Pros: Reading my own review again, I noticed that I forgot to put the actual temps that I experienced using this GPU. My bad! I was too excited and happy that I unintentionally skipped it. LOL! Anyways, my idle temp on the 980Ti is around 32°C-35°C with an ambient temp of 78°F-80°F in the room. Benchmarking on 3DMark 2013, my temps doesn't even reach 50°C. Temps were only between 40°C-45°C but this is because of the short pauses between the benchmark transitions. I have to really try hard to get my temps up! The highest temp I've gotten using this GPU is 60°C. It hasn't past that mark yet even after all the benchmarking and playing Witcher 3 for hours! Most of the time when playing games that can push this card, temps sits between 50°C-57°C. If you are going to play indie games or those that doesn't really use all that GPU power, temps will be between 40°C-50°C. That is insane! In fact, I felt the difference right away when I switched to the 980Ti Hybrid from 680 Classifieds in SLI. My room didn't warm up like before and my PC case temp has gotten lower too. Only downside is I can't use my PC rig anymore as a heater when it gets cold.. lol. The specs on this GPU says that it has a default core clock of 1140MHz and boost clock of 1228Mhz. That's what it also says in GPU-Z. But this card runs so cool that out of the box without OC'ing, mine boosts to 1354Mhz! Man... with this card, throttling 'coz of high temps is a thing of the past! It's such a refreshing feeling to OC this GPU not worrying about the temps. I mostly just have to focus on increasing the core clock and adjusting the voltages!

Cons: Attention fellow PC enthusiasts! You may be one of the many victims of the dreaded TDR (Timeout Detection and Recovery) errors using NVIDIA driver 353.06! I know I was! What happens is you get the following errors: "nvlddmkm has stopped responding and successfully recovered" "Display Driver stopped responding and has recovered" You can get this error during usual gameplay, benchmarking, or even by just being on the desktop or browsing websites! Upon further reading, it seems Google Chrome's 'hardware acceleration' option is one of the culprits. Other says its the 'NVIDIA HD Audio' driver is the cause. In my case it was using 'MSI Afterburner' or 'EVGA's Precision X'. I noticed this anomaly during benchmarking when I continually keep crashing even when I didn't have the GPU OC'ed! I was able to recreate this error easily by running 3DMark 2013 from Performance to Extreme and then to Ultra settings back to back. And I knew there was something really wrong when I wasn't even benchmarking and I've gotten this error while I was just browsing the web. A quick search on Google showed I wasn't alone in this. Anyway what I did is I uninstalled all the other NVIDIA Drivers: (NVIDA 3D Vision, Surround, HD Audio) and just kept the Display Driver, PhysX, and GeForce Experience ('coz I have an NVIDIA Shield and I use Shadowplay). I also stopped using MSI Afterburner and EVGA Precision X for now. Doing these seems to have fixed the issue for me. No more crashes! I know its disappointing I can't play with my card OC'ed but display drivers for the 980Ti is limited right now so I can't like roll back. Urgh! I'm using the hotfix driver NVIDIA released (353.12) that addresses the G-sync windowed mode issue. This driver is not available on auto-update even when searching for beta drivers is enabled. You have to manually download it from NVIDIA's GeForce forum. Just google it. I'm still getting decent fps on all the games I play so I don't feel too bad not being able to run my card OC'ed. I just have to wait for NVIDIA to release a driver that fixes this issue. Hopefully. If you want to learn more about this, just google "TDR 353.06" and see the many threads spawned 'coz if it.

