As usual, Australia is late to the party. You can still buy 1070ti for $500USD here, I just picked up 5.
For .au pricing in these current conditions, that's good value.
Can still find them that low on rare occasions - more that the stock is completely out at most retailers except for very brief "we got some in *SLAM* well, we're out again" situations.
I got my MSI Turbo 1070 ti up and running tonight - and am VERY displeased with it.
Card works well, performs pretty much identical to the EVGA SC and Zotac Mini model.
COOLING though is the worst I've seen out of ANYTHING.
104 watt TDP, 90% fan in a 80F room and it's barely managing to stay down to 70C - and that's AFTER I removed the mounting plate (which was only worth perhaps 1 degree C as it's pretty close to wide open to start with).
Even the Gigabyte ITX cards manage about 8C lower than THAT at the same wattage, on LOWER fan settings. and the Zotac blows it out of the water much less anything with a GOOD cooling solution.
MSI needs to put a lot better fan or a lot better HS/Heat Pipe setup in those cards, they're WORSE on cooling than FE models.
I won't be buying any more.