It has good reviews, great specs at a glance, and is compatible with my system. Upgrading from a 2GB Graphics Card to a 4GB Graphics Card in itself would be a big improvement.
Is this a good investment or not? Does anybody own/have experience with this Graphics Card?
usul12021 votesI love my 970. Runs absolutely everything i play beautifully, and shadowplay is the shit for recording. only works in full screen, but doesn't touch your fps at all, and records high quiality.
Live2LetDie1 votesHad 2 sli for about 3 days and then just sent them back and grabbed a 980. the 980 runs every game i throw at it maxed so im sure the 970 is the same with a 10-15 fps difference.
Jiberamu1 votesyeah i like it looksk great
ElysMustache1 votesI have the Radeon 290, which I think is approximately equivalent.
Can you already run League at max graphics settings and above 60 fps? If you can, there is no real reason to get it, but of course it won't hurt.
ABlueQuaker1 votesI was stuck with a cr*ppy notebook for years until I got this Desktop so I'm not really brave enough to go above Medium.
I get a farily constant 50-60 FPS in SR but in ARAM I sit at around 50 for some reason. SO there is definitely some room for improvement.
ElysMustache1 votesYou'll have to unclick the "wait for vertical sync" to get maximum frame rate in my experience with League. It is in the game video options.
ABlueQuaker1 votesAlready done all that with my current Graphics Card.
Genoto1 votesI got a GTX960 (2GB) around mid February and have been able to run LoL on max settings ever since then. So your 4GB GTX970 should be more than enough. I also upgraded from an old laptop to a self-built desktop. Best decision ever.
ABlueQuaker1 votesMine is just a pre-build office desktop but it's a pretty solid build and I've been slowly upgrading components.
My Desired Name1 votesI have an AMD Radeon HD 8570D
(And it's a piece of junk.)
I'm going to build my own computer in the near future with a Galaxy GeForce GTX 660 Ti.
Angry Monster1 votesThe 620 is a really weak card. the 970 is a great card unless you are running a 4k monitor.
so for nvidia cards the first number is the generation number. The last 2 numbers plus the letters are telling you the quality of the card in that generation (this is a generalization but works well enough). Any modern series above x50 is pretty much going to get good fram rates in league.
part of your problem with the 620 is not the amount of ram but the pipelines and design of the card. You probably never used all 2 gigs of your original card. The bus bandwith was a major choke point.
ABlueQuaker1 votesYeah I see what you're saying. Any no I don't use a 4k monitor, I just use a couple of standard monitors (I turn one off when I play LoL anyway because my graphics card is pretty pathetic).
Angry Monster1 votesWith the 970 you wont have to do that anymore plus you will be able to run max settings.
ABlueQuaker1 votesThat's what I figured.
ABlueQuaker1 votesAccording to FutureMark.com, the GTX 970 is 21.5x better/stronger than my GT 620 according to their scoring system.