EVGA GeForce GTX 980 HYBRID is "cooler than the competition"

[HEXUS]

This GTX 980 features an all-in-one water cooler with 120mm radiator and fan.

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[Ksyruz]

Not bad, but would rather take a NZXT g10 bracket and a 240mm cooler as and add it to a PNY GeForce GTX 980 OC2 Pure Performance card, Then we would see some real OC performance

[Biscuit]

Using a blower fan seems kinda unusual. Surely a normal fan would have been more effective for cooling the VRMs below it?

[Xlucine]

It looks like the front plate and blower off the stock cooler, which is a shame. It'd be nice to see something optimised to cool the vrms at the low fan speeds the card bios will call for, since the gpu won't get hot enough to ramp up the fan.

[CustardInc]

Great, if only pumps were as quiet as low RPM fans. I'd rather have a three slot cooler with two or three low RPM fans, but I suppose I wasn't going to buy one anyway...

[mojothejester]

This card has been tested on YouTube, hits 1600mhz boost clock and holds it through tests. Awesome performance :-)

[dougko]

sick to deaf of hearing about the rubbish 980gtx bump off give over its rubbish at 4k which means theres no point in buying it and any 980gtx is still a 980gtx ive brought the lowest end cards of the top end for a while and always got great overclocking head room speeds above the top end cards etc so i don't see the point in putting 12 reviews up about the same card it gets dull this card is nout but a stop gap and they holding bk of the good gpus in order to sell you a floater so u once again upgrade sooner an waste ya money

[kalniel]

sick to deaf of hearing about the rubbish 980gtx bump off give over its rubbish at 4k which means theres no point in buying it and any 980gtx is still a 980gtx ive brought the lowest end cards of the top end for a while and always got great overclocking head room speeds above the top end cards etc so i don't see the point in putting 12 reviews up about the same card it gets dull this card is nout but a stop gap and they holding bk of the good gpus in order to sell you a floater so u once again upgrade sooner an waste ya money

I presume you have some semblance of free will when you clicked on the news story clearly marked GTX 980?

[Millennium]

Doug

Thanks for the post.

The 980 series may not handle 4k but it's orders of magnitude harder then it's sibling 1080p (probably one).

Some feel it's still good value for a teenager who may use it to game for like 4 years, there's no arguing with the market.
Hexus has been here for ages, have a think and post again

I tend to agree with you on the greater overclocking headroom on the lower parts but then again, this time I'm thinking carefully about whether to buy the 2nd highest end AMD card, off the bat. The driver updates, performance improvements etc unfold like a story - and I'm a long term AMD customer.
Not decided yet.

[shaithis]

sick to deaf of hearing about the rubbish 980gtx bump off give over its rubbish at 4k which means theres no point in buying it

Wow, when do the rest of us get our free 4K display upgrades?