Using zotac 970 amp omega, so far no issues but temp is definitely on the higher side compared to other brands but nothing to worry about. (not aircond room)

Noise is quiet during idle and does fairly well under load. (the card under load is quiet compared to sapphire 6870 on idle)

No coil whines in any games i've played so far except for when i'm exiting unigine heaven 4.0.

I'm interested in how zotac will honour its 2 years extended warranty after the 3 years local warranty expires. 

Oh man... that was ugly... i wont get it also based on the look. 

BTW, I found this  :
http://www.galax.net/US/970exoc_black.html

Gonna check who bringing in if there is any...

Saw a few leadtek 970 and 980 units in czone during my last week shopping. Dont know if theres any left

wait till next year bro , the price should be nice cuz +GST  $$$

Unless , AMD for some miracle reason price their new card low    forcing price for the green camp to drop

I got the MSI GTX 970 4gd5t, so far so good for no OC purpose, the PCB is the same with gaming version. plus free original game either choose "Far Cry 4", "The Crew", or "Assassin Creed".

yes serious, just register the product on address below:

https://register.msi.com/

then you will get a code to redeem the game. i haven't redeem yet, just got the code only, got 3 games available. still thinking which game to choose. 

dust cos over heating or fan stop spinning

I got no issue using the latest driver for Leadtek GTX970 Hurricane. What is your full PC spec? Does your rig have good environment?

Your GPU load does not drop. Are you running folding@home or something?

Prrobably afterburner gone wonky, try use gpu-z and see. I have the same model as yours and use afterburner to oc, no problem so far.

And make sure to set your power usage in nvidia control panel to adaptive instead of high performance.

Folding@home:
http://folding.stanford.edu/