J. Washum
Makes me happy!
LOVE IT!So I had the highest end card from another manufacturer from a couple of generations ago and picked up the 5070 version of this card for one of my sons. At the time I was not considering upgrading because for pure raster performance this card was not much faster than mine. Once his came in though I notice a significant drop in his case temp. When playing games my case, plus we are all in the same room, would get hot. It didn't overheat but was pumping so much heat into the room it was almost unbearable in these summer months.After some research, and I had to dig a lot to find good reviews on this card, the temps and OC potential looked great so I took a chance, put my card up for sale and ordered this one. While small it definitely has a decent raster uplift over my 6950 XT but ray tracing, especially if you enable DLSS (2x FG) truly gives me the ability to play anything with at least 100 FPS. Since purchasing I've picked up all the latest titles that require RT and been having a blast. It's amazing how realistic games are today.Probably the most important thing though is that the temps inside my case are insanely lower, thus the air being pumped out is drastically different. You can actually put your hand in the case and the air is barley even warm. Part of this is the chip but part of it is the cooler as well.While I have had some PNY cards before for some of the boys (we have 5 gaming PCs) I have usually purchased the top of the line cards from other manufactures for myself. Yes I've owned PNY drives, memory etc... but didn't really think about their cards. This one's list price is more expensive than some of the brands I usually go to and to me the cost was worth it... and I'm almost shocked I'm saying that but it's true. Performance is great, it's super quite and most importantly cool.My other recent cards have all needed brackets or a stand due to weight but I'm not sure this even needs one as it's pretty light. As I had an extra little stand I'm using it but I doubt this would give you much sag even without one.Driver stability and compatibility are great so far. No issues running this card on an old ROG X470-F board with a 5800x3d. Yea I need to upgrade my processor but dang that board is 7 years old and still going strong! I am using the latest BIOS and of course the card will only run at PCIe 4 rather than 5 but performance is excellent and again no issues with my setup, compatibility or stability.If you are looking for a 5070 Ti with a great cooler that will have some extra OC ability right out of the box, definitely consider this one.Ver másVer menos
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