Great Review, but I'm a bit of a skeptic now when it comes to NVIDIA. I've never been one to buy into hype. I trust in a select few when it comes to reviews. You are one of five that I can count on. Bench Marks and fps are great, but I'm a Sim Racer. As such, high fps are a must. Things happen fast when driving at 200 mph. If my goal is an F1 championship, 90 fps is just as important as my skill behind the wheel, but they're not as important as what's going on in-between those frames per second. If those 90 fps are not evenly spaced and smooth, I'm a virtual dead man. Using both AMD CPU's and GPU's has been my formula for years now. Last year I broke from tradition and built my first Intel based PC for Project CARS using the same Sapphire 7970 that I use in my AMD systems. Both systems ran almost identical numbers across the board. I did have to water cool the GPU in the Intel due to a CPU that ran much hotter. I'm faster on the Intel system, but when recording game play, the AMD wins hands down. Two months ago I went a bit crazy upgrading my new Intel system. (32 GB of RAM @ 2133, a T500 RS Wheel and Pedal Setup, a very expensive fully modded F1 SLI Wheel and the icing on the cake, a EVGA NVIDIA 980 ti Hybrid 6GB Graphics Card). I fully intended to kick some tail. Gone are the days of 90 fps and GPU temps approaching 70C. I can run all day long at 120 fps and never see 50C. Did I say all day long, scratch that! Amazing Graphics? YES, most of the time. However, it seem EVGA choose to overclock the heck out of the 980 ti. The result - 200 mph, 120 fps and loving it, then Black Screen. NO! checking the forums I found an alarming number of black screen EVGA 980 ti Hybrids, most crashing the system before rebooting. I my case the black screen would last 2 to 5 seconds then return to normal. But by then, I'd be crashing into something. To date, the EVGA Support Team is aware of the "glitch", and suggested I use their software to underclock the card. It helped some, after a few weeks of trying, EVGA replaced my card with a brand new unit. For the record, The EVGA Support Team has been amazing. Extremely helpful forthcoming, true integrity. Using the software to underclock the new card seems to be working, only one black screen in a month. So, here I am reading and loving your review of the 1080 it Founders Edition and chomping at the bit to buy the first Hybrid version the hits the market. But at what I'm guessing will be about $820.00, I'll have to wait and see how the card performs before dropping that kind of cash.