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performance, cooling, and price are the three things you should be thinking about when considering brands, as well as information we need to help you. There really isn't a "best" brand, but if you want certain things that definitely narrows it down.

 

Cooling: Gigabyte

Performance: EVGA

Price: Zotac

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Gigabyte Windforce and G1 gaming are 2 great options, same for the strix and some of the EVGA cards, and I'm pretty sure MSI has some good ones too.

 

I personally am getting the EVGA SC ACX 2.0 as its one of the cheaper 970s, isn't terribly loud, I find that it looks great, and cools decently.

Specs: CPU - Intel i7 8700K @ 5GHz | GPU - Gigabyte GTX 970 G1 Gaming | Motherboard - ASUS Strix Z370-G WIFI AC | RAM - XPG Gammix DDR4-3000MHz 32GB (2x16GB) | Main Drive - Samsung 850 Evo 500GB M.2 | Other Drives - 7TB/3 Drives | CPU Cooler - Corsair H100i Pro | Case - Fractal Design Define C Mini TG | Power Supply - EVGA G3 850W

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performance, cooling, and price are the three things you should be thinking about when considering brands, as well as information we need to help you. There really isn't a "best" brand, but if you want certain things that definitely narrows it down.

 

Cooling: Gigabyte

Performance: EVGA

Price: Zotac


CPU: Intel Core i7-4790K 4.0GHz Quad-Core Processor

CPU Cooler: Corsair H105 73.0 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler

Motherboard: MSI Z97-GAMING 5 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard

Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory

Storage: Kingston SSDNow V300 Series 240GB 2.5" Solid State Drive

Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive

Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 750 Ti 2GB TWIN FROZR Video Card

Power Supply: Corsair Builder 500W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply

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hi guys Happy new year!!! i hope you guys have an awesome year and so the ltt team, so the thing is, i wanna buy a 970 but i dont know which brand to get, so i want your help in this one, so bring it

 

Silence: Asus STRIX, MSI Twin Frozr, Evga ACX 2.0 (0db mode)

 

Performance: Gigabyte WINDFORCE 3X

 

Price: Zotac Reference/Omega

 

Crazy why-would-you-buy-it but super cool: Zotac Extreme Edition

4790k @ 4.6 (1.25 adaptive) // 2x GTX 970 stock clocks/voltage // Dominator Platnium 4x4 16G //Maximus Formula VII // WD Black1TB + 128GB 850 PRO // RM1000 // NZXT H440 // Razer Blackwidow Ultimate 2013 (MX Blue) // Corsair M95 + Steelseries QCK // Razer Adaro DJ // AOC I2757FH

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Gigabyte's model stays the coolest, but has some coil whine at high fan speeds.

EVGA's FTW model will overclock really well. Their Superclocked models I'm not a fan of since I've never had good luck with them... every Superclocked card I got from them had almost zero overclocking headroom above factory clock.

Asus' STRIX model stays really quiet.

MSI's Twin Frozr model I'm not a fan of... doesn't really pull ahead in any regard. Their Twin Frozr isn't as good as it was back in the days of GTX 500, 600 and HD 7000 series cards.

Zotac's is the cheapest but has noisy fan at high load.

Intel i5-4690K @ 3.8GHz || Gigabyte Z97X-SLI || 8GB G.Skill Ripjaws X 1600MHz || Asus GTX 760 2GB @ 1150 / 6400 || 128GB A-Data SX900 + 1TB Toshiba 7200RPM || Corsair RM650 || Fractal 3500W

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