Its a big card!
by Ben StrawbridgeI upgraded from my old and treasured (8 year old) 1070 card and my first thought was "man this is big" (much later I thought "man how do I remove my hard drive bay") The card comes well boxed and feels well made - no cheap plastic shrouds in sight! It is very weighty so much so it includes a card support to take some of the weight to (in my case) the power supply. Fitting was slightly challenging as (as previously mentioned) the card is huge and made finger access to tighten the bracket screws tough (magnetic screwdriver recommended!!) the driver download was slightly less obvious as you need to install the VGA which driver, which isn't the old connector interface its the driver for the card... poor choice of naming there. Also if you install the GPU tweak thinking that is the drier, the error message you get is a bit cryptic but gave me enough of a hint!. The card is working well and as far as I am concerned silently - the fans spool up as needed. For those of interest the is a switch on the card to let it prioritise silent running, which I left set to the default (full power? gaming? something like that) and I really don't hear it while typing this review . I have run up Horizon Forbidden West and wow. the difference is staggering and I am a very happy gamer! I hope this lasts another 8 years...