So what 980 TI cardS to buy? (getting 2 of them)

[UsernamePassword]

I am looking at all of these

 

http://www.amazon.com/ZOTAC-GeForce-DisplayPort-Graphics-ZT-90505-10P/dp/B00YOJ91YO/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1441921604&sr=8-1&keywords=zotac+gtx+980+TI

 

http://www.amazon.com/Gigabyte-GeForce-GV-N98TG1-Gaming-Graphics/dp/B00ZJP9DMC/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1441921583&sr=8-1&keywords=gtx+980+TI+g1

 

http://www.amazon.com/GeForce-384-Bit-GDDR5-Graphics-STRIX-GTX980TI-DC3-6GD5-GAMING/dp/B013XFK0SK/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1441921458&sr=8-2&keywords=asus+strix+980+TI

 

http://www.amazon.com/MSI-GTX-980TI-GAMING-6G/dp/B0106QZE62/ref=sr_1_2?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1441921519&sr=1-2&keywords=980+TI

 

What cards is the "best" ? (By looking at benchmarks so does the Zotac seem to dominate all of them, but what is your experience? What would you get?

Or is there any other? (Like evga?)

 

Cheers

[LancerBG]

I personally do not buy cards with factory overclocks. I like to buy cards that have stock settings but have upgraded coolers. I dont see the need to pay more for an overclock I can do myself. Now if you are trying something crazy with it then ok I can see the reasoning for buying the premium versions. 

[Curufinwe_wins]

Assuming you are in US:

 

EVGA ACX 2.0 is bad. (Classy and KP are great, but not worth price premium)
 

Strix is awful

 

MSI is ok at everything

 

G1 is very powerful, but often loud and has the most consistently complained about coil whine

 

Zotac is very powerful as well but is huge (LIKE INSANELY HUGE).

 

There is also Powercolor (but I don't know too much about them) and Galax (HOF is very good)

 

 

But again if you are willing to overclock GM200 is basically a lock for 1500-1520 Boost and there is basically no difference whatsoever between the two outside of Si Lottery. So grab the one that you like best and call it a day.

 

See the Jayztwocents Kingpin Review

 

[jhurst117]

Honestly if you're going to get 2 cards id wait for the furyx2 at this point dual gpu card for around the same price bound to give you way better performance and will only get better through dx12 and Vulkan

[Curufinwe_wins]

BTW if you are grabbing two cards, I'd personally not recommend 3 slot coolers for sli and in fact I would recommend an AIO as the top card (like the EVGA Hybrid) with any of these coolers below it, as a top AIO massively reduces case temps for sli.

[Curufinwe_wins]

Honestly if you're going to get 2 cards id wait for the furyx2 at this point dual gpu card for around the same price bound to give you way better performance and will only get better through dx12 and Vulkan

Just saying the AoS benchmarks have the 980ti and fury x completely neck to neck (AT REFERENCE hahaha cya fiji) across the board.

[FatPenguin]

 

 

EVGA ACX 2.0 is bad. (Classy and KP are great, but not worth price premium)

Bro acx 2.0 is the shit

[Curufinwe_wins]

Bro acx 2.0 is the shit

It's bad man. IMHO they went way to far on the silent side and made the gpu hotter than basically everyone else's while other implementations are basically just as quiet (Palit Super Jetstream is a really good example of it.) And if you turn up fan speed it becomes basically sub par for the course at noise as well.

[FatPenguin]

It's bad man. IMHO they went way to far on the silent side and made the gpu hotter than basically everyone else's while other implementations are basically just as quiet (Palit Super Jetstream is a really good example of it.) And if you turn up fan speed it becomes basically sub par for the course at noise as well.

but it is still a nice cooler i'm getting a gtx 970 ssc ACX 2.0

[Curufinwe_wins]

but it is still a nice cooler i'm getting a gtx 970 ssc ACX 2.0

Well for a 145 W TDP card yea its overkill. I mean really all of the 970 coolers are massive overkill, hell even reference on that card is super strong temps wise.

 

It's not very good for a 250 W TDP card.

[KarateHottie93]

Here you go my good sir.

http://galaxstore.net/GALAX-NVIDIA-GeForce-GTX-980-Ti-HOF-6GB_p_82.html

[Zah]

Well for a 145 W TDP card yea its overkill. I mean really all of the 970 coolers are massive overkill, hell even reference on that card is super strong temps wise.

 

It's not very good for a 250 W TDP card.

Pretty much this.  I plan on watercooling my Classy though because holy shit it gets hot and loud fast.

[Praesi]

I personally do not buy cards with factory overclocks. I like to buy cards that have stock settings but have upgraded coolers. I dont see the need to pay more for an overclock I can do myself. Now if you are trying something crazy with it then ok I can see the reasoning for buying the premium versions. 

Because you get good Performance. You can never be sure to get a good overclocker yourself. And you dont risk Lifespan of your card. There are enough reasons.

[Praesi]

 

I am looking at all of these

 

http://www.amazon.com/ZOTAC-GeForce-DisplayPort-Graphics-ZT-90505-10P/dp/B00YOJ91YO/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1441921604&sr=8-1&keywords=zotac+gtx+980+TI

 

http://www.amazon.com/Gigabyte-GeForce-GV-N98TG1-Gaming-Graphics/dp/B00ZJP9DMC/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1441921583&sr=8-1&keywords=gtx+980+TI+g1

 

http://www.amazon.com/GeForce-384-Bit-GDDR5-Graphics-STRIX-GTX980TI-DC3-6GD5-GAMING/dp/B013XFK0SK/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1441921458&sr=8-2&keywords=asus+strix+980+TI

 

http://www.amazon.com/MSI-GTX-980TI-GAMING-6G/dp/B0106QZE62/ref=sr_1_2?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1441921519&sr=1-2&keywords=980+TI

 

What cards is the "best" ? (By looking at benchmarks so does the Zotac seem to dominate all of them, but what is your experience? What would you get?

Or is there any other? (Like evga?)

 

Cheers

 

I own the Zotac and its a Monster with insane amount of Power. Its almost ridiculous how fast this card is.

But SLI this could be a Problem. 3 Slots each Card, you need a Mainboard that can handle this.