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Nvidia 980/970 Availability Thread

I should have by two 980 SC's no later than tomorrow. Ordered over the weekend from Newegg. Shipped today. I used rush processing and overnight shipping.
 
WorldExclusive said:
The PNY was one of the best ones if going straight to water. Comes with three Mini-DP ports, HDMI and DVI at $329.
The next card the offers that is the Gigabyte at $369.
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LOL I remember launch night, me and everyone else was avoiding the PNY cards on Amazon and waiting for the EVGA's. Good to see that the PNY cards turned out well. They are a decent company.
 
Lord_Exodia said:
LOL I remember launch night, me and everyone else was avoiding the PNY cards on Amazon and waiting for the EVGA's. Good to see that the PNY cards turned out well. They are a decent company.
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I just think we are getting short changed by purchasing the GTX 970 2x DVI-D models.
That's an outdated I/O layout.
 
WorldExclusive said:
I just think we are getting short changed by purchasing the GTX 970 2x DVI-D models.
That's an outdated I/O layout.
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I've heard people saying that this layout can cause problems with SLI + Surround and that only the outputs from the main or top GPU is usable, is that true?

On my GTX 680s I used 2 of the Dual Link DVI on the top card and 1 DL DVI on the bottom card. Did something change on the GTX 700 series?

I checked and my cards come with an adapter so technically I should be fine in either case but now my curiosity has been piqued.
 
Lord_Exodia said:
I've heard people saying that this layout can cause problems with SLI + Surround and that only the outputs from the main or top GPU is usable, is that true?

On my GTX 680s I used 2 of the Dual Link DVI on the top card and 1 DL DVI on the bottom card. Did something change on the GTX 700 series?

I checked and my cards come with an adapter so technically I should be fine in either case but now my curiosity has been piqued.
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If you're running surround + SLI, you can use inputs from both cards. The issue is that if you want to run three independent displays instead of one surround display, then you can only use the inputs on the top card.
 
Viper87227 said:
If you're running surround + SLI, you can use inputs from both cards. The issue is that if you want to run three independent displays instead of one surround display, then you can only use the inputs on the top card.
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Oh good to know. This makes me really consider getting a 970 now and sli it for xmas. The $350 price is just so tempting.
 
cybereality said:
If you want to do triple screen Surround w/ the Asus Swift, then you need the 980.
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The reference 970 comes with 3x DP, 1x HDMI, and 1x DVI-I just like the 980. I have no idea why the aftermarket has decided to stick with the old I/O layout. But you will need more than one 980 to push that many pixels at a decent framerate, anyway (33% more pixels than 4k).
 
Armenius said:
The reference 970 comes with 3x DP, 1x HDMI, and 1x DVI-I just like the 980. I have no idea why the aftermarket has decided to stick with the old I/O layout. But you will need more than one 980 to push that many pixels at a decent framerate, anyway (33% more pixels than 4k).
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The reference GTX 970 also comes with a Titan-like cooler that doesn't appear to be available from any vendor yet :(
 
ilal2ielli said:
My Frys in Woodland Hills had the same amount.

Ended up buying two 970's to replace my 670's.
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I picked up an eVGA 980 SC at Manhattan Beach location. Nothing was displayed on the shelves, but I asked a sales person if they have either 980 or 970 somewhere in the stock room. They didn't have any 970. Their system and website are not updated to show their current stock on either 980 or 970.
 
Dayum. Just had a MSI GTX 980 in my cart on TigerDirect and went OOS while I was trying to pay for it, lol.
 
For popular items I have to say Tiger Direct sucks. I ordered a movie from them that was dirt cheap, it was in stock when I ordered it, 5 days later I get an email saying it's backordered lol.
 
ocellaris said:
The reference GTX 970 also comes with a Titan-like cooler that doesn't appear to be available from any vendor yet :(
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It sounds like they cheesed out on these coolers. According to Anandtech, the cooler is using a heatpipe design internally now instead of a vapor chamber... (Can't link the Anand article... not loading for me right now).

I've decided I'm going for a pair of STRIX... once someone has them back in stock :eek:.
 
LurkerLito said:
For popular items I have to say Tiger Direct sucks. I ordered a movie from them that was dirt cheap, it was in stock when I ordered it, 5 days later I get an email saying it's backordered lol.
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Agreed. I despise TD and only order from them if I've got no other choice and its high dollar value, since they're they only out-of-state etailer I can find stocking 970/980 at the moment. I'm in CA so Amazon and Newegg would mean another $40-$45 in taxes on a 980, and $549 is already pushing what I really want to spend. Of the dozen or so times I've used TD over the years, they've screwed up more orders than they've gotten right.
 
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Can't buy through newegg because I don't have an American billing address.
Any Zotac GTX 970 (the short one) in stock somewhere else? There is one in Amazon but at USD385...
 
azeós;1041112448 said:
Can't buy through newegg because I don't have an American billing address.
Any Zotac GTX 970 (the short one) in stock somewhere else? There is one in Amazon but at USD385...
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This one?
 
Just installed my 980s :) Going to try them out on my 55" 4K Samsung HU 8550 in a bit.

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