How much?

I now dilemma, to upgrade a gpu or buy new phone or save for holiday trip

Speaking of which, lots of people are now reporting that the 970 really only can access up to 3.5-3.6GB of VRAM. I have not actually checked into this yet, so I cannot say for now.

Tested a couple of games yesterday, namely DA:I and Alien Isolation.

As we all know DA:I is a bit of a hit and miss when it comes to PC optimisation, it's not entirely solid but for the most part it runs decent. My 970 top out at 3.7GB (3702mb to be specific) VRAM on 1440p, max settings. Switch it down to 1080p, max settings and it was hovering around 3680MB. However I did get stuttering once the VRAM went about 3.5GB in DA:I, which is what many others on the internet has already reported.
I wouldn't say the stuttering is terrible till the point of being unplayable, but it can get annoying. Fortunately DA:I isn't a game where you need twitch reflexes, but if this issue crops up in other games then it'll be quite a bad gaming experience.

Alien Isolation on the other hand runs on pretty much any machine and it's example of great optimisation on PC games. Obviously the game isn't stressful enough to use 4GB of VRAM, but what I did was downscale from 4k to 1080p. VRAM usage was around only 3GB. Obviously no stuttering, but I just wanted to try a game where everything is all well and dandy.

Will test a few other games later.
960 is expected to be near 770 performance. Given Maxwell's track record of OC ability, it's quite a given that the 960 will surpass 770 in performance. It's an assumption of course, but I think at this point it's a safe one.

Agreed. To be honest even 980 don't have enough power to run at higher resolution than 1920x1080. I tested few games that can stressed out RAM like Wolfenstein: The New Order and FarCry 4 with 4x DSR (native 1920x1080) Ultra setting, I don't notice any weird slowdown or artifacts like some posted on YouTube, memory usage is way above 3.5GB from GPU-Z utility.

Although the performance of the card is good, great even, I really hate a company that isn't honest. It's as simple as that

Even if you want to suggest someone,you cannot follow your preferences.It has to be the person asking. Suggest best for the money.
If a person only plays games that aren't a vRAM eater Then going for GTX970 is the option.

I do agree that NVidia wasn't being honest..it's been a rough week for them. 

i still remember playing the first half life and the first need 4 speed with 3dfx syok mang good old days GATEWAY PC with pentium 2  

http://www.kitguru.net/components/graphic-...x-970-adapters/

Andrew “Gibbo” Gibson, purchasing manager at Overclockers UK, said that multiple graphics cards makers decided to support OcUK in terms of accepting returns. In particular, EVGA, Inno3D, KFA2 (formerly Galax), MicroStar International, Palit Microsystems and Zotac have officially confirmed plans to take the graphics cards back.

Lazada oh Lazada,it's a Zotac card,not a Lazada GTX970

BTW,i think you should clear out your name and email in the pictures..

its not that they do no know the website . Its about who is going to bare the cost ?
The easy way out is not to acknowledge third party reviewer unless the direction/order is from nvidia themselves

Why you want to sell bro? Are u affected by the problem? What game you playing use more than 3.5GB?

GUYS...GUYS......GUYSS......

There's no need to brand/label someone as a "FANBOY".

I have been using GPU's for a long long time.

From early ATI (AMD) Radeon cards & Nvidia cards till now.

Since ATI has been taken over by  AMD, to be frank I am not that IMPRESSED with the current high end Radeon offerings (despite AMD's aggressive pricing). Performance is there all right but at some trade off with higher power consumption & heat.

When I look at Nvidia's product line, there's a certain refinement & quality in the products. (Despite the gtx 970 fiasco, the performance is still there AND will be there).

I tried out the Maxwell gpu's myself, I kinda like it, they re pretty cool / refined.....products.

despite it's build on 28nm, Nvidia has done a great engineering feat here. increasing efficiency / reducing power consumption at the same time, something AMD has not been doing or rather not to focused on it.

Just look at both companies today; Nvidia with a market cap of 10 billion dollars vs AMD of 2.2 bil. Definitely this speak for itself well, AMD needs to buck up.

And you say you hadn't used it over 1 month?