For budget? I run everything on ultra with just one of these and a "crappy" amd fx

To be fair, the 1080 is also over half the cost of a 1070.

On one of these?

Which non-reference 1060 is £189? At the same price and given the option I'd probably take a RX 470 over a GTX 970 for slightly better future proofing and less furore surrounding VRAM.

Edit - just seen it....you meant the 3GB 1060.....not sure that's a great option for any form of longevity. Certainly the AMD offerings are a better choice in that comparison.

To be fair, the 1080 is also over half the cost of a 1070.

Any coil whine on this?

Not bad. The 970 is still a great card for budget builds.

On one of these?

Good. This card is silent and fast.

the extra £10 for a 1060 seems more than worth it. check out a comparison between the two

Good price.

I'm excited for the gtx 1050, coming in at 75w is going to be king of the budget builds aimed at 1080p. I've love a £120 price point, with its supposed near 470 performance. In some ways I hope its nearer £170, otherwise it could finish AMD off, and then nvidia could charge anything they want for cards.

That looks familiar, I hope you haven't been to my house. Though mine does have a 4K sticker on it.

i'd suggest anyone stay clear of 3gb model if they keeping card for a few years

To be fair, if you're a Counterstrike Pro you'll be using a CRT.

​Graphics Card Ram Size 3 MB...

I played CS 1.5 on an iiyama Diamondtron vision master CRT back in 2003, most impressive monitor I ever had, when I switched to TFT in 2005, I felt The gaming experience being so different.

yeah it cost $4,000 when first bought in 1982!

Yeah loads places said the coilwhine would be the psu even though mine ran a 7970 before hand with no issues.. ocuk sold loads psus to people who thought this too haha and they then complained again about coilwhine still and had to swap anyway but some people kept the psu and only returned the card. Legendary salesman!!

I had an evga then a g1 both had coilwhine but the g1 only has it at really high fps. Best card ive ever bought even with all the issue like coilwhine and vram issue

Apparently back in stock September 15th

Sorry, no, that's not right! We're getting £350 1070s nowadays, so to be less than half the cost, this 970 would have to be £174.99.

Picky? Moi? :smile:

This or RX 480 4gb?

Interesting! never had the opportunity to tell this story before. I was also affected by the coil whine, infact both my G1 970s were as I had them in SLI. I was told that if I got a new PSU (by overclockers) that was a higher efficiency rating that it would solve the problem. My immediate reaction was that of "what the hell are you talking about?! I'm not just some stupid and gullible end user". I actually asked for a reasonable explanation, that I never actually got.

Anyway to satisfy them as they would not drop it, I had two choices, to buy a new PSU at the efficiency rating to test it, with agreement they would refund the postage back if it didn't work, or to test it on one myself if I could get my hands on one. Well since we all run in the same circles I had access to many PCs with 'efficient' PSUs in, so begrudingly, I accepted and lugged my PC over to my brothers and began the arduous task of testing them. As it turned out he had a number of gold rated PSUs as he had a few PCs for LAN gaming. The results? They were correct, I could not get any coil whine from any of those PSUs, plugged back into mine and straight away it was audibly obvious.
So I bought a superflower 850w from OCUK with gritted teeth told them it was working.

Few months down the line, traded them up for a native 980 anyway due to the VRAM issue, despite not actually having a problem, the opportunity was there and I had decided that SLI with non-reference cards wasn't a great idea after all.

I never did buy the 2nd 980... xD

​The fans won't spin up until the gpu is put under load. So the majority of the time whilst not gaming it is in fact silent :wink:

My 780 with modest overclock is coping just fine at 1440p on bf1 beta with everything set to ultra I'm averaging 54 fps. 3GB is fine for now..

If you're gaming on a standard 60hz 1080p monitor there's no reason to go above a 970 imo.

I'm using it for a 4k monitor, I will get a 1070 one day but I'm only playing South Park, FIFA and Cities Skylines these days. The only one that pushes the 970 is Cities but I've made peace with that running at 30fps for now.

I did put in a hundred hours on a laptop at 1080p 18fps so 4k 30hz is wonderful. My brother's more into his gaming and acts like 30hz burns his eyes.

Stay clear of 3gb cards if you plan to play recent games at max settings. For example Hitman and Rise of the Tomb Raider both need 4gb+ for the top settings. And its likely new games will want 4gb+.

That said if you don't play games with demanding graphics the 3gb 1060 is a good budget buy.

got one from my bro for Xmas 2014 and it's still running everything at max fps on all ultra settings, serious price considering it was €450 when I got it.

currently priced at £210...

My one of these has massive coil whine but only when at any resolution under 1080p and in game. Good card otherwise and great in a lounge as silent when not gaming and not too loud when gaming.

