is Asus Strix Gtx 970 is downside of Gtx 970?

Honey · Dec 28, 2014

I saw lot of reviews, mostly was lil bit doubty,
Is this Asus card is weaker 970?
I was picking small zotac gtx 970 then I thought its too small, zotac have good services at my location,
And all knows asus build quality,
Asus have good service near my location, and the card is looking awesome I liked the back plate this thing will fix the accident can by screw driver.
These things changed my mind to buy gtx 970 by Asus.
Gigabyte and evga is not available in India.
I'm getting
Asus gtx 970 strix at 491$
MSI gtx 970 524$ and
Zotac small gtx 970 at 434$
These are local price.
I can go with MSI but there is only 2 service center in India. And they are out of station.
What are bad things in Asus I can face in future? Any hardware defect like memory heat crash?
Is Asus is using bad quality component like memory etc on strix ?

Is Asus one is down side of gtx 970?
Is overclock is too bad in Asus one? If yes then means Asus using fake details on the box?

Please suggest me

Tatty_Two · Dec 28, 2014

Welcome to TPU..... have moved your thread to "NVidia".

hat · Dec 28, 2014

I think the Strix series is supposed to be pretty high end.

Vario · Dec 28, 2014

Asus is a premium brand.

64K · Dec 28, 2014

I got the MSI GTX 970 Gaming card but the Asus Strix looks like a good choice too. There are in depth reviews for both of those cards here on TPU

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/ASUS/GTX_970_STRIX_OC/

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/MSI/GTX_970_Gaming/

newtekie1 · Dec 28, 2014

The MSI card is slightly quieter(both are insanely quiet so I don't think this really matters) but the ASUS comes with a backplate and uses a single 8-Pin. IMO, the ASUS is the slightly better card. Build quality wise both MSI and ASUS are better than Zotac, IMO.

Honey · Dec 29, 2014

Thank you everyone , so I will go with Asus one

Thanks again..

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is Asus Strix Gtx 970 is downside of Gtx 970?

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