Stick with GTX 770 or try my luck at a GTX 970?

[tommy4711]

Hey guys, so i've got a MSI 4gb GTX 770 right now and it's holding up pretty well, but then I saw the GTX 970's benchmarks and holy hell. It shreds my card to bits.
I only bought the GTX 770 last year in December from MSY, so my 1yr warranty still holds.
It has a loose fan bearing, but nothing that really classifies as a major fault worth a refund.
What do you guys think I should do? Is it worth trying for a refund? Or will the GTX 770 hold up until 2016 when the next series comes out?

PS: I won't purposely damage my card to try to fraud my way into warranty, seems silly.

 

[Novuake]

I would RMA my card and see what MSI says, if they give me a new one, then great, sell it. Get a GTX970.

If they refund, then put that money to a GTX970 anyway.

 

[Mahisse]

If the loose bearing is causing the card to be louder than expected then I would say that's a fair RMA.

 

[tommy4711]

If the loose bearing is causing the card to be louder than expected then I would say that's a fair RMA.

I've never RMA'd something, and also, I bought it from a store called MSY. Not sure how they would handle things, heard their warranty policies kind of suck.

 

[Mahisse]

You could try to go straight to the manufacture instead.

 

[james1988]

Did you Twin Frozr fan spit any lubricant at any stage? Mine did but I replaced the fan with a 3rd party one before the fan could break. Apparently that particular model of Twin Frozr had a tendency to eject some lubricant if the card ran at slightly higher than normal fan speeds. ie >50% maybe

 

[HertzKnight]

If there is a loose fan bearing I would definitely get that fixed. Better safe than sorry.

And if they upgrade you to a 970 even better. I just bought a msi 970. I should get it today hopefully.