Best Buy now officially has the reference GTX 970 on sale:
 

I can also confirm that BB's reference GTX 970 comes bundled with Nvidia's game promotion deal as well

Just got 2 of these. Nvidia reference gtx 970. 850 for 2

Neoblue207
I can also confirm that BB's reference GTX 970 comes bundled with Nvidia's game promotion deal as well

Damn I guess I will have to go in-store and ask for the promo.  I specifically asked when I bought last week but they may not have had them yet.  Did you buy online or in-store, and was it a physical coupon if you went instore?

Just bought two 970s with titan style cooler. No vapor chamber but looks the same with the geforce gtx LEDs on side. Beautiful cards. Like pics above.  They are available at so.cal Best Buys. I purchased two at the Anaheim store, the only two they had. Cerritos and Fullerton had them. Westminister, Lakewood, Long Beach, all have them still. Anaheim now says available in 3-5 days. Orange also 3-5.  I checked this morning and was shocked when I saw the picture and that it said pick up available today. On my lunch I went over (i work nearby), and expected to see an acx version or some other muilti fan version. He had to go to the back, they only had 700 series and 600 series cards out. (??) lol. He brought out what I was hoping for!!! Wasted no time, got them both and left, back to work :(  They are installed, lights on and can customize thru geforce experience. My evga pro sli bridge led isnt adjustable, its just on. EVGA should have made these cards. Nvidia made them. They are 379.99. Little over 800 for two. Worth it.  Backplate also included :)  Im happy
 
edit: sorry didnt read previous messages. Guess everyone knows. :)

http://www.caseking.de/sh...6-MB-GDDR5::30071.html
 
For EU buyers :)

chizow

EKRboi
call 1888BESTBUY, I got shuffled around a bit but finally ended up @ digital downloads help (go figure). after giving them the # on the receipt they said they would send out the codes and sure enough a few hours later arrived in my inbox. So no need to return/repurchase cards.

Thanks, I will contact them a bit later in the week, don't want to deal with the crazy after Black Friday queues.

Just a heads up Best Buy wasn't able to help me at all on the phone.  Even after finally getting through to digital downloads the help was worthless.  I ended up going into the store with my receipts to get my codes.  The girl working customer service was very helpful but the telephone number was just painful. 

chizow

Velren

chizow

EKRboi
call 1888BESTBUY, I got shuffled around a bit but finally ended up @ digital downloads help (go figure). after giving them the # on the receipt they said they would send out the codes and sure enough a few hours later arrived in my inbox. So no need to return/repurchase cards.

Thanks, I will contact them a bit later in the week, don't want to deal with the crazy after Black Friday queues.

Just a heads up Best Buy wasn't able to help me at all on the phone.  Even after finally getting through to digital downloads the help was worthless.  I ended up going into the store with my receipts to get my codes.  The girl working customer service was very helpful but the telephone number was just painful. 

Cool, that's even easier then.  Just go up to the customer service desk and they have the codes there?

I just brought the receipts to customer service it says she did an exchange on them.  The code you enter on the nvidia website should be printed on the receipt.  I didn't bring in anything else, I left the cards/boxes at home.  Good luck.

I see that some of you guys say you price matched to newegg at bestbuy. What card exactly did you price match it to? Since there are no other refrence 970s being sold how did newegg give you a lower price on a diffrent model 970? I thought they had to be the same model?

mack-attack
I see that some of you guys say you price matched to newegg at bestbuy. What card exactly did you price match it to? Since there are no other refrence 970s being sold how did newegg give you a lower price on a diffrent model 970? I thought they had to be the same model?

Item#: N82E16814132038
http://www.newegg.com/Pro...mp;Tpk=N82E16814132038
 
 

I sold my 970acx1.0 for $340 and am picking up a bestbuy 970 for $350 after price match to new egg.  Sorry evga I could wait any more...
With that said I cant wait to get my new 970. Any body have any experience with nvidas customer service?

Just got done installing the nvidia 970 reference. All I have to say is wow..The quality vs my 970 acx sc is night and day. It feels like it means business! I had it running close to 1500on the core! I will post some picks tomorrow!

So I build computers for friends and love EVGA for my personal computer I picked up a 780 reference from EVGA last year and LOVE it. now i'm looking to upgrade with two reference 970s. I loved EVGA because they seemed to be on their game with high quality cards and understanding what their customers want but now it seems like they don't understand that their customer base would want a nice looking substantial reference cooler and with the issues their custom coolers had with quality and alignment I feel like the lack of reference cooler is just them trying to take the cheap route out because this is a cheaper card. I would rather spend a premium on something that feels like it is quality then go with something that feels cheap and looks like a VHS tape. I just bought two reference 970s from best buy and will probably do business with companies that take their design and quality a little more seriously or stick with OEM cards from Best Buy. 

So I just received a reply from Jacob in a PM, when asked about an update on this subject:

EVGA_JacobF
It is still being worked on but unfortunately no real ETA if or when it will happen :( When I have some more info will surely let you know.
 
 

hewmunga

VVhiplash
So I just received a reply from Jacob in a PM, when asked about an update on this subject:

EVGA_JacobF
It is still being worked on but unfortunately no real ETA if or when it will happen :( When I have some more info will surely let you know.
 

 

It doesnt seem to be a priority to them which is quiet sad. 

yea thats sad I don't want some VHS tape looking card that im spending nearly 400$ on, I want something nice to look at.