PNY GeForce GTX 970 4GB GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 SLI Support Video Card (G-SYNC Support) VCGGTX9704XPB

Pros: GTX 970, alot cheaper than some of the other 970s you see out there.

Cons: Can is Noisy under load. Gets fairly warm 70c+.

Overall Review: I plan on swapping it to water cooling once I get the money for it. For now I have a case fan blowing cool air from out of the case right into the blower and has helped keep temps down.

Pros: Price Performance Power consumption Usually quiet Plays all games at 1080p with max settings with power to spare.

Cons: Low TDP in BIOS (106%) Cheap feeling plastic Coil wine at full load especially with heavy tessellation

Overall Review: I purchased this because it was available. Before owning it I thought it would not be a great overclocker mostly due to temps. I was wrong. It overclocks very well. After having it for a month I have it dialed in. I upped the TDP from 106% to 138% by modifying the bios. The card now doesn't throttle at the 106% mark and can keep up with over 1500mhz core and 8000mhz on memory all day. Temperatures have never gone over 72c usually staying in the 60s under full load and around 30c at idle. I found the coil whine to be a problem for the first week or so when benching or gaming. This has subsided mostly and if there is coil whine at load, it is not louder than the rest of the computer which is pretty quiet. Keep in mind if you register this card online, (easy to do) you get a lifetime warranty for as long as they make the card. If you need some more FPS, this will do it. Would definitely buy again.

Pros: -Reference Design -Availability -Price -Copious display outputs -Low temps -Does what it's supposed to

Cons: -Flimsy Plastic -Makes a buzzing/sizzling/hissing sound during WEI score update and during gaming -Design leaves a lot to desire -Availability -Too many mini-display ports for my personal application

Overall Review: This card does just what it's expected to, but the presentation is lacking. Packaging is very minimalist, and the driver disk looks like it was mass produced in someone's garage. Mine had a shortcut that led to the nvidia page. It didn't even have a driver to install. Not sure if that's the case of other people, but that's just laziness on their part. It comes with a couple of display adapters. The card makes a strange hissing sound when it's under load. I guess it's commonly referred to capacitor whine? I don't know, but I didn't expect that sound coming from a brand new video card that isn't even overclocked. Speaking of overclocking, the ASIC on this card is 79.6% so that should be an easy overclock. I'm only knocking one egg off because of presentation and the hissing. Hopefully it does not become a bigger problem than what it seems.

Pros: Like other 970's this card offers good performance for the price. Unlike others, the fan does not seem to be any louder than my case/CPU fans. (4X120mm) It certainly can handle an overclock up to +100. I do not plan to overclock this one until end of life so I will not be pushing it any further until it is necessary. (I can play all my games with max graphics settings at 60 FPS regardless. (1920X1080 60 Hertz) I'm sure it will handle a multiple monitor setup with ease. However, when overclocking I would expect it would throttle due to temp at some point. At load, temp in my case it runs up to 79 degrees. However, My desktop is housed in a cabinet (Back removed). Perhaps, we will find the true thermal limit on these in the future. This unit offers Mini display port outputs, so if you are like me and are running multiple older monitors with various adapters over the years you can appreciate not having to purchase more. (+-$30 each) If registered, this card offers a Lifetime warranty. Most websites list it only as one year.

Cons: If you want to show off your hardware, this card is not the most gaudy. However, it is black and sleek. It is simple, but most likely no one will pay attention anyway. Some people say it feels cheap, but after its installed its not like you are going to touch it everyday....Are you?

Overall Review: System: AMD Phenom(tm) II X6 1100T Processor 3.6 boost to 3.9 8192 MByte Ram DDR3 (1600) Asus M4A785TD-EVO PNY GTX 970 (+100 Core) 3D Mark 11 (Basic): 10690 Graphics Score:14987 Physics 5736

Pros: -It's a 970 -reasonably quiet at idle -blower cooler keeps heat out of the case; so it should be nice for SLI

Cons: -extremely loud at load (especially with two in SLI) I have two of this card, both of which started HEAVILY artifacting around the same time. I'll chalk that up to bad luck. However, this is not why I'm giving two eggs. The reason for my giving it two eggs is that upon attempting to contact PNY about the defective cards, they've stonewalled me. I've tried the RMA service on their site, calling them, sending emails - and NOTHING. This is beyond abhorrent behavior on their part. Additionally, from my experience: the failure rate appears to be quite high.

Overall Review: Buy a 970 from a different manufacturer - PNY will make sure that you can't get defective products replaced even though they claim to have a 1 year warranty.

Pros: Cheapest of the 970's. In CS:GO im getting 400FPS+ with a i7 5820K.

Cons: Its casing is low quality. Handle/install with care.

Overall Review: When i upgrade my Pc i never break 400 dollars when i buy a GPU. Luckily the new line of 900's came out when i was looking to do a new build. Outperforms my old 560Ti with ease. Fan does make some noise when under heavy load. Whenever this happens though i cant notice it for i have headphones on. If you use onboard/PCI-E soundcard. Make sure you turn off audio output in the Nvidia drivers if you use HDMI displays.

Pros: OC'ed to 1216 and stable while playing RIFT. Price was nice. Upgraded from a 560Ti 448. and scored twice as high on 3DMark 11. Sleek black look fits well with the case theme. Very low noise even when fans running 75% but temps never got over 65 C. through MSi AfterBurner.

Cons: N/A

Pros: • Nice looking card (not flashy) • Blower type- so hot air is sent out of the back of the case • Reference-style connections (3 DP, 1 HDMI, 1 DVI) • Overclock +225MHz Core no problem. • Fan can be set to run fairly silent, but at a cost to temperature.

Cons: • Temperature gets to about 80c during benchmarking and mining, then throttling occurs • Fan at ~45% (the automatic setting speed that occurs at ~80c) is not very quiet, and keeping the fan low leads to the temperature reaching 80c and then throttling. I'd need to set the fan to come on stronger, increasing the noise but lowering the temperature and lessening the throttling. • Monitor connected to DP does not show PC BIOS POST- the monitor only shows information when the video driver is loaded in Windows. The secondary monitor (oriented in portrait, flipped) shows the BIOS power-on password to the side This monitor is connected using the DVI out. I haven't seen a way to change this yet. • I don't see a utility or bios update for the card on PNY's website. Drivers for PNY redirect to Nvidia's website. • DisplayPort output needs be active on power-up, not only in Windows. This feels hacky to me.

Overall Review: At today's rates, GPU mining is dead- it'll take decades for the 600+ MHps to pay anything, if ever. (Not a failure of the card in any way). The serial number is quite long with two sections, and is not (ironically) the number on the sticker that says "S/N: ...". This is only for registering online for the lifetime warranty. At first, while benchmarking and only while benchmarking, the display connected via DisplayPort showed lines and tears in the video and the screen would blank out for seconds at a time. I was going to swap DP outputs but it seemed to be the cable- slightly loose. I need to find a decent cable that won't dislodge or connect improperly. Once I fitted the cable again, the display output was rock solid.