Hardware & Technical I have no idea if it's too early to ask. Please don't shoot me! About the 1070. :)

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I've been hearing a lot of good things about the new 1000-series cards by NVIDIA.

The thing that screamed at me was the projected retail price of the 1070. Damn it looks like the bargain of the millennium!

Ideally, I would love one. There's no denying the upgrade over my 960 it would represent.

But I'm not stupid. I need to work out if there are other components I need to upgrade, if I were to get a 1070.

Right now I have this:

GTX 960 GAMING 4GB (Obviously & technically irrelevant here)
Intel i5-4690 LGA1150 @ 3.5 GHZ
16GB DDR3 RAM
MSI Z97 GAMING 5 MoBo
700W PSU

What I'm asking is, is that if I want to upgrade to a 1070, would any of these parts need replacing, due to bottleneck possibilities or power usage?

I'm likely to get a new PSU soon anyway, as I want a modular version, but of course if I'm likely to need more power than I want to know that before I buy.

Would the MoBo support the card? Or do the 1000-series demand new MoBo's? I simply don't know, hence my asking.

Would the CPU be a potential bottleneck? I don't know if this is important, but I don't overclock at all, if that helps?

And is 16GB RAM still good to have alongside the GPU?

Cheers for any advice guys. Much appreciated. :)
 

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V8UC ALICORN said:
Would the MoBo support the card?
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Yes the new cards just require the usual PCIe 3.0 slot so this board will be fine.

And is 16GB RAM still good to have alongside the GPU?
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Yes.

Too early to say on the PSU side really - 700W will almost certainly be fine but if it were me I'd go for something in the 750-850W range to allow some room for future expansion. EDIT: the reference cards will have a TDP of 150W but one of the MSI custom cards will require 8+6 PIN so will be pulling more power but those figures I gave will still be fine.

I haven't answered re the CPU bottleneck as I don't have experience of that CPU, although I doubt you'd have any issue.
 
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Yes the new cards just require the usual PCIe 3.0 slot so this board will be fine.



Yes.

Too early to say on the PSU side really - 700W will almost certainly be fine but if it were me I'd go for something in the 750-850W range to allow some room for future expansion.

I haven't answered re the CPU bottleneck as I don't have experience of that CPU, although I doubt you'd have any issue.
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All my friends agree on all your points. I'm confident about my CPU, but it is a concern so I'm naturally putting some research into it. But so far looks like I'll be good for a single 1070, which is all I want.

I'll take you up on the PSU, and buy a 800W+ when I get my modular. Better to have more power than required, of course! :)

Really looks like I'm well set for the 1000-series, so I might be looking at a big upgrade at the year's end. :D

I'll certainly need a new case though... Current is a little small. :p

Thanks for your time man. :)
 

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Patrick_68000 said:
If I buy a 1070 or 1080, I have already a power supply of 580 watts on my computer. I will not change, course. But for a new power supply, 650-700 watts seems reasonable for the future. All depends, of course, of what you use
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Well that's alright then.

I discovered hybrid PSU's yesterdays, and I see they do what I wanted from a modular, so I'm going to get one of them. Much cheaper than full-modular too.
 

Patrick_68000

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V8UC ALICORN said:
Well that's alright then.

I discovered hybrid PSU's yesterdays, and I see they do what I wanted from a modular, so I'm going to get one of them. Much cheaper than full-modular too.
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The important part is to buy a good mark. BeQuiet is a solid German mark. But there are also others marks, of course
 
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winterknight said:
I was hoping for the 1070 it would be less waiting, as I understood it, one of the reasons for the 1080 delays was the scarcity of GDDR5X RAM. Which the 1070 doesn't use, yet.
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Apparently Nvidia always starts with the high end at all stages of the process (creation, advertising, production)
 

Jon flint

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Brought mine yesterday :D

Went for the EVGA Founders edition (small case so blower cooler is better for me). Went with EVGA for the good warranty. £340 before tax, so about the same price as a 980 at launch.

So many people have complained about the pricing for the 1070, I think they were expecting it to be closer to the £270 of the 970.

But I see it like this, a couple of days ago that level of performance would have cost £500+ (980ti/FuryX/TitanX) now it costs less than £400, bargain!
 
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