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  • What's the best brand for GeForce GTX 970?

I'm tired for all these rigged reviews over the internet especially for hardware parts,
also I'd like to know what's the difference between the overclocked version and the other?

For instance:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00NH5T1UA/

VS

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00NH5T1MS


Why the overclocked one is cheaper? Isn't supposed to be the other way around?
Which one should I get(in terms of endurance/stability aka life-time)? I'd prefer the lower one on power usage, recommendation for other brands?

Thanks.
What you got in the links above is the Gigabyte Stock model (Overclocked) and the Gigabyte G1 Gaming model.
G1 Gaming is superior to the stock model as it has many features listed here:
http://g1.gigabyte.com/vga/feature1.html#WINDFORCE
In addition the G1 Gaming is also factory overclocked (Might be wrong), both are great cards and Gigabyte is a great brand, I have an old Gigabyte GTX 560ti that still runs like a champ, now I have a GTX 780 EVGA (Also a great brand), if I want to upgrade now I would go with Gigabyte again, its one of the leading brands nowadays selling Nvidia cards.