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I dont know what brand to get... can you tell me what brand to get and the pros/cons of each?

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All 970's perform within the margins of each other.

 

Just pick the one that aesthetically pleases you and fits your PC's color scheme.

 

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I dont know what brand to get... can you tell me what brand to get and the pros/cons of each?

Roughly all the same... Different coolers, some overclock better than others. Theres Reference,EVGA,Gigabyte,MSI,Galax,ASUS. The Gigabyte and Galax one over clocks the best imo, the Galax and Reference card looks the best tho. They're both alluminum or metal.

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The con of buying an EVGA GTX 970 is that they cheaped out on the cooler for it using something from another series of cards.  Do not give them your money.

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The con of buying an EVGA GTX 970 is that they cheaped out on the cooler for it using something from another series of cards.  Do not give them your money.

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With certain versions they did cheap out and in that pic there it doesn't show me that they didn't do it with this cooler either.  Bottom line is they did it once with the GTX 900 series and once is too much so I'd rather give money to other companies and I think others would too.

http://www.reddit.com/r/hardware/comments/2h32xb/the_acx_cooler_used_on_the_evga_gtx_970_appears/

.. and even Linus made mention of this.

http://pcpartpicker.com/forums/topic/51862-gtx-970-question

http://hardforum.com/archive/index.php/t-1834613.html

Just regular people commenting on what EVGA did in the above links.

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The wrong cards to buy:

  1. Zotac's. The regular model has cooling problems, and the AMP! versions are bad overclockers; it's hard to OC, and they don't go as far - they are also super expensive.
  2. Asus Strix. With one of the worst customer services, the card is also outperformed in cooling, silence and raw fps by the MSI Gaming 4g. And what's worse: it costs more.
  3. EVGA -insert random naming scheme here-. I find their coolers too ugly to look at, but that's me. Besides, they tend to cost more than other brands, because you are paying extra money for the best customer service ever and a bigger warranty. But that's somewhat pointless, if your card doesn't break, you'll never use such features at all! The only reason to pick this brand is when you plan to overvolt or watercool your card; EVGA is the only one that provides warranty in those cenarios.
  4. Gigabyte G1 Gaming. The card is awesome! However, there is a card with just as much performance and lower price: the Gigabyte Windforce.
  5. Any blower type cooler, unless you are going for an SLI config.

So what I actually recommend is one of these 2. Get the cheapest, or pick one if both are at the same price. They are:

  • Gigabyte Windforce: Best temperatures out there, and slightly higher OCing than the second option.
  • MSI Gaming 4G: Quietest card, still OCs like a beast (but not as much as the GA card). It's also shorter, if your case can't fit the Windforce coolers.

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I would go Asus Strix or EVGA FTW.

 

Asus Strix - very quiet

EVGA FTW - good overclocking, some people have coil whine at high load, EVGA has excellent customer support

EVGA Superclocked - not had good experiences with them (my Superclocked card could only OC about 6% past factory speed)

Gigabyte - great temps, though the 3x coolers are heavy and sag a bit, and many report coil whine

Zotac - cheap but coil whine and not much overclocking

MSI Gaming - not a fan... seems to not overclock as well as Asus, Gigabyte or EVGA cards, but is relatively quiet.... just not as good as the oldschool Twin Frozr in terms of temps.

 

Looking at benches it seems that Gigabyte Gaming G1 and EVGA FTW cards are at the front of the pack in the GTX 970s and 980s.

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MSI Gaming - not a fan... seems to not overclock as well as Asus, Gigabyte or EVGA cards, but is relatively quiet.... just not as good as the oldschool Twin Frozr in terms of temps.

I'm sorry, but this information is just plain wrong. Every single review I see out there manages to OC the MSI higher than the Asus. And it's not "relatively quiet", it's THE quietest card, tied/above the Asus Strix.

 

OC is slightly lower than Gigabyte and some EVGAs, though. Just remember it's a lot cheaper as well.

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With certain versions they did cheap out and in that pic there it doesn't show me that they didn't do it with this cooler either.  Bottom line is they did it once with the GTX 900 series and once is too much so I'd rather give money to other companies and I think others would too.

http://www.reddit.com/r/hardware/comments/2h32xb/the_acx_cooler_used_on_the_evga_gtx_970_appears/

.. and even Linus made mention of this.

http://pcpartpicker.com/forums/topic/51862-gtx-970-question

http://hardforum.com/archive/index.php/t-1834613.html

Just regular people commenting on what EVGA did in the above links.

those reviews are correct, but didnt they debunk the third heatpipe as a faux\passive pipe? bit-techs picture proves it because it shows that the pipe is not sealed.

also, these observations were made almost right when they released the cards. and if im not mistaken they did take the ACX cooler from the 780 and reuse it.

didnt Gigabyte do the same with the windforce, and ASUS with its DirectCUII? all manufactures reuse their tech to save on initial costs.

 

they did rework the heatpipe issue

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Asus Strix

 

I have it and it is silent when not in game or GPU intensive application, and it does overclock nicely.

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Was hoping to pick up one of the 8GB variants but seems they have been delayed. :(

 

http://www.kdramastars.com/articles/65114/20141231/gtx-980-and-970-8gb-release-date.htm

Uh... are you a content creator that ACTUALLY can make use of extra VRam? Because if you're just a gamer, 8gb VRam = waste of money. In fact, even for such people, there are better cards for the job, other than the 900 series.

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I'm sorry, but this information is just plain wrong. Every single review I see out there manages to OC the MSI higher than the Asus. And it's not "relatively quiet", it's THE quietest card, tied/above the Asus Strix.

 

OC is slightly lower than Gigabyte and some EVGAs, though. Just remember it's a lot cheaper as well.

 

woops not sure why I included Asus in that. Not great OCers from what I recall, just good noise levels.

And in terms of noise it seems I didn't really look into it. Looks like Gigabyte G1, Strix and MSI Gaming all have about the same noise levels.

http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/asus_geforce_gtx_980_strix_review,10.html

 

Seems the gaming card is better than the Strix card then

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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Uh... are you a content creator that ACTUALLY can make use of extra VRam? Because if you're just a gamer, 8gb VRam = waste of money. In fact, even for such people, there are better cards for the job, other than the 900 series.

 

No, not a content creator. Yes I can make use of more than 4GB VRAM. If you know of some alternatives with equal or better performance, equal or less power consumption and equal or greater performance then I would be interested.

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The EVGA cooling system was re-designed on the latest SCC release. 

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