Price drop on this card today, currently the cheapest 1070 available, and it's in stock as well.
CamelCamelCamel.
Probably won't happen until 1180 is released.
Bit the bullet. Total overkill for 1080P gaming but I guess it future proofs it for a few years. Plus only a tad more than local 1060s.
Are Amazon OK with warranty?
They are pretty good with warranty normally.
I have found them very good. Had a couple of warranty claims on a Powercolour 290, and they ended up replacing the card (and eventually refunding me my money).
The only issue is shipping back to Amazon - hey did refund me some of the costs but it didn't cover all of it.
That's reassuring. Now I'm thinking however that the 1070 might be overkill for 1080P gaming. :/
@cnut: You'd be surprised. I loaded up rise of the tomb raider the other day expecting that i could just max out everything on a 1070 at 1080p. To my surprise, it was running with 6gb+ of vram and averaging at around 55 fps (with ssaa 4x). I had to turned off ssaa 4x and switch to smaa for 85ish fps. I reckon tomb raider is rather an exceptional case though, most of the time it is an overkill unless you are running a 120hz+ monitor
Is it worth upgrading from a 970 G1 Gaming -> 1070? Currently using a 60hz 1440p display.
Can you play anything you want at maximum settings currently? That's what a 1070 will do at 1440p.
If not are you happy with the compromise on settings you need to have a stable 60 FPS?
It's borderline IMO, you aren't buying that much more gaming quality ATM. But you are buying some additional quality.
Hold out for 1170 imo.
Yours should be fine for another year or so. Most games are ported up from console anyway.
Thanks for the advice, I guess I'll just stick with the 970 for now. I've got a really old setup (socket 775 cpu, ddr2 ram), with the 970. Older components are bottlenecking performance, so I'll just go ahead and upgrade those.
How long will that take? Still at the $650 - $700 mark. :(