it's stable, for screen tearing , use adaptive v-sync in Nvidia control panel and enable v-sync in game, should iron out the tearing most of the times. tdp will be slightly higher than the reference card, but it's not a biggie bcoz this maxwell card is very power efficient. The temp is also cooler.

Only the 290X has an 8GB memory buffer bro, theoretically it's faster than the 290 and neck to neck/ a bit faster than the 290X but in some games , but sometimes the amd card is faster likewise vise versa nvidia is faster in other games. One thing for sure you can definitely max out most of the games out there with this card

Oh I see. Because I thought he recommend R9 290. So 970 it is then.

Oh, I thought I read this morning about 290 8GB Tri X sapphire something something. Hahaha...

Yeah, yeah... hopefully running Xplane10 smoothly...

(sometimes I wonder if Xplane10 need 8GB card...)

You'll only need 8GB cards if you're running multi-mons/high res display/4K.

You can get away with 4GB, i don't play xplane10, just be generous with the texture packs, this thing can eat up the vram pretty fast

probably doing multi monitor for Xplane 10 lol...

haha... imagine last time is 1gb only..

i cant wait any more longer since my i5 just died a very painful death 4 firing up games in 1440p

Asus card have free game ?

Yes. Confirm.

what are the games?

the hot ubi games today

ac unity far cry 4 and the crew

I've the Asus Strix 970, bought sometime Oct. Any idea how to redeem the games ?

I don't think you can. Only for new buyer.

Just found a fix for Dragon Age Inquisition. If you're suffering from frame hitching , go to nvidia control panel , change power management option to 'maximum performance' and turn on the triple buffering option.

It completely remove the annoying frame hitching and the game ran a lot more smoother (really2 please with this fix)

Though I tried the same fix on BF4 and the frame hitching is still there . I'm pretty convinced now that's a driver issue right.

Well since it worked for DA:I,i'm sure it's a driver issue,for BF4.

Anyone of you tried running SC2 on Ultra / Extreme on GTX980? It is quite laggy on mine, occasional jerk every 5 seconds and i wonder is that a driver issue or the 980 cant support that Running on FullHD.

Did you get low GPU usage? If yes, report to this thread below.

Sauce: GTX 970 possible GPU load and low FPS issues - Nvidia.com

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Its ok. found out how. Gonna try and see whether its because of the same issue or not

This post has been edited by akachester: Dec 5 2014, 04:57 PM

that's called frame hitching, I encountered it when playing DA:I and BF4, turned out Origin was the problem.

Just post your problem there, have a feeling its driver issue rather than hardware related.

zzzz I never had this issue when using 344.75 driver but after updating to 344.80 oh gawd its stuttering like a retard .

Playing battlefield 4 was a nightmare