Hi, nice review, im just missing one thing, the rated TDP of the card from the manufacturer. For example is it the same as the stock/founders edition or is it higher, for this is the most interesting part with these custom cards, as the real limiting factor at ocing is the TDP, not the voltage, temps or that the gpu cant handle it? As a suggestion for all the custom 1080 and 1070 reviews i would suggest to always give the TDP of it and the max TDP % that you can up for OCing. Thanks

So that you know how much OC potential is left in the card? It's not that simple. Empirical approach is the best: Pay attention to what reviewers and users are getting in terms of OC, and a randomly bought card should fall somewhere within that range.

Im personal thinking MSI - 1070 Armor 8G/OC but depend on price, though I think i might wait for 1060 series

I pulled the trigger for the MSI 1070 OC got it from ebuyer for £415 was in stock ordered today getting tomorrow. Waitied for the 1080GTX Strix overclockers.co.uk took the money on 27th of May and had NO intention in sending them out after phoning and phoning i found out they did have some.... but they where reserved for system builds. So they had my money for over 20 days and refused to honour what i paid for so screw overclockers been a loyal customer for many years but this was total crap. Heck the entire 10x launch has been total crap, over priced almost impossible to get hold off. Who the hell thought it was good for launch, even the main launch was technically nothing more than a paper launch which they did before anyway. I would like to say nVidia should be ashamed but they an't cause with the drop in the 980Ti price people may pick them up to help fulfil the 1070's since they are priced close together right now and at the same time clear their inventory.

@ Dazz, do you really think that a company that renames their reference card, Founders Edition is capable of being ashamed?

Anyone got theirs yet? Cause i get coil-whine on mine, i thought with these cards it was eliminated?

Anyone got theirs yet? Cause i get coil-whine on mine, i thought with these cards it was eliminated?

Oh no, mine arrives on Monday. I will update if mine does it aswell. 🙁

Oh no, mine arrives on Monday. I will update if mine does it aswell. 🙁

Well if you are going to be like me and use Adaptive Vsync then you won't notice it but if you are going to disable it then under high FPS then you will notice it. It was i was playing with it trying to overclock and make it sweat, i can hit 2101MHz but downclocks it's self to about 2050MHz, now of the box mine runs at 2050Mhz anyway LOL so yeah left that at default and overclocked memory from 8GHz to 9.4Ghz got about 2000 extra points in Firestrike with just the memory overclock since the GPU is already flat out. According to Afterburner i am hitting a voltage limit, power limit is 126% but never goes over 93%, temps never goes over 65C. Runs very cool too mines 32-34C idle no fans and maxes out at 65C with the fans running at 33% 600rpms so the card is incredibly quiet, in FO4 the thing is running passive most of the time during the game LMFAO incredible really spins up once every 10mins or so for 10 seconds to bring temps down to about 40C before it cuts off.

Hey Dazz, what resolution are you playing at? What causes that coil whine? Maybe the card should have been louder, you wouldn't have heard it then. 😀

I played at 2560x1080P, with vsync off. However since i perfer adaptive vSync i don't notice it it's just in games like Fallout 4 where you are hitting hundreds of fps (lock picking etc. Since i am using adaptive sync it's a no issue really which i am sure most people will be using anyway. Just reviews say theres no coil whine noticed and since they play with vsync off i would have expected them to have said something.

Oh no, mine arrives on Monday. I will update if mine does it aswell. 🙁

I'm up and running, v-sync off, tried a few games like Doom and CSGO, ran Furmark and a load of the other Kombuster demos and I don't have any coil whine on mine so must be luck of the draw. I've done no oc on mine though. I have tested fans at 100% to hear how loud they are, it's not loud at all really.