Overall Review: At stock settings, my 980Ti Hybrid GPU Score is 18,500+ on 3DMark 2013 Performance Mode. That's pretty good! Considering a stock Titan X scores "only" around 17,000! So out of the box, you are already getting Titan X performance! Notice that I said "GPU Score" and not "3DMark 2013" overall score. I say this 'coz the GPU score is really what matters. The overall score deviates too much depending on what CPU you use so I don't like using it unless I'm comparing two or more similar setups using the same CPU or I was just curious. :P On a different note, CDProject Red has released a few updates that greatly optimized Witcher 3 for the PC. With no OC'ing and using the GeForce Experience recommended settings, I'm getting 70-100+fps ingame. Before I was only getting 60-80+fps. Hairworks is still off. The game looks really good and plays so smooth! I also have NVIDIA Shadowplay enabled btw. Before, I used to take a significant performance hit when using Shadowplay but I don't see that now. This may also be because SLI setups get about 20% performance hit versus single card setups. Lastly, that guy that wasn't even a "Verified Owner" saying this 980Ti model is loud is not true. Both me and JayzTwoCents have similar experience in regards of how quiet this card is. When you first install it, you may hear the water moving (sounds like an aquarium) but that goes away over time after a while. So either that guy that posted that review before is trolling and just want to have less competition for getting this card or the one he got is defective. Glad his post was deleted. As far as looks, this card is a lot smaller than my 680 Classifieds. I think the reference cards have a nicer looking case shroud with that metal silver appearance. Also this 980Ti Hybrid doesn't have that "GeForce" logo that lights up above when you have it installed. But if you are considering buying this card, you are buying this for the great temps and OC it can provide.. and in that department, it doesn't disappoint! Just reading GamerNexus review on this 980Ti Hybrid. He was able to OC his up to 1514Mhz stable. Nice! Mine is still a 'lil higher 1539Mhz :P I wish NVIDIA/EVGA sends me another one for a dual SLI review.. haha! I can wish can't I?! XD Ok, I hope I have addressed all I want to say on this follow up review and this helps in making your decision. Keep on gaming! :D

Pros: First of all, I have owned Gigabyte G1, Msi 6G, and EVGA SC versions of 980TI. Why so many? Because I have a very sensitive ear, and have my gaming rig pretty close to my face. So let's start off by my experiences with these popular custom PCB versions of 980Ti before jumping to my reviews for EVGA 980Ti Hybrid. My Gigabyte G1 had the most overclocking potential. I got it stabled around 1550Mhz on coreclock, and I could have pushed some more. It was a beast, and I wanted to keep this card so much.. But under the full load, it was a different story. The 3 Fans would go higher than 2500RPM at 65% of the fan speed, and it would make a very high pitched noise, more annoying than any coilwhines I have ever heard. Keep the fan going, and it will hit higher than 3000RPM, and they sound like a helicopters in your room. Bare in mind, I had to adjust the fan curve because temperature just wasn't cutting it, and in a long run, the temperature would hit 80+ degrees and stay around that fan speed regardless. In terms of overclocking potential, this is the king of the hill in terms of what I had experienced. Msi gaming 6G is probably the best 980ti versions of this card. It is very quiet, and even at the full load, the fans aren't very loud. It did overclock well to aboutt 1510mhz. My particular msi 6g had a coilwhine, but I read all over the forums, and I think I am like the only one who had a coilwhine.. And lastly, the color red really was a sore thumb to my eyes on my Black/White themed build. The evga sc version of this is pretty terrible. It's just like a reference 980ti with acx cooler attached, mine overclocked pretty bad, and it had the world's louded coilwhine.. it would have been more of a fair competition if I had the classified version of the card. Which i heard was a beast, and might be the card to get for 980ti. but it's always sold out. Back to the EVGA 980ti hybrid, 1. This card is virtually 'silent' in terms of 'FULL LOAD' audio compared to other air cooled cards. The fans that is attached to the 120mm radiator runs at a constant speed, and the reference blower speeds up as temperature rises to cool vrm respectively, but it doesn't get very loud like the other air cooled gpu's. The way I said about being virtually 'silent' can be very misleading, but under the full load, this is the quietest card I have experienced without a custom loop. 2. Because of the most heat generated by the GPU is dumped outside of the case by radiator, my whole other components in the case stays cooler than before having an air-cooled gpu in the case. This is really important to me, and might be the main reason I went with this GPU. 3. Temperature. The TEMPERATURE of this thing, I cannot get it past 55C no matter what i do. Right now, it's idling at 28C at ambient of 25C. If you have somewhat of an OCD (like I do), and have to keep your GPU cool at all costs, this is IT for you :)

Cons: 1. I cannot control the constant fan attached to the radiator.. I tried with noctua Nf12's but I had to connect to the motherboard, and there was no way to increase the speed of the fan as GPU temp increases, so i had to set it on the same speed, and if I put it too low, GPU would overheat, and if i set it up at 100%, it was just as loud.. Any suggestons? I wish there was a way for me to adjust this, and it would have been perfect. Despite the fact I have been praising that this was the quietest on 'full load', it is virtually LOUDEST on idle. The other custom pcb versions of 980ti, the fans don't even spin idle, or at least to like 50~60C .. 2. Mine doesn't want to overclock very well. I got it stabled around 1480Mhz, and it won't go higher no matter what I do. Any additional voltage, make the card really instable (jumping up and down in the voltage) and it would eventually crash, but 1480Mhz or 1550mhz(from G1) , the real differences is really 1-2FPS at Most.. Although my firestrike scores are lower, I am not crying too much over little differences I probably won't be able to tell. 3. This is a reference card with this cooler.. What I would have liked is build a classified PCB card, put this cooler in there, charge $800~$850 and call it a day. Then this would have more headroom with overclock and would have been more stable with additional voltage. But I was told these maxwell cards do not respond to additional voltage by its design, so I guess it would have made minor differences, but it would have been nice to have it all. 4. No led. Yes, I am serious. They should have put the LED lights here somehow like the other versions of the same card. It would have been a nice touch.

