hope a driver fix will come out soon to reduce stuttering

I realize I made it sound like there was a special patch or something and that is definitely not the case.
PeterS@NVIDIA

Then you should lower the texture settings in the game to make sure you never use more than 3.5GB VRAM. Also don't use MSAA because it eats up VRAM as well. As long as it is under 3.5GB VRAM usage it is fine.

Money is subjective bro. When a 970 can be gotten for RM1.3k new and the cheapest 980 is RM1.9k, that's RM600 worth of difference. 7-10 extra frames isn't worth RM600 IMHO.The 980 will also have better frametimes at over 3.5GB VRAM usage, but again... it's not RM600 better.

Any word from ASUS?

Any follow up on how much their paid upgrade offer is?

Hmmm. I contacted MSI Malaysia and they say they are not planning on any refund or upgrade program either, at least not right now.

tried my luck and this is what i got , im not sure who distributes zotac here, hope lazada will give me the contact details, but im trying to get zotac to acknowledge part return then i can see the distributor. If zotac says no problem the nothing will move.
Zotac punya cerita

Curious here, does anyone own a graphic card more than 3 years and still functional till today?

970 is not highest end. Titan is. Never settle for less if you really serious into going ultra everything. better to collect money and get the best. Shadow of Mordor came with preset setting on different GFX. they auto detect best setting for it. If you change those means U are going beyond the card limit. Even played ultra for AC4 BF.

Back to topic of misinformation yes I believe NVIDIA is at fault for not doing proper test or intentionally misled consumer. I believe this case is as car recall they should just recall all the 970 and come out with new hardware config which reflect the 4gb.

Just look at the titan/780/780ti/980 cooler.

It looks good. It reaffirms before you test it out atleast " Money Well Spent" kindda feeling.

Its the same as going to Massage Parlor ahem getting a HJ for RM50 from Pro Auntie and going to another with Miss Universe for RM150.
So if this anecdote is simple.. why isnt buying gpu the same..
ATI is the former while Nvidia is the later

Look at phones. Apple led in the beginning with design and ask for a premium and still do lol... Android came in with crappy looking phones. Phones now are packaged like iphones. Android kicked apple butt. No more bulky huge boxes.

Its one of the reasons why EVGA / Asus excels at for a long time and now even their low/mid end etc all gets good packaging. Gaygay ( Actually got a warning in OCN for calling gigabyte Gaygay..) has totally revamped itself realizing this. Ppl will pay for it.

Spending money for design and packaging matters.

In that respect i will still recommend the 970 over 290x any day.

btw the full maxwell has a lot of work to do to satisfy the enthusiast level. Everybody is waiting for 4k to be dominated with dual cards at min 60fps with everything turned up. This is no small feat.

Current offerings overclock does it for 1440p. ure gonna need 2.25x the performance of these cards to achieve that. Thats no joke.

signing off.. Gee posted a lot today while waiting for waifu at airport. But this the whole hearted truth on how i feel about ati.
You know the feeling you tell ureself you will never want to be conned/scam again.... thats the reason why i dont buy ati anymore and i doubt they will change.

Crossing fingers Direct x 12 will dramatically improve our performance.

ONLY if games uses it. DX12 does not automatically turn all SLI configs into a single card seen by the system.

Ignorant person detected.Been buying cards for a ling time.  If we wanna talk about cards then be it about reference card as the manufacturer intends to sells it. Reference cards.  If anything goes then ln2 will come in play. Buy the top end cards from both camp n till then you wont understand.

yup just ordered mine guess will arrive late CNY belum habis  , i play mainly on 1080p so i guess 960 is enuf for me for now, just have to wait for upcoming fully baked maxwell's  .

No offence to amd owners 290x is certainly a good buy if compared to gtx970 in terms of memory size and brute force    , i have used that card keeps getting too hot until rma, bought a 970 nggredia con me 500mb of vram (terus kansel plan to buy higher res monitor), since now stuck at 1080p might just buy a 960.

eh i think if your casual gamer that game on 1080p And dun mind set game setting medium, GTX 960 for RM800 is good buy.. or go R9 280X hmm 

Luckily you mentioned, cos i didn't research much on the specification.

Ayam confused. How come 128-bit still on par with some 256-bit and 384-bit cards?

http://www.techpowerup.com/mobile/reviews/..._Gaming/28.html

Details pls. Else don't generalize everything to be similar with GTX 970. Different GPU, different configuration. Mana sama?

GTX960 destroyed GTX280 with 512bit bus memory. Why is that?

Bro its like comparing a 1.2tsi engine to a 1.5l n.a engine, the 1.2tsi can pawn the 1.5l anytime. Higher c.c engine does not mean power and efficiency.

Sorry I'm bringing engines as comparison

It is the same like GTX 680 low memory bandwidth. But just like GTX 680, the true core of Maxwell is not with 960, 970 and 980 series. It will be the full fat maxwell with big memory bandwidth too like the 780 & 780 Ti.