GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1070 WINDFORCE OC 8G REV2.0 Graphic Cards (GV-N1070WF2OC-8GD REV2.0)

So fast and so small! Same as regular GTX 1070 but miniaturized.Gigabyte's tiny GTX 1070 stays nice and cool, even when you overclock it and push voltage (it overclocks like a champ by the way). Unless it's under heavy load, the fan doesn't need to spin so it's dead-silent. It plays Forza Apex and Horizon 3 on max settings (on 1080p) without breaking a sweat. Those are the only games I've played on this video card, since that's what my xbox is for. But the GTX 1070 Mini and my 6700k are making a great argument for PC gaming.My Gigabyte GTX 1070 Mini is rocking out with an Asus Maximus VIII Impact, Intel 6700K @ 4.6 GHz, and 32GB(2x16GB) G.SKILL TridentX 3000MHz @ 3200 MHz, with a 600W Silverstone SFX power supply. This makes for a very tiny and quiet monster.I bought this because it was the only tiny GTX 1070 on the market, but I've had a long and happy relationship with Gigabyte. I think my first Gigabyte product was an LGA775 motherboard, and over the years they've put a ton of money and effort into both making their products as solid as possible, and ensuring great customer service. I can't count how many Gigabyte products I've owned, but I can count the number that I've sent in for RMA (all my fault by the way) on one hand. And for the few RMAs I've done, unlike many other hardware manufacturers, they've never asked for proof of purchase. It's like me: "hey this video card is dead" and they're all like "okay ship it here and we'll send you a replacement" and then a replacement arrives and I'm super happy. A few of Gigabyte's competitors are as good with warranty service, but more are effing terrible to deal with. I won't name any names, but two immediately come to mind, and one starts with an A and one starts with an E, and both actually make excellent products.

I was checking prices between this card and the ASUS Strix. At las this card got a price reduction, and I went for it. Great card overall, runs as I expected, the RGB lighting is a great plus. I'm giving this card 3 stars because the annoying coil whine this card has when I run my games. I got a 4k /60Hz monitor and I must activate Vsync if i dont want to hear that annoying sound. Althoug this card is louder that I expected, the coil whine make it worst, and I cant return it because I live in Ecuador. Im going to search forums, to try to reduce the coil whine. I will update this review.Edit: After a lot of research, I found that overclocking can reduce coil whine almost complety. But then I was having temps near the 80°C (load), so I re arrange my entire fan/radiator setup, and now I have 40°C Idle and 65°C load on the GPU, and the coil whine is barely noticiable, but is still present. There is a final flaw that was keeping me for giving this product 5 stars; when the card is not in use, the fans are suposed to be at full stop, and the led indicator lights up, but after using it for gaming, when u close the game and do other stuff that no requieres the card to be in load, 2 of the 3 fans will still run at very low speed, and the led wont light up. A little anoying, but I will give the card 5/5 stars for the performance (runing WoW on 4k at 80+ fps)

This thing is AWESOME and cheap when compared to the alternatives. I have successfully used this with a Dell XPS 9360 i7-7560 16GB and an Asus Zenbook Deluxe 3 i7-7500 16GB. Both were able to get Benchmark scores on the low side of all 1070 scores posted in 2 3D Mark tests! This is GREAT because I was expecting it to be more along the lines of a 1060 power because of thunderbolt limitations.Over all it has worked exactly as described and as far as I understand the card can be upgraded with any MINI one (1080 in the future).For those who care the Dell XPS 9360 was only supposed to be 2x lanes to the CPU (according to many blogs - no thanks to manufacturer). IDK if that is or isn't the case but I can tell you the Zenbook definitely has 4x lanes and both laptops got just about the same score in benchmarks (the Dell is about 100 points lower). Also, the Dell shows as Thunderbolt not being eGPU compatible (In the thunderbolt software) but obviously it worked. I just updated the laptop 100% than installed the Nvidia Geforce Driver NOT the Aorus website one.Considering I have an ultrabook that's .6 inches thin and less than 3 lb's and can run high settings games! its just awesome!Good luck all.Update: I just ran Division 2 on this setup w/ external 4k TV (scaled to 1080) and it works on HIGH for all settings in the game. I couldn't seem to find any granular graphic settings but it gives the ability to change the "overall" settings to high so... (There is no "extreme" option).