GTX 970 Brand help

[Duclos42]

So I am looking to build my 1st pc, and I decided to get the GTX 970. But I'm really confused on the difference between brands. They are all 970's, what is different between say an MSI, and a EVGA card. I want to make sure i get the best price for performance out of my card, and I'm not sure what brand to go with. Any help at all would be great, I'm really new to all of this and not very knowledgeable 

[zlolslavez]

The different brands will differ in noise, cooling, and clock speed.

 

I personally don't like EVGA's, and would recommend anything else.

[Comessy]

Clock speeds, Cooler and power delivery are the main ones

[skullbringer]

Just pick what is cheapest for you from EVGA, Asus, MSI or Gigabyte.

[dmanschramm]

@Duclos42

I would personally recommend the Gigabyte G1 Gaming edition card for the GTX 970. I have a friend who owns one and have read countless claiming it to be the best.

I back up the fact that EVGA is not the way to go. They had a couple heat pipe issues that have made me lose trust in the EVGA 970.

The Asus Strix had some coil whine issues, along with certain MSI 970s (some not all). I have a Zotac and it works great, and Linus did a review of their Amp! editions which I recommend as well. But because they are a newer company, I would opt for the Gigabyte if I had known next time.

 

Hope this helps

[Zhuocheng]

Got to get the G1 Gaming

[W-L]

So I am looking to build my 1st pc, and I decided to get the GTX 970. But I'm really confused on the difference between brands. They are all 970's, what is different between say an MSI, and a EVGA card. I want to make sure i get the best price for performance out of my card, and I'm not sure what brand to go with. Any help at all would be great, I'm really new to all of this and not very knowledgeable 

 

For card performance it's pretty ubiquitous that the Gigabyte G1 gaming does tend to get the best overclocks due to their binning process. As for differences our of the box it's usually higher clock or memory speeds between cards and the 0db function on the strix cards on idle which can done now with a GPU BIOS flash to enable 0db.

[C_Mike]

There's not a massive difference.

 

If you're doing a build with a budget just get the cheapest card you can.

 

EVGA, MSI, Asus, Gigabyte and Zotac are all good choices.