EVGA GeForce GTX 970

[cubies1982]

Hey guys,

 

I'm gonna be buying a EVGA GeForce GTX 970 soon but I am confused which model I should get;

 

http://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Components/Graphics+Cards/NVIDIA+GeForce/GeForce+GTX+970/?x=12&p_brand=468&p=cF9zdHlsZT0mcF9wcm9kdWN0c1BlclBhZ2U9Jg==

 

Could someone please help pick out the best model?

[Geekazoid]

Hey guys,

I'm gonna be buying a EVGA GeForce GTX 970 soon but I am confused which model I should get;

http://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Components/Graphics+Cards/NVIDIA+GeForce/GeForce+GTX+970/?x=12&p_brand=468&p=cF9zdHlsZT0mcF9wcm9kdWN0c1BlclBhZ2U9Jg==

Could someone please help pick out the best model?

Heard about the memory and performance problems with all GTX 970 GPUs?

[Guest]

Just get the one with the ACX cooler. SC cards and FTW cards aren't really worth it for anything but the very best. You can hit the overclock of the SC cards easily yourself.

[Wind]

The FTW ACX 2.0 is nice.

[Oshino Shinobu]

Go for this one http://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Components/Graphics+Cards/NVIDIA+GeForce/GeForce+GTX+970/EVGA+GeForce+GTX+970+Superclocked+ACX+2.0+Cooler+4GB+Nvidia+%28Maxwell%29+Graphics+Card+?productId=62202

 

The only difference is the GPU clock, which you can overclock yourself. 

 

Or you can get it cheaper from Scan http://www.scan.co.uk/products/4gb-evga-gtx-970-superclocked-acx-20-cooling-7010mhz-gddr5-gpu-1165mhz-boost-1317mhz-1664-cores-1xdp

[cubies1982]

Just get the one with the ACX cooler. SC cards and FTW cards aren't really worth it for anything but the very best. You can hit the overclock of the SC cards easily yourself.

I'm sorry I'm kinda out of touch, what does ACX, SC and FTW stand for?

[Paralectic]

Heard about the memory and performance problems with all GTX 970 GPUs?

There aren't any performance issues, except the vram limit.

[IrshaadH]

wait for the FTW+ edition which will come out with ACX 2.0 and a backplate

[cubies1982]

wait for the FTW+ edition which will come out with ACX 2.0 and a backplate

Is it coming out soon?

[Guest]

I'm sorry I'm kinda out of touch, what does ACX, SC and FTW stand for?

 

ACX is the name of their custom cooler. The one with the 2 large fans. The SC (superclocked) version comes with a factory overclock, but you can overclock it yourself if you really want to. The FTW cards are meant for overclocking, with a custom PCB and a few other other nice additions. Those cards are only relevant if you want to overclock it with extreme cooling or something similar.

[cubies1982]

Go for this one http://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Components/Graphics+Cards/NVIDIA+GeForce/GeForce+GTX+970/EVGA+GeForce+GTX+970+Superclocked+ACX+2.0+Cooler+4GB+Nvidia+%28Maxwell%29+Graphics+Card+?productId=62202

 

The only difference is the GPU clock, which you can overclock yourself. 

 

Or you can get it cheaper from Scan http://www.scan.co.uk/products/4gb-evga-gtx-970-superclocked-acx-20-cooling-7010mhz-gddr5-gpu-1165mhz-boost-1317mhz-1664-cores-1xdp

Thanks for the link and the additional cheaper link.

[Oshino Shinobu]

wait for the FTW+ edition which will come out with ACX 2.0 and a backplate

 

 

Is it coming out soon?

I wouldn't bother waiting for it. The backplate is nice, but can be bought anyway, and the very slight performance increase isn't worth the increase in price. 

[Geekazoid]

There aren't any performance issues, except the vram limit.

That's what I'm talking about. It's because of that limit that the memory bandwidth drops which, in affect, reduces that GPUs performance.

[cubies1982]

ACX is the name of their custom cooler. The one with the 2 large fans. The SC (superclocked) version comes with a factory overclock, but you can overclock it yourself if you really want to. The FTW cards are meant for overclocking, with a custom PCB and a few other other nice additions. Those cards are only relevant if you want to overclock it with extreme cooling or something similar.

So they're all pretty much identical hardware it's just the cooling system that is different?

[cubies1982]

I'm hoping this graphics card will allow me to turn the graphics settings to maximum.

[1Scotty1]

Get the SSC as I did... FTW is not worth it... 25€ for 26Hz difference from SSC

[ciphercore]

I would take a look at these posts before buying a GTX970.   

 

http://www.reddit.com/r/nvidia/comments/2tehtm/nvidias_gtx970_has_a_rather_serious_memory/

 

http://www.reddit.com/r/pcgaming/comments/2s2968/gtx970_memoryvram_allocation_bug/

[cubies1982]

I would take a look at these posts before buying a GTX970.   

 

http://www.reddit.com/r/nvidia/comments/2tehtm/nvidias_gtx970_has_a_rather_serious_memory/

 

http://www.reddit.com/r/pcgaming/comments/2s2968/gtx970_memoryvram_allocation_bug/

What GPU are you using at the moment?