Recommend a Single Card Upgrade?

[Hessian]

I've currently got two 560Ti's in SLI, but thinking it's time to upgrade to a single card. But only really have £300 to spend. Can anyone recommend a single card? My motherboard is a MSI Z97-GD65 if that's needed? Currently looking a 970 seems to be within that price range, but is there a better option and/or a specific brand to look out for? Perhaps also worth noting that I'm sticking with 1080p for the foreseeable future.

 

[UTmaniac]

My Sapphire Nitro R9 390 works great at 1080p, at 1440p the Freesync (with my supporting monitor) helps in some games such as pCARS in certain car/track/weather/number of opponents combos.

 

[futang17]

I had 560Ti SLI then made the jump to Powercolor PCS+ 290x. More than double the performance at 1080p Ultra in BF4 (was running Med quality fps 45-80) now at 90+ FPS.

Loved the 290x, powercolor cooler was superb quality. Quiet and cool. I had fans at 40% max which was silent and that keep the card below 70 C.

Now I just bought Sapphire Fury. about 20% increase on top of 290x but there's slight coil whine which bothers me since my rig is build for silent gaming.

But I'd look at a cheap 290x if you can find one OR 390/390x. Great cards.