Overall Review: All in all, I am happy. I think I will settle here, and stop with this non-sense hopping around the same graphic cards. This card offers you not only the most cooling GPU, but the quietest under the full load scenarios. It does have flaws, but I think the goods overshadows the bad's here. Overall big recommendations to anyone who's in the market for high end GPU's Asic quality is 77.1%, and it proves that it does not affect overclocking so much. My Rig: Corsair 760T White Dell U3415W UltraSharp 34' Intel I7-5820K 4.5 Ghz Asus X99 Deluxe 3.1 EVGA 980Ti Hybrid G SKILL 16GB DDR4 3000RAM EVGA 1000 P2 PSU SAMSUNG SM951 256GB-Main OS SAMSUNG EVO 850GB - Storage Swiftech H-240X with Noctua NF-A14 industrial PPC 2000PWM

Pros: Cool. Quiet. Excellent performance. Cheaper and easier than installing a Hybrid Cooler on a reference card.

Cons: Radiator placement may be tricky depending on your case, doubly so for SLI.

Overall Review: I bought a single Hybrid card in June 2015, and at the same time ordered a second for SLI. After 6 weeks of waiting, I gave up and instead managed to get a reference EVGA GTX 980 Ti, Hybrid Cooler and Backplate. So I am now in a position to compare the factory Hybrid card versus the DIY-installed Hybrid cooler on a reference card. My observations are: - Removing the stock cooler from the reference card was quite tricky. There are several extremely small Philips head screws that need to be removed (000 Philips bit). Even with the correctly sized screwdriver, I ended up damaging the screw heads and could not get them out. In the end I used a dremel cutting wheel to cut a notch in the screw head, which enabled me to get the screws out using a flat screwdriver. Luckily none of these screws needed to be reused to install the Hybrid Cooler. Overall buying a Hybrid Card is preferable to the DIY approach, if only to save the hassle associated with disassembling the stock cooler. - The Hybrid Card is cheaper than the DIY approach. At USD RRP, the Hybrid Card is $750. Compare this with the DIY parts, namely reference GTX 980 TI ($650), Hybrid Cooler ($110) and Backplate ($20), which comes to $780. Where I live (Australia), the difference is even greater, as the Hybrid Cooler and Backplate are very hard to find and often a premium is charged by anyone who has stock. So if you can find a Hybrid Card at RRP, that is the best way to go. - I flashed my reference card with the Hybrid Card bios. This isn't strictly necessary, but has the advantage of setting the default clocks of both cards the same, so any overclocking offsets are numerically identical. I know that in SLI you end up with the same clocks on both cards anyway, but I liked to have both cards present as hybrid cards to the system. This also has a nice effect of having the reference card display a "hybrid" logo in EVGA Precision, which it didn't do before I flashed the hybrid bios to it. I used NVFlash to save the Hybrid Card bios to my system, then flash it to the reference card. - If you do take the DIY approach, there is no benefit buying a reference-cooled "Superclocked" card, as it ends up being exactly the same as a stock-clocked card once the hybrid bios is flashed. - Any warranty issues on the DIY card would require disassembly and RMA of the relevant individual component. Conversely, a warranty issue with the Hybrid card would require no disassembly. This is another reason why the Hybrid Card is preferable to the DIY solution. - With the Hybrid Cooler and Backplate installed and bios flashed, for all intents and purposes both cards are now identical in appearance and functionality. However, the increased cost, assembly hassle and increased hassle if warranty issues arise mean that buying a Hybrid Card is preferable to the DIY approach. - Accommodating the two radiators of a Hybrid SLI setup can be difficult. You may need a new case. But the results

