How sad do you have to be to be an apologist for this situation?
This is as bad as it gets. They have purposely mislead everyone to the point of even putting false information in the bios.
Nvidias pr is in maximum damage limitation because they know that they have been caught with their hands in the cookie jar and people are still apologising for them.
Ignore it, there are some people in this thread who don't actually own a 970 but are intent on proving that owners who have experienced issues are either incorrectly blaming this issue on their problems or are in fact lying and jumping on the bandwagon to get handouts.