Hello, I think its pass time for my 560 1gb to get a upgrade. I do have one question about the 970/980 models. I love the 980 design, the way that it looks that the fins are a lot of cooling shown in this picture here:(I could be wrong)

The fan itself even seems a bit bigger.
Now looking at the 970:

It just look on first that maybe the fan in size is smaller ont he 970 and also, that it might get hotter. I hope I am making sense? anyway my question is, Do they have the same size fans? and also, do you think  both of them have a good cooling system? Does the 980 have a better cooling system cause  of it being of a higher quality? I was just hoping someone could explain how it works.

Oh ok thank you for clearing that up for me. Sadly the 980 is way over my budget. I have a full tower case with five fans so hopefully I won't see bad temps with the 970. Playing skyrim with heavy graphic mods my little 560 reaches 75c sometimes 77c. Hopefully that's only cause I'm over pushing it


Edit: not saying those are bad temps. I would just love if it stayed under 75 :p

trek554

Sajin
The 980 uses a vapor chamber cooler while the 970 doesn't. Yes, the vapor chamber cools better.

the 980 does NOT use a vapor chamber. Nvidia made it look like the Titan cooler and so many people keep spreading that misinformation. 


 
The heatsink no longer uses a vapor-chamber base, which, while it helps NVIDIA reduce cost, also reduces thermal capacity slightly.
 
http://www.techpowerup.co...GeForce_GTX_980/5.html
 

I didn't know that. Thanks for the info.