Onus :
I'm now running on my GTX750Ti. When I got home, my PC obviously woke up, but the display stayed blank. A monitor power cycle reported "Display Port No Signal." A power-cycle of the PC didn't help. I switched to the DVI output and was greeted by a flashing pink screen. Removed the Asus Strix GTX970 and put in the EVGA GTX750Ti, and all is well again. That makes 3/4 (or 4/5?) Asus graphics cards to arrive DOA or die way too early. Oh well, at least I was able to get a RMA number for it. Asus makes great motherboards, but dicey graphics cards.
I personally stay away from Asus products, not for any particular reason (now you have a reason to), but I usually just fine better options. Take their motherboard for example. They may be top of the line, but if you really want to buy the latest Maximus it'll be like $400! I think Asus loses competition to Asrock and Gigabyte in the cheaper motherboard market, but that's just all my opinion.
Man, that's a shame, 4/5 Asus cards to all arrive DOA or die early. So far in terms of GPUs I have used EVGA and MSI, both are working very well, and the EVGA has taken some beatings (in the middle of the night I knocked an iPad off my shelf which then knocked the GPU off the shelf and onto the floor).
I like EVGA for Nvidia cards often because for one thing the small form factor (the SC versions, work great in small cases) and the high factory overclock.
I just wish my MSI card would sag less, but oh well. And no I'm not going to tie fishing wire in my case. It's not that bad, but sagging is worse at night than the morning. Maybe something with the earth's gravity?