RobCrezz :
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EVGA GTX 1080 hybrid coming in morning. Can't wait. And to think I was gonna get the Seahawk with it's reference PCB....
The seahawk seems better in the reviews..
While the Seahawk is fine, it doesn't have as much overclocking potential at the EVGA hybrid, plus the Seahawk uses a reference PCB, it also uses a Corsair H55 to cool it (which I can attest that the Corsair H55 is a good product, I use 2 of them to cool my GTX 760's), which is all and good, but it's a CPU cooler, and CPU coldplates are slightly coned. The coldplate on the EVGA hybrid is flat. The coldplate on the hybrid also cools the GDDR5X modules as well as the core. The Seahawk only cools the core. As far as being loud, it doesn't matter to me, I'll be putting Noctua fans on the radiator anyway, seeing as how the GDDR5X modules are cooled by liquid I can just turn the fan down, the radial fan on the Seahawk is neck and neck when it comes to noise with the fan on the Hybrid. People look at temp benchmarks and assume the Seahawk is better, they don't take in to account that the temperature on the Hybrid is a bit higher because it's cooling the VRAM modules as well as the core.
Not only this but the Seahawk's MSRP is $30 more.
Here's a good video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0a7qajig5Q
I was also considering the Gigabyte Waterforce, but I thought it too much. I like the way Gigabyte designed the Waterforce and their version of a blower style card though. Always thought orange and blue were the best color themes.