Does anyone know yet if EKWB has said whether the GTX1080 FTW/Classy blocks will allow for use of the EVGA HB SLI bridge?

ridesy
Personally, I have bought 2 x 1080 Classys and am just waiting EK blocks as the wait for actual HC from EVGA in Europe will be a LOOOOONG one I fear (live in UK).

That will be awesome! I just put the EK block on my 1080 SC and it's rocking. Two classifieds water cooled ought to really scream.
 

ridesy 
Bigger issue for me is whether to use these on existing X79 (whilst awaiting nextgen) or go to X99 which would seem daft as X99 is already old, admittedly not as old as X79, but still old.

At this point I'd stay on your X79. Given how close AMD is to releasing their Zen processors, I would bet good money Intel has something really cool up their sleeves that they're only holding back in order to steal AMD's thunder.
 
That said, my i7 6900 is sitting in a UPS truck somewhere, and I should have it next week. It'll be a monster upgrade from my X58 system.

chaosminionx
Does anyone know yet if EKWB has said whether the GTX1080 FTW/Classy blocks will allow for use of the EVGA HB SLI bridge?

I don't know yet but since EVGA was wise and didn't made an oversized edgy bridge like Nvidia did, their bridge is already one of the only one compatible with our 10x0 line of blocks so it's pretty safe to assume that it will be the same with the upcoming FTW and Classy blocks.

end of September. Really?

Unless you are determined to buy EVGA I would just get the MSI 1080 EK X. First none EVGA GPU I have bought since the ATI X1300 and it is the same quality and 3 year warranty as from EVGA. It easily overclocked to 2.1Ghz on core and 5.5Ghz on memory. No card is going much higher than that unless you do a hardware mod anyways. Even with modded BIOS whenever that finally happens you won't need dual 8-pin for the few people here I have seen that seem to think that is somehow going to give them a better overclock because let's be real here anymore than a single 8-pin connector is literally doing nothing without a hardware mod or modded bios. Besides I am really enjoying this competition in the waterblocked GPU segment. I don't think EVGA expected this.

I went for MSI 1080 EK X as they was in stock. 
 

I am starting to think that EVGA is simply trying to do too many different products with too few people. I'm sad to see people jumping ship just because the competition has their product out already and EVGA doesn't. Still, in the end the competition makes the whole market work harder. I hope this delay doesn't hurt EVGA too badly, and that when they finally release this it will be just what people hope and expect from EVGA, ie: the cream of the crop.
 
Meanwhile, I'm loving my 1080 SC + EK full cover water block. It's the EVGA "hydro copper" you can actually get right now.

sethleigh
I am starting to think that EVGA is simply trying to do too many different products with too few people. I'm sad to see people jumping ship just because the competition has their product out already and EVGA doesn't. Still, in the end the competition makes the whole market work harder. I hope this delay doesn't hurt EVGA too badly, and that when they finally release this it will be just what people hope and expect from EVGA, ie: the cream of the crop.
 
Meanwhile, I'm loving my 1080 SC + EK full cover water block. It's the EVGA "hydro copper" you can actually get right now.

Don't worry, the hydro copper line does not make them much to begin with. That is a very niche group of people that buy those cards, margins are tighter as well. Most people buy SC and FTW, that is were EVGA make most of their money in the gpus anyway.

Bought two MSI seahawk EKs. Wasn't too pleased about that purchase as I really wanted to go evga but using my 580 hydros in my new rig was both embarrassing and didn't even have displayport so I couldn't use my predator at full res/refresh as I had to use hdmi. 

Gave up on waiting. Zotacs offering went live last night. Got an email from a sales rep who i've been badgering for weeks. lol. 
 
And for one hell of a competitive price compared to the MSI offering. 
 
$719.99
 
EDIT: It keeps stripping out my url. 
Newegg item number: N82E16814500406