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hey what's going on everyone I have been mi a recently that's because I am in the process of moving and seeing is on basically a one-man show at this point with Lisa still in Germany I've been pretty slow with respect to getting my stuff to the new apartment I'm moving officially tomorrow I'm getting a moving truck and my family's gonna help me out a little bit so this stuff behind me this is pretty much all of science to do his inventory you can't see most of it below me on the ground that'll all be taken over there tomorrow including all my just general living furniture couches beds all that good stuff so bear with me there's a weird backdrop very weird setting I still wanted to make this video it's been a while since I've uploaded one and I think it's a hot one you guys are gonna like this budget oriented mind so that I have the approach I'm going to take to this video because if you're comfortable buying used I think there's a really good option on the market many people seem to be overlooking because this is a two-generation old car I'm gonna recommend but it'll still pack a huge punch in 1080p and even some light 1440p so if you want to play fortnight or pub G but you want to do it on a solid budget then this card might be for you stay tuned this video is brought to you by PDF element your one-stop PDF viewer and editor with it you can annotate and convert Word and PDF files take notes in an e-text book for class and sign important documents it's actually an affordable and viable alternative to corporate competition you guys aren't I'm talking about and you can pick it up now for your favorite operating system it's very easy to use you won't regret the switch you can start a free trial download for free on mobile or buy outright with a 40 percent coupon baked in to the very top link in this video's description I'll give you guys a few seconds to click on it you can pause the video it's okay I'll wait click yet so okay enough with the suspense what card am I talking about its the EVGA GTX 970 now any 970 will do this one is a for the win card which I'm pretty sure means it's using a custom PCB better for higher power tolerances sustaining higher overclocks in general if I'm wrong I'll put something right here but even if this was a reference 970 board it's something you should consider not only because it probably missed the mining bullet most people weren't buying 970 s to mind with these cards were owned by people from five six years ago but also because I got this particular card on eBay for a hundred bucks $100 even was all I paid for this and I think it's gonna provide a great value alternative for those looking for around gtx 1060 territory but who don't want to spend two or three hundred bucks because 10 60's are still pretty expensive right now so when you see this card a benchmark and compared with other cards in today's video know that i'm using this exact for the windbg a card for those tests again keep in the back of your mind that it's only a hundred bucks and it is you so you might need to clean it you might need to swap the thermal paste that's on there for something a little more up-to-date it can get pretty crusty under there but in general I mean as long as the card works out of the box yeah you did good right you did why the toss-up as to whether or not the card works to begin with is the gamble that people play when they buy used components on eBay but if the card works out of the box I'd say you're gonna be good for the next at least two or three years cards aren't just gonna randomly die for the most part unless you're doing some really weird stuff with your system now I didn't clean this card beforehand I actually ran all my tests with the dust and everything else is baked in here and I just did that because I assumed that most of you weren't gonna clean these cards I had most people tend to be on the lazy side when they buy something even if it's used they just want it to work out of the box and that's it they're not gonna take this thing apart swap the thermal paste you know unless you're someone who really cares about his or her hardware which I respect most people honestly aren't gonna do that so if there was any thermal limitation associated with the dust in this card there's quite a bit of it in here it will be exhibited in these benchmarks and you can see we use the exact same test bench we did for the last two or three benchmark videos here on the channel now I know that Nvidia just released the the newest official driver for Turing and Pascal cards whatnot I used the latest driver capable of supporting the 970 and compare that with the results of the previous driver for the 1070 the 1070 TI and the 1080 that we tested in previous videos so you will see those cards compared to this well not because I want this to look bad but because I want you to know what you're missing by choosing to forego at two or three hundred dollar used card and instead gone with something that only costs one hundred US dollars and if you were buying used in the first place I'm going to assume that you are somebody who values value that didn't come out right and you can see in our 3dmark fire strike results that our GTX 970 actually comes pretty close to outperforming our GTX 1060 in 1080p this is a six gig 1060 I'm really impressed here and again for only a hundred bucks that's less than half the price of a new 6k 1060 in most markets this is a really great value proposition let's see if it extends into some of our games starting out first with GTA 5 the 970 is again just barely losing to the 1060 in 1080p we are maxing out most of the settings here so that's why the framerate seemed a little low and in 1440p a similar story I wouldn't recommend a 970 for 4k gaming especially in GTA 5 you're just gonna have frame rates that typically did well below 60 at medium to high settings up next is witcher 3 our resource hog graphically intensive game you guys know by this point