Am I better off getting a Asus 1060 6gb OC it's around £250 or this I need something that's going to play bf1 at the highest settings I can. I have Intel i5 6600k Asus z170 pro gaming just getting back into the whole pc gaming so any recommendations would good

not bad for a 3.5gb card

just give it a few months & nvidia drivers will turn this card to crap like they did with the Kepler lineup

The 970 only has 500mb more usable Vram. 1060 is a good option.

says its £210 :disappointed:

Same price at Maplin if you have a store local with stock

http://www.maplin.co.uk/p/asus-nvidia-geforce-gtx-970-oc-strix-4gb-gddr5-graphics-card-a26rr

I'm in no rush, my 750ti OC low profile was £90 something the week it was released and doing ok at the moment. Going by 750 to 950 series inflation I wouldn't be surprised if the next 1150 card comes in at £200+, and the mid range 1170 pushing £500. Get your damn act together, AMD!

Can't believe how cheap these are, currently playing new dues ex on one of these, oc core by 160mhz easily, 2k monitor and runs smooth as silk with gsync on ultra settings, 40-60fps not bad for a 'budget' card in my books!

You know what. I think I'm gonna get this 970. I'm fed up of waiting for the 6GB 1060's to either come into stock, or offer a decent tempting price. This is a great price for a decent 970.

I don't know how you could live with that. I'd take lower resolution and poorer visuals for a greater frame rate in any game.

Damn, could have got 3 of these instead of my 1080.

I think he needs to go to the drs obv something wrong with his eyes... playing at 18 fps is like slow motion mate...

A bargain. I have the msi 970 g and its stunning. This weeks micro mart reviews mid priced cards and the 970 wins easily. It beats the new amd cards and the reviewer says the 970 to will easily run any game out there maxed out or thereabouts. Those who call this a budget card are just attention seeking and really don't understand much about computers.
Anyone wanting a big upgrade for little money, the 970 to will do that for relatively little money .

Forgot to add. I'll be playing fallout 4 later at 4k with everything maxed out completely(aa not needed at 60hz 4k)with my 970. It looks incredible. I often just wander around the settlements just for the eye candy as it looks that good. I've heavily modded the graphics. This is what the 970 is capable of.

I've got the card, so here are a few thoughts:

The while 3.5GB VRAM fiasco is quite nonsensical, especially at 1080/1440p. I've not encountered any frame stuttering even in GTA V. Games look wonderfu and this card handles 1440p very well. It's a very quiet card, even under full load. I have it paired with a 4670K over clocked to 4.5 GHz and have also over clocked my card . I don't find the card to struggle much at all, but then I find anything at medium on AAA games at 1440p still looks amazing.

No coil wine on mine at all.

The card is, however, very heavy and has bent my pci slot. At the moment, everything works fine. But the card is leaning a fair amount. I suggest propping it up if you can.

it doesn't beat the 480 in anything but ok fanboy

It is a bit like the Silicon lottery with these 970s. I had the 970 strix, no coil whine at all but remember lots of people complaining, v good card if coil whine free. I got rid of mine a bit too early, had 350 ready to go for the 1070 launch. but refused to pay the extra 100,400-500 for a x70 card is a joke, even if it offers maxwell titan x performance. I too hope AMD sort themselves out as Nvidia are trying to set up the same "premium" business (overcharging) model as Apple.

Good price, just sold mine on eBay for £160 ! On a Strix 1070 now :smiley:

better open gl support than rx 480 ect brought mine for 188 free next day del from ocuk

OOS - but still same price on order for 9th Sept

bought this for 297.99 in March from eBuyer. Still have time to get a refund.

i agree there must be some real competition

Looked like Amazon were taking order for this item at the same price for a very limited time, but this has now ended and the next best price on Amazon is £210.71 FREE UK delivery.

Expired

Update - Available on back order at same price £179.99

20 £ more and you get the OC version: https://skinflint.co.uk/asus-strix-geforce-gtx-970-oc-90yv07f0-m0na00-a1167954.html ;-)

The Amazon deal is for the OC version.

Amazon is just price matching overclockers, i wonder if the price will drop any further.

I ordered one last night to a locker with estimated dispatch of the 10th (was back ordered).. it arrived today.

Great card for the money.

I had trouble with my 7950 from day one with noise and performance. I will never go amd again, this is a tempting price to get back with the green team. I don't plan on going 4k for a while as my 1080p monitor is only a couple of years old. Ironically, I got it to take advantage of the 7950. Haha, won't be that naive again.

Another new seller is charging £170 on amazon using the same link, when they first setup their shop on the 9th of September they had them up for £160 and i managed to buy one before they changed it to £170, cracking price.

For anyone interested, this card is now back in stock and Amazon are once again selling for £179.99.

Got mine and has been dispatched already. :-)

Needing another gfx card for a
Friend , this or pay the extra for a 1060 6gb at 229 - not sure if this is worth the extra £50 notes - anyone in the same boat right now. Seems a bad time to buy as prices are dropping on both.