GTX 970 still worth to buy?

[saintequila]

On regards of its recent vram issues being only 3.5gb not 4gb, is it still worth it to buy and to game with it for years to come? Im only playing on a 1080p monitor with all these next gens to come.

 

[Bossyfins]

Yes. If you just play at 1080p, it beats the 290x. So yes. But of course, the price is a little more, but its nice.

 

[AMDThunder]

IMO, yes. And still on Tom's recommended lit for the price point.

 

[-Lone-]

At 1080p, you would only need like 2GB of VRAM for most games, so the gtx 970 would still be the best option for you if you want to game at 1080p ultra.

 

[saintequila]

im not going to max all of my games though, just high for next gens and maybe just mod some. So I can play it with no issues? Cool but when would i experience the vram issue

 

[tiny voices]

The Vram thing is a complete non issue. Everyone is mad, more or less, for no reason. You will not have any problems with the card. People are blowing this WAY out of proportion. The cards perform exactly the way they should.

 

[-Lone-]

You will only experience issues if you go above that 3.5GB of VRAM, but if you play on high and don't mod the games a lot, you have nothing to worry about.

 

[saintequila]

I thank thee for ye kind opinions, cheers

 

[tiny voices]

The cards are great. There is nothing to worry about. The cards have ALWAYS been 3.5gb even back when everyone loved and praised them to much. Those same people then found out it was really a 3.5gb card and got all butt-hurt about it. The fact is, the cards still perform the same as they did on day one.

This whole Vram issue isn't even an issue or problem like everyone says. It was planned form the get-go and in no way impacts what the cards is capable of.

 

[Atique Chowdhury]

Listen, I have the evga ssc version of 970. The only way you will ever reach close to 3gb is when you're doing 1440p ultra on an unoptimized game. You could even do 2k gaming on bioshock infinite without ANY problems.

 

[saintequila]

Listen, I have the evga ssc version of 970. The only way you will ever reach close to 3gb is when you're doing 1440p ultra on an unoptimized game. You could even do 2k gaming on bioshock infinite without ANY problems.

thats good to hear, im so excited to get mine!

 

[Atique Chowdhury]

Listen, I have the evga ssc version of 970. The only way you will ever reach close to 3gb is when you're doing 1440p ultra on an unoptimized game. You could even do 2k gaming on bioshock infinite without ANY problems.

thats good to hear, im so excited to get mine!

Great! Enjoy your 970 welcome to the crew! haha! Also do not believe the little internet engineers on EVGA version having heat issue because of a heatpipe not being connected to chip. It isn't a heatsink to carry heat, that pipe serves other purposes

 

[tiny voices]

^actually it WAS a defect and EVGA themselves even publicly said so. That is why they made the ACX 2.0 cooler. It is the fixed version.

 

[Atique Chowdhury]

^actually it WAS a defect and EVGA themselves even publicly said so. That is why they made the ACX 2.0 cooler. It is the fixed version.

oh makes sense, I have the ACX 2.0 version which is why I didn't see anything wrong with it when I opened it up

 

[Bossyfins]

As tiny said they fixed it so you didn't see it. But they also released the SSC version of the 970 with a completely new cooler heatsink.