You can't upgrade CPU anymore unless you upgrade your motherboard to newer generation. However, i7-3770k is optimized for PCI-express 3.0. It is good enough to support GTX1070.

Dear TS, you can buy it from lelong.my now. I was just pre-ordered a MSI GTX1070 Gaming 8X from a seller "gamehypermart". He is the only seller who selling custom GTX1070 graphic card. I was waited this model for few days already since GTX1070 was firmly launched at 10th June 2016. I got thinking to preorder in taobao through buyforme forwarder agent but very unsure how long to ship from China to Malaysia. Besides, I'm worrying about the warranty in China does not works in Malaysia here. If I buy from Malaysia, at least I can request RMA from Idealtech. They did offers RMA service no matter which local sellers I buy from.

The seller claim that MSI GTX1070 Gaming 8X eta 17 June 2016. So I was immediately pre-ordered it first. They should deliver it at next week. Ok, somebody got ask why Non-FE is almost same price with FE. Actually I did search through the MSI GTX1070 graphic cards in taobao.com. It is just only 100 Chinese Yuan cheaper than founder edition. Without any suspicions, just preorder it because the Non-FE has better cooling system and better OC specification.


This post has been edited by junclj: Jun 15 2016, 10:11 AM

Hi, you should follow this. This is MSI China official retail price
https://world.tmall.com/item/533093353398.h...0714.0.0.kC5b5o

BTW, I just want to buy MSI branded graphic card. I don't want others brand. Probably for TS, you can't accept that price is too high. You can wait until next month should have more others cheaper custom GTX 1070 will release. However, this is just a pre-order price for those who can't wait for long time. I was waited for GTX 1070 since last year. That's why I am keep visit lelong.my everyday to wait for the MSI GTX 1070 Gaming X 8G.

This post has been edited by junclj: Jun 15 2016, 11:43 AM

Actually the price which provided by gamehypermart is not considered too expensive. This is Gaming X model by MSI. The performance of this graphic card is better than founder edition.

So far I can't find any others brand available in Malaysia. However, the Asus GTX1070 Strix ROG is expected to sell more expensive than the MSI GTX1070 Gaming X 8G. The price for Asus GTX1070 Strix ROG is expected to sell at RM2,489. Since the conversion is based on the official price from Asus China in TMall.com.

For me, I definitely will choose the MSI graphic cards because it is high quality and cheaper than Asus. I'm used to be an Asus fans but since I got bad experience with Asus motherboard. Now I was changed everything to MSI. I am MSI fans now, that's why if you wait for it, soon all the new arrival cards will be selling at higher price.

Another seller techview was selling custom Zotac GTX1070 AMP Edition for price RM2,219 just RM130 cheaper than the custom MSI GTX1070 Gaming X 8G.

However, the price is too high, above RM2k.

lingloong was selling Palit GeForce GTX1070 Jetstream for RM1,999.00 this one should be the current cheapest GTX1070.

Palit GeForce GTX1080 GameRock RM2,998.99

You should go for it, read this article

I will choose the GTX 1070 non-FE, like msi GTX 1070 Gaming X 8G. It has OC mode.

This post has been edited by junclj: Jun 20 2016, 11:47 AM

I think he should be misread the "Ti" behind GTX780. GTX970 scored 8660 and GTX780 scored 8015. However, GTX780 Ti is 8963.

GTX780 Ti > GTX970 > GTX780
GTX980 Ti > GTX1070 > GTX Titan X > GTX980

http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/high_end_gpus.html