Which GTX 1070 is better for these prices in my country?

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Luis Felipe Rodrigues

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Hello guys, I'm gonna buy a gtx 1070 soon, but I have no idea which to pick. I don't care about which performs the best because at the end of the day it's not gonna be a huge difference, and I also don't care about looks because my case is closed, the only things I care about are price, noise, cooling, power consumption and durability/longevity, with cooling and power consumption being the most important ones (I live in Brazil so cooling is important because it's really hot in here, and the taxes are absurd so power consumption is very important). I've heard good things about the Asus Strix and the MSI Gaming X, but sadly none of them is available in my country at the moment. I'll post some of the models I found available here and the prices converted to dollars so you can have an idea:

Asus Dual ------------- $ 574
Gibabyte Windforce -- $ 574
Gigabyte G1 Gaming - $ 606
EVGA SC Gaming ----- $ 606
MSI Armor ------------ $ 618
Galax Entusiasta OC - $ 638


Price wise the Asus Dual and Gigabyte Windforce are the clear winners, but I don't mind paying a bit more for a card that runs colder, makes less noise, etc, $ 30 more is not a big deal when you're already investing almost $600, it's worth it in the long run. Asus and MSI are both brands I like and trust, but I've never heard anything about the Asus Dual and MSI Armor cards, I've only seen people talking about the Strix and Gaming X, and I've heard many good things about the EVGA brand in the past but also heard that they fucked up recently (I don't know the details). I know nothing about Gigabyte or Galax.

If you guys could point me in the right direction as to which card is better and why, it would really help me out.
 
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I'm not a fan of the Asus Dual GPU. I'd get the EVGA model. Second choice I'd go for G1. Skip the Asus Dual and MSI Armor. And Galax is priced too high.
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Isokolon

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from my experience and what Ive read about the cards:

Asus Dual, EVGA SC, Gigabyte WF & MSI Armor come with a stock pcb, so if you do custom OC, there are better cards out there (not that you'd gain much from OC yourself, boost 3.0 is quite good)
the Gigabyte G1 is a good card, but as all Gigabyte models there seem to be a bit more coil whine reports
EVGA's forté is customer support. the cards aren't really any better than others

at those jacked prices, I'd go with the Asus Dual.
haven't really heard bad things about it so far, usually Boosts above 2000MHz out of the box and looks solidly built.
 
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All companies have their intro...mid...and high end GPUs. Asus's Dual is intro level. Same with MSI Armor. Yah know, right?
 
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Yes, the store page says "EVGA GEFORCE GTX 1070 SC GAMING 8GB ACX 3.0 BLACK EDITION 08G-P4-5173-KR", and the box has "Superclocked" on it in huge letters.

There is a different model in the store named "EVGA GEFORCE GTX 1070 GAMING 08G-P4-5171-KR ACX 3.0 BLACK EDITION", so it seems it's not an "SC" card, whatever that means, and it has "5171" at the end instead of "5173", I don't know if it's a better or worse card, but it's more expensive, the box picture looks the same as the first one but without the "Superclocked".
 
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yeah, well EVGA's Intro is the SC, isn't it?
also: not all intros are the same.
 
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The only difference is that the 5173 has a Boost Clock of 1784MHz vs the 5171 which is 1683MHz. I'd probably get whichever is cheaper since I'll overclock them a bit...and the 5171 can definitely hit 1784MHz. Buy whichever is cheaper unless you have 0 interests in playing with clock rates.
 
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The difference is probably 1-3 fps. And at most it matters if you're lucky and get a good GPU. You can buy 2 GPUs of the same manufacturer and from the same store and see a small performance difference or OC difference. So the 2 cheap ones are okay.
If you don't mind, the G1 has a better cooler. The older G1 had coil whine but wasn't that bad, plus you could use Vsync and remove it.

 
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