Yes, this is why FCAT should be used more often. Reviewers just got lazy and went back to the old FRAPS/in-game OSD method.

There are also a few reviewers who aren't posting legit 970 reviews. They simply cut down the numbers from their 980 scores and with some maths, come up with a theoretical chart.

Hahaha... Both of them in year end trolling mood... So, now we all get the correct information, what can we end users do? Before some idiot come up with an ass of an answer, I generally think there's nothing much we can do.

woah so many gate incident lately more reason 2 stick with 770 in 4 another year

Updated info regarding GTX970 memory issue courtesy of Anandtech
http://www.anandtech.com/show/8935/geforce...mory-allocation

http://wccftech.com/nvidia-geforce-gtx-970...rns-56-rops-64/

Another response by nVidia... so the VRAM issue is pretty much by design and cannot be fixed...

Damage control - Blame the marketing team.

Unless Marketing Team wrote the BIOS to display to CPU Z

Or nVidia can blame Asus/MSI/etc for writing wrong spec inside BIOS.

another write up... from Guru3D
http://www.guru3d.com/news-story/does-the-...cation-bug.html

...and the GeForce forums is literally in chaos right now...

On another note, anyone with issues with DP giving out "no signal" to the monitor? I need to reset the damn thing every time in order to view anything at all. HDMI is not b****ing though. Anyway, only happen on startup.

Here a bad news with solution for you.
https://forums.geforce.com/default/topic/77...376386/#4376386

Holy macaroni... that's one whole big pile of text to read...
okay... basically I'm screwed with the damn DP now. Will try and uninstall GeForce Experience and see if it helps or not.
Anyway, thanks for the link.

Well,due to the vRAM thingy with the GTX970,are we gonna still recommend it?

This post has been edited by Minecrafter: Jan 27 2015, 03:33 PM

depends if you're a fanboi or not. If you're fanboi, just recommend it.

Else, just recommend 290x 8GB so that everyone can play console port game safely.

8GB?Well,if you're playing on 1440p or higher,then i'd say go for it,but 1080p,just stick with 4GB and grab an SSD.

Eh? What do you mean?

The actual solution = update your GPU VBIOS.....But this will depend whether your particular AIB(Asus, Gigabyte, MSI) release new VBIOS to address this particular issue.....

r u sure really 8GB vram on 290x?

Yes, I read that part too... but some say the problem still persist. Then there's that "solution" I mentioned. Will try that 1st, since it's working for "someone". If still no go, then will do the bios thingy. Thanks.

Yup, Techview selling them... Sapphire R9 290X VAPOR 8GB GDDR5 512B RM 1679.00
https://forum.lowyat.net/topic/3341641

This recent "scandal" will make my switch to Red team even more easier.