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so we're kind of in an interesting situation right now we're aftermarket cards are being priced lower than the reference founders edition of invidious top end models one of the first of these to hit the market is the EVGA 1070 superclocked which sports a factory overclock and a somewhat flashy er looking cooler the last time we had a look at one of EVGA superclocked cards we recommended it as the best value for money among the rest of their lineup but as different as the geforce 10 series is from its predecessor is this still the case let's dive right in the ZBOX Magnus en 980 from ZOTAC is a freaking liquid-cooled mini-pc holy crap check it out in the lake at the video description down below so our new super clock 1070 is quite a departure from the last generation of EVGA cards it's ditched the stealthy mostly black look in favour for a more metallic industrial look on the front face of the new a CX 3.0 cooler you also get a brushed back plate with the EVGA logo and a backlit panel on the top also featuring the logo something I personally find a little too in-your-face and tacky but Linus and John both actually liked it so I guess beauty is in the eye of the beholder as always and speaking of backlighting there are plenty of white lights on the front of the card so it might be a good choice if you're rocking a rig with a black silver or white theme there's no RGB but plain white does work quite well with the industrial aesthetic of the card and white just kind of generally goes with most themes anyways so it's probably fine on the side you get the standard complement of ports including dual link DVI 3 DisplayPort 1.4 connectors and an HDMI 2.0 port for 4k at 60 Hertz with a supported monitor under the hood the GTX 970 GPU has a boost clock of seventeen hundred and eighty-four megahertz one hundred higher than the reference founders Edition but the super clocked still has the same four plus one power phase design and eight gigabytes of gddr5 vram so how much of a difference does the 100 megahertz bump make well unfortunately not that much of one we tested it both very high 1440p and then medium 4k settings and across the board the super clock 1070 and the founders Edition or within one fps of each other with a reference card actually winning by one fps in a couple of tests probably due to like I don't know alignments of the planets or something the super clock to only pull the way a bit in Crysis 3 at 4k where it managed three more frames per second but of course a non-reference cooler can often mean better overclocking potential even with the same power phase design so we cranked up both our EVGA superclocked and our founders Edition 10 70s to see if the super clock 2 would flex its muscles a little bit more we were able to achieve a 125 megahertz overclock on the superclocked over the factory overclock and a 200 megahertz overclock on the founders Edition using both msi afterburner and EVGA s precision x and OC scanner keep in mind that because the super clock had a 100 megahertz factory overclock it was only running 25 megahertz faster than the founders Edition after we finished dialing in all of our settings here we saw a bigger jump of 2 to 3 FPS for the EVGA card across the board but again it didn't really put any distance between itself and an overclocked founders Edition but that isn't to say that the superclocked isn't better in any way as the new a CX 3.0 cooler kept the GPU at only 72 degrees Celsius at load when overclocked a full 10 degrees lower than the founders Edition with the ball bearing fans staying quiet as well thermal performance is easily this card's strongest selling point and speaking of selling points the super Clarke 1070 retails for 440 dollars that's only 10 bucks less than the founders edition with other aftermarket design selling for up to 60 dollars less than that you're paying a fair bit for the nicer cooler yes those $60 less cards have fairly cheap plastic coolers and stuff but still as raw performance and overclocking potential are virtually identical to nvidia x' reference card that's a little rough yes those plastic cooled cards won't perform quite as well but still it's a bit disappointing as the last superclocked card we reviewed the EVGA gtx 980 SC was clearly better out of the box verses the reference card you can check out our testing for that up here but that makes it so that I can't really give the super clock 1070 an enthusiastic recommendation but the interesting thing here is that it looks like thermal performance may be worth the extra cost over the like lower end aftermarket currents that we mentioned earlier if you really want that raw overclocking performance over reference though the for the win and classified editions with their more aggressive power delivery systems should be a lot more interesting ting is a mobile carrier that is focused on customer service and customer satisfaction first don't speak with a robot just get put through directly 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they have this one and other 1070 s on there and other than that I'll see you next time good