Question 1

Will this work for a desktop computer?

Accepted Answer

Yes but make sure your power supply is big enough to handle it. You should consider the new Nvidia 1060 graphics card, it has the same performance as this on but at a lower cost.

Question 2

why is this card priced so much lower than other 980 cards?

Accepted Answer

I'm not really sure. To be honest I don't know a lot about this kind of stuff but I can tell you I got this card a few weeks ago and so far I have no complaints. It's been running great.

Question 3

My son was interested in getting this card as he is learning some entry and mid level 3d graphics. He wants to replace this into his acer which has a 500w power supply. Going by the specs it will work but what do you all say?

Accepted Answer

Depending on what you have already in the machine you might want to be safe and go up to about a 700 watt. However if he's actually doing design he might want to look into spending the little bit of extra money and getting the 1080 GTX

Question 4

Core and Boost Clocks are obviously incorrectly listed what are the actual specs?

Accepted Answer

I have 2 of these - core is 1178, boost is +100 on that. I have mine OC'd to +125 core clock and +250 memory clock.

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