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Nothing, because nvidia clearly sucks.
 
AMD FTW.

Anyone saw this? What a freaking beast of a cooler...
 
Shame that it's actually such an overkill for GTX 980.
 
Comes with 1380 boost clock.
Supports hybrid cooling.
Dual 8 pin connectors.
 

Anyone saw this? What a freaking beast of a cooler...
 
Shame that it's actually such an overkill for GTX 980.
 
Comes with 1380 boost clock.
Supports hybrid cooling.
Dual 8 pin connectors.
 

Anyone saw this? What a freaking beast of a cooler...
 
Shame that it's actually such an overkill for GTX 980.
 
Comes with 1380 boost clock.
Supports hybrid cooling.
Dual 8 pin connectors.
 

Keep 780Ti no matter what.
Even 980 can't beat 780Ti in some games, don't even try to upgrade to 970, you'll be sorry.
 
A lot of my local friends did the same thing, they thought an overclocked 970 would beat the shit out of a 780Ti. Now all of them trying to return their new cards and half of them got coil whine also And they lost 100USD in the process.

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/graphics/2014/09/19/nvidia-geforce-gtx-970-review/9
http://www.pcper.com/reviews/Graphics-Cards/NVIDIA-GeForce-GTX-980-and-GTX-970-GM204-Review-Power-and-Efficiency/Skyrim-S
http://www.ocaholic.ch/modules/smartsection/item.php?itemid=1443&page=13
 
Ignore 1080P and only look for 4K benchmarks, that is basically the same with 1080P modded Skyrim.
 
I'm pretty sure you can run Skyrim with 2K textures(maybe even some 4K) and plus a really good ENB(like Serenity or K ENB).

Oh sorry, I didn't know we're doing that "my skyrim looks prettier than yours" thingy.
 
Here you go;

 
It's obvious that you can't achieve these results with only 1.5GB GTX 480.

Modded skyrim, 21:9 1440p surround

Updated drivers, thought I should update my score too.
 
CPU: 4670K @ 4600
GPU: 280X @ 1200/1750
FPS: 52.4
Score: 2194
Setting: Extreme HD
  I'm actually surprised that my score didn't drop after updating to beta drivers. LOL. Not something I would expect from AMD.  

Updated drivers, thought I should update my score too.
 
CPU: 4670K @ 4600
GPU: 280X @ 1200/1750
FPS: 52.4
Score: 2194
Setting: Extreme HD
  I'm actually surprised that my score didn't drop after updating to beta drivers. LOL. Not something I would expect from AMD.  

Idea- buy one, see how it performs, if unhappy, buy another

I do currently own a 280X Toxic(that will change soon tho ), the only thing I don't like about it is that the fans are a little bit loud at full load but that's nothing you can't fix with a good fan curve. Default fan curve is just too aggressive for my taste. Other than that it's pretty good imo, mine can push itself to 1200Core/1750Memory without giving artifacts. Which is pretty good IMO.

NCIX: http://bit.ly/1wagR2r
Amazon: http://geni.us/HRC
 
ZOTAC sent us their two beastly editions of the GTX 970. These cards look pretty darn cool in our opinion, but do they overclock as well as their flashy design would suggest?
 

 
 

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