There's two fan types, ACX which exhausts into the case (but cools the card better) and Blower, which exhausts out the back of the case. (They usually have a variant that's liquid cooled, as well.)Ghudda wrote:Is the only difference between the various EVGA 970 cards just the cooling upgrade between cards (extra fans, etc.)? Or do some of them run at actually higher clock speeds?
Then there's also Normal, SC, SSC, and FTW SKUs. The clocks on these for the core GPU and memory are overclocked, Normal is usually stock Nvidia speed.
Even though it costs bit more, it's nice because you can get a significantly overclocked GPU that's still covered by their warranty, if you pay under $400, I think an extra 7 years (making it ten years) is like $40 from EVGA.
Not a horrible deal.
If you actually don't care, you can obviously overclock them yourself, but that isn't covered under warranty at all.
Personally, I feel that GPUs are rather fickle devices that perform under extreme conditions and are exceedingly expensive ... I want them covered for the lifetime of ownership.