I love using witcher 3 because it's straight up just a graphics card battle here the cpu for the most parts gonna be ok even if you have just a 4 core cpu or even a dual core hyper threaded cpu like an old-school AI 3 you're gonna be typically fine on the CPU side if your clocks are decent the graphics card will almost always be the bottleneck if you're willing to bump up those in game settings we're in the ultra preset here with no hair works and again the 970 is just barely losing to the gtx 1060 actually about a 6 to 7 frame difference here meaning the 970 is significantly better from a value perspective now i'm going to breeze through these last few benchmarks and that's really because the story is basically the same even in pub g which is a relatively new game the 1060 does just a little bit better than it does with respect to the other tests but again this is a disparity I'm willing to take when seen in the context of how much I paid for the for the wind GTX 970 we see a couple other games here where the gap narrows and this of course is something that favors a 970 even more so because if this card can keep up with the GTX 1060 yet remain less than half the price of a 1060 the only risk you really incurring here is the used aspect of the card now I do want to talk about a few other quirks with this one I'm I'm pretty sure this is the first time I've ever seen dual 6 pin power connectors and the reason why they have dual 6 pin is because the the power requirements for this specific board here meet the standards of two six pins versus a single eight pin or an eight pin plus a 6 pin so it's gonna look a little weird having two six pins running into this card for supplemental power but again that's the price you pay for a GTX 970 nowadays again that's just something I'm not used to also this one came with a backplate and I think this was standard on for the wind cards but for other GTX 970 s it was not you could actually buy the backplate separately for like 30 or 40 bucks from new Ike I know I did that one time for a 970 but this one came with one so it's a nice touch keeps the card looking clean and basically any rig and lastly with respect to noise how loud is this card run something else you're probably worried about because again it's an older card Maxwell wasn't as power efficient as Pascal that was one of the big advantages of Pascal was you can get 980ti performance right at 1070 but the 1070 consumes significantly less power had a much lower TDP that was a big improvement over the Maxwell stuff but this card really didn't get that hot it got to about 70 I want to say 73 degrees Celsius off the top of my head that was something I didn't create a graph for but 73 C is perfectly fine for a card like this and it was actually a quieter card than our GTX 1060 now the coolers are not the same this isn't an apples-to-apples comparison but I do want you to understand that this card is not going to be extremely loud that's really what I want you to take away from this it's not a very loud card at all despite being based on two generation old architecture it's still great you have not three DisplayPort outs in just a single DisplayPort out so running three DisplayPort monitors from this card is going to be very difficult in the soup daisy chain and even then I'm not sure if it would work I'd love to research that a little more we have dvi-i we have DB ID and then we have an HDMI port as well so again this is the older gents tough this is why it looks a little strange but it's something you have to consider when buying an older card because this again will not support three DisplayPort outs natively so that's about it for this one folks again I apologize for the weird setting I am in the process of moving and it will be finished very soon I wanna give a shout out again to PDF element for sponsoring this video and I want to hear from you guys especially in the comment section below with respect to this card what do you guys think about a GTX 970 in 2018 or 2019 we're pretty close to that Morgan it's kind of crazy to think about the gtx970 is something I would consider especially in maybe a four to five hundred dollar rig I'm actually gonna put together a system you know revolving around a budget of about four to five hundred bucks and I'm going to use this card because if that was my budget constraint I would by use first off I would take the risk because you just get so much more value assuming the card works and if it doesn't usually the eBay buyer protection guarantee coverage you but 100 bucks for this kind of performance is incredible in 2018 especially coming off of the mining craze one carts were extremely expensive the used market is lit right now and that's why so many my videos have been curtailed towards the used market now I also have I believe it's an Rx 570 coming in and I'll let you know how that testing goes very soon so one more use graphics card video in the future I'm not sure if I'll do that back-to-back with this one but I'm also we're going to be testing a used AMD card just so that we're kind of incorporating both companies here the Nvidia markets a little more hot I think because there were more cards owned I mean just look at steam surveys and video cards are by far more popular with lighting how many people are using them but I want to make sure that I test AMD to you know they deserve to be included because the RX 5 70s 5 80s for seventies for 80s even the 4 gig for seventies and for 80s are still viable options in 2018 if you want to spend around 100 to 120 bucks so stay tuned for that again leave a comment down below like this video if you liked it and just like you to feel they can put opposite or if you hate everything about life you guys click the red subscribe button II haven't already join us become a member if you wanna get fancy with it and we'll catch you in the next one hopefully in the new student yet this is science studio thanks for learning 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