Looking to buy a gtx 970 or 980. Which company is best?

[bf314159]

Hi everyone, so i am looking to buy a gtx 980 or 970, but there are so many different companies that make them that i am not sure which is best. Some i cant tell the difference between the two because the cooling is similar, the power delivery is similar, etc. Any suggestions? Price doesn't really matter....so getting the cheapest one is great, but...... 

 

Thanks!

[SeanAngelo]

Hi everyone, so i am looking to buy a gtx 980 or 970, but there are so many different companies that make them that i am not sure which is best. Some i cant tell the difference between the two because the cooling is similar, the power delivery is similar, etc. Any suggestions? Price doesn't really matter....so getting the cheapest one is great, but...... 

 

Thanks!

EVGA and Gigabyte are my choices

[LIGISTX]

MSI, Asus, EVGA. Or gigabyte. All are just fine and about equal. Personally I like EVGA, but no real reason.

[RuLeZ]

Just dont buy GTX 980 pls, its overpriced. Get some GTX 970, R9 390, AMD Fury or GTX 980 Ti, but not GTX 980.

[shypin]

i like ASUS / EVGA

[connorpiper]

MSI (If you can get over that red), EVGA (For quiet, reliable cards), and Gigabyte (For overclocking).

[Rampiks]

Gigabyte for best cooling (and best OC) MSI for the most quiet 970 cooler and second best cooling/OC and EVGA for their Support

[bf314159]

MSI, Asus, EVGA. Or gigabyte. All are just fine and about equal. Personally I like EVGA, but no real reason.

So it is just preference? so most of them are similar, right?

 

 

Just dont buy GTX 980 pls, its overpriced. Get some GTX 970, R9 390, AMD Fury or GTX 980 Ti, but not GTX 980.

 

kk good to know. I am not going to buy AMD because i use nvidia 3d vision...

[bf314159]

Gigabyte for best cooling (and best OC) MSI for the most quiet 970 cooler and second best cooling/OC and EVGA for their Support

ok thanks, what about asus?

[LIGISTX]

Asus is right in there as well. Asus support is ok, EVGA has the best support.

 

As far as cooling goes, sure the gigabtyte windforce cards have great cooling, but so do the EVGA ACX and the ASUS DCUII cards. Honestly, whichever looks cooler and matches the color scheme you want. They will all perform the same and cool the same. Performance really depends on luck, a good chip will OC higher, a lesser chip will OC less, and that is mostly luck. Some cards have specifically "binned" chips on them to make sure they are higher quality, windforce chips may have this, but then the ASUS top end boards usually have WAY amazing power delivery which helps OC as well and keeps things more stable. So its a crap shoot.

 

Get what looks best.

[Guest]

if you want the absolute best of the best 

http://galaxstore.net/GALAX-NVIDIA-GeForce-GTX-980-HOF-4GB_p_39.html

[Rampiks]

ok thanks, what about asus?

i would keep away ftom Asus strix 970 because of its vad cooler and it cant hardly OC at all

[iludez]

G1 gaming all day

[Rampiks]

Asus is right in there as well. Asus support is ok, EVGA has the best support.

As far as cooling goes, sure the gigabtyte windforce cards have great cooling, but so do the EVGA ACX and the ASUS DCUII cards. Honestly, whichever looks cooler and matches the color scheme you want. They will all perform the same and cool the same. Performance really depends on luck, a good chip will OC higher, a lesser chip will OC less, and that is mostly luck. Some cards have specifically "binned" chips on them to make sure they are higher quality, windforce chips may have this, but then the ASUS top end boards usually have WAY amazing power delivery which helps OC as well and keeps things more stable. So its a crap shoot.

Get what looks best.

Remember that the Asus strix 970 has a single 8 pin? its power delivery neither is great and is a very bad overclocker