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You should be running the same drivers as a 970 then... but I beleive he was saying it was just a driver issue with the 970

I have a friend with a 970 as well. No issues with the latest drivers. No crashes. I believe he was saying Nvidia in general which is incorrect information.

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I was thinking of getting a MSI GTX 970 ME Edition graphics card. I prefer NVIDIA cards because of their awesome NVIDIA Experience program. Although the R9 390 came out,(hearing it has better performance) I still want a 970 only because of the past experiences I have had with AMD drivers. I had a R9 290x and had to send it back, my 660 was performing better than it. So I wanted to get a NVIDIA card because of the drivers, although I've heard that the drivers for AMD are improving. Now I'm stuck to either get a 970 or R9 390. Please leave your opinions in the comments below!

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If your on windows 10, 390 cause of driver stability. Win 8.1 or 7 go with the 970 if its cheaper.

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I was thinking of getting a MSI GTX 970 ME Edition graphics card. I prefer NVIDIA cards because of their awesome NVIDIA Experience program. Although the R9 390 came out,(hearing it has better performance) I still want a 970 only because of the past experiences I have had with AMD drivers. I had a R9 290x and had to send it back, my 660 was performing better than it. So I wanted to get a NVIDIA card because of the drivers, although I've heard that the drivers for AMD are improving. Now I'm stuck to either get a 970 or R9 390. Please leave your opinions in the comments below!

R9 390x would be best

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The 390 performs the same as or better than the 970 as a lesser cost, but not by too much. Also, what 290x did you get? And stay away from gigabyte's 390s. Apparently they're broken or something.

 I got a XFX R9 290x, Most likely shouldn't have, but at that point I wasn't too educated on GPU's.

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If your on windows 10, 390 cause of driver stability. Win 8.1 or 7 go with the 970 if its cheaper.

I am currently on Windows 10, I would much rather have a 970, although is there problems for the 970 on the NVIDIA cards?

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I got a XFX R9 290x, Most likely shouldn't have, but at that point I wasn't too educated on GPU's.

I think that that should've been fine but for future reference (like now) go with MSI or Sapphire for AMD cards.

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I am currently on Windows 10, I would much rather have a 970, although is there problems for the 970 on the NVIDIA cards?

Drivers for Nvidia on windows 10 are not the greatest for stability. My friend owns a G1 Gaming 970 has had a driver crash once a day doing nothing just browsing facebook card is running at stock speeds and still can't figure out what is causing the issue for him.

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Drivers for Nvidia on windows 10 are not the greatest for stability. My friend owns a G1 Gaming 970 has had a driver crash once a day doing nothing just browsing facebook card is running at stock speeds and still can't figure out what is causing the issue for him.

How long would you suggest that NVIDIA releases Windows 10 drivers that will not have crashes? I am planning on buying this sometime around Christmas.

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Drivers for Nvidia on windows 10 are not the greatest for stability. My friend owns a G1 Gaming 970 has had a driver crash once a day doing nothing just browsing facebook card is running at stock speeds and still can't figure out what is causing the issue for him.

I've not had a single issue with the latest driver or the one before that. That could be an issue with his card.

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I think that that should've been fine but for future reference (like now) go with MSI or Sapphire for AMD cards.

I'm not sure.. The graphics driver kept crashing like every 25 minutes. I completely uninstalled ALL existing NVIDIA drivers, and the problem reoccurred, Anyway it doesn't really matter because I already gotten rid of it. At the time I wasn't willing to completely reinstall Windows to try to solve the problem. Anyway, Yes I now know quite a bit more about them and MSI is my choice.

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I've not had a single issue with the latest driver or the one before that. That could be an issue with his card.

Which kind of card do you have? MSI, ASUS, etc. 

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Which kind of card do you have? MSI, ASUS, etc. 

I have an MSI 980 Ti 

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I have an MSI 980 Ti.

You should be running the same drivers as a 970 then... but I beleive he was saying it was just a driver issue with the 970

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You should be running the same drivers as a 970 then... but I beleive he was saying it was just a driver issue with the 970

I have a friend with a 970 as well. No issues with the latest drivers. No crashes. I believe he was saying Nvidia in general which is incorrect information.

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I have a friend with a 970 as well. No issues with the latest drivers. No crashes. I believe he was saying Nvidia in general which is incorrect information.

In my personal opinion, I would love to get a MSI GTX 970... From what I hear from you I think I will get one of these. Thankyou.

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I have a friend with a 970 as well. No issues with the latest drivers. No crashes. I believe he was saying Nvidia in general which is incorrect information.

The issues are there. Not every single person in the world is gonna have the issues. The card was fine with the release drivers for the 970 then the driver right after. Anything newer and the card just nopes itself. Course his last 2 GPU's something simliar as well but talk with @Darkman he had ALOT of issues with both of the 970's he owns.

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I prefer NVIDIA cards because of their awesome NVIDIA Experience program.

 

Wow.  You are literally the first person to mention NV Experience and awesome in the same sentence. 

 

As to your question, the 390 is better and afaik cheaper. The 970 only has few software gimmicks. 

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Wow.  You are literally the first person to mention NV Experience and awesome in the same sentence. 

 

As to your question, the 390 is better and afaik cheaper. The 970 only has few software gimmicks. 

lol... is that bad xD

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