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so before we get on with this review I will say one thing Galax decided this time around for whatever reason with their 1070 TI the e ex sniper to make it in a off-white and now I'm not the only one who has experienced this Greg over at science studio made a whole video dedicated towards how the aesthetic was a little bit misleading especially when they put on white on their website but for me personally aesthetic hasn't been the biggest reason to buy especially a graphics card for me personally performance and of course value for money are the two things I look for when buying a graphics card and so does the X sniper have those two qualities well today we're gonna be comparing it against not only the 1080 Ti but also the 1070 TI Hall of Fame and seeing what the differences are between these two cards welcome back to tech yes City in this tense every TI sniper here we're gonna pull up some benchmarks but first we'll pull up the overclocks because this is the best overclock i've seen out of a 1070 i but not only that also the best overclock on air that i've seen out of a 10 series card to date this thing got over 2100 megahertz and even clocked higher than that of the 1070 TI hall of fame that i have here now of course Galax could have sent me out a very good sample but there's also another thing that happened with these overclocks and that is before I started testing the card I actually took it apart and took some b-roll of the vrm which you can see is it's got a fatter PCB it's also a well-designed card I think it's a six plus two phase power design they're using here but also I changed the thermal paste around and I used the different thermal paste so unfortunately I couldn't get these stock temperatures I didn't think anything of it at the time but I believe this thermal paste made actually quite a big difference as at least when I compared my numbers to Greg's this card was performing phenomenally well the max load temperatures even went overclocked to over 2,000 100 megahertz was still staying in the low 70s and that's on the auto fan speeds when we put the fan speeds up to 100% this thing really responded well so it is a phenomenal card in that the sense that Galax do put a really good cooler on this graphics card itself there's also a steel backplate that does share the same off-white scheme as the metal shroud itself though you may also notice that there's a light bar wedged in between the steel backplate and the PCB this is RGB and you can change this within galaxy's own software itself and galaxy's own software there's also the option for preset overclocks 3 and 5% and also a silent mode as well if you need this card completely silent while you're gaming also the options to change fan speeds voltages and clock speeds just like msi afterburner would but of course for overclocking I still do use msi afterburner though pulling up some gaming benchmarks for you guys first up we have Kingdom Come deliverance 1440p max settings I believe the 10s MBTI sniper will do very well at 1440p gaming of course deliberately stressing those settings to max out the GPU itself to 100% we can see that it does fall behind a 1080i that's of course to be expected but overclocked this thing was just beating out the Hall of Fame and as I said before I believe I got a really good sample here with the 1070 and also that thermal paste making a difference but I will be making a video on that in the later coming days and now moving over to pub G here we see nothing out of the ordinary point 1% 1% lows are is expected and also the overclock is making around about a 10% difference to the performance of this card it's also just slightly again beating out the 1070 TI Hall of Fame since essentially they do carry the exact same GPU die after the singularity now in crazy 1440p settings I just decided to use the inbuilt benchmark which spits out an average FPS for you guys you see here 65 FPS as opposed to 72 when it's overclocked and also just slightly ahead of the 1070 TI Hall of Fame and moving on with Final Fantasy 15 1440p high settings I personally noticed absolutely no difference between high and ultra settings but ultra really taxes the graphics card to a different level I think it's unplayable even on a 1080 TI just the stuttering but even on the high settings one interesting note that came out of this was the point 1% lows on the 1070 ti when it wasn't overclocked it did get quite a sizable drop as opposed to being overclocked it was a lot smoother same with the 1070 TI Hall of Fame they scored similar in this benchmark and then moving over now to the last benchmark when I pull up 1440p GTA 5 this is the pretty much max settings I could put on this very high settings at 1440p we saw again roughly a 10% increase in the amount of frames but nothing was really out of the ordinary in terms of 0.1 percent and 1% lows also just slightly again beating out the 1070 TI Hall of Fame when it comes down to at Galax cards hit very hard in terms of price performance the value you're getting at least with the e x9 / series is really good at least in Australia when we move over to the US however they do only have their cards for sale on the gallic store as I've said in the past I would like to see them branch out to amazon.com as I believe like over half of Americans buy all their stuff from this website so there is that factor that probably would put some people off however do have a pretty good deal on the tens MBTI sniper and also a mechanical keyboard on their website which I thought wasn't too shabby considering I do have this keyboard here and it is very nice especially for a $30 premium over the 1070 TI standalone Galax also sent over a ram stick which has a RGB light bar on it too so pretty cool they've also got an SSD which does have a good aesthetic as well so it looks like they do want to branch into other markets not just graphics cards and I must admit if they can get the aesthetic right which in this case with the off-white they did get it a little bit off if they can stick to just making it pure white like this 1080 Ti here then I think they will be hitting hard and they will continue to grow their market share so every card has come through here from guys has been really good buy for money except for the Hall of Fame which is more of a premium option for people who need that massive triple slot cooler and also that extra 11 percent on the overclocking Headroom with the power limit and of course that 8 plus three-phase power design but when it comes down to value for money the x9 / series is definitely delivering of course I don't know what happened with the aesthetic this time around especially when I've got the 1080 Ti here which has that pure white aesthetic also another thing as well the RGB only extends to the light bar even though the fans light up they've only got white LEDs in them so I would like to see Galax perhaps get that shroud back to a pure white and also make the lights on the fans themselves RGB - that would be very cool love to see that but in terms of value for money great card and if you guys enjoyed this review and be sure to hit that like button and let me know in the comment section below if you've got any comments about the off-white sniper e^x graphics card and I'll catch you in another tech video very soon peace out for now bye and I was will just throw this in the blooper reel needs an eight plus six bin and you've got three DisplayPort 1.4 s and one HDMI 2.0 B and one jewel link DVI out absolutely amazing cooling solution all want that eight plus three pair a brain for mid review good because every galaxy art also one more thing I forgot to mention this PCB is fatter than a reference PCB weighs in at 900 grams and the 1070 ti hall-of-fame weighs in at one point three kilograms moving to the Final Fantasy 15 this is a GPU focused test we can see here we've only got an average