ASUS NVIDIA GTX 1070, is it compatible?

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In terms of physical compatibility, yes, that Asus GTX 1070 will fit in your motherboard (not sure about your case though, but most likely it will, as the Asus has only dual fan length). You can plug the GTX 1070 via the motherboards PCIe2.0 x16 slot, though it will run in PCIe2.0 speeds instead of 3.0, but it will not be noticeable in real-world performance.

In terms of bottlenecking, there is a *high chance* (depending on which games you play), for that weaker CPU to hinder the best and maximum possible performance you can get with that very powerful GTX 1070.

Power supply is more than enough to fit your requirements.

Decrease the *chances* of bottlenecking by 1) overclocking your CPU; or 2) getting a slightly lower GPU such as...
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In terms of physical compatibility, yes, that Asus GTX 1070 will fit in your motherboard (not sure about your case though, but most likely it will, as the Asus has only dual fan length). You can plug the GTX 1070 via the motherboards PCIe2.0 x16 slot, though it will run in PCIe2.0 speeds instead of 3.0, but it will not be noticeable in real-world performance.

In terms of bottlenecking, there is a *high chance* (depending on which games you play), for that weaker CPU to hinder the best and maximum possible performance you can get with that very powerful GTX 1070.

Power supply is more than enough to fit your requirements.

Decrease the *chances* of bottlenecking by 1) overclocking your CPU; or 2) getting a slightly lower GPU such as the GTX 1060 or RX 480. Though there will still be that probability, again, depending on the games you play.

If you are gaming at 1080p/60Hz resolution/refresh rate, then, that GTX 1070 is overkill (better price/performance will be the GTX 1060 or RX 480). If your gaming at 1080p/144Hz or 1440p/60Hz, then the GTX 1070 suits you well.

Just my thoughts.
 
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If I were in your position, I would await real-world benchmarks of the Ryzen. I don't see any benefits upgrading your CPU (FX) as it has reached a dead-end. Ryzen offers much more powerful CPUs and DDR4. Of course, the drawback is you'll have to spend more for a new CPU/MB/DDR4 RAM. But that GTX 1070 (or GTX 1060/RX480) would work perfectly without any bottlenecking concerns. If the Ryzen turns out to be underperforming compared to its hype, then you can always go to an Intel CPU (i7 or i5)/MB (Kaby Lake/Skylake)/DDR4 RAM
 
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There are about 50 of those Ryzen reviews out there including on the front page of Tom's. 😉
 
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It's a great workstation CPU and even brings AMD back into something that's worth recommending. For high end gaming the 6700k/7700K are still the chips to beat though. FX was just terrible. Ryzen changes that.

In 2 or 3 months they will do better in comparisons as Windows kernel and BIOS updates will help. AMD can't afford the engineering team to have everything completely optimized at release like Intel does.
 
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'' FX was just terrible''

ya, your right and why I'm gun shy , 3 AM3+ builds and never happy or satisfied and why after building AMD for 15 years I jumped there ship and built my first intel ever [z87 haswell ] and by no means cant say it was a wrong move in any way , heck even my AMD fan boy buddy slipped up and said his 939 build worked better
 
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as long as you don't think you will run in to the issue I linked above on the same board and a 10 series ?? maybe he did something wrong or got a bad card or its just a poor motherboard bios support ?

reference type blower cards are ok and better suited for sli use but most time come with reference clocking ?

like that card you linked above and the 2ed I noticed amazon UK is not giving that information ???


https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814126119

between the 2 for the better clock rates and if single card use the aftermarket cooler over the blower type [opinion] and 657 for the msi is not cheaper than 631 for the asus ?

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814126119
 
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That is a reference GTX 1070 card made by MSI. I would personally stick with an aftermarket design for better cooling, lesser noise, and higher core clock speeds. But it can work if you don't mind the slower speed and noise, you just need to cool this better due to the lack of a better thermal/cooling solution such as the Twin Frozr fans of the Gaming X/Gaming aftermarket versions.
 
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https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127948

no complaints about the noise from them few reviews ??

'' silent, the fan is so silent you can't even hear it without headphones over your case fan. I even adjusted the fan curve to increase the fan speed and its still silent.''

''Very quiet''

oh, and its not a reference clocked card by the way

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/products/10series/geforce-gtx-1070/
 
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Here's a fan noise test so you'll get an idea of how it will sound (not a scientific test though): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxVh4UckNNI

Here's also a direct comparison review of the Gaming X versus the Aero:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jovresEVtU
Both are really good cards. The Aero is a bit noiser, but still very quite and has a blower style fan. The Gaming X has slightly better performance and a little less noisy, but a bit more expensive.
 
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