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EVGA 980 Classified or Asus or Gigabyte or MSI. Good Luck on your choice.  

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If you want to overclock, the Gigabyte G1 Gaming GTX 980.

 

Other options are MSI, ASUS, EVGA

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Yes, I'm planning on overclocking and cooling. 

EVGA FTW or classified if you can afford it

 

you can't go wrong with EVGA...

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There's the EVGA Superclocked and there EVGA 980 SC ACX.  Which one?  Both are listed on Amazon, but the Superclocked is $609 vs. $552

Get this one http://www.amazon.com/EVGA-GTX-GDDR5-Graphics-Card/dp/B00NT9UT3M/ref=sr_1_1/192-6853900-0932725?ie=UTF8&qid=1428430666&sr=8-1&keywords=evga+980 The $552 version.

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Is this SLI Ready?  I noticed one version says "SLI Ready" and I assume I'll need to do SLI since I'll be installing two. Why do you recommend that over the others?

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Is this SLI Ready?  I noticed one version says "SLI Ready" and I assume I'll need to do SLI since I'll be installing two. Why do you recommend that over the others?

all 980 cards have support for up-to 4-way SLI

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EVGA! EVGA!

 

Preferably their highest tier? Assuming price isn't a huge issue. 

 

As much as I agree with you but to a point.  I would not recommend their highest tier 980, aka Kingpin.  Yes it is a great card but if a person were to buy it and not use it to its fullest potential, then it will even be more of a waste of money given that the cost to performance ratio is already shit for these cards. 

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Is this SLI Ready?  I noticed one version says "SLI Ready" and I assume I'll need to do SLI since I'll be installing two. Why do you recommend that over the others?

•NVIDIA GPU Boost 2.0 NVIDIA Adaptive Vertical Sync NVIDIA Surround Technology NVIDIA SLI Ready

980's support 4 way SLI

Also make sure your motherboard supports SLI. I only said it because you asked about that and $609 version which was a marked up price on Amazon from another seller. Your fine with buying the $549 version. That version because ACX 2.0 is the price difference.

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Galax's HoF card look baller as fuck and got 2nd best 3D mark score behind K1ngP1n. 

They also come with a free 240 SSD so if you dont have some you can have 2 cards and 2 raid 0. 

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Go with the EVGA GTX 980 Classified http://www.amazon.com/EVGA-GTX980-CLASSIFIED-Graphics-04G-P4-3988-KR/dp/B00R59FEA0/ref=sr_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1428434592&sr=1-1&keywords=980+classified for sure. This card was designed to be overclocked and put under water. EVGA also has the best support and reliability in the market.

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As much as I agree with you but to a point.  I would not recommend their highest tier 980, aka Kingpin.  Yes it is a great card but if a person were to buy it and not use it to its fullest potential, then it will even be more of a waste of money given that the cost to performance ratio is already shit for these cards. 

oh well the kingpin one is a little overkill I didn't think about that one 

 

 

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If you buy Nvidia, EVGA is the only option ;) 

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EVGA FTW or classified if you can afford it

 

you can't go wrong with EVGA...

 

Couldn't agree more. EVGA has never let me down.

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