After the was able to "scandal" to the trimmed video memory of the GTX 970 not stop to bring a well under this shortcoming very good map, I looked next to the performance parameters and tests on the length of the card. Value for money: Not only the online magazine Chip (94 of 100) came to the conclusion that there are price and performance in a particularly fair relationship. The potential competitor MSI GeForce GTX 970 gaming with in practice no longer ascertainable me better performance parameters is again (april 2015) much more expensive and has a greater demand for energy. Zotac GeForce GTX 980 AMP! is loud and the Gigabyte GeForce GTX 970 G1 Gaming or the Asus GeForce GTX 970 OC Edition with STRIX 28.86 cm long. For me it was also important not to squeeze too great a racer in my cube housing. Under these conditions, the choice fell immediately on these Zotac card (20:40 cm). One can only hope that no debacle "DirectX 12.0" created after the debacle around the store at the end of 2015, because then it could turn out that the "DirectX 12.0" advertised GTX 970 can not support the full range of functions. That would be really annoying.