Notwist
I agree strongly with others who have mentioned this: for an almost $800 card, the 1080 ti SC2 Hybrid SHOULD have RGB lighting. I couldn't fit an FTW3 Hybrid in my current case even if one was released due to the added height.
 
The strangest part: The SC2 card itself HAS RGB LIGHTING. =\

Lol, yes it probably should... But my case lighting is white, so I'm good with it :P... 
 
SO, I just got mine in and opened it up. First thing that is kinda disappointing already is that the fan connector for the radiator doesn't support 4-pin connections. I assumed it would, given Jacob's touting its "PWM fans which can be replaced" statement earlier. Sooooo this means I'm either limited to 2/3 pin fans, or have to buy an adaptor which will add extra cable mess... or, I'll have to open this thing up and see if I can hook up directly to the GPU with a 4 pin, although seems unlikely. Kinda disappointing. I was hoping I could just directly swap out the fan with my 4pins.

Anyone else always seeing 0 RPM in Precision for the GPU fan even when pushing the card?

MrDoubleU

Notwist
I agree strongly with others who have mentioned this: for an almost $800 card, the 1080 ti SC2 Hybrid SHOULD have RGB lighting. I couldn't fit an FTW3 Hybrid in my current case even if one was released due to the added height.
 
The strangest part: The SC2 card itself HAS RGB LIGHTING. =\

Lol, yes it probably should... But my case lighting is white, so I'm good with it :P... 
 
SO, I just got mine in and opened it up. First thing that is kinda disappointing already is that the fan connector for the radiator doesn't support 4-pin connections. I assumed it would, given Jacob's touting its "PWM fans which can be replaced" statement earlier. Sooooo this means I'm either limited to 2/3 pin fans, or have to buy an adaptor which will add extra cable mess... or, I'll have to open this thing up and see if I can hook up directly to the GPU with a 4 pin, although seems unlikely. Kinda disappointing. I was hoping I could just directly swap out the fan with my 4pins.

Because there is not PWM control the connector is only 3 pin. The absolute ideal way of using the hybrid coolers is to attach your own fan (of whatever pin configuration you prefer) and connect it to your motherboard, and set up your own fan curve. While you it can't detect GPU temp through bios, something like SpeedFan should be able to drive based off of GPU temps. Or just find a speed you feel comfortable with noise wise and let the card throttle itself if it gets too hot.

I did verify my fans are both working. Only the rpm on the radiator fan shows though. Will run more benches tomorrow, my son is playing wild lands tonight.

Notwist
I agree strongly with others who have mentioned this: for an almost $800 card, the 1080 ti SC2 Hybrid SHOULD have RGB lighting. I couldn't fit an FTW3 Hybrid in my current case even if one was released due to the added height.
 
The strangest part: The SC2 card itself HAS RGB LIGHTING. =\

Right! The normal SC2 has RGB but the HYBRID dose not

Notwist

MrDoubleU

Notwist
I agree strongly with others who have mentioned this: for an almost $800 card, the 1080 ti SC2 Hybrid SHOULD have RGB lighting. I couldn't fit an FTW3 Hybrid in my current case even if one was released due to the added height.
 
The strangest part: The SC2 card itself HAS RGB LIGHTING. =\

Lol, yes it probably should... But my case lighting is white, so I'm good with it :P... 
 
SO, I just got mine in and opened it up. First thing that is kinda disappointing already is that the fan connector for the radiator doesn't support 4-pin connections. I assumed it would, given Jacob's touting its "PWM fans which can be replaced" statement earlier. Sooooo this means I'm either limited to 2/3 pin fans, or have to buy an adaptor which will add extra cable mess... or, I'll have to open this thing up and see if I can hook up directly to the GPU with a 4 pin, although seems unlikely. Kinda disappointing. I was hoping I could just directly swap out the fan with my 4pins.

