Oh i see..  

Ikr..well,let's wait for the benchmarks to roll out first.
The Gainward GTX970 4GB is priced at RM1099.. Well,don't know if the price is still the same,due to the currency exchange..

if that is the price,,,might as well jump shoot over GTX970 LOR

Or maybe they have another plan on that?

and then Nvidia troll later when true Maxwell cards are released

Wait, people want a 960?

You'd think 970 is overkill for you at 1080p, but console parts ain't gonna be so kind to your machine. I play on 1080p almost exclusively and even Tomb Raider struggles to stay over 60fps at all times(obviously it's higher than 60 most of the time, but framerates dropping below 40 is distracting).

Gigabyte released a new bios for their GTX970 lineup that fixed the issue, one guy confirmed it last time i checked.

advise them not to go GTX970 first until problem is resolved

later we kena bombed balik :3

R9 290

i think we can still recommend GTX970 la, but let the fella know the possible issue of VRAM?

Well, end of the day, the 970 is still faster than the 780 and R9 290. This is a fact that won't changed, even if a game takes up more than 3.5GB of VRAM. The latest AMD Omega driver did close the gap a little bit and if there are mroe games making use of Mantle in the near future, we could potentially see the 290 to come quite close to the 970 and probably even equalling it in a VRAM intensive game.

Best case scenario is not to buy anything right now. Prices has increased (I just got another MSI 970 for SLI for RM1430 so that's still a decent deal considering the MSI 970 released at RM1.5k a few months ago).

Note: The 970 will indeed start to drop frames like crazy if VRAM allocation goes above 3.5GB. You don't even have to try a game, just open up Kombuster and run the 4GB VRAM stress test then compare it with the 3GB, the frames are nearly double on the latter.

On another side note, I think this is why Nvidia didn't push for 3GB of VRAM on the 960. That puny 128bit bus would have bottlenecked like crazy.

Well, I'm definitely one of them. Still think it's working perfectly for me though. Am able to max out everything thrown at it. Not a multi-mon or 4k gamer here. So, perhaps this ram-gate thingy doesn't apply to me. 

Unless Marketing Team wrote the BIOS to display to CPU Z 

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

347.25 IS a game ready driver for Dying Light...

980 is great and all bro, but not RM700 greater than the 970. If tonight kena Toto then different story.
Lol the way they say a driver is going to fix the VRAM issue is equally fishy. It's a hardware limitation, no unicorn driver from the next galaxy will do anything to "fix" it.

If that conclusion make you feel any better, then good. Some people just don't like being cheated. Also this is effectively 3.5GB card.