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get the evga classified, the hybrid is supposed to be very noisy
The Hybrid is very popular, selling out all the time, and I've read one complaint of pump noise so far. I think the odds of getting a bad one are pretty damned low. Plus, EVGA's customer and warranty service is top-notch.get the evga classified, the hybrid is supposed to be very noisy
I would personally not bother with the Hybrid variants, look into the 980 Ti - Asus Strix, Msi Lightning, Gigabyte G1.
Any of those are, in my oppinion, better thank evga in terms of cooling.
I see you have the FTW model, I take it your not happy with the cooling on it. How hot and how loud is your card?
The card is not loud at all, but i had the 980 G1 to compare it to and aside from the fact that the G1 can push higher clock without voltage (G1-1590 mhz vs FTW - 1480 mhz - pretty much irrelevant as it's a lottery), it stays cooler and seems better built (G1 - 67 degrees vs FTW - 77 degrees max in furmark and 3dmark). Acoustics lever are about the same on auto, the G1 is longer and is made entirely from aluminium, both have LED, the G1 also has a backplate whereas the FTW doesn't.
Don't get me wrong: i love both cards, but the G1 feels like a TANK whereas the FTW feels like an APC ))
Personally the Lightning LE would be nice just for the heatsink/cooler aspect of it. Doesn't look like the regular Lightning is a good deal though for most.
NewEgg has the FTW at $629 w backplate. I am soooo close to pulling the trigger at that price. Anyone else see that much difference in temps?
I have to agree with Grunt, I am really liking my 980 Ti Hybrid. It only has an ASIC of 67 but it will overclock to 1461 at 110% (while still running cool) Only hits about 50 C while gaming, but got it up to 56 running Kombustor. Those are very good temps for stress testing and it wan't noisy at all. I could hear it while stress testing, but it wasn't at all loud, and much quieter than my gtx 670 SLI setup even though I had some good aftermarket cooling on them.
I have stuck enough after market cooling on my video cards over the years that I think this is a pretty big savings for me to have it come with good cooling like this. Not super happy with the RAM on the card though, it won't overclock much at all.
That's the downside of the hybrid - its a plain reference card.
Wouldn't call it a downside as i've seen 980 kingpin cards that will not run stable with +15 added to the gpu clock. It's a lottery. Go for whatever appeals to you most and you'll se what's what after you get it.
Cheers