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People who bought Sea Hawk miss one great card because impatience.
You will see how Hybrid look inside case compare to Sea Hawk.
And EVGA offer Hybrid for fair price, at least for USA market, for EU we will see.
But 729$ is really competitive price. Cheaper than Classified and both have custom PCB and 8+8 pin and same clock.
But Classified look extreme well through Window Side panel.
LED Logo on black background with 4 small screws from both side on metal surface look better than ever.
And the Sea Hawk isn't a great card?
I installed my Sea Hawk last night. In the default OC mode the boost clock immediately jumped to 2012MHz stable and after about an hour the temperature settled at about 50C. No overclock yet and with only 1 8 pin power connector. No coil whine and the pump is silent.
I don't stare at my card when I'm playing a game. lol But the Sea Hawk blends in well once installed in my opinion.
I understand that you like EVGA, so do I, but the wait was starting to get ridiculous. Originally we were told the Hybrid was to be available at the end of June and here we are on the cusp of August still waiting. Good luck trying to get one once they are released. You can always buy one for $1500 on Ebay once the snipers get them.
Was looking for your post with OC Mode :) During the Unigine Heaven benchmark test, my Sea Hawk X had exact same push of the button OC mode of 2012MHZ. During both 1K and 2K testing, didnt see the temp go over 47C. Fan speed stuck at 33% or 1100 RPM. I dont hear anything.
Was a bite in the butt to install. Not enough space for both fan and radiator to lay flush with back fan opening. Did a push/pull setup so the radiator sits on the previous fan I had in the back. Laying flush would not fit. Next time, bigger case.
Cold and very quiet video card. Turned out well for me.
@vlada
Actually the seahawk fits better in my pc than the 1080 hybrid,I got a black and white theme going on,tho the color scheme on the 1080 hybrid would probably fit my x99-e ws/3.1 board which has a really awesome color scheme.
Second is that the 1080 hybrid has FTW pcb and is much longer+ the power connector and it wont fit in my xl r2 case. And I dont like gpu's to cover the sata ports,which the hybrid probably will and the seahawk wont.
the 1080 seahawk costed me 1030 dollars here in norway and its alot more expensive here where I live than in the states.
the seahawk only has 1x 8pin which is better,less cables. We already know that having 8pin+6+2 pin doesnt give any advantages snce they clock pretty much the same, other than getting a good OC is a silicon lottery.
Im not a huge fan of LED on any gpu,tho the seahawk has LED FAN and a few RGB lit on the sides.
Im not a msi fan,I actually dont like msi that much,ive had loads of problems with em in the past, older mobo's and gpu's. Im not going for gigabytes waterforce due to how ugly I think it is,I dont really like the orange color on any hw parts. I like hardware that doesnt stand out which is why I got the seahawk.
I have the evga 980ti hybrid right now I really love it,its so quiet and it doesnt cover my sata ports,but where I live the 980ti hybrid costed almost the same as 1080 seahawk so Im going for seahawk.
I have been patiently waiting for the 1080 hybrid since launch,but when I found that it has FTW PCB+the power connector its no longer a option for me. If evga only would have used the FE PCB or atleast a shorter pcb than ftw pcb I might have waited and bought it.
Its kinda weak from evga, evga was the ones that introduced the hybrid solution if Im correct, and when pascal comes out,they cant even deliver the hybrid pascal before the titan xP comes out and last of the aio gpu's. its really not forgivable.
and I kinda agree with the guy above me in this qoute.I think it will fit very nice in a b&w build.