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Just sucks for the consumer. I feel like buying a monitor has become a pain in the ass ever since adaptive refresh rate became a thing. 

I recently upgraded from a GTX 980 to a GTX 980ti and I dont regret it. The truth of the matter is that we are always 6-9 months away from some new great tech. So I would say go ahead and get whats the best now. The rumors of Nvidia's next cards not incorporating HBM2 is also what made me pull the trigger on my GTX 980ti. With that said knowing Nvidia they are probably going to pull a rabbit our their hat and the Pascal cards are going to be amazing regardless of what kind of memory they use. And in that case I will probably still upgrade to it. However I fall into that small percentage of enthusiast that are able to upgrade their GPUs every year. But in closing you wont regret the GTX 980ti its a great GPU and I am seeing great deals on them as low as 599 for EVGA's Classified model.

All good points and like i said before I am usually the first one to notice when a game is running below 60FPS. This title just kinda surprised me in the fact that I had a hard time noticing the 30 FPS limit. 

Rumor mill says 12GB VRAM and the same 384bit bus. 
 
3072 CUDA cores. 
 
All speculation of course. 

After a week of following the GTX 970 scandal. I decided to go ahead and keep my 970. I even got Newegg to make an exception return for me. But as I am writing this post I am going to cancel my RMA with them and keep the GTX 970. It sucks that Nvidia misinformed their partners in the industry on the real specs of the GPU. However after watching the latest PCPER Live show, they make a ton of valid points. The card is still a GREAT card for 329 dollars and this isn't the first time Nvidia has done something weird with memory, the only crime was just omitting the real specifications . Remember the 660ti? and its 192 bit memory interface. At the end of the day Nvidia is giving us a GTX 980 with a few SMs disabled, 8 fewer ROPS, 3.5GB+.5GB pool of VRAM and .3mb less L2 cache for 200 dollars less. I do think Nvidia should do something to regain customer loyalty besides assisting with returns, but I don't think they should send everyone with a GTX 970 a GTX 980. And in hindsight I think maybe I myself have gotten wrapped up in the Nvidia witch hunt that's currently taking place on the official Geforce forums. Personally I have not had a single issue with my card crashing when exceeding 3.5GB of the 970s VRAM. Yes my FPS tapers off a bit but that's also probably due to the fact that in order to even achieve that much VRAM usage I have to crank up AA and use DSR. So what do you guys think? Should myself and every GTX 970 owner still be ranting and raging about this? Because personally I'm still satisfied with my purchase and I'm thinking about picking up another for SLI... (A friend of mine wants to sell his to me for a very very cheap price)

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That same video has been post all over the Net.... I didn't really make this post to debate whether or not the GTX 970s memory config is causing issues. I just wanted to inform the community of what I have decided to do with my GTX 970 based on the experience I have had, and to gather opinions from other GTX 970 owners. 

After a week of following the GTX 970 scandal. I decided to go ahead and keep my 970. I even got Newegg to make an exception return for me. But as I am writing this post I am going to cancel my RMA with them and keep the GTX 970. It sucks that Nvidia misinformed their partners in the industry on the real specs of the GPU. However after watching the latest PCPER Live show, they make a ton of valid points. The card is still a GREAT card for 329 dollars and this isn't the first time Nvidia has done something weird with memory, the only crime was just omitting the real specifications . Remember the 660ti? and its 192 bit memory interface. At the end of the day Nvidia is giving us a GTX 980 with a few SMs disabled, 8 fewer ROPS, 3.5GB+.5GB pool of VRAM and .3mb less L2 cache for 200 dollars less. I do think Nvidia should do something to regain customer loyalty besides assisting with returns, but I don't think they should send everyone with a GTX 970 a GTX 980. And in hindsight I think maybe I myself have gotten wrapped up in the Nvidia witch hunt that's currently taking place on the official Geforce forums. Personally I have not had a single issue with my card crashing when exceeding 3.5GB of the 970s VRAM. Yes my FPS tapers off a bit but that's also probably due to the fact that in order to even achieve that much VRAM usage I have to crank up AA and use DSR. So what do you guys think? Should myself and every GTX 970 owner still be ranting and raging about this? Because personally I'm still satisfied with my purchase and I'm thinking about picking up another for SLI... (A friend of mine wants to sell his to me for a very very cheap price)

