REV 1.1 is just a different VRM area Layout, no links or relation to coil whine from what I'm seeing. It is not just a BIOS update however from what is seen. To also note you will see cases of an RMA to a REV 1.1 which solves coil whine, as the point I have stated an RMA is of course an option. The solved coil whine from an RMA to REV 1.0 to 1.1 is of no way related to the 'quality'.
"'GTX 970 has been a pure virtual (no reference card) launch, which means all of NVIDIA’s partners are launching their custom cards right out of the gate. A lot of these have been recycled or otherwise only slightly modified GTX 700/600 series designs, owing to the fact that GM204’s memory bus has been held at 256-bits and its power requirements are so low.''
Just realized you used this quote before and is what your basing your argument around but here’s an easy response to that -
Lovely quote though take note of the bolded word. This does not indicate that the board is exactly the same, just a similar 'design' to previous models. They owed it to the fact of it's similarity, but they did not owe it to be the same. I hope you can realise that they are referring 'recycled' to the PCB board, not the parts in which the board holds. Also to note, The GTX 980 is 256-bit and also has a low power consumption which would only indicate it is targeted exactly the same as the GTX 970, and the non-reference GTX 980's would also appear to then use the 'recycled' PCB and 'design'. Thus to conclude this part makes the quality the same, and your whole opinion invalid. If you can give sufficient reasoning to why using an unused PCB in storage is bad or degrades Nvidia, please explain.
"so it would seem NVidia is not pleased with whats going on with this ????"
Nvidia have not even said a word from what you've listed and stated.
"I see you got this card and now feel you got to defend your buy-- "
I don't currently even own a Nvidia card, keep invalid points out of it.
"why would they lie ???"
You have interpreted it completely wrong. To say it again, Companies such as Gigabyte have just used their pre-manufactured board from an older series (Windforce 3X to be precise), it's not used before nor has anything wrong with it, it's just they wanted to save money and earn more, as a business tends to do. The PCB used is the same as any other, nothing special if it were new or not, nor would it make a difference either. To go even further, the PCB is still new, it has only been in storage, nothing out of the ordinary in terms of your definition of 'quality'. There is absolutely nothing related to faulty parts or bad 980's used on it, as your implying too. Further on it’s quality, The pre-manufactured PCB’s are exactly the same as your classification of the ‘NEW’lineup, the new PCB’s printed will be exactly the same, use the same parts (The parts on the board are different to that then what was on the 600/700 lineup), and use the same chips. So in reality the difference is (Gigabyte used example) - 970 - Uses a new board that was in storage, which utilizes brand new components / - 980 - Has an identical printed board, also new. No relation to bad parts used, again. From this I have not changed my argument to suit, after the quote you gave me I only needed to explain what it really means. As far as my initial message goes, it means exactly the same.
"sorry your so easy to please .. and you seem like the type they see coming a mile away"
Not even acceptable in an argument. I'm not here to please, I'm only hear to help and to crack down on misused information for this particular thread.
Sarcasm is of poor defence to a comeback also.