GTX 1070s with inferior Micron VRAM

[wilds]

The cool thing about my GTX 1070, is that it's already self clocking about 200Mhz over advertised. Nvidia's new Boost 3.0 will OC beyond the stock clocks already, without your need to do anything yourself.

If only it did the same with memory clocks!

@ MrBeeline 8.8 GHz isn't terrible. That is what my card tops out at with stock voltage... Interesting.

 

[Dufus]

depend 0.9v - 0.94v on what it gona be used and freq

I'm not sure a fixed voltage would work but if you want to try let me know. Probably need to keep that mem clock high by being in P0 or P2. Perhaps selecting max performance preferred in the nVidia control panel for some standard windows app that always runs with Windows.

 

[sze5003]

I got my 1070 in june or July. I just updated the BIOS on it yesterday. Seems to run without issues but now I just read about the overheating issues because they didn't use thermal pads.

Mine always seemed to stay in the 60 degrees area when benched. Hopefully I won't run into any problems.

 

[ConsoleLover]

I got my 1070 in june or July. I just updated the BIOS on it yesterday. Seems to run without issues but now I just read about the overheating issues because they didn't use thermal pads.

Mine always seemed to stay in the 60 degrees area when benched. Hopefully I won't run into any problems.

I wonder if you and other early adopters are planning on suing for basically faulty cards at purchase. This is unacceptable, to have $400+ dollars GPU's be so faulty at purchase, someone has to take responsibility and pay for these omissions.

 

[sze5003]

I wonder if you and other early adopters are planning on suing for basically faulty cards at purchase. This is unacceptable, to have $400+ dollars GPU's be so faulty at purchase, someone has to take responsibility and pay for these omissions.

Not sure but that's one of the reasons I got EVGA because their service and warranty was rated very good. I'll have to peek inside my case tonite and see if anything looks weird on the PCB. Mine seems to clock ok on memory. I stopped testing it at +330 because I was bored of watching heaven. I know for sure it can go higher than that.

 

[MustISO]

Bought a card over the weekend locally knowing it would be easier to return if I needed to. ASUS Dual OC 1070 which has Micron RAM but so far the card has been working very well. Massive improvement over my old card (AMD 6970). I was disappointed in the Micron RAM after all I had read but as long as the card performs well (I'm not going to OC) then I'm fine with it.

 

[amenx]

Yep, also got a micron 1070, a Zotac AMP! edition. Been running very well with everything I threw at it. I dont normally OC may GPUs, so I'm fine if it doesnt go over 8000mhz.

 

[bystander36]

I got my 1070 in june or July. I just updated the BIOS on it yesterday. Seems to run without issues but now I just read about the overheating issues because they didn't use thermal pads.

Mine always seemed to stay in the 60 degrees area when benched. Hopefully I won't run into any problems.

The thermal pad omission will cause the VRM's or VRAM to overheat, which may not be something you can monitor with software.

 

[sze5003]

The thermal pad omission will cause the VRM's or VRAM to overheat, which may not be something you can monitor with software.

Hopefully if I do have issues I can rma it within the year that support is available.

 

[reb0rn]

Palit/Gainward released new bios today, seams issue is solved, doing +900 on mining with no locket voltage
86.04.50.00.5A

 

[amenx]

Have a micron Zotac AMP that does +700mhz without issue. Although Zotac say they will release bios update, not even going to bother with it tbh.

 

[Kenmitch]

Interested how this will pan out in the end. Not really worried about it as my Zotac AMP Edition has Samsung memory anyways. Not even sure were my memory caps out at. My core is somewhat crappy and can only hang around 2037-2050 or so depending on what I'm playing/running. Seems like memory OC clock stops scaling once the core craps out. I never did extensive testing too see what the memory tops out at as during testing setting it higher didn't have any benefit as far as fps goes at least. Highest tested for giggles so far was 9600 MHz which sounds impressive....Unless you factor in the no benefit aspect.

 

[sze5003]

Hmm it says here we can either request the thermal mod pads or send the card in for a replacement.

I'm thinking of contacting them and asking them for a new one after I move.

http://wccftech.com/nvidia-gtx-1080-1070-evga-cards-dying/