Originally had the Galax gtx 970 EXOC black edition. Only recently sold it to a friend. Upgraded to an EVGA gtx 980ti FTW, its a beast of a card, at 1080p maxed out at 144fps on nearly all the games. The 980ti does run a little hotter at about 70degrees under load compared to the 970 at 62degrees under load. Only thing i was unhappy about was the power cables that came with it, was like 3inches long.
this was a very hard decision for me and was one of the things at the end of my list that i bought because i couldn't make up my mind it was either a 2 970s or a 980 ti and after doing some research and talking to people i went with a 980 ti because i wanted this computer to be future proof and since the 980 ti has a lots of vram which is going to be required a lot more in newer games i got this instead this card is very powerful and right now i play on 1080p at 60hz as of right now which i know is nothing for this card because its a 4k gaming card
Temps are not the greatest, slight coil whine, no aftermarket waterblock for it, but highest boost clock out of the box of all cards. Great gpu. I need a better monitor to pair with it though haha.
This GPU is incredible.
I originally had the GTX 970 SSC ACX 2.0+ and was happy there. However, with the release of the division I quickly realized how soon it'd be where I wanted more. Enter the FTW, yay.
I am waiting on my monitor, but currently have everything i've done set to max and maintain 85+ FPS at 1080P.
This one came with a black plate, which really cleans up the bay.
Blazing fast card. How fast? At least every time that I'd been able to measure its GPU clocks, even at default behavior, it's boost clocking into 1,400~1598MHz on GPU core. So clearly, it's doing something right.
We have PhysX, Shadowplay available, and even by itself, it has been running every game I've thrown at it thus far at 4K resolutions. What's not to love? Simply, its nonreference design means no waterblocks available. Neither from eVGA itself, nor from EK.