Thanks :)

Not even a bit, it was really stressful to watch them work, I had to do so though just for the sake of making sure every part is working properly

Thanks, I hope so too, summer here is really long and really hot, outside temp easily get to 55 ºc in hot days, even more maybe, although I left fan curves on default for now, will surely tweek them if needed, it's really silent now even with full load, but even if it gets a bit noisy I won't mind since I always wear headphones :)

For me it's great, I did a lot of research for the best gpu for the money for gaming, found out it's the 970, then did some research on 970s from different makers, found out that the gigabyte g1 gaming is best (for me at least) it has a high speed clock and it is basically the coolest air cooled 970 out there as I've found, of course you would use it for 1080p gaming, for me I'm almost maxing every game I play, and said almost max it coz I like to have around 100 fps and willing to reduce some settings to achieve that, just a little bit that won't really effect the visuals, running Black Ops III on 1080p with 100% scale and almost all settings maxed with medium anti- aliasing option and getting constant 100 fps without any overclocking, running battlefield 4 on max except for anti- aliasing and 2 other things at high and getting 120 to 150 fps, so I'm really pleased with those results, I hope this will help you, and sorry if I made it too long :)

I hear you man, I've been looking to upgrade my pc as well coz I always want to have around or more than 100 fps in the games I play, graphics cards prices are still rocket high in Iraq after the mining affected the prices, didn't go down that much since, just hold for a month or so hopefully by the time RTX reaches our stores the prices for the 10 series would be close to what they are globally.

I'm not sure to be honest, prices here r not settle like in other places, so maybe it's higher than this, will have to check but I'm happy anyway with my 970, I lean toward nvidia coz I had some issues with amd in the past, especially software related