Because there is not PWM control the connector is only 3 pin. The absolute ideal way of using the hybrid coolers is to attach your own fan (of whatever pin configuration you prefer) and connect it to your motherboard, and set up your own fan curve. While you it can't detect GPU temp through bios, something like SpeedFan should be able to drive based off of GPU temps. Or just find a speed you feel comfortable with noise wise and let the card throttle itself if it gets too hot.

Yeah, I'm realizing that now haha. I was hoping for some more improvements here from the standard 1080 version. Jacob kinda got my hopes up, but whatever. 
 
I attached a Corsair ML 140 Pro to my motherboard and just set it to run at a fixed 1200 rpm for now, as it is pretty quiet at that speed but should still provide pretty decent cooling.
 
Thus far, I must say... I am pretty impressed. Played DoTa 2 at full settings on my 2K monitor for a couple of hours and I never went over 50c... And that's with NO actual GPU fans, just the radiator fan (the only way I've found to get the GPU fan to run at all is to set it at a constant % in the EVGA app manually.) 
 
If any of you have advice on how to get the GPU fan curve to work, that'd be great. Doesn't seem to do anything for me when I try to set it up. It'll just turn the fan off unless I set the slider to a % in the app. For now, I've just set it to a constant 40%.
 
The card is so small and cool compared to my air cooled MSI 1080, which would often run over 70c in games where this thing sticks at 50c.

 
 




"I personally buy hybrid cards because they're silent and run way cooler than air cooled cards, that simple, i don't overclock them at all."




 
Fair enough. I haven't OC'd mine yet, and it definitely is running cool and quiet. Just as a reference, I removed two 120mm top exhaust fans from my case, installed this card, and didn't have the gpu fan running on the card at all while playing dota. Even with less exhaust (only exhaust at the moment is the rear with the gpu radiator) and even a slightly lower front radiator fan curve, this card is running about ~20c cooler than the air cooled 1080 I replaced it with (overclocked). 
 
Technically these cards come overclocked slightly from the factory. And honestly, you're not missing a whole lot by not OCing it manually... It's just a tinkering nerd kinda thing... Like de-lidding my 7700k and crazy stuff like that. 
 
Overall, I'm digging the dual aio cpu/gpu setup. The low airflow requirements for cool operation under load is really awesome. Which further affords me the ability to cover up all of my cases' vents with soundproof case components for even more quiet operation, since the extra flow isn't really needed, given everything is liquid cooled and exhausts out of the case.

Creo que esa se viene para Argentina. Jeje

Sweet :)

Nice,
 
And finally a solution that fits in my case.
Normally the height is an issue.

Absolute gorgeous.  Will EVGA accept my kidney as payment? 

EVGA/Jacob
Will we in the [EU] see any restocks of the SC2 HYBRID, this week coming?

Can i touch it :p

rshwayder

MrDoubleUFrequency goes wild up and down (like, drops 10 bins... crazy) while gaming and has crashed a couple times benching even without an overclock. Voltage jumps around a ton as well and I get Utilization as the reason in GPU-Z (in 3 different games and even multiple benchmarks).

I have seen Pascal cards like this before, sometimes they are unstable even with minus 100-150 core clock and memory clock at minus 500, and can have really bad performance. Definitely defective.

MrDoubleU

Timerider42

MrDoubleU

Notwist
I agree strongly with others who have mentioned this: for an almost $800 card, the 1080 ti SC2 Hybrid SHOULD have RGB lighting. I couldn't fit an FTW3 Hybrid in my current case even if one was released due to the added height.

That's what I was afraid of.
Ctrl+F on the article for it comes up with 0 results for "PWM".

Yeah unfortunately it doesnt seem to be PWM in the sense that its 4-pin ready. Not a huge deal so long as your motherboard supports customizing your fan curve. Mine actually monitors my pcie slot temps, so I just set a fan curve for that through my mobo. Works well.

Just to clarify though I think the stock fan is PWM in the sense that you can set a wide fan curve in the software. Just if you're trying to replace the stock fan, you cant use a 4 pin. If using a 4 pin, then you have to go through your mobo or get a 4 to 3 adapter.