After reading all of this, i can sense you recommend the 480 over the 970 then, thanks alot for the explanation! I will definitely wait for the custom 480's and go with one. Thanks again :)

The games i plan on playing, overwatch (mainly), csgo and tf2 a little bit, which is probably more cpu intensive. I simply just want enough frames on low to play without drops and maybe also stream in the future. You were right with the guess, my budget is 300-350$. I heard alot of rumors about the 1060 being around the 350-400$ on release. The 6gb version. I am not sure if i can wait, depends on how long, 2 weeks probably, but can't more than that (already waited a month). Ah so you're more for the 480 than the 970, could you tell me why? If i were to buy a custom 480 over a strix/msi 970.

I have never owned an AMD card, just nvidia, and must admit i never had problems with nvidia, and people keep writing about how nvidia always is superior to amd, and that the 480 has watt problems that can ruin your motherboard, have you heard about that. The problem is, even if i wait for the 1060 to come out in 7 days, you would still wait for the custom cards even longer. Not sure if these benchmarks are any reliable, but the 2 cards seem very close on here.

http://gpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Nvidia-GTX-970-vs-AMD-RX-480/2577vs3634

@Setsul I have been thinking alot about this and thought you could help. Currently i have an old 670 that i would like to switch out, but i have been very in doubt which graphics card to buy? I have read alot about rx 480 and 970 and the price range/performance fits perfect for me. I plan to play games @ 1080p with atleast 144 fps, since my benq monitor. But unfortunately i haven't been hitting 144+ with this old card, (barely 100-115) on every setting on low.

But each and every time i ask on a computer/gaming forum i get different responses, from AMD fanboys and NVIDIA fanboys and i can't really benefit from them. I got told to get the 480 because of the newer card, meaning it will have new drivers and be more optimal. And on the other hand, been told by alot of friends with the 970 that i should go for it, especially now because of the price drop, but also that they been getting consistent 144+ fps on low settings. Third part of the people i asked say don't go for the 970 because of the 3.5gb vram, but does it really matter in games such as overwatch, csgo, tf2 only? Last response i got was to wait for the 1060 which will perform much better than the 480 and 970. (im just afraid it will be above my budget, but if it's worth it will definitely do it).

So here I am really confused, getting opinions without anything to back them up, so could you possibly give me a quick overview of what i should get and why the 970 is better pick than the 480 and vice versa? I would appreciate it a ton. I have been lurking on forums and waiting for nearly 1 month and still can't decide what to go for. Overwatch is getting unplayable with below monitor refresh rate fps, so im kind of desperate for something new. I have a i5 3570k if it matters at all.