After a week of following the GTX 970 scandal. I decided to go ahead and keep my 970. I even got Newegg to make an exception return for me. But as I am writing this post I am going to cancel my RMA with them and keep the GTX 970. It sucks that Nvidia misinformed their partners in the industry on the real specs of the GPU. However after watching the latest PCPER Live show, they make a ton of valid points. The card is still a GREAT card for 329 dollars and this isn't the first time Nvidia has done something weird with memory, the only crime was just omitting the real specifications . Remember the 660ti? and its 192 bit memory interface. At the end of the day Nvidia is giving us a GTX 980 with a few SMs disabled, 8 fewer ROPS, 3.5GB+.5GB pool of VRAM and .3mb less L2 cache for 200 dollars less. I do think Nvidia should do something to regain customer loyalty besides assisting with returns, but I don't think they should send everyone with a GTX 970 a GTX 980. And in hindsight I think maybe I myself have gotten wrapped up in the Nvidia witch hunt that's currently taking place on the official Geforce forums. Personally I have not had a single issue with my card crashing when exceeding 3.5GB of the 970s VRAM. Yes my FPS tapers off a bit but that's also probably due to the fact that in order to even achieve that much VRAM usage I have to crank up AA and use DSR. So what do you guys think? Should myself and every GTX 970 owner still be ranting and raging about this? Because personally I'm still satisfied with my purchase and I'm thinking about picking up another for SLI... (A friend of mine wants to sell his to me for a very very cheap price)

After a week of following the GTX 970 scandal. I decided to go ahead and keep my 970. I even got Newegg to make an exception return for me. But as I am writing this post I am going to cancel my RMA with them and keep the GTX 970. It sucks that Nvidia misinformed their partners in the industry on the real specs of the GPU. However after watching the latest PCPER Live show, they make a ton of valid points. The card is still a GREAT card for 329 dollars and this isn't the first time Nvidia has done something weird with memory, the only crime was just omitting the real specifications . Remember the 660ti? and its 192 bit memory interface. At the end of the day Nvidia is giving us a GTX 980 with a few SMs disabled, 8 fewer ROPS, 3.5GB+.5GB pool of VRAM and .3mb less L2 cache for 200 dollars less. I do think Nvidia should do something to regain customer loyalty besides assisting with returns, but I don't think they should send everyone with a GTX 970 a GTX 980. And in hindsight I think maybe I myself have gotten wrapped up in the Nvidia witch hunt that's currently taking place on the official Geforce forums. Personally I have not had a single issue with my card crashing when exceeding 3.5GB of the 970s VRAM. Yes my FPS tapers off a bit but that's also probably due to the fact that in order to even achieve that much VRAM usage I have to crank up AA and use DSR. So what do you guys think? Should myself and every GTX 970 owner still be ranting and raging about this? Because personally I'm still satisfied with my purchase and I'm thinking about picking up another for SLI... (A friend of mine wants to sell his to me for a very very cheap price)

After a week of following the GTX 970 scandal. I decided to go ahead and keep my 970. I even got Newegg to make an exception return for me. But as I am writing this post I am going to cancel my RMA with them and keep the GTX 970. It sucks that Nvidia misinformed their partners in the industry on the real specs of the GPU. However after watching the latest PCPER Live show, they make a ton of valid points. The card is still a GREAT card for 329 dollars and this isn't the first time Nvidia has done something weird with memory, the only crime was just omitting the real specifications . Remember the 660ti? and its 192 bit memory interface. At the end of the day Nvidia is giving us a GTX 980 with a few SMs disabled, 8 fewer ROPS, 3.5GB+.5GB pool of VRAM and .3mb less L2 cache for 200 dollars less. I do think Nvidia should do something to regain customer loyalty besides assisting with returns, but I don't think they should send everyone with a GTX 970 a GTX 980. And in hindsight I think maybe I myself have gotten wrapped up in the Nvidia witch hunt that's currently taking place on the official Geforce forums. Personally I have not had a single issue with my card crashing when exceeding 3.5GB of the 970s VRAM. Yes my FPS tapers off a bit but that's also probably due to the fact that in order to even achieve that much VRAM usage I have to crank up AA and use DSR. So what do you guys think? Should myself and every GTX 970 owner still be ranting and raging about this? Because personally I'm still satisfied with my purchase and I'm thinking about picking up another for SLI... (A friend of mine wants to sell his to me for a very very cheap price)

