High End 960, Or Low End 970?

[TheLizardWizard]

hey, I am torn between two graphics cards. the EVGA GeForce GTX 970 ACX 2.0 (not ftw or sc, just the regular one) which has 3.5 gigs of vram, 1050mhz of clock speed, 7010 memory speed, 1664 cuda cores and 109 texture fill rate or the EVGA GeForce GTX 960 4GB FTW ACX 2.0+ which has 4 gigs of vram, 1304mhz of clock speed, 7010 memory speed, 1024 cuda cores and 83.4 texture fill rate. i really do not know much about CUDA cores and texture fill rates so i dont know how much/little it effects the performance compared to the MHz. I already own a stock standard gtx 970 and am getting warranty on it because of a coil whine issue so i want to know if i should keep the new one, or sell it and get that 960. thanks. please take into consideration the vram of the 970 and how annoyed everyone is about it. i am also open for suggestions about other 960s with 4 gigs of vram that is better than the stock evga 970.

 

[krells]

Just keep the new 970 they send you. Doing from a 970 to any version of the 960 will be a big downgrade in performance.