First Impressions
Even though the Inno3D iChill X4 GTX 1070 is what I regard as a full-length graphics card, coming in at just a smidge over 30cm, it is relatively light. Installing it into my existing system was straight forward, and because of how lightweight the iChill X4 GTX 1070 is, I did not see much strain on the PCIe slot.
Here’s a little annoyance, and one I just wish all the graphic card manufacturers can just agree on. Installing the iChill X4 GTX 1070 into my existing system I found that the 8 pin connector on the card is upside down to the one I had, which meant for the purpose of benchmarking it I had to twist my 8 pin cable to get it connected. This will not be a problem with new builds, but it is a small annoyance of having to redo a bit of cable management in existing builds.
On paper, the illuminated iChill logo at the top of the iChill X4 GTX 1070 is a nice touch, with it displaying different colors depending on the load. As a modder, this will be slightly off-putting as you cannot control the colors of the illumination; red, green or blue just don’t look good in some builds.
When the iChill X4 GTX 1070 is at low GPU load, the iChill system is brilliant at dispersing the low heat, with the fans being idle so there is no noise. Put it under heavy load, and all the fans kick in. Its not exactly noisy, but in my system that has 3 x 140mm case fans and 2 x 120mm fans for the AIO CPU cooler, the fans on the iChill X4 GTX 1070 are audible.
