New GPU advice wanted

[ermacos]

I am in the process to upgrade my old gpu (GTX 780) with a new one and I have decided after a long research for an RTX 4070 12g . I also do photography and I use some adobe's and of course I play video games. Starfield and power consumption is a couple of the reasons I am upgrading, and I also believe its a good thing for my rig as well, no more bottleneck (I have an AMD 5600X with 32gigs of rams at 3600 by crucial).

 

I always invest into built quality stuff, so even if I have access into MSI, Gigabyte, GAINWARD, PALIT, ZOTAC and ASUS brands. I decided to buy a gainward or palit version of the 4070. The reason is the after-sale service and customer support in a combination with built quality. I read allot about MSI shady things, cheap gigabyte and zotac and lately not many good things for ASUS as well.

 

What is your opinion and, I have no prev experience with palit or gainward (I know it is the same company), in which vesion of RTX4070 should I invest my money. They have many models, phantom, jetstream, ghost, etc etc

 

[363rdChemicalCompany]

Dont have the expertise your answer really needs.

But I do have a 4070 , its the ASUS Dual Force version, and am satsified with it for what that's worth.

I am using it for gaming only though.

[Rudolph2109]

I would recommend you to stay away from Palit, to be honest.
I say this, not out of first hand personal experience, but due to the experience of two quite close friends of mine.
The first one bought a Palit RTX 3080TI (this was back when 30-series was still the latest and greatest of Nvidia's models), after approximately two months, he was so annoyed with his card because it had gone from being no noisier than any other normal graphics card, to suddenly sound like it Jet that was taking off every 20-40seconds!
Let me just clarify why that is, before anyone starts to mention Vbios updates, Fan Curves or bad overclocks. It was none of those.

What caused this card to become seemingly unable to cool itself properly, was due to the quality (or extreme lack thereof, in fact) of the cooling pads that sits between the VRam chips and the cooler surface. These cooling pads no longer sat there in place, but had literally melted and squeezed out and away from the Vram chips, I kid you not!

This would be sensible to think that this is just a single manufacturing defect that only happened with this one card... That is, until my other friend, about a year later, also decided to buy a Palit card, he chose a RTX 3090...
At this point in my story, I think it's kind of point to tell what ALSO happened to his. Although he was more lucky than the first one, since he had his card for about 6 or 7 months before the same thing happened.

- Personally I would strongly recommend you to go with 'Aorus', and yes I know.. Aorus=Gigabyte.. but just about as much as Lexus=Toyota.
I have an Aorus RTX 4070TI MASTER which I am extremely satisfied with!
I bought mine just about a week after it was released back in January, and so far my GPU has yet to reach anything above 65 Celsius, which I should say only happens when I sometimes throw away all my worries and bumps my Core Clock up by +220MHz, and as for the Vram clock, I don't know how high they are actually willing to go if I'm being totally honest, although it's not really my fault, because Afterburner's slider for that one can only go up to +2000MHz. :wink:

You asked for people's opinion's, and if you've made it this far without skipping anything in this message, then you now know mine at the least!
It's up to you if you'll take it or leave it, either way I sincerely hope that whatever graphics card you end up buying, that you'll be just as thrilled with it, as I am with my own, even if you still want to go with Palit :wink:

Best Regards!
Rudolph2109

Edited October 26, 2023 by Rudolph2109

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