Pros: ok so 1st off i want to start out with the fact that i had a evga gtx 980 acx 2.0 before this card which is a great card for the 550 that i bought it for, which ran very quietly 80% of the time i used it and i use it alot, for high end games with a 4k monitor including assassins creed series, gta 5, fallout series, crysis series, and skyrim, and now people that know anything about skyrim say well its not that hard on a graphics card, which its not untill i added around 50 graphics enhancing mods to it raising textures of everything to 4k and adding tons of full trees and high quality enb mods ect, which when i was done the evga gtx 980 acx 2.0 would make this high pitch whine like i was cooking the gpu with a laser or something, it still ran it at around 30 fps but i was scared i was gonna catch something on fire so i figured its time for an upgrade. so here is where the gtx 980 ti hybrid comes in, and soon in the future im planning to upgrade to a 3 way sli of these cards, is it overkill? yes! would i be better to just go with 2 way sli in a titan card? in my opinion no. and heres why. 1st off the hybrid is already a plug and play card that is water cooled already. which makes it extremely easy to install literally took me less than 15 minutes to change out this card and thats taking my sweet time with it. and the watercooling makes this card quiet i mean really quiet. i sit with my ear 2 feet away from it and i barely ever hear it spin up its fan on the air side of the hybrid part and thats only after playing a game in 4k on extreme settings, it will then kinda make enough noise for me to sorta hear it but not in a annoying way. as far as some people hearing bubbles i only heard bubbles for about the 1st 2 minutes of having the card installed and then never heard em again after that which is normal in water cooled systems. also the previous evga gtx 980 acx 2.0 card i had had some issue with its drivers. every great now and then the drivers would crash and restart, would turn black for about 2 seconds then reboot back up. then would be fine for a long time again. and this didnt happen much, im talking 1 time per couple months so nothing crazy, but with the gtx 980 ti drivers ive never had a problem with even once so theres that. so for an overview of everything it out performs everything ive used up till now, i have not owned a titan card but in my personal opinion i dont think the 300 more usd for 5 more fps on average is worth it to me specially since the 980 ti seems to scale much better in sli than the titan. and in half the benchmarks ive seen for 3 way sli of titans and 980 ti the 980 ti has outperformed the titan or only underperformed the titan by 5 - 10 fps. so if you have 900 more dollars to get 3 titans for the extra 10 fps then go for it! really! if you can afford the upgrade and not mind the money then do it. but for me the 980 ti is the best bang for the buck, even though its still alot of bucks its alot of performance.

Cons: far as cons go i dont really have anything for here except the price tag of around 700 dollars, so you could afford a small used car for the price of this card, but the difference here is you can impress your friends with this card, and that might be hard to do with a 700 dollar car, so this is nitpicky and everyone wants stuff for cheaper but here you get what you pay for.

Overall Review: ive used this card for several months now nonstop and love it. and will be getting 2 more of these soon as i can afford them. so if you want a card for high end games that blows everything else away and want to be able to justify yourself by not spending 1000 dollars per card, even though just under it, this card is amazing in every way, if you get one anything like mine you will smile everytime anyone asks what gpu you have in your pc, i find people saying ugh im only getting 20 fps right now :/ my usual reply is im sorry im only getting 300 fps and would be higher but game caps at 300 fps. so if your wondering it you will be happy with this card after you spend around 700 dollars on it? i know i was and i would do it again any day.

Pros: -Very quiet compared to my 970 sli setup. -Idles at 24C. Max temps under full load after 1 hour: 51C -Sexy look, the LED lights are a nice touch but not too flashy. The card easily fits in my case. -Mind numbing eye candy at 4096x2160(true 4k) resolution This card blows both of my current setups out of the water. Setup 1: FX 8350 at 3.8ghz on water with an R9 295x2 paired with an r9 290x custom water cooled in tri fire. Setup 2: 3570K stock clocks on air with 2x EVGA GTX 970 ACX 2.0 in SLI. Both are powering a 4k monitor. I bought this card to replace my 970's as they would ramp up and annoy my wife at times despite a custom fan curve. So far I have NOT been disappointed at all. Here are the results I have gotten from just a few games. Remember that RESULTS MAY VARY FOR OTHERS. This is only what I have seen on MY setups. Average FPS at true 4k resolution with all settings being the same for each game. Assassins Creed Syndicate: Crossfire: 35 fps SLI: 38 fps 980ti Hybrid: 45 fps Rise of the Tomb Raider: Crossfire: 33 fps (many issues with crossfire for this game) SLI: 38 fps 980ti Hybrid: 47 fps GTA V: Crossfire: 45 fps SLI: 51 fps 980ti Hybrid: 60fps These results were pretty amazing to me, especially considering how much power my tri-fire setup has, but this just goes to remind us that benchmarks do not equate to real world performance. Of course I also didn't notice any of the stuttering I got from both multi-GPU setups on occasion (especially the 970's.) I am NOT an NVIDIA fan boy, I love my r9 295x2, but I am truly amazed at these results. I will have to do more testing, but it would not surprise me at all if the results from other games are similar.

