MSI Announces the GeForce GTX 1070 Quick Silver Graphics Card

btarunr · Nov 1, 2016

MSI today unveiled the GeForce GTX 1070 Quick Silver Edition graphics card. Going purely by the factory-overclock on offer, the card appears to be positioned below the GTX 1070 Gaming X graphics card by the company, although one can expect the company to monetize its unique design. The company also has a slightly pricier OC Edition variant of this card, which is identical to the GTX 1070 Gaming X in terms of factory-overclock. The card is characterized by a metallic silver color-scheme that's consistent with the company's GTX 1080 30th Anniversary Edition graphics card, and Gaming Titanium series motherboards, such as the X99A XPower Gaming Titanium. Shimmery silver accents run through bits of the Twin Frozr VI cooler shroud where you'd normally expect fiery red from the Gaming X, while the back-plate is entirely silver, with an illuminated MSI Gaming logo ornament.

The card comes with a factory-overclock of 1518 MHz core and 1708 MHz GPU Boost in Gaming Mode, and 1531 MHz core with 1721 MHz GPU Boost in OC Mode; which is below the factory-overclock of the GTX 1070 Gaming X, which comes with 1582/1771 MHz in Gaming Mode and 1607/1797 MHz in OC Mode, and barely above NVIDIA reference clocks of 1506/1683 MHz. The OC Edition variant, on the other hand, ships with identical clock speeds to the GTX 1070 Gaming X. The card draws power from a combination of 6-pin and 8-pin PCIe power connectors. Based on the 16 nm "GP104" silicon, the GeForce GTX 1070 features 1,920 CUDA cores, 120 TMUs, 64 ROPs, and 8 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 8.00 GHz, across a 256-bit wide memory interface. MSI didn't reveal pricing.

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64K · Nov 1, 2016

Sharp looking back plate imo.

okidna · Nov 1, 2016

Oh wow, what a beautiful card. MSI should make this color scheme as a permanent alternative for their default red-black color scheme.

P4-630 · Nov 1, 2016

Nice card!

Chaitanya · Nov 1, 2016

I would have liked to see their entire Gaming series in this colour scheme, that is one damn good looking card.

Air · Nov 1, 2016

Looks great! (Almost) color neutral theme from msi finally.

But the cheap looking logo kinda ruins the back plate (as it does to everything it is slapped on). It should be more subtle, perhaps monochromatic in grey...

dj-electric · Nov 1, 2016

They just HAD to put that red logo in the back.
It sticks out like a sore thumb.

[triggered]

GreiverBlade · Nov 1, 2016

Air said:
Looks great! (Almost) color neutral theme from msi finally.

mngeh?

the armor cooler/theme was introduced with the 960, 970 and 980.
ok that one has no backplate (although it hold close to the Gaming X variant performances wise, same PCB a lil less beefy )

solution to the no backplate ... I've finally found one (errr a couple of weeks ago ... ) :

which feature the old box design of the 9XX series (which was neater than the 10XX :laugh:

)

the only things that Quick silver has that would make me want it, would be the Twin Frozr VI cooler ... (nonethtless the Armor 2X is already good enough)
ok ... that one is more silver and black than black and white ... but it's not the 1st neutral theme from MSI

P4-630 said:
Nice card!

well ...

Dj-ElectriC said:
They just HAD to put that red logo in the back.
It sticks out like a sore thumb.

[triggered]

on that .... i couldn't agree more ...

Bjørgersson · Nov 1, 2016

Well, at least it's not 'gamer red'. Although, a black dragon logo without the shield would be much-much nicer on the backplate.

gtbtk · Nov 1, 2016

Exciting to see the new Micron fix bios installed on the card reviewed at guru3d.

Now if only MSI would start handing it out to their existing customers we could all be happy bunnies.

Caring1 · Nov 1, 2016

Quick Silver is the registered name of a surf clothing brand, has been for years.

Fluffmeister · Nov 1, 2016

GTX 1070 popularity is off the scale at the moment, no wonder AIB's keep pumping out different models in the time for the holidays.

okidna · Nov 1, 2016

Caring1 said:
Quick Silver is the registered name of a surf clothing brand, has been for years.

That's Quiksilver. The closest thing would be Quicksilver (Marvel's character), MSI dodge the bullet by adding a space in the middle.

Air · Nov 2, 2016

GreiverBlade said:
mngeh?
View attachment 80707

the armor cooler/theme was introduced with the 960, 970 and 980.
ok that one has no backplate (although it hold close to the Gaming X variant performances wise, same PCB a lil less beefy )

solution to the no backplate ... I've finally found one (errr a couple of weeks ago ... ) :
View attachment 80708
which feature the old box design of the 9XX series (which was neater than the 10XX )

the only things that Quick silver has that would make me want it, would be the Twin Frozr VI cooler ... (nonethtless the Armor 2X is already good enough)
ok ... that one is more silver and black than black and white ... but it's not the 1st neutral theme from MSI

Ok, I did not include the "2nd line" cards in it. But either way, before msi went with this "all RED" "Gaming" theme, their cards were greyish i think. So yeah, I was wrong anyway.

NDown · Nov 2, 2016

would be absolutely better if the backplate is just plain silver tho

Primalz · Nov 2, 2016

that card would look so nice in my white 760T case

Dave65 · Nov 2, 2016

Pretty slick!

cadaveca · Nov 2, 2016

DO WANT!!! Must get ASAP, match to MSI titanium motherboard!

Ungari · Nov 2, 2016

Air said:
Looks great! (Almost) color neutral theme from msi finally.

But the cheap looking logo kinda ruins the back plate (as it does to everything it is slapped on). It should be more subtle, perhaps monochromatic in grey...

My thoughts exactly!

eidairaman1 · Nov 2, 2016

Gaming card with a different color...

EarthDog · Nov 2, 2016

And clocks... and potentially PCB (haven't cracked mine open yet......)

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MSI Announces the GeForce GTX 1070 Quick Silver Graphics Card

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