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Unfortunately no, they took it back. I would have been interested if they offered it at a discount. I think all 4070ti's are badly priced at MSRP (that Zotac is between $880-999 depending on vendor/sale). I bought my MSI 4070ti for $585 open box at Microcenter when they received a flood of returns from all the people that realized nobody would pay a scalper markup on an already overpriced card At around $600 or less I think the 4070ti is a good card. It's just hard to swallow paying $800+ for such a cut down card when previous gen flagships can be had for for less. Even with all the DLSS trickery making them perform similar to a 3090 or 6950 today, I like having more VRAM to keep cards relevant for longer. My favorite example being my 6gb Titan Black. I was still using that regularly as recently as 2 years ago, whereas a 3gb 780Ti started showing its age much sooner. Funny enough, the most recent AMD cards I own prior to getting the 6950XT are a pair of 7970 Ghz cards. Back when they were relevant I was still using mostly Nvidia cards though. Last year I had them in a system with a 5600x and they actually ran great in crossfire playing Assetto Corsa and the drivers were fine. I don't remember the 6950 temps off the top of my head, but I don't remember them being horrible with the block. Of the recent testing I did, the XT was the hottest with the stock cooler. With the block and a mild undervolt/overclock it was scoring way higher on benches before I even started pushing it. I just haven't had time to mess with it since I finished the reviews. In the last few years I've switched from running 100% Intel + Nvidia in my regular rigs, to giving AMD a chance. I have been enjoying my Ryzen CPUs and so far the 6950XT has been great too. If their F@H performance wasn't so bad compared to Nvidia, I'd probably pick up more of their GPUs.

I have it mounted on the wall to get it as far back as possible. It's really just FPS games where it feels too big. For everything else it's awesome. I gave my roommate the 42" Strix which is setup just to the right of my setup so I can still compare them back to back. Which is how I know a 42" OLED would be perfect

+1 for glossy. I have all sorts of other lights reflecting in the room and still prefer it over matte. The whole office is actually surrounded by RGB lighting as well as all the PCs that are lit up like a disco I got used to the reflections pretty quick and the much nicer image quality vs a matte screen is worth it.

I forget the exact path when I don't have it in front of me, but the power on hours are in the menu. It's probably in a different spot on the C1 vs CX because LG just likes making things inconvenient I have the 48 wall mounted behind the desk it's awesome for productivity, but it's still just a touch too big for serious full screen gaming. If the 42" version had been around back when I bought it, I would have gotten one. Once the monitors with the 42" panel are more common/cheaper I'll swap to one of those. I've seen some decent deals on the LG 42, but if I bother to swap it out, I don't want to go with a TV again.

Thanks for taking the time to look at the review! I will probably end up putting a 1080mm rad on a rack shelf behind the case on QD fittings since I wasn't able to achieve the results I'm used to with just a slim 360 and 160mm rads. As for the 12VHPWR connections, I wish they hadn't bothered. I already have plenty of custom cable sets and I think triple 8 pin PCIe power cables looks nice. If it weren't for the abysmal Folding@Home performance, I'd just go all AMD GPU's and not have to bother with the new connector.

I'm not gonna lie, I didn't like the design language of the newer Zotac cards when I first saw them online. After seeing the card in person, I became much more fond of it. the cooler and RGB are really nice in person. I really wish I could have convinced Zotac to let me keep it as it was a really lovely card.

I am currently at 1743 hours on my CX 48. Prior to this I had an Asus Strix 42" 4K VA panel. I can confidently say that I LOVE OLED and don't see myself using anything else on my primary workstation for the foreseeable future. I would definitely go back to 42" because I think that's the sweet spot for 100% scaling. Also It would be nice to go back to a "monitor" and not a TV. The auto-dimming is really only a minor inconvenience to me. I can open a new browser tab to kick the brightness back up if it manages to dim before I get through whatever I'm looking at.

Yup. I like farting around with my A770, but it's not good enough to make it's way into any of my daily use PCs. Would love to see Intel release something that could at least compete with previous gen flagship cards.

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Thanks guys! Even though I killed some stuff and it didn't end up exactly how I had planned, I still had fun building in this case. This was the first time I've ever done a parallel loop. I have just always stuck with serial for max performance. Also parallel requires more fittings which is why I did a couple runs of the thicc tygon since I came up one fitting short on the smaller ones. I'd agree the pricing is very fair compared to other cases on the market. I had been looking into possibly doing a watercooled rack build for a while and there really aren't many options out there. I just feel like rack cases in general have a higher price point that deters normal home users from going this route.

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It's pretty funny that this "midrange" GPU was physically the largest GPU I have ever used. Based on the latest steam hardware survey, we're only up to 2.73% of people running 4K. The overwhelming majority are still at 1080p. You can pry my 4K OLED and 3090 from my cold dead fingers, but for most people, the 4070ti is a solid option. I wish you could find new 3090s cheaper to make them a consideration. AMD is much more competitive with prices of last gen cards. Granted the whole GPU market is overpriced still in general.

It is a really nice card. It was definitely held back by "normal person ambient temps" though. I threw the window open to get some crisp freezing air on it and was able to push it quite a bit further without trying too hard. I didn't include those results though, because the average Joe isn't using their PC like Bastiaan The 6950XT was the most held back by temps. Once I tossed a waterblock on it, it really woke up. Thanks for taking the time to read the review

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Killing Floor and CS:GO are both games I haven't played in years, but used to really enjoy playing with friends. I'd agree that they way they are implementing it is good. If it released as a standalone game I definitely wouldn't buy it, but I might fire it up and check it out as an add on.

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@elblat Thanks for participating! I really love seeing all the new faces around here. That said, I hope you can appreciate some friendly competition because I'm gonna chase you down

I've run Koolance 702 before and had good luck with it. This was from an old batch of Mayhems. I think I actually came up short and added some super old X1 to X1 Eco. Totally my own fault but you live and learn.

Got all three of the 3090's online Blocks were gross, but got them cleaned up enough to run the PC. Will need to break it down and clean everything at some point.

No I just haven't been on the site much lately and couldn't even remember what day it started. I thought it would be sometime tomorrow.

Hopped on to see what time this started just to find out it already has lol. I managed to get a couple rigs online. Nice to see so much participation. Looking forward to seeing what sort of numbers people put out this month. Shouldn't be too long before EHW is in the top 50 teams

Picked up a Ubiquiti Enterprise 8 2.5Gb PoE+ switch. Also grabbed some horizontal cable management, a spare DDC pump, and an EVGA XR1 capture card.

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