This new Nvidia GTX 970 is simply a bomb! While the computing world has stagnated for over almost two years (Haswell Haswell then refresh hardly marginally better than the generation Ivy Bridge, SSD stagnant all arriving near saturation of the standard SATA III), that Nvidia just released is striking : a stable price and performance + 30% against the previous generation has, we ca was long awaited. But especially noise and electric conso are widely reviewed in the fall, enough to make me forget my HDD4600.
For Lightroom and most 2D applications: move along, nothing to see, the AMD or Intel integrated solution will do. With optimized applications like After Effects and Photoshop can feel the difference, but you really have to spend 8 hours a day on his machine to draw a profit. For the game, I did say to me that on the simulators: the rendering is stunning! But above all, I finally have a truly silent card. It seems that only MSI and Asus have managed to get out of GTX 970 versions not triggering as a last resort ventilos. And compared to my MSI GTX 770, the GTX 970 ventilos that are really different and quieter (V TwinFrozr against previously IV).
The price is perhaps a little high, of course it will drop after the holidays but today is clearly one of the best expenditures we can do for PC, provided we really have in the use of course. And compared to the high end (GTX 980 and competitors AMD / ATI) there is clearly no compromise performance also in this price range.
Note: I also used my PC Hackintosh and all Nvidia cards cited rotate while remaining perfectly economes. The results in Cinebench are particularly impressive and give the impression that OS X is faster than Windows, but use the remaining two as good.
