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I recently upgraded from a 780Ti to 2x Hybrid 980Ti's which I am extremely happy with. I currently live in south Texas which if you don't know is a very HOT state to live in. For this reason I opted to go with the Hybrids to cut down on the overall heat. With my 780Ti running ultra/extreme settings in games my temps were usually running at 75-80°C and this also made it very difficult to get a decent overclock on the card. Not long after that I started researching custom water loops but I found them to be imo a waste of money for a marginal performance increase so I was stuck with the stock cooler. Then EVGA made the 980Ti Hybrid and everything changed. I ordered one to start and was very happy with the performance. Idle temps were 25°C and load temps 45°C. It literally was a dream come true not to mention the performance increase. I was so happy with the Hybrid I decided to do more upgrading so I bought 1 more Hybrid and an Acer XB270HU. I'm literally blown away by the fidelity of my game play now. I've provided a few pics of my build and benchmarks for ppl to see. FYI if you do decide to go with a Hybrid and you want to run SLI you DO NOT need to use another Hybrid. You just need to use another 980Ti reference card. I choose to go with two so I could keep my temps low. Now that I'm running two Hybrids in SLI my top card runs at 30°C while the bottom card runs at 25°C, this is normal according to Nvida. There is however a way to get around this which is to install the second card in the 4th PCI slot instead of the 3rd but not all motherboards can do that without performance degradation. Unfortunately, my board wont allow it so I have to stack them together. Newer mobos from a reputable manufacture can usually do it but you would want to research it prior to making the purchase. As far as overclocking is concerned I was able to overclock the cards to 1404Mhz without adding any additional voltage. These cards can go higher than that should you choose to do so but I'm very content at the performance with the clocks I've achieved without having to over volt. Here are my system specs: OS: Windows 8.1 CPU: Intel i7-4770K FAN: Corsair H80i MOBO: EVGA Z87 FTW LGA1150 RAM: Corsair Vengeance Pro Series 16GB 2x8GB DDR 1600mhz VCARD: EVGA GeForce GTX 980Ti Hybrid x2 SLI (ASIC 78.1%) SCARD: Creative Sound Blaster Z Game Card PSU: Corsair HX1050 1050-watt SSD: Kingston Digital 120GB SSD: Samsung 850 EVO 250GB HDD: WD VelociRaptor 10,000rpm 300GB MONITOR: Acer Predator x34 CASE: Cooler Master HAF Stacker 935 UPS: CyberPower CP1500PFCLCD PFC Sinewave UPS 1500VA 900W Overall I highly recommend this card if you want to achieve low temps without having to resort to a custom water loop. You will not be disappointed.