Hey Guys, im fixing to BUILD a brand NEW computer here in a few weeks and ive already gotten all my parts, I need help with choosing the graphics card.

Ik here awhile back nvid. got slapped with a lawsuit over there GTX 970 card, so my question is should i get the gtx 970 with the 3.5 gb buffer or should i get a gtx 980 outright?

HERE are my specs:

Case: Corsair Obsidian 750D

Motherboard: Gigabyte Gameing 5 Motherboard

Procesor: Intel I5 4690k ( i want to OC to 4 GHZ nothing more)

RAM: 16 GB Gskill Sniper ram 2133 MHZ

PSU 650W seasonic GOLD PSU

GPU: Undecided

SSD: Samsung evo 850 250GB ( main BOOT drive, steam games only on here)

HDD: WB Blue 1 TB 7200rpm( other games and documents pics and movies will be on this drive)

Water Cooler: Cosair H100i

Monitor: Acer 24" 1Ms 144hz

LED KIT: 2M red led rope lighting, i will mount this on the inside of the case to give it the red theme of the devils canyon.

I may do a few youtube videos of some gameplay and but i want to play ultra maxed out settings with out cooking my processor and gpu. THX all. There is nothing actually wrong with the 970, so long as you know what you're actually getting.I'm on the same boat as you.
I think i'll pass on the 970's and wait for the AMD Radeon 300 Series which are supposed to come out soon.. i think.
Not all games might use over 3.5GB of VRAM, but future games almost certainly will. You might even experience some stuttering on current modern games, like Shadow of Mordor. I'd rather wait then bust out 300 dollars. That's just my opinion though.I'd never wait for an AMD...

Thats just me...