which model of GeForce GTX 970 should I use ?

[jtyankees23]

I'm building a gaming pc and was looking to use this video card Asus GeForce GTX 970 4GB STRIX but its out of stock is there any difference between that one and these: EVGA GeForce GTX 970 SSC ACX 2.0 4GB Graphics Cards 04G-P4-2975-KR and EVGA GTX 970 ACX 1.0 4GB GDDR5 256bit, DVI-I, DVI-D, HDMI, DP SLI Ready Graphics Card 04G-P4-0972-KR. Is it the same card made by different companies or different cards all together also is there any other cards with the same power and is around the same price range?

 

[jay2tall]

From my research I ended up buying the MSI Gaming 4G GTX 970s. They have the "more better parts". I am an ASUS fan, but am not sure why they did what they did with this model. They only have one 8 pin power connector that seems to limit the max boost speed of the card. EVGA does nothing or close to nothing with their board above stock. The MSI uses 6 phase power to the GPU and 2 phase to the vRAM. Stock is 4 phase GPU, 1 phase vRAM. They also use Mil spec parts. Here is the article that sold me on it. http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/graphics/2014/09/19/nvidia-geforce-gtx-970-review/1

I was goofing with them today to test OCing and I threw 1300MHz on the GPU and 8000MHz on the VRAM and with the stock fan profile and no voltage increase it just ran. I was impressed. I don't run them OC'ed because right now I don't need the extra power, but if I was running one card I'd be ALL over that overclock.

 

[jtyankees23]

thanks I will definitely look into that model