MSI GTX 1070 Custom Cards Line Up

NVIDIA released their GeForce GTX 1070 yesterday and was met with high review scores and low stock count as it sold out in many places within minutes of launch. Just for the many of you who are waiting for the custom AIB cards to striking the market we wanted to bring you the fill line-up of MSI'south new GTX 1070 offerings and permit you determine if the founders edition is right for you, or is holding out a little longer going to be more your speed.

Gaming X:

MSI'due south new TWIN FROZR VI features the new TORX Fan ii.0 Double Brawl Bearing fans they merits to generate 22% more air pressure than their previous blueprint while still reducing noise levels. Under the fans is the massive heatsink with 8mm copper heatpipes continued to the GPU dice with what MSI are claiming to be a "premium thermal compound X" to help keep things cooler than normal. The power deliver has been beefed up with the addition of a 6pin PCI-due east connector bringing a vi+8pin pattern.

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Core/Memory

Boost Clock / Base Clock
1797 MHz / 1607 MHz (OC Mode)
1771 MHz / 1582 MHz (Gaming Mode)
1683 MHz / 1506 MHz (Silent Style)
8192 MB GDDR5 / 8108 MHz Retentiveness (OC Manner)

SEA HAWK X

The MSI GeForce GTX 1070 SEA Militarist X is what happens when MSI and CORSAIR have tiffin together. It combines MSI's AERO OC card with a CORSAIR Hydro Series liquid cooler to provide one of the coolest running GTX 1070s on the market. I have to say I was a bit surprised to encounter they were bringing the Body of water Hawk branding to a non flagship carte.

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Cadre/Retentivity

Boost Clock / Base Clock
1797 MHz / 1607 MHz (OC Mode)
1771 MHz / 1582 MHz (Gaming Fashion)
8192 MB GDDR5 / 8108 MHz Retentiveness

ARMOR

The ARMOR series of MSI graphics cards continues its manner of Blackness and White like they have in the past. Matching upwardly well with their Krait serial of motherboards the ARMOR is aimed for the no frills gamer as it retains the fans from the TWIN FROZR VI with its new TORX fan blueprint as well every bit the 0db idle fan contour. Unlike the TWIN FROZR Vi variant the ARMOR retains the founders inspired single 8pin PCI-east power adapter.

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Core/Memory

Heave Clock / Base Clock
1683 MHz / 1506 MHz
8192 MB GDDR5 / 8008 MHz Memory

AERO

There's not a whole lot to really go along nearly with the AERO model from MSI as it'southward basically the Founders Edition just with a lower toll shroud. This menu is representative of that lower than Iron cost GPU while retaining the ability to exist put under a waterblock. And so those for either a less expensive version of the Fe or something to put an aftermarket waterblock on, this might be the model for you.

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Core/Retention

Boost Clock / Base Clock
1683 MHz / 1506 MHz
8192 MB GDDR5 / 8008 MHz Memory

VR Fix and Gaming App

MSI is besides readying their new VR Heave Kit which will exist an boosted accompaniment for your unused v.25" drive bay. This accessory allows for easy connectivity of VR Headsets past having an HDMI and two boosted USB 3.0 ports easily accessible on the front of your case.

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The new MSI Gaming App is what you'll desire to employ to speedily switch between fan profiles and overclock profiles on your MSI Graphics Carte likewise every bit controlling the LEDs on the new GTX 1070/1080 line-up.

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