Well, I updated my GPU, from
MSI R9 270 (What a card!) to
MSI GeForce GTX 1070 ARMOR 8G OC. Caught it by chance at a great price -
€390,- (Right now it's around €470 in Belgrade if you're lucky). Unfortunately, I'm so busy with work, that I haven't tested it extensively in games yet. I screwed around though with
DeusEx: Mankind Divided on Ultra settings without a problem, smooth like a butter (At least untill I get a new monitor that is).
What is important, btw: If you plan to upgrade to a Pascal card, and are by chance using a Win10 Enterprise LTSB - you better prepare for a darn ordeal. It turns out that
you can't install the drivers if your OS build version is older than 1607 and that piece of info is almost nowhere to be found unless you specifically search for it - and you wont, not before you actually get in a dumb situation. So have in mind that you'll need to reinstall your OS from the ground up (despite that some forums suggest otherwise). It doesn't work upgrading it from the OS, update doesn't exist on LTSB, extracting the driver setup files and tinkering doesn't yield sh.t (sorry for the profanity). Apparently, a HWID component is different in new version somehow, and that's the reason for all of the above (didn't have time to delve deeper into actual difference).
In my case, what supposed to be a simple card & driver swap turned into a full system reinstall, together with all the software (and I was up to my neck with deadlines), setting up junctions from my SSD again (hate that part), and of course - security setup and tightening. This card better be worth the trouble.
In day to day work, in my not so well ventilated case, idle temps are at around 40°C, under heavy load around 65°C (custom fan curve in MSI Afterburner). I wont overclock it, I occasionally play games, but still have to test it in CUDA environment (3D rendering). Drivers are obviously sometimes a pain to update (GeForce Experience can glitch sometimes, a re-install and update helps).
We'll see how it fares from now on. Sorry for the long rant.