So in case some of you aren't in the loop, I will further clarify. According to my research done on multiple websites, there seems to be a 2.1 ghz wall for pascal cards, and while some surpass 2.1ghz, it seems only the FE have the highest success in that regard. Reports say this wall is due to the efficient power consumption, smaller chip, and less cuda cores. It seems because of this wall, it wouldn't make a difference to get an evga acx 3.0 1070 vs. a zotac 1070 amp extreme vs. a 1070 classified, as all of them seem to hit the same wall. The only difference is you have to manually overclock it to that wall instead of the factory clock being the wall. For example, in JayzTwoCents, he reviewed the 1080 AMP Extreme which was a 2050mhz stock clock and could only get +25 mhz after that, while a lower-end 1080 achieved a +400-500 mhz, getting you into the 2,000's like the amp extreme. Over-voltage isn't helping either as it's only succeeding in further increasing temps. People are also not getting very far flashing a custom bios either.
Now comes my question. Does it make sense to just simply get the acx 3.0 1070 and manually overclock it to the wall? Because the only thing separating an acx 3.0 1070 and an amp extreme is fancy rgb lighting, backplate, etc., thanks to this pascal wall. But performance-wise, there seems to be no difference. While temps. may also be a difference between these cards, it doesn't matter as the wall prevents thermal throttling from being a big deal(except for FE). Also, because of this wall and how little over-volting helps, does it also make sense to save your money and not water-cool the gpu? Basically, I am asking if it makes sense to save your money on expensive 3rd party cards/water-cooling. I do apologize for writing a novel on two questions, but I want to make sure there is enough context to come to a solid answer. Thanks.
Now comes my question. Does it make sense to just simply get the acx 3.0 1070 and manually overclock it to the wall? Because the only thing separating an acx 3.0 1070 and an amp extreme is fancy rgb lighting, backplate, etc., thanks to this pascal wall. But performance-wise, there seems to be no difference. While temps. may also be a difference between these cards, it doesn't matter as the wall prevents thermal throttling from being a big deal(except for FE). Also, because of this wall and how little over-volting helps, does it also make sense to save your money and not water-cool the gpu? Basically, I am asking if it makes sense to save your money on expensive 3rd party cards/water-cooling. I do apologize for writing a novel on two questions, but I want to make sure there is enough context to come to a solid answer. Thanks.
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