GTX 780 vs. GTX 970

why wouldnt i be able to use it for two years? its a crazy powerful card. just as powerful as the 970. i dont see any reason why the 970 is better other than power efficiency, which i dont care about

I was going off your water cooling comment, I was not familiar with the Poseidon card being a hybrid. I though it was custom loop blocked, sorry about that. Rookie mistake.

In that case, get the 970. It will still be better in the long run for not much extra.

970, lower power consumption & >=780 performance in nearly all instances, oc it and its in 980/780ti land.

Plus the 970's 4gb over the 780's 3gb. Will come in handy in the future.

yeah I was thinking of going with that but i have heard good stuff about both the Gigabyte and MSI ones. Plus my friend just got the asus strix one and i just want to be different :)