Are all gtx 970s like this?

[gac77]

Looking to get another gtx 970 for a new build. But after hearing about the ram issue, I would like to know if this issue is common to all brands of the 979. The sales guy at frys said it only was on the EVGA and Gigabyte brands.

 

[Sakkura]

Yes, it applies to all versions of the GTX 970 since it's the way it was designed by Nvidia.

 

[junkeymonkey]

looks like fry's lie's to make a sale or the guy seen a sucker coming with $$.. that's plumb sad for them to resort to that

 

[Benab3]

That person has straight up lied to you. It is EVERY 970 that has the issue, BUT it is stilla fantastic gpu especially for the price and performs excellently in anything.

 

[gac77]

Thanks for the info. I figured it was, but thought I would check here to make sure. I was also looking at the r9 290x as its dang near the same price.

So what card would you suggest me getting?

I thought about the gigabyte G1 or the MSI gaming. The G1 sounds like a solid card, but I read on the gigabyte forums it has some kind of port issue where it doesn't detect the monitor.

 

[Benab3]

even though that the 970 has a small chunk of slow memory I would recommend it over the r9 290x and that is what I would buy.

 

[Bros1929]

Thanks for the info. I figured it was, but thought I would check here to make sure. I was also looking at the r9 290x as its dang near the same price.

So what card would you suggest me getting?

I thought about the gigabyte G1 or the MSI gaming. The G1 sounds like a solid card, but I read on the gigabyte forums it has some kind of port issue where it doesn't detect the monitor.

Usually the nvidia counterpart will run cooler than the amd card right out of the box. But, replacing thermal compound and water cooling any card will make it run cooler. So the question you need to look at is not which one would outperform the other, but rather which one do you have a preference for? I personally would get the EVGA 970, but thats just because I'm an EVGA fanboy and like nvidia products better. Why? I dont know, just the way I roll.

 

[Sakkura]

Thanks for the info. I figured it was, but thought I would check here to make sure. I was also looking at the r9 290x as its dang near the same price.

So what card would you suggest me getting?

I thought about the gigabyte G1 or the MSI gaming. The G1 sounds like a solid card, but I read on the gigabyte forums it has some kind of port issue where it doesn't detect the monitor.

Personally I would go with an R9 290 (without the X), it's cheaper and has only slightly less performance. But the GTX 970 is still a really good card, you do get lower power consumption for the extra money.

 

[renz496]

Looking to get another gtx 970 for a new build. But after hearing about the ram issue, I would like to know if this issue is common to all brands of the 979. The sales guy at frys said it only was on the EVGA and Gigabyte brands.

it was not an issue to begin with. yes there might be problem but nvidia decides to design 970 that way. AFAIK it was an improvement to what they did on their older cards where they make weird combination of memory bus and memory amount (like GTX660). if you're going for s single 970 only the VRAM issue might not even going to affect you. but it is a different story with SLI.