Yeah, I find that interesting too. I agree, it does not have to do with the hardware. It could well be the driver. When I installed the new card I first deinstalled all the drivers/software of the old card. I then plugged in the new card and let windows install the drivers. I did not install any software from the Asus 1070. My Windows 7 is as lean as it gets. I have just 15 processes running.