Playing games with these cards is nothing compared to CUDA-computing for Rendering Software. They get fully stressed and the rendering (like animations with thousands of frames) may take days and even weeks. So what is a great way to cool a card that needs to run fully stressed for weeks? It's watercooling it. I skipped the 9xxx generation as it got hot even watercooled, now with Pascal my dreams come true - finally a consumer card that stays cool&quiet while rendering. No need for super-expensive Quadros. I'm eagarly waiting to get my Sea Hawks.

Had this card for 3-4 days and was totally unhappy with it over my same brand msi (980ti gaming twin frozer). First of all the temps are WAY off what is quoted in all the reviews my minimum was in the low 70s or upper 60s under load same game with frozer was around 10oC more with fans on the frozer @ 75% in afterburner quite noisy, however at a speed of around 1600rpm in the bios and monitoring software the seahawk was if not more noisy than the twin frozer! I sent the card/cooler back for a full refund and will look into other avenues possibly buying a reference card the ti version in a few months and using an aftermarket gpu cooler if the need arises. I did hear some of the early cards had the thermal issues and was rma'd but seriously this was shockingly poor. Ps why no PWM fan on such an expensive piece of kit? oh and I did swap out the corsair fan for a noctua pf 12 and had the same noise and temps. Before you buy this I would really recommend seeing this in action as the noise is really bad oh and you cant get like the other standard air cooled cards ZERO fan when idling again another negative!