I've put in a query at the shop that I got mind to find their stance on it.

Exactly, I'm giving Nvidia the benefit of the doubt right now and am going to give them a week or so to come up with a solution I can agree on before razing a stink. Many are crying that Nvidia should trade their 970s for 980s and if that is what end up happening I won't complain.. but lets be honest, thats not very likely and I don't really think they should. I am well past my return window at this point so if nothing else I want my 3 cards refunded so that I can buy 2 980's like I now know I should have done from the start. I DO need that last .5gb of VRAM and I need it to function the same as the rest of it.

I have friends who can back up that I did in fact ponder 3 970s vs 2 980s for a couple of weeks before finally deciding that since the only difference in the cards were the cuda cores and for the same cost I could get 4992 cores with 3 970s vs 4096 cores in 2 980s I opted for more cores.

Quoting: liamdaweI've put in a query at the shop that I got mind to find their stance on it.

cool, not that you won't, but keep us updated. I've read multiple reports of retailers issuing refunds for the cards already even when outside of normal return windows. I have a feeling that Nvidia is probably pressuring retailers to take them back because it will mean less people to deal with seeing as how many have their pitchforks out demanding free 980 upgrades.

I'm not seeing this ending in Nvidia's favor.

You can keep track here: http://forums.aria.co.uk/showthread.php/135872-Refund-on-970-due-to-misleading-advertising

I've also emailed their support.

OCUK has been taking these back for over a week now.

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18651061

Yeah, saw that just a minute ago, linked it to their email support team, tried posting it on Aria's forum and even the name OCUK is starred out.

I have tweeted my annoyance about this now too.

Saw your tweet earlier about getting an extension on your return Liam. That is great. I too have not figured out what I want to do quite yet. Part of me feels obligated to return them simply because Nvidia seems to be getting out of this far too easy.

My Best Buy keeps ONE of these cards in stock and I have a feeling if I return 3 they will be returned to the distribution center which probably kinda looks bad on Nvidia's part. At the same time I KNOW it will turn into a huge hassle for me. I put them on my BB card @ 0% financing for 18months. So when I return them I'm going to have to wait for the credit to first hit my account (probably days) and then if I am lucky they will have 1 980 in stock and ill have to order the other and wait just like I had to wait on the other 2 970's after buying the one they had in the store. Not to mention 2 980's will cost me a little more than the 3 970s did. I've already sold my old 580's so I would have to put in my old backup 9800gt in for what would probably turn into a couple of weeks total... such a frustrating thing.

I've been an Nvidia fanboy for many many years.. if AMD/ATI on Linux was not a huge joke I would very much be thinking about getting a few r9 290x's right about now. I even did the smart thing and waited a few months after the 970/980 launch to hopefully miss the driver teething troubles and crap that comes with brand new hardware and I still got burnt... It has certainly left a bad taste in my mouth for Nvidia.

Oh dear, Looks like a cash in to me though. If users are behind it fair enough, But...

http://www.guru3d.com/news_story/lawyers_homing_in_on_nvidia_after_gtx_970_memory_allocation_claims.html

I've decided to keep me, as realistically I only play at a 1920x1080 resolution, and it's going to be years on Linux before games use more than 3.5GB of the card, and considering the performance of the card normally, I think it's still a stomping card.

That said, when I do go to upgrade next time I won't be jumping into a new-gen so soon, but I will wait for reviews.

I'm pretty positive I'm keeping my tri SLI 970s too. In all honesty the issues with the 970s have been greatly exaggerated. It is just the principle of the whole thing that bothers me. Nvidia is getting off too easy IMO. Had the real specs of the 970s been known when I made my decisions I most certainly would have opted for 2 980s instead simply because of how hard I'm pushing things. With the latest patch I'm even playing Dying Light @ 5760x1080 at mostly 60FPS even outdoors. The games I have played since building this beast of a rig include Crysis3, Metro Redux games, Tomb Raider 2013, Bioshock:Infinite, Batman: Arkham Origins etc... running 60fps with vsync no problems. Really the only game that stutters like a mad mad is FarCry 4 and that is just because it is the worst of the worst port and Ubish*t can't get their sh*t together.

It just sucks that I can run these AAA's on Linux @ 5760x1080 but they cant utilize my multiple GPUS.. I REALLLY want that to become a reality. It sucks finally having the games but still being forced to windows to utilize the rig I have built to play them.