What is Reddit's opinion of EVGA GeForce GTX 970 4GB FTW GAMING ACX 2.0, 26% Cooler and 36% Quieter Cooling Graphics Card 04G-P4-2978-KR?

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I have the EVGA FTW ACX 2.0 and it's awesome. Here's the link. It has 2 fans which is another plus. Won't get too hot even without external coolers.

I spent the extra $30 for the EVGA 970 FTW just a couple of days ago. It's been running cool and quiet, and seems to be a beast of a card. It comes with a solid factory overclock too.

http://www.amazon.com/EVGA-GeForce-256bit-Graphics-04G-P4-2978-KR/dp/B00OSS0AG4

Unfortunately the older cards probably get scalped the WORST. the Nicehash calculator right now says that a gtx 970 only makes 0.34USD a day in profit (mind you, all profits are low right now while the market is lower) yet you can find stuff like this https://www.amazon.com/EVGA-GeForce-Quieter-Graphics-04G-P4-2978-KR/dp/B00OSS0AG4
that is EVGA selling their own VERY old GPU for more than the MSRP of an RTX 3060ti, which performs more than 10x. The profit is entirely determined by how and if you can get realistic prices. YOU DO have a better shot at getting older GPUs at a realistic price if you are willing to be risky and buy people's very old crap off ebay at the risk of it being worthless, but you would need a lot to even start getting any significant return.

Can you return the monitor? It's one of the worst 24" 144hz displays out now. I'd look into returning it and getting a ViewSonic XG2401 or a Samsung C24FG70.

But if you want to keep that monitor, let me see if I understand you correctly.

GPU is THIS

GPU has 1 HDMI output, so you're using HDMI to the TV, and DVI with a converter to the monitor.

I'd propose doing the following. Run HDMI to the monitor, get a DVI-HDMI adapter (they're $2-$3), and run the DVI output to your TV. Something like this.

http://www.amazon.ca/EVGA-GeForce-Quieter-Graphics-04G-P4-2978-KR/dp/B00OSS0AG4/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1447196738&sr=8-1&keywords=gtx+970+ftw

This is what I has

I bought it on a sale but here you go http://www.amazon.com/EVGA-GeForce-256bit-Graphics-04G-P4-2978-KR/dp/B00OSS0AG4/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1428118512&sr=8-1&keywords=gtx+970+ftw

Here :

http://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B00OSS0AG4/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=A3DWYIK6Y9EEQB

Between the ACX 2.0 & ACX 2.0 FTW

EVGA GTX 970

Consolidating some of the more pertinent information about this issue:

1. There's no company-wide policy at either amazon or newegg that guarantees you'll get a 20% partial refund on the 970 you purchased. Some people were offered as much as 40% or as little as 5%, and others weren't offered any sort of partial refund at all (though they generally have been offered full refunds outside of the retailer's normal refund period, this is still seen as a "disappointing result" by many here, since they had no actual desire to return the card). Whether you're offered a partial refund or not will largely depend upon the customer service representative you happen to luck into (and, more generally, whether their customer service departments face pressure to stop issuing partial refunds on this product entirely due to widespread requests).

2. That said, if you're going to pursue a partial refund, please be informed about what the issue actually is. Stop claiming that the card has 3.5GB VRAM - that's not true. Saying that the card has 3.5GB of VRAM only harms your argument, since the claim is false. The card does have 4GB of VRAM - the issue is that 0.5GB of it is crippled with no indication of that being the case anywhere on the product page.

3. That last point is a key issue. Many of you are acting as if the retailers are entirely blameless in this situation, but that's not really true. They clearly aren't the ones who caused this issue in the first place (nVidia), but they've done very little (if anything) to update their product pages with the correct video card specifications in the time since this issue has come to light. And yes, some of the gtx 970 product pages still contain false statements¹ about the cards' specifications (I'm not only referring to the "lie by omission" of claiming the card has 4GB of VRAM, with the logical assumption a consumer would make being that all 4GB of that VRAM were equal).

¹ as an example, take a gander at one of eVGA's gtx 970 product pages on amazon (here). They claim 224.3 GB/s memory bandwidth, which is false - the "fast" (3.5GB) segment of VRAM only has ~192 GB/s of theoretical memory bandwidth.

It actually means For the win :)

The 970 FTW is one of EVGA's versions of the 970

http://www.amazon.com/EVGA-GeForce-256bit-Graphics-04G-P4-2978-KR/dp/B00OSS0AG4/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1422093302&sr=8-1&keywords=970+ftw

$200. Purchased new, but never installed (incompatible power supply). It's the ACX 2.0/FTW version - same as this: https://www.amazon.com/EVGA-GeForce-Quieter-Graphics-04G-P4-2978-KR/dp/B00OSS0AG4/