and averaged 55 FPS. Of course its much better than my GTX 980, but still...

 

[tviceman]

Fallout 4 seems to be running on an extremely bloated engine, but I too would be disappointed. I've made my mind up; I'm going to roll with GTX 980 class performance until Volta / Navi comes out. Current pricing is horrible IMO, I'd rather just wait until GV104 comes out and matches or beats Pascal Titan X for $649.

 

[Headfoot]

Fallout 4 is ridiculously RAM bound. I can get mine to not drop below 60fps with Shadow Distance at High on a 5820k @ 4.4ghz with DDR4 at 3200 on a 290, and I couldn't get close to that on my previous 2500k @ 4.5 with DDR3-1600 (despite the amount of actual IPC not increasing all that much from Sandy to Haswell). I can't get it to stay at 60 with Ultra shadow distance though. The draw call bloat is astounding

 

[tg2708]

Games where you are CPU bound as you all know tanks performance hard. The only CPU that is a match for these games currently is the 6700k overclocked. People with similar cards but not the same strong CPU have widely different results.

 

[sze5003]

I honestly haven't felt the need to oc my CPU but it is quite a bit better than my 2500k even if I don't feel it.

 

[tg2708]

I honestly haven't felt the need to oc my CPU but it is quite a bit better than my 2500k even if I don't feel it.

Should be but I'll be holding out for Kaby lake or if I see a great deal on the 6700k I'll go for it even though I'm itching to get it now.

 

[sze5003]

Yea I came from a 2500k and couldn't really wait longer until the new series since it had already been a very long time since I rebuilt.

 

[AznAnarchy99]

Damn. Now I'm looking at G-Sync monitors cause I feel like I have to look up too much for my TV.

One upgrade leads to wanting more

 

[DamZe]

Fallout 4 is ridiculously RAM bound. I can get mine to not drop below 60fps with Shadow Distance at High on a 5820k @ 4.4ghz with DDR4 at 3200 on a 290, and I couldn't get close to that on my previous 2500k @ 4.5 with DDR3-1600 (despite the amount of actual IPC not increasing all that much from Sandy to Haswell). I can't get it to stay at 60 with Ultra shadow distance though. The draw call bloat is astounding

I second this! Fallout 4 is one of wackiest PC games ever, it needs the strictest RAM CAS latency and frequency, it is truly disgusting, but it is also a testament to Bethesda's laziness. Those clowns wouldn't optimize/upgrade their ancient engine for anything despite record sales and earnings, but hey Todd Howard thinks that it just works….

 

[Leyawiin]

Fallout 4 is ridiculously RAM bound. I can get mine to not drop below 60fps with Shadow Distance at High on a 5820k @ 4.4ghz with DDR4 at 3200 on a 290, and I couldn't get close to that on my previous 2500k @ 4.5 with DDR3-1600 (despite the amount of actual IPC not increasing all that much from Sandy to Haswell). I can't get it to stay at 60 with Ultra shadow distance though. The draw call bloat is astounding

Mine's 16GB of DDR3 CL9. I have the i7-4790k to run at boost speed (4.4 Ghz) all the time. Just a bit shocked - you'd think it would be able to completely max the game @ 1200p/60Hz. Oh well - sounds like all of you have noticed similar things with FO4. Oh, my other most played game right now is WoW: Legion. I can't even max it with my day old GTX 1070! I can use the new "10" settings, but I can't max AA (SSAA 4X + CMAA). I have to use MSAA 8X to keep 60 FPS is all single player situations (which is still very good). Games really are demanding these days. Of course you can drop a setting here and there, but when I got my old GTX 670 back in 2012 it could max settings on every game I owned and keep 60 FPS at all times. I guess I set that as my standard for a $400 card and am surprised to see that's not the case this time around.

Actually, I got this little guy for $360 at Jet.com. Its actually very quiet for a single 90mm fan. Hasn't topped 71C or 60% fan on auto in a small Lian Li ATX case yet (with its upside-down motherboard position). Impressed about that.

 

[sze5003]

I haven't updated my 1070 drivers since I got the card. The latest drivers have been causing flickering on my monitor. I always have to go to 120hz then back to 144hz each time the PC is rebooted or goes to sleep.

I was hoping they would have fixed this in the .72 drivers.