Need some EVGA 1070 Clarification

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Abe_FX35

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Hello all,

I am a little confused right now and hope someone can help me, im back into the gaming scene after a long break so i decided to treat myself and get a EVGA GTX 1070 FTW DT. Im not sure where to start to check and test the card, and get the most out of it and its settings with NO overclocking. Any pointers, suggestions, software and any cool desktop temp gauges etc that i could have up on my desktop would be nice to monitor it.

My main concern is, the LED RGB lights on the side of card from the pictures i seen online read as follows :

"EVGA GEFORCE GTX 1070 FTW"

Mine only reads :

"EVGA GEFORCE GTX 1070"

It is either missing the FTW leds or that part is not lit up or not there, i cant figure out which is it ? do i have a FTW card or not ? lol My invoice says FTW

Can my system handle the card or bottleneck ? (i will be upgrading in the near future)

My build currently:

Asus P8Z68-V/gen3
i7 2600K 2nd gen
16 GB G.Skill DDR3
SSD 128gb
EVGA 750 PSU
Win 10 anniversary edition

Thank you all very much for feedback and help.
 
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Doesn't matter, GPU boost will take it into the 1900s easily, apply a good OC and it'll perform the same as a FTW gaming. It just means that it didn't quite get to their extremely high standards, it's not a bad egg by any stretch of the imagination.
Nothing to worry about at all, and no I wouldn't swap it for anything.
Cannonlake is the next Intel CPU architecture after the upcoming Kaby Lake platform. Due 2018 or maybe early 2019.
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I don't believe that they label the FTW DT cards with the FTW logo as to not have people reselling them ass a higher tiered product.
The FTW DT cards are FTW cards that didn't meet the clocking standard of the FTW Gaming range, and as such must be labelled differently.
Nothing to worry about.
Also your system won't bottleneck, but i'd get an aftermarket cooler like the Cryorig H5 Universal and stick a nice OC on it, I'd think about maybe upgrading when Cannonlake releases, you're set for a long time. :)
 
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Thank you for your reply, well i kinda feel weird about it. I know it seems dumb to want the FTW logo on there but that is the description of the product i was looking at on Amazon and on my invoice, it really is misleading. I read it was just not factory overclocked and ran cooler so i got the DT version because my system stays on 24/7 and i dont want to worry about overheating.

I probably should of got the regular FTW, i spent lots of money on my card, not to find out it does "not meet the requirements" of a FTW card. Will i lose anything other than the eye candy of FTW with this card ?

I will probably get over this in a couple of days lol, would you recommend exchanging it for the factory overclocked version ? (regular FTW RGB)

Canonlake huh ? i gotta check that out
 
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Chugalug_

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Doesn't matter, GPU boost will take it into the 1900s easily, apply a good OC and it'll perform the same as a FTW gaming. It just means that it didn't quite get to their extremely high standards, it's not a bad egg by any stretch of the imagination.
Nothing to worry about at all, and no I wouldn't swap it for anything.
Cannonlake is the next Intel CPU architecture after the upcoming Kaby Lake platform. Due 2018 or maybe early 2019.
 
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