New GeForce GPUs & Drivers [Sep 19, 2014, 09:05 am ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
New GTX 980 and 970 GPUs are now available from NVIDIA, and you can find an
introduction to the new hardware on
the GeForce website and there are evaluations from a bunch of sites in
today's hardware review section. To support the new cards, the
GeForce website now offers new WHQL-certified version 344.11 drivers, which
also add support for some new and upcoming games. Here's word: "The new
GeForce 344.11 WHQL drivers are now
available to download automatically through
GeForce Experience, and
from GeForce.com. These new drivers
give GeForce GTX owners the ultimate gaming experience in the latest blockbuster
titles, including Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel, The Evil Within, F1 2014 and
Alien: Isolation, and add support for the brand new, Maxwell-powered
GeForce GTX 980 and
GeForce GTX 970, the world's most advanced graphics cards."
Hmm, my ATI6850 has served me well and continues to be viable for working my way though my Steam back catalogue, but... but.. I've had more than my money's worth and I'm due an upgrade, or something 
980 or 970? 970 at a glance appears a lot better value and an amount I'm comfortable throwing down (its $450 v ~$770 here in UK). That said a faster card can be more enjoyable for a longer time so can, like expensive shoes, be argued better value over the long term (in some respects). I'd be pairing it with a 2500K at 4.2ghz, also aged but cpus don't seem to have come on much.
I think I'm leaning towards the 970.
Hmm I might have to check my PSU power connectors, current card only required a single 6 pin.
Oh and crap, how is it these days for swapping cards whithout doing an OS reinstall? That would be really quite a nuisance.
980 or 970? 970 at a glance appears a lot better value and an amount I'm comfortable throwing down (its $450 v ~$770 here in UK). That said a faster card can be more enjoyable for a longer time so can, like expensive shoes, be argued better value over the long term (in some respects). I'd be pairing it with a 2500K at 4.2ghz, also aged but cpus don't seem to have come on much.
I think I'm leaning towards the 970.
Hmm I might have to check my PSU power connectors, current card only required a single 6 pin.
Oh and crap, how is it these days for swapping cards whithout doing an OS reinstall? That would be really quite a nuisance.
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