I agree Eagl, I bought 2 970s and was very happy with their performance, and still think it's the best bang for the buck out there. The only reason I took advantage of the nVidia buy back/replacement was future resale value may, and it's just may, be affected, and I replace GPUs every year at a minimum, so the whole "scandal" will still be on buyers minds, and may make selling them a bit harder. Possibly. Also, the exchange rate and cost of the cards up here went way up, so I made a fair bit of $ in the exchange as my retailer credited me replacement with 980s best on current price, not the lower one I paid before which was over 15%.
The 970 really kicks in Aces High, I don't see one bit of difference tbh between a single 970 and single 980. Only in 4k have a seen anything to even really take note of in terms of advantage. The new Titan should be interesting.