Cons: I honestly can't think of any. I'd say cost, but the performance difference is WORTH IT. In fact, if you have to sell your wife and kids, sell your car, or put a second mortgage on your house, IT MIGHT JUST BE WORTH IT. I was that impressed!

Overall Review: I want 2!

Pros: - Currently sitting at 25C on idle. - So quiet I had to open the case to ensure both fans were running. - No bubbling or odd banging noises of any types. -"plug N' play" literally means "plug N play." - The backplate, hose material, radiator and fan are of superior quality. - NO sag whatsoever. - Fit very easily into NZXT H440 case - Compatible with CXM 750 Corsair 6/2 pin system. - The packaging was seriously impressive. I opened a box, to open a box, to see the front of the 980 TI box, then opened it and slid out the box which contained the Card then opened that box to see the card itself! Well done.

Cons: -Precisionx16 is a hassle. I question its validity.

Overall Review: - Very, very large card. Dwarfs GTX 750ti model by double the size. - 98%-99% core usage at 1308 MHz core clock my temp is currently 57C in a NZXT H440 case - Temp has peaked to 57-61C

Pros: Super simple installation: Slot the card, plug the power cords, attach the radiator to the case. Super simple overclocking: Run PrecisionX 16 and everything's exposed. Overclocks really well: GPU clock offset +160 MHz and memory clock offset +500 MHz without any additional voltage and remaining cool under load.

Cons: No issues with the hardware, but the dedicated software for overclocking (PrecisionX 16), while straight forward to use, is somewhat obtuse and awkward. Functionality is obvious, but the UI itself requires a lot of tool tips to clarify where to click, what state something is in, and what hot keys are available.

Pros: The 980 Ti Hybrid is without a doubt the best video card I have ever owned. I moved to this from an EVGA GTX 670 4gb SLI setup, and this card is a huge upgrade in every way. At first I was hesitant to buy a GPU with an AIO cooler (as I'd never ventured outside of air cooling), but installation was very simple and I had no problems. I've got it overclocked at a stable 1486Mhz core and +485Mhz memory, idle temps at 29-30 °C, and max temps haven't exceeded 55-56 °C while benching/gaming. I'm getting a steady 60fps playing The Witcher 3 at 1440p on ultra, everything maxed out (except hairworks AA is x4, shadows on high) and an ENB installed, with V-Sync + Triple Buffering enabled through Nvidia Control Panel. It's a silky smooth gaming experience, I get occasional dips to 54-55fps but around 95% of the time it's at a solid 60fps.

Cons: It's expensive, yet I feel like I'm getting my money's worth. Unfortunately, you can't control the speed of the radiator fan through EVGA Precision, only the blower fan cooling the memory and VRM's. The radiator fan is a bit noisy under load, not super loud but noticeable. Also, there is a slight low-pitched hum coming from the card, but it's barely audible unless your head is right next to your case. Other than that? It would have been nice if EVGA had used a custom PCB for this card like on the Classified instead of the reference PCB.

Overall Review: Do yourself a favor and replace the radiator fan with a higher quality fan with good static pressure. The included fan does a good job, but I found it a bit too loud. I replaced it with a Darkside Gentle Typhoon Black Edition 2150rpm fan, and now my card is virtually silent while my load temps are 2 °C lower. I can barely hear the radiator fan on full load over my Noctua NF-P12 case fans! It's like night and day compared to my SLI 670's, which sounded like a hair dryer at full load. No more mandatory headphones while gaming ; ) Long story short, this is a fantastic 1440p card, and a way better value than the overpriced Titan X with basically the same performance. It's total overkill for 1080p (unless you have a 120/144hz monitor), but not powerful enough for 4k when playing graphically demanding games. If you want a true 4k setup then go 980 Ti SLI/Fury X CF, or wait for the imminent release of Fury X2 or Nvidia's dual-GPU card later this year. If you want a single card 4k setup wait for Pascal/Greenland due around mid-2016.