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geofelt
I respectfully differ on blower coolers.
Blowers do a good job of getting gpu heat directly out the back of the case.
Fan type coolers do a better job of cooling the gpu parts, but the heat gets dumped into the case where case cooling has to deal with it.

I am using a evga GTX1080ti SC blower edition, and I never hear it and temperatures are not an issue.
Noted, I do not overclock my cards which come already factory overclocked.
If I need more, I buy a stronger card(admittedly difficult with GTX1080ti at the top of the line)

To the OP:
Yes, the card is very good.
But, it is only two tiers higher than the GTX970 on tom's gpu hierarchy list.
https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gpu-hierarchy,4388.html
They recommend three tiers for an...
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More than enough for gaming man you pretty much lucky to even afford that graphics card, It should play great at 1080p resolution or 1440p resolution at high settings. But just to ask what are your specs on your pc? And make sure you have a good psu as it requires a 450-500 watts.
 
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It'll be a good increase in performance over your 970 however I'd avoid the blower/reference style coolers as they run much warmer then cards with aftermarket cooling which can limit the cards overclocking potential or even just the Nvidia GPU Boost 3.0.
 
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Definitely a great build for that gpu you’ll be happy with that gpu, and yes wildcard999 is right avoid blower style which they run really hot and they are not very quiet, look at aftermarket coolers like EVGA.
 
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geofelt

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I respectfully differ on blower coolers.
Blowers do a good job of getting gpu heat directly out the back of the case.
Fan type coolers do a better job of cooling the gpu parts, but the heat gets dumped into the case where case cooling has to deal with it.

I am using a evga GTX1080ti SC blower edition, and I never hear it and temperatures are not an issue.
Noted, I do not overclock my cards which come already factory overclocked.
If I need more, I buy a stronger card(admittedly difficult with GTX1080ti at the top of the line)

To the OP:
Yes, the card is very good.
But, it is only two tiers higher than the GTX970 on tom's gpu hierarchy list.
https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gpu-hierarchy,4388.html
They recommend three tiers for an upgrade.
If the jump is small, you may be dissatisfied with the improvement.
They would suggest GTX1080 class as an upgrade.

One advantage though from a GTX10xx card is the availability of adaptive vsync which does a good job of matching gpu and monitor frame rates.

 
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