Replacing a a 970

[NoNameNoNumber]

Happy enough with the performance still at 1440 but mine seems to have bitten the dust after a bout with a cuppa. Need a card and a water block, likely from the MM but not sure what kinda level to look at.
Suppose a 1070 would be the obvious choice?
Would AMD be worth considering around the 2-300 mark 2nd hand?

 

[Regeneration]

Wait for RTX 2060 series.

Meanwhile, try to push the GTX 970 to its limits. If you have proper cooling, you can overclock and use BIOS volt-mod, increase TDP and such.

 

[NoNameNoNumber]

I'm not struggling for GPU power, I've been playing Civ 5, Factorio and some old Command and Conquer games. The HDMI has stopped working on it though after getting wet.
That said, it'd be daft to not use this as an opportunity to upgrade a little...
In the interim, as you say, I could try OCing a little. I have 960mm of rad space and there's only a CPU in there with it.

 

[Regeneration]

I'm not struggling for GPU power, I've been playing Civ 5, Factorio and some old Command and Conquer games. The HDMI has stopped working on it though after getting wet.
That said, it'd be daft to not use this as an opportunity to upgrade a little...
In the interim, as you say, I could try OCing a little. I have 960mm of rad space and there's only a CPU in there with it.

I bought RX 580 to replace GTX 970. Fire Strike score jumped by 1000 points, but there were major DP issues, driver bugs, multi-monitor not working with the latest driver.

Prices are likely to drop with the RTX 2060 series. Just use DP to HDMI adapter, or DVI to HDMI for now.

With Maxwell BIOS Editor, you can raise GPU voltage, increase power limits, disable Boost and use a static clock.

My GTX 970 clocked at 1610 MHz and still capable of running the latest games.

 

[Participant]

Sweat the 970. A broken HDMI port isn't a good enough reason to change imo.

 

[NoNameNoNumber]

I'm kinda lost with only one monitor

Will probably OC a little, and wait to see what the new cards do to used prices... One of these days I'll build a new rig, but currently the X79 is holding up well.

 

[Regeneration]

Don't you have DisplayPort on the card?

Just buy DP to HDMI cable or adapter.

 

[Reality|Bites]

How did it get wet? do you not keep drinks on the opposite side of the desk? You keep cups above the tower?

 

[NoNameNoNumber]

The display port is plugged into display 1
The HDMI is plugged into display 2

It's the HDMI that is no more.

The case is a Phanteks Enthoo Primo, absolute monster of a thing, sits flush at both the front and back of the desk. Spilling a full mug of tea covered the OCUK XXL desk matt and trickled off the desk. Down the top of the case through the rad.

 

[Regeneration]

Don't you have DVI output on the card? DVI-D to HDMI will work just fine.