Soldato
		
			
		
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Finally retired the 290 Crossfire (or more precisely, put them on eBay) and replaced them with a Palit 1080ti Super Jetstream from OcUK. 
Very happy with the performance - with titles that support Crossfire properly it's a little faster than the 290CF setup. With games that don't support Crossfire, it's massively faster. It's also running almost as cool as my 290s did. Yes, you read that right - the 1080ti runs almost as cool as my 290s, but to be fair the 290s were running Accelero Hybrid-120 coolers.
Obligatory pictures:
	
	
		
			
	
		
			
		
		
	
		
		
	
	
		
	
	
		
			
		
		
	
	
		
			
		
		
	
		
	
	
		
			
		
		
	
	
		
			
		
		
	
		
	
	
		
			
		
		
	
	
		
			
		
		
	
		
	
	
		
			
		
		
	
The cable on the left to outside the case is one of the LED strips for the NZXT HUE+ - it actually lives attached to the side panel above the window, but needed to go somewhere when I popped the side off to take the pictures.
		
	
First Nvidia card in my main PC since the 6600GT back in the day, unless we count the 460 I ran in Hybrid Crossfire for a while to get PhysX in Batman games.
	
		
			
		
		
	
				
			
Very happy with the performance - with titles that support Crossfire properly it's a little faster than the 290CF setup. With games that don't support Crossfire, it's massively faster. It's also running almost as cool as my 290s did. Yes, you read that right - the 1080ti runs almost as cool as my 290s, but to be fair the 290s were running Accelero Hybrid-120 coolers.

Obligatory pictures:
The cable on the left to outside the case is one of the LED strips for the NZXT HUE+ - it actually lives attached to the side panel above the window, but needed to go somewhere when I popped the side off to take the pictures.
First Nvidia card in my main PC since the 6600GT back in the day, unless we count the 460 I ran in Hybrid Crossfire for a while to get PhysX in Batman games.
	
 




 so the first thing i did was to rip of the insufficient cooler and replace it with my mk-26. It even came with a hex socket tool for the hex screws on the cooler.. it's like they were begging me to rip it off.