News - MSI teases its GeForce GTX 970 with TwinFrozr V cooling solution

[kalniel]

I don't understand why these non reference cards are being shown so early when nVidia has a 4 month waiting period after the release of their reference designs. We are going to have to wait till next year this time to get these cards.

I don't think that's the case.

[VijaySathyan]

That is one good looking cooler!

[Leonardota]

Why are Nvidia skipping the 800-series exactly? I think I've missed something...

Maybe the maxwell architecture enhanced the performance of the PC cards so much that nVidia decided to name it as 900 series.

[eugenius]

Sweet price $450 for a GTX970? Are you a NVidia shill? You can buy an i5 4690k, 2x8GB DDR3 and a Z97 pro4 for $450.

The GTX970 is a mid-range $250 card with a high end $450 price. It's a $450 card that can't run games in 4K without buying two of them.

They're probably going to launch the real high end card 5 months after this one, for $1000000.