GTX 970 Questions

[smush]

Hi

I'm looking to get a GTX 970 but wanted to know if it could give good fps in games (no noticable lag) on a 27" IPS monitor at 1440p or a 120hz 1080P with the games on ultra (games like Batman Arkham, Battlefield 4 and similar hardware taxing games to come out in the next 1-2 years)?

Also are there any performance differences between the Gigabyte and MSI cards?

 

[unknownofprob]

This will answer all of your questions but one -

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/NVIDIA/GeForce_GTX_970_SLI/3.html

"Also are there any performance differences between the Gigabyte and MSI cards"

Both are great and neither can be called better, as they both have their advantages, but to me the Gigabyte one is my personal favourite. Take colour scheme as factor also.

 

[oxiide]

I don't know if you'll be able to run every game at their utter maximum settings and keep 60 FPS across the board at 1440p, or 120 FPS at 1080p. Always tweak your settings. But yeah, if you're planning to spend $330 the 970 is the best choice by far at present.

Gigabyte and MSI (and anyone else) are responsible for their own cooler and PCB designs, but they're selling you the same GPU chip that comes from Nvidia. The only performance difference may come from slightly differing factory overclocks, but a GTX 970 really deserves a big homemade overclock far past the factory ones. Both Gigabyte and MSI are excellent and build great third-party coolers.