After a week of following the GTX 970 scandal. I decided to go ahead and keep my 970. I even got Newegg to make an exception return for me. But as I am writing this post I am going to cancel my RMA with them and keep the GTX 970. It sucks that Nvidia misinformed their partners in the industry on the real specs of the GPU. However after watching the latest PCPER Live show, they make a ton of valid points. The card is still a GREAT card for 329 dollars and this isn't the first time Nvidia has done something weird with memory, the only crime was just omitting the real specifications . Remember the 660ti? and its 192 bit memory interface. At the end of the day Nvidia is giving us a GTX 980 with a few SMs disabled, 8 fewer ROPS, 3.5GB+.5GB pool of VRAM and .3mb less L2 cache for 200 dollars less. I do think Nvidia should do something to regain customer loyalty besides assisting with returns, but I don't think they should send everyone with a GTX 970 a GTX 980. And in hindsight I think maybe I myself have gotten wrapped up in the Nvidia witch hunt that's currently taking place on the official Geforce forums. Personally I have not had a single issue with my card crashing when exceeding 3.5GB of the 970s VRAM. Yes my FPS tapers off a bit but that's also probably due to the fact that in order to even achieve that much VRAM usage I have to crank up AA and use DSR. So what do you guys think? Should myself and every GTX 970 owner still be ranting and raging about this? Because personally I'm still satisfied with my purchase and I'm thinking about picking up another for SLI... (A friend of mine wants to sell his to me for a very very cheap price)

After a week of following the GTX 970 scandal. I decided to go ahead and keep my 970. I even got Newegg to make an exception return for me. But as I am writing this post I am going to cancel my RMA with them and keep the GTX 970. It sucks that Nvidia misinformed their partners in the industry on the real specs of the GPU. However after watching the latest PCPER Live show, they make a ton of valid points. The card is still a GREAT card for 329 dollars and this isn't the first time Nvidia has done something weird with memory, the only crime was just omitting the real specifications . Remember the 660ti? and its 192 bit memory interface. At the end of the day Nvidia is giving us a GTX 980 with a few SMs disabled, 8 fewer ROPS, 3.5GB+.5GB pool of VRAM and .3mb less L2 cache for 200 dollars less. I do think Nvidia should do something to regain customer loyalty besides assisting with returns, but I don't think they should send everyone with a GTX 970 a GTX 980. And in hindsight I think maybe I myself have gotten wrapped up in the Nvidia witch hunt that's currently taking place on the official Geforce forums. Personally I have not had a single issue with my card crashing when exceeding 3.5GB of the 970s VRAM. Yes my FPS tapers off a bit but that's also probably due to the fact that in order to even achieve that much VRAM usage I have to crank up AA and use DSR. So what do you guys think? Should myself and every GTX 970 owner still be ranting and raging about this? Because personally I'm still satisfied with my purchase and I'm thinking about picking up another for SLI... (A friend of mine wants to sell his to me for a very very cheap price)

Just thought you guys would like to know that Peter Sierant "Senior Director of Customer Care" at Nvidia  is on the Geforce forums offering to help customers get their 970s exchanged. 
Here is the link 
https://forums.geforce.com/default/topic/803518/geforce-900-series/gtx-970-3-5gb-vram-issue/post/4438196/#4438196
 
 
He also mentioned that Nvidia is currently working on a driver that may address the issue with the slower .5GB  of VRAM

#Update.. Went with the EVGA SC GTX 970.I was surprised to find out that the particular model that I got also has a 0 decibel mode, fans dont kick in until 65C. So far I am really happy with the purchase. I am able to max out most the settings in Assassins Creed Unity and stay above 45 fps. Now I just need to find a good Z97 board to go along with my Core i7 4790k that I got from the Intel Holiday Deal. 

I love EVGAs customer service which is why I go with their cards most of the time. Just dealt with them back in November and they went above and beyond to get my GTX 770 replaced.

I love EVGAs customer service which is why I go with their cards most of the time. Just dealt with them back in November and they went above and beyond to get my GTX 770 replaced.

I actually work for Geek Squad. But it was actually cheaper to price match it to Tiger Direct  for 299... Plus I could use my employee discount on the service plan. Common misconception though BestBuy has made great strides to make sure we are competitive on our prices, and if you find it for less on another respectable E-Retailier they will price match it for you. But to get it back on track. Im glad to hear that my choice was a good one. 

I actually work for Geek Squad. But it was actually cheaper to price match it to Tiger Direct  for 299... Plus I could use my employee discount on the service plan. Common misconception though BestBuy has made great strides to make sure we are competitive on our prices, and if you find it for less on another respectable E-Retailier they will price match it for you. But to get it back on track. Im glad to hear that my choice was a good one.