What Is The Best GTX 970 Graphics Card?

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They're all pretty much the same. Some have coil whine, others don't. Some come factory overclocked, but their performance levels are only within a few percentages of each other. Even the "Super super clocked" version from EVGA is only a gain of 4 - 6 fps average.

Get the one with the best positive ratings and the least amount of dead cards. Or, the one that costs the least amount of money. lol

Zotac is pretty gnarly.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814500362

I've had a few of their 400 and 600 series cards and they're just delightful. Very quiet, great performance, they stay relatively cool, and Zotac prices them very competitively.

I'm also curious about that Xeon in there...
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They're all pretty much the same. Some have coil whine, others don't. Some come factory overclocked, but their performance levels are only within a few percentages of each other. Even the "Super super clocked" version from EVGA is only a gain of 4 - 6 fps average.

Get the one with the best positive ratings and the least amount of dead cards. Or, the one that costs the least amount of money. lol

Zotac is pretty gnarly.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814500362

I've had a few of their 400 and 600 series cards and they're just delightful. Very quiet, great performance, they stay relatively cool, and Zotac prices them very competitively.

I'm also curious about that Xeon in there.

http://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Xeon-E3-1231-v3-vs-Intel-Core-i5-4590/m11040vs2604

The i5-4590 is less expensive and offers the same performance.
 
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Hey I was originally going with the i7-4790 but the Xeon was cheaper and is basically the same thing but without iGPU. Do you think I should go with something different?
 
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Either the Asus STRIX or the Gigabyte G1 gaming. Both have great coolers, LED logos on the side, backplates. Everything you could want. My personal favorite is the STRIX, because of how silent it is. 0db mode is lovely.
 
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Hey I was originally going with the i7-4790 but the Xeon was cheaper and is basically the same thing but without iGPU.

 
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Buying a CPU is more important than buying a graphics card. If you feel you should go with the Xeon than that is what you should buy.

However, you could get away with an i5 and save about $60, maybe. As they are more than enough for gaming, and should be more than enough for gaming for the next three to five years, in which case you will probably buy a new computer, anyways.

A single cpu can last the life of your PC if it's researched properly, and the Xeon you listed is good enough to last you a long while, yet.

By the way, the Xeon you mentioned is about 15% less powerful than the 4790, and about 25% less powerful than the 4790k without any overclocking.
 
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So will the i5 be fine for video editing and graphics as well not just gaming?
 
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For video editing and graphics? Do you mean like light video editing? Recording game play and doing outdoor stuff with a GoPro like skateboarding?

Or are you talking about heavy video encoding and 3D Modeling?

The Xeon would be better for both, realistically. The hyperthreading feature would greatly help in "video editing."

But the single core performance is almost identical on the i5.
 
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