Mine arrive tomorrow, the wait is killing me lol.
** NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 9xx SERIES NOW AVAILABLE INCLUDING OcUK REVIEW!! **
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Mine arrive tomorrow, the wait is killing me lol.
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Went for the Zotac and its been dispatched... My LAN rig is suitably excited!
Ryan, the 970 does slightly better than a 780: http://www.gamespot.com/articles/review-nvidias-gtx-970-is-the-gpu-bargain-of-the-y/1100-6422522/
Absolutely owned this weekend, so great to come back from Ibiza and see the incredible sales continuing on 9xx series.
After last week you needed a few days off.
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Any more news on the OcUK reference 970? Will it use the Titan/780 cooler or the slightly different GTX 980 reference cooler? I don't really want a 970 or 980 with axial coolers in fear of cooking my onboard audio chip & caps!
Asrock have cocked up a bit with the audio circuitry placement on the Z97 Extreme4 board
. The heat coming from a non reference card makes the audio chip, caps and even motherboard quite hot... Not sure how much heat the electrolytic audio caps can handle in the long run. Even the PCH heatsink will get heat blown on to it (my GTX 780 rests on top of it, actually coming into direct contact!). Cards with enclosed blower coolers are the safest bet for my setup (like my almost reference KFA2 and MSI GTX 780 cards, but even they still have a small outlet facing the motherboard at the connector end of the card, blowing hot air directly on to my audio chipset ).
Asrock have cocked up a bit with the audio circuitry placement on the Z97 Extreme4 board
. The heat coming from a non reference card makes the audio chip, caps and even motherboard quite hot... Not sure how much heat the electrolytic audio caps can handle in the long run. Even the PCH heatsink will get heat blown on to it (my GTX 780 rests on top of it, actually coming into direct contact!). Cards with enclosed blower coolers are the safest bet for my setup (like my almost reference KFA2 and MSI GTX 780 cards, but even they still have a small outlet facing the motherboard at the connector end of the card, blowing hot air directly on to my audio chipset ).
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Will the evga 980 SC definitely be available on the 3rd?
What are Asus playing at? The 970 strix was showing as ETA 3rd and now just shows as out of stock... 
I'm not going to give in and go for the MSI as i can't stand dusty pcbs in my case that are a PITA to clean. Want a nice brushed alu top plate to compliment the Asus Ranger motherboard I'm going for. I'll just have to order the board and cpu and put my GTX280 in there for now
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I'm not going to give in and go for the MSI as i can't stand dusty pcbs in my case that are a PITA to clean. Want a nice brushed alu top plate to compliment the Asus Ranger motherboard I'm going for. I'll just have to order the board and cpu and put my GTX280 in there for now
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What are Asus playing at? The 970 strix was showing as ETA 3rd and now just shows as out of stock...
I'm not going to give in and go for the MSI as i can't stand dusty pcbs in my case that are a PITA to clean. Want a nice brushed alu top plate to compliment the Asus Ranger motherboard I'm going for. I'll just have to order the board and cpu and put my GTX280 in there for now
They arrived early and sold out within hours.
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Maybe get the Gigabyte instead, that has an awesome Backplate!
. Underestimated how popular the cards are and how little Asus would send. 
