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Old 12-10-2014, 08:01 PM   #1272
bcblues
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What brand of 970 have you guys gone with? I've pretty much made up my mind to dump the 290 in favor of a 970 since I acquired some Amazon gift cards. The 980 doesn't really seem worth it price/performance gain wise, and 780tis are going for more than 970s but benching lower.

The EVGA ACX2.0 SC is tempting, and IMO looks the best, but it's about $70 more than the Gigabyte G1 model which seems to perform and cool very well, and aesthetics are not a huge concern. Apparently EVGA also dropped the ball on the ACX1.0 heat pipe design, but that has allegedly been fixed in the 2.0 model.

Thoughts? I'm leaning towards the Gigabyte at $360.
I have the EVGA 970 SC ACX 2.0. I have no coil whine at all. But I have had some stability problems, which I assume are driver related. I am in the process of sorting that out. Performance is really good though, better than I expected (except the stability issues, which may be another component - I am working through the possibilities). I paid $349 shipped from Newegg, not on sale.
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