Corsair rep told me there would be a Titan X adapter added to their HG10 VGA cooler. I may try that. TinyTomLogan reviewed it on his YouTube page and it made a reference 290X go from 80c load to 40c-ish load. Very impressive. And theirs continues to cool the chokes and vrms.

I will say, if you spend 1000 on a gpu and then take the cheap way out for cooling instead of waiting for the AIO cooler that is meant to work with the blower motor, then you are asking for major issues. Thinking that work air from a different device is going to properly cook a different component may prove to be a bad decision. It's your card and your RMA, so it is up to you.

Just monitor your parts closely if you do it.

You'll have to take off the baseplate to mount the G10 as it simply won't fit. And if the heatspreader on the Titan X is anything like that on other recent Nvidia cards it is higher than the core, which means your heat block won't make proper contact with the core unless you either use a copper spacer or remove the heat spreader.

The 980 Hybrid cooler can work. The shroud says 980 on it, but it actually does fit fine.

yup!
http://www.evga.com/Produ...aspx?pn=400-HY-H980-B1

ericc191
Sweet.. and the stock cooler fan of the Titan X works in conjunction with it?

It looks like dimensions are the same.  I will probably get the hybrid. I don't care if it says 980 on it.  :)

EVGA_JacobF
The 980 Hybrid cooler can work. The shroud says 980 on it, but it actually does fit fine.

 
Awesome! Any possibility of an EVGA Titan X branded shroud in that case?
 

I would be interested in a Titan X branded one.

I check the page constantly for the 980 AIO and Titan X back plate.  If they were to release one in the X model, I would be in as well.

I still don't like the idea of a fan just blowing on the VRMs and front VRAM. The stock cooler has a baseplate taking heat away, plus a fan blowing over it. The back VRAM is exposed, so maybe that's not an issue, but still... much rather wait for a solution that allows us to keep the front baseplate on.

We need a proper re-release of the 980hybrid cooler built for the titan x between 100-200$ i think it's do-able! Cmon evga.

Yes probably... Since the card is somewhat "limited". Not everybody will/wants to buy a 1k$ gfx. So in the end, less consumers to appeal.

If you look at the Chinese company that made a hybrid cooler, they did a cut-out on the REFERENCE cooler shroud back by the SLI fingers. Obviously this is not conducive to 3 or 4-way SLI setups, but would work fine for 2-way. There is minimal material there already (large slits are cut-out) as some of the hot air exhausts there from the blower fan. Something I didn't notice initially until I realized the side panel towards the rear of the case got really hot during gaming... my power inverter for my CCFL in my case is there and has been for over a year. Guess all that extra heat on that little box hasn't started a fire yet LOL.
 
So, if we can cleanly cut that middle plastic slit, looks to be roughly .25" by 1" that would need cut, we could route the tubes through there. Area highlighted in red. I would only cut half as I need the other space there for my solid SLI bridge anyway. Downside to this is WARRANTY would likely be void since the shroud was modified.
 
 
 
Would look like this. Kind of weird through the shroud window, but you'd never see that anyway: