hallowen
Scarlet-Tech
I never OC unless running benchmarks for Points. I found that after paying for Tri Sli, there was no benefit to pushing 3 cards outside of benchmarks.. heck, 2way SLI is incredible with the 780ti Classifieds.
Yes, The upcoming GTX 980 Classified Cards will be more useful if you are into Overclocking/Benching that I personally have always found enjoyable.
Even though I have One 3-Way SLI Rig for Gaming/General Everyday Use, My Second Extreme Rig is used mainly to do Testing/Benching with 4-Way SLI setups, Which is one of the reasons why I'm waiting for the EVGA GTX 980 Classifieds with the Triple BIOS/EVBot Port so as to be able to use different modded Vbios's for increased Overclocking ability along with being able to use my EVBot controller to make Graphics Voltage adjustments "On the Fly" while running those programs.
I also generally don't keep using just Air Cooling for my cards, But eventually will go to a Chilled Water Setup, So it doesn't matter to me if the Stock Fan/Heatsink Cooling method that came with the cards are ACX or blow-through designs since I'll be installing Water Blocks on them anyway.
Every one has different reasons/uses for choosing a particular Graphics Card and whether or not to run them in a single, 2-Way, 3-Way or 4-Way SLI setup, But I am looking forward to the GTX 980 Classifieds being released soon.
I do not knock anyone for wanting to run 4way. I could probably make use out of it, if I had the programs that utilize Cuda and would help with massive amounts of processing, which I plan to get into a lot of video editing here soon, so it may be very beneficial in the future.. I just LOVE benchmarking, and will be running my system through the winter prior to moving... I look forward to testing the waters with these beasties again.. it has been too long.. I, also, can not wait to see your results on the 980 Classifieds. When they release the GM210 style chips, if they do, they may win my heart... just not yet unfortunately.