"may have next week again..."

Hi I was wondering, how there are the aio coolers coming out for the 1080 reference design cards with the shroud. Just out of curiosity would other aio's be compatible with this shroud, like other coolers like the nzxt kraken or corsair h55, might be over kill but maybe a cooler with a 240, 280 or even maybe a 360mm rad?... 🤔

protestjay
Hi I was wondering, how there are the aio coolers coming out for the 1080 reference design cards with the shroud. Just out of curiosity would other aio's be compatible with this shroud, like other coolers like the nzxt kraken or corsair h55, might be over kill but maybe a cooler with a 240, 280 or even maybe a 360mm rad?...

there are already hybrid kits for the reference design out: http://www.evga.com/Produ...aspx?pn=400-HY-5188-B1
it's the FTWs and classified that don't have kits for them right now.

supposedly the FTW hybrid will also have RGB leds
 
gah, another week? AKA another potential 2-4 weeks of waiting for stock if you aren't lucky enough to get in on the first? jesus

Sorry yeah I know these hybrids kits were coming out, I live in the UK, they are supposed to be out today. Was just wondering about their compatibility with other aio's. Maybe someone who has used the 980ti hybrid might of used another cooler, maybe tried this out and got any thermal or performance boost compared to the one evga supply with the kit.

shanebuchman

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I would suggest that everyone do what I'm doing...wait for the hybrid kit to come in and try and get it, and buy any 1080 that is using the fe pcb...if they sell out of hybrid kits again before you get one, purchase from a different vendor.

This EVGA hybrid is constantly being pushed back. There are people playing games, rendering videos, basically have moved on with life and we sat here and waited...and waited some more...and waited some more...the GTX 1080's launched in May (seems so long ago) I remember the craziness over the 1070's that launched weeks later...we have sat here and waited patiently, and I don't think it's even been about brand loyalty at this point, I think it's just because we really wanted a specific aesthetic look in our builds...but there comes a point when you just have to decide if the aesthetics are really worth this much waiting when we don't have to wait...there are plenty of other cards and even hybrids on the market...and honestly, it really is an aesthetic thing because the cards with hybrid kits aren't significantly outperforming the other options...you can even get an fe card and still do your gaming and stuff and in 6 months, when there is plenty of stock on hybrid kits, you can buy it then....

My point is, I honestly can't believe I waited this long and I'm done waiting...I'm not even waiting to see what happens this week...either I am ordering an aio kit and an fe card, or the MSI 1080 Sea Hawk X or whatever I have to do...enough is really enough already.

And guys, there are still no spec notes released from EVGA regarding these cards...so either they aren't outperforming the other cards available so their marketing team has nothing to say (moderate likeliness,) or they're not going to be ready and pushed back again (increased likeliness), and everyone is just gonna be sitting here on this thread looking at pictures of what everyone else's pc's are doing while you wait for a certain "look" on a card that nobody but you is gonna see anyway...

I would have done this, but my card boosts to 2174MHZ if I add +102MHZ to the core if i drop it down to +100MHZ it will fall to 2151MHZ and I'm very happy/stable there. So far I haven't seen one FE card get anywhere near that even on water. So I'm pretty sure the extra power is needed to get that stable or maybe silicon lottery/conservative memory over clock. I found If I pushed my memory to 11k MHZ I was no longer able to get above 2151MHZ, it became a brick wall of sorts and would throttle at times. So watch how hard you push your memory it starts to pull away from the core I noticed, or effect it in some way. However if I leave it at or below 10800MHZ I can go above 2151MHZ stable no problems without any throttling. I settled with 2151MHZ core/10800MHZ memory and very happy with how cool it runs at those settings, but I think a FE even on water will struggle to get that or might do it but will throttle after a bit from what I've seen online. the FTW should be able to do this on water NP, as long as the card is not a trash overclocker(silicon lottery).
 
Just my 2 cents/opinion, best luck guys.

my FE hit 2153.

Add me to the list of people having now given their money to another company. Better luck next time evga ?

Well that's one less person trying to get a card before me so it's all good. 

Other people will still buy the hybrids even tho we gave up so... they dont care about us man

My Sea Hawk is scheduled to arrive tomorrow. Initially my plan was to purchase a Hybrid but I'm so glad I was able to get a Sea Hawk. The anxiety of constantly checking who/when/where has stock was just too much. I feel for you guys that are still patiently waiting. Hopefully you get some good news soon.