XLR8 RTX 4070 Ti VERTO OC

My experience is coming from a 2070 to the 4070ti. In summery, I'm very happy with this GPU even if it cost a lot. For me, this is an investment into many years of high quality gaming which is my favorite hobby and what I spend much of my free time doing. I've listed my pros and cons for the GPU below with cons first.Cons-Price. This GPU is expensive even if it is less expensive than other 4070ti's and would be of better value at a $700 price point. Maybe wait for it to go on sale or get a used one if you can wait. If you have to get a 4070ti on Amazon right now, this is the best value one I could find.-Massive Size. For some people, this is a pro. But for those of you with smaller cases or cases full of hard drive bays, this GPU will be too big. It's at least twice as thick as my previous RTX 2070 and 3 inches longer. MAKE SURE YOU RESEARCH WHAT SIZE YOU CAN ACCOMODATE. It fits my NZXT H510 just fine with a bout an 1.5 inches of spare room.Pros-Runs all my games at 1440p max settings @ 60fps+ with no problem. It often reaches frame rates in the hundreds no problem.-Runs most games at 4K max settings @ 60fps. (Exceptions include modern titles with horrible optimization.)-Runs very cool with temps no higher than 60° C but often runs in the high 40's while gaming. It idles in the low 30's.-Low wattage requirement. A 750 watt Power Supply and 2 8-pin connectors is all you need. There is a converter for the 8-pin connectors that comes with this GPU.-Quiet. The fans that come with the cooler aren't loud and the don't hit high RPM's because the GPU runs so cool.-Overclockable. I haven't experimented with this yet, but this card does allow overclocking.-Build Quality. This GPU is built like a tank with a metal back plate, and it doesn't sag in the PCIe slot and doesn't require a bracket.-RGB customization through PNY's VelocityX Verto Software

Upgraded from an EVGA 2080ti XC ultra, which provided terrific service for 5 years, and could probably go another 5 or longer. I’m 67 years old, an in my retirement decided to take the plunge into an 800 dollar pool of graphics technology. Folks complain about the price, and rightfully so, but I paid 1200 bucks for the 2080ti new. That’s the market, which by all indicators is not going to change. What changed in this case was the third party manufacturer – not EVGA (of course), Asus, Gigabyte, MSI, Zotac, et al…but instead, PNY.PNY…hmmm. Well, why not. The Asus TUF version was the same price, but waiting a month wasn’t appealing. Getting a hold of the PNY in 2 days was. So, after researching a little bit for reviews of the PNY model, which in all cases were glowing (except for complaints about the cost), decided to give it a try.So far so good! First of all, I do more productivity stuff like video editing and encoding, 3D rendering, and Paintshop, than gaming. That the memory bus width on this card is 192bit and not 352bit like the 2080ti worried me a little, but not anymore. Encoding and rendering times were substantially lower, 20-30 percent depending on the application. Not bad.Of course, the kid in me ran the card through the 3DMark gamut just for fun. The particular card I bought overclocks to +205 Mhz GPU clock and +1300 Mhz MEM clock stable, anything above either setting crashes it...your results may differ a bit, depending on your luck with the silicon lottery. I DO NOT RECOMMEND you try this, at the risk of voiding your warranty if physical damage occurs as a result, regardless of what make you buy. These cards have a failsafe that shuts it down before that can happen, but you never know. Anyway, my benchmark results were good enough to get me a number 1 ranking on Time Spy or Time Spy Extreme, can’t remember, on similar systems (4070ti + I7 12700K). If you have a 3dMark account, take a look :)Other thoughts:1. The unit is bulky, long, heavy, and takes up 3 slots of mobo space, due to its enormous cooler. Ships with a support bracket if you’re worried about sagging. I used tie wraps attached to a drive cage. Looks weird, but works.2. Very quiet, surprisingly. I’m using a custom fan curve with MSI Afterburner that keeps the fans off until 35 degrees (Celsius). Idles at 27-30 degrees depending on ambient temp. At 50% fans, just airflow noise…no discernible coil whine (but these are 67 year old ears)3.When outrageously OCing, reached 280W. As I type this, a quick look at hardware monitor shows 4.2 watts at 31 degrees, no fans running per above. Btw default is 30% fans (1000rpm) ramping up with temp.4. System: I7-12700K, this graphics card, Asus TUF z690 DDR5 mobo, 32Gb TeamGroup T-force DDR5-5200 RAM, Samsung 980 Pro 2TB M.2 system drive, Scythe Fuma2 air cooling, Corsair HX850W Platinum power supply.Overall, I’m impressed with the PNY version and will give it 5 stars. If something occurs later with this graphics card that’s un-impressing, I will update this review.2 1/2 Months later..nothing to report. Everything's fine. My only beef with PNY is trying to sell a factory overclocked card for 50 bucks more. In short, it's the EXACT SAME card with altered firmware. I retired from IT and industrial electronics after 40 years, and I can tell you you're wasting 50 bucks on the OCed version. You can easily OC to the more expensive version, and way beyond, with software tools like Afterburner. Having said this, I still admire PNY for manufacturing what has been an excellent version of Nvidia's 4070ti architecture, which originally was supposed to be the 4080 12GB. This is an NVidia thing, not PNY. If you are playing games or rendering models, this is, in MHO, all you need.

Built a new PC, Heard EVGA left the GPU Market. Shed some tears.I remembered having a PNY GPU back in the day and knew they were of Quality. Went back to PNY and found the 4070Ti and figured im going all out building a new PC so said "why not?" - Add 2 to Cart. 1 for me, 1 for my Best Friend. Cant leave a friend behind.Card is Quiet, it performs majestically epic. Ive tested a variety of games like, Diablo IV (150-250+ fps), CyberPunk 2077 (120-300+ fps / RTX On 35-85fps) and its just shows no end to its capabilities as of yet.I dont care for RTX, its a huge gimmick and really only great for screenshots. Only game to not have issues with RTX is surprisingly enough Doom Eternal which they dont do a whole magnitude of things with for the feature. Thats not on any RTX capable card though, thats on NVidia and the Developers Access to utilize it.Not bad pricing for the card either now they have come down to reasonable pre-chip shortage values.Definitely Recommend PNY Graphics Cards, they have been in the Market a long time and have produced quality video cards for at least 20 years. Glad to experience one again.