Are two ASUS STRIX GTX970 for USD 350 a good or bad deal?

goldorak

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Hello Guys.

Although I don't game, but I like having decent GPUs in my PC and HTPC.

Today I ran into a deal that I thought was good in our current days of high prices for GPUs, but I might be wrong.

A guy was selling two Asus Strix GTX 970 for 220 each and in decent visual appearance. He told me that he can sell them both for USD 370, and I told him that for 350 I will take them both and the deal was done.

I got them home and tried them and at first the HDMI port was giving me trouble with my 4k TV/Monitor, and after some fiddling around, a BIOS update of the VGA card fixed the issue. Tested them with Furemark, the fans at first were idle as expected then worked fine when temperatures rose. No problems happened within 5 minutes of testing. Temperatures did not exceed 70 degrees Celsius during testing as per the software. No perceived noise from the fans was heard. I tried the DP port as well and it was working.

Is this deal good as I think it is or not so good?

 
Solution
2 for $370 is a great deal they normally go from $180+ but for the last few weeks finding one for under $250 is a challenge.