I feel at this point it's hard to believe you since everyone else here disagrees with you. 970 is loved everywhere I've went dude. Tomshardware, Logicalincrements, PCWorld, PCPartpicker and other places. I feel like you found the only 2 places that you could use against the 970. Why not some websites that are more mainstream? Because they love the 970 from what I've seen. And AMD is literally the volcano of hardware XD I doubt it runs cooler. And EVGA has very good to superior cooling to AMD. And the heat comparing is the only thing you didn't cite. Sorry if your just trying to help but you can see why I am having trouble believing you. So far everything you've posted here has been disproved and everywhere I've been the 970 has been loved by all. It's a good GPU from what I've seen everywhere except your post so you can see your in the minority. If you feel you really are correct then if you have spare time I'd like to see you convince me more ;)