![]() ![]() When paired with an appropriate processor (I7 of some high spec) I can easily see this thing running 60fps 4k with low/No MSAA and maybe 8x AA. This thing maxes out Forza Horizon 3 with everything but the highest MSAA when playing at 1080p with an FX8320 (OC 4.5 - 5Ghz) and 16GB of ram. It'll render the lines so smooth you won't be able to tell reality from gaming (well maybe not but it does a damn good job). If you can render it, this thing will render it beyond belief. When you plug it in you can have a joyful time playing with the bountiful Asus Aura GPU software and make it dance and sparkle in as many colours as you can imagine*. NOW, one thing to note is that a lot of areas on the card have thing plastic sticky clear things on them to protect them from finger prints so BE THOROUGH as they hide them on the backplate, the centre of the fans and all sorts of places like that - so just look for them at different angles in the light and try not to peel off any actual stickers if they're there. Well, considering the fact that the card cost over £400 when purchased and Asus considered it worthy of complimentary Premium-feeling Cable Tidies and Dust caps: It looks gorgeous! The design is as perfect as I could have imagined. One even told you it came off the DVI port and 3 covers told you they were made by Asus. All of the Display ports had caps on or in and the SLI and PCIe connectors had caps on too. Asus had covered every slot on the card that I could think of with a bit of plastic to protect it. Once I removed the card from the bag I was met by an unexpected and pleasant surprise. The card actually sits inside a foam block with a cut out so that it is snug and secure (more points for safety). There's (one assumes) an anti-static bag making it slightly difficult to see your new graphics card (points for detail and safety though). You lift up a thin foam separation panel and drop it in amazement. You remove the foam padding from beside the previous box (although not beside the previous box because you remove that too - they're in the way). Inside that beautifully presented box are some ROG Velcro Cable ties, a disc with (presumably) graphics drivers on it (I jumped straight to Nvidia and Asus to get the latest ones), any promotional Gaff (I had a world of warships leaflet thing) and lastly a speed set up guide. The next layer has another box with 'Asus: In search of incredible' Stamped on it: next to it some protective foam. Open it up further and suddenly I see (suddenly I see) ORRR Maybe not. Open it up and there's another box with STRIX in capitals and some fancy bloodstain blurred background thing that's meant to suggest SPEEEED. The first thing that greets you in a gorgeous ROG Strix themed box with bright green boxes on either end stating that your product is indeed a GTX 1070 etc or whatever. When someone pays over £400 for a single item in a PC build they want it to look good from the shiny backplate to the cardboard box. ![]() I can safely say: I am very happy with it! My first impression was simply: Tehehehe It's like Christmas!! but shortly after the unwrapping I found out why people like Asus. I found myself considering the debate between a GTX 1060 and an RX 480 for a long time before biting the bullet and spending some extra money on a beast. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Continue without accepting’ or ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices or learn more. Third parties use cookies for the purposes of displaying and measuring personalised advertisements, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we will also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences, and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice. ![]()
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