What kind of GTX 970 to buy?

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Looking on Amazon, there's multiple different kinds of GTX 970s from different sellers.
I'll link some screenshots
http://prntscr.com/7gevzw
http://prntscr.com/7gew27
They all seem to be around the same price, but with all this jibber jabber in brackets I'm not sure which one I should purchase. I'm upgrading from a GTX 770 to a 970. Are they all the same card? Is one better than the other?
I apologize if the answer is stupidly simple but I don't really understand Graphics cards further than the numbers they put next to the GTX part haha.
All that really matters to me with a graphics card is FPS, noise isn't a problem, I prefer a card that isn't overclocked but if it is, not over the top.
What card should I look out for?
 
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They are all a bit different. The amount of cooling may be better, or quieter, or overclock, warranty, etc etc. I prefer EVGA GPUs myself.

Even if a GPU is overclocked by the company, you can still overclock it more yourself. They will provide a overclock on various models for those that don't want to overclock but want the slight performance gain of it, and the upside of it is that by coming with the overclock that can save the time and energy of doing it yourself and decrease the chance of messing the GPU up by doing it wrong.

Of course there are some expensive 970s that cost around the same as the reference versions of the 980s. So, you really need to figure out your budget and expectations.

Take a look at this link...
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They are all a bit different. The amount of cooling may be better, or quieter, or overclock, warranty, etc etc. I prefer EVGA GPUs myself.

Even if a GPU is overclocked by the company, you can still overclock it more yourself. They will provide a overclock on various models for those that don't want to overclock but want the slight performance gain of it, and the upside of it is that by coming with the overclock that can save the time and energy of doing it yourself and decrease the chance of messing the GPU up by doing it wrong.

Of course there are some expensive 970s that cost around the same as the reference versions of the 980s. So, you really need to figure out your budget and expectations.

Take a look at this link:
http://www.evga.com/Products/ProductList.aspx?type=0&family=GeForce+900+Series+Family&chipset=GTX+970

You can see that the clock speeds vary, as do other aspects of the GPUs.
 
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