Got the evga sc+ acx card with a 68.7% ASIC. Lost the lottery for a third time. Hits 1510/7800 on motivan 1.23 bios. Reaches 80 C temps with default fan curve. Going to try now with SLI with my classified. If I can get them to 1450/7500 game stable daily use with decent noise and temperatures, I will be satisfied.

You should use same Classified if you want SLI and if you have one GTX980Ti Classified.
They will work better on same clock.
 

I am seeing if I can get motivan to do a similar bios as he did for acx sc version. That way I can sync them easily. Couldn't get my hands on another classified so ordered this. Also this was 60 bucks cheaper shipped to my country.

RaulKodrum
Lucky you...

Mind to explain how you managed to get one??

well, i was about to one-click on Amazon a few days ago, and bam, it showed "out of stock" as did newegg, then i checked back on EVGA site and it was listed "out of stock" when i added to my cart. so i put my email in for notification when it's back in stock. EVGA notified me it was back in stock so i clicked to buy and it didn't display out of stock. took only a few days to get here. this all happened in less than a week. 
 
note for anyone: amazon charged way more than shipping & taxes than did EVGA. and i have prime with amazon so i don't know whats up with amazon. just my experience with this card.
 
lucky this time

I am benchmark stable at 1480/7800 on both cards. I managed to de-link them and keep them at that level. My 3dmark results are as follows:
 
http://www.3dmark.com/fs/5501833 25692 Firestrike
http://www.3dmark.com/fs/5501866 15847 Firestrike Extreme
http://www.3dmark.com/fs/5502725 8633 Firestrike Ultra
 
I am pretty sure if I run this on Windows 8.1 I will add about 200-300 points to my scores as has been my experience in the past.
I have to modify the fan curve to run this speed. The fans can get terribly noisy but the temperatures remained 75 C top card and 68 C bottom card.
For gaming ofcourse, I did not want to make my computer sound like a tornado so I put default fan curves of both cards and 1450/7700. This nets me much higher temperatures at about 83 C top card and 81 C bottom card. However, the noise is about as much or slightly lower than my 970 SLi with Gigabyte.
I played Witcher 3 for a bit at 4K. Every possible setting turned to maximum settings and it was pegged to 60 fps (without vsync) to a monkey's bottom. I can't ask for more. It was a bit jarring to play at 4K w/ all sorts of AA thrown in. Image was too sharp. However, I loved it. I really wish someone would make a faster refresh monitor at 4K. I will buy it in a heart beat. I can't wait for the 3440*1440 21:9 at 75/100 Hz that I have been hearing.
Overall, I am finally at peace with these cards. I do believe that for such hot running cards, 1450/7700 is a damn good setup with audible yet tolerable noise. Since I wear headphones, I don't hear a damn thing anyways even with volume at 40%.

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Any news on the availability of the GTX 980 Ti Hybrid? Its been awhile since the last time I saw it on stock! Also, will it ever land on Amazon.com? EVGA's national card policy is kind of killing me right now.

Ohh man. I have been waiting for it for almost a week since I actually preordered it on scan.co.uk. They (yet again) posponed the preorder till 4th Aug from 30th Jul just today. They say the queue is 45 orders long. Really getting pissed off here. I understand they have production problems, but from what I understand its a damn reference PCB with a minor OC and a custom Cooler. You do not need 2 months to slap on a custom cooler and still come up out of stock. :? EVGA my system is waiting. :'( EVGA GabeN is WAITING. THE MASTERRACE IS WAITING!! EEE VEE GEE AYYY!! Are you listening?

its obvious evga is trying to create demand for some of their cards which is pointless as the demand is already there.  the 980ti hybrid has been oos every since its release.  The auto-notify feature, is useless as it only sends an email out after the 5 cards they made available sell out.  The only thing this is doing is pissing people off to go and buy a competitors card.