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HoloDust said:

JEMC said:

Thanks!

If you see big gains upgrading from a 580, imagine what I could see coming from a 5850.

I was interested in the noise and heat because this is one of the few 970 with a cooler that exhaust the heat out of the case, important with my P183 and its limited airflow. I don't recall the GTX580 to be called noisy as was the 480, so I don't think it will make more noise that my current card.

And if that and the problems the other cards have aren't enough, it's also one of the shortest cards as well as cheaper than the rest.

I'll have to decide between the PNY and the MSI one, whenever they become available.

Have you considered this one?

http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/asus_geforce_gtx_970_strix_review,1.html

Yep, I have.

The "problem" with this card is that it puts noise before performance and it throttles back in demanding games to keep that noise down. It's a bit of a silly decision with an overclocked card, but that's what ASUS have decided. And it's also pricier than both the PNY and the superior MSI Twin Frozr.

But thanks for the suggestion.

 

Also, I wouldn't worry much about games demanding an i7, I think it's a silly way of asking for a quad core CPU. After all, an i5-2500 is faster than an i7-920, but since some i5 are dual cores with Hyper Threading, they go with an i7 to guarantee a true quad core CPU.