n0x1ous

No its not, you can get an EVGA hybrid among others. http://www.evga.com/articles/00935/EVGA-GeForce-GTX-TITAN-X-HYBRID/

Nope - Just prioritize PC hardware over other things.

Probably. Maxing out the power limit is the first change I make in afterburner. I've never actually run cards that have a power slider at stock power limit.

Correct. no overvoltage

The reference cards are going to get up to their temp limit and then adjust their boost clock accordingly. As long as its above its 1075 rated boost clock there is nothing wrong with the card. If you want higher boost clocks use afterburner and up the temp target a few degrees and up the power limit to 110% then make the temp target the priority. should help you out. I have two reference 980ti's and both are overclocked +250 core and maintain boost @ 1400 mhz under load with 86C temp target. Top card fan gets up to around 60%, bottom card fan gets up to 45% 68%top 85% bottom asic scores.

debatable? do you have some proof that there were issues? I had reference 480 sli and it was/is a furnace and they still work today. There are no mass reports of Big Fermi chips failing. Just because people didn't like the high temps doesnt mean the cards couldn't handle it which they obviously did just fine. what you read about 80C was the default temp target nvidia sets in the driver. That was on most of the big Kepler chips with the exception of 780ti which defaulted to 83C. NVIDIA INCLUDES the ability to adjust that up to a certain point based on user preference for noise and heat tolerance. Nvidia's safe limit for 980ti is 91C which is why they allow it to reach 91C via the temp slider. There is absolutely no concern of hurting or damaging an nvidia reference card on the stock bios.

Uncharted territory? apparently you don't remember the GTX 480 which got into the 90s and they held up just fine. Nvidia allows temp target up to 91C on the 980ti and you can be sure it will be fine up to whatever temp they are allowing you to get to.

I have temp target @ 85c and overclock +250 on the core. Boost to a stable 1414 in game with about 55% fan speed. The noise is not too bad really.

you can't. AMD made these for press events, but they aren't selling any reference 3xx series. they are all aftermarket only.

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Absolutely go with the reference blower with the Raven cases. Thats what those cases are designed around.

I've got 2 290 reference cards that were mined with. Haven't had a single issue with them - save the noise. HG10 A1 + H90 solved that though.....

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