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shakarak said:

JEMC said:

As far as I know, the Seahawk has a single 8-pin power connector like the reference board, so if you're after high overclocks you'll be better with another card.

Here's a review of the MSI GTX1080 Gaming X card, if you're interested: http://www.guru3d.com/articles-pages/msi-geforce-gtx-1080-gaming-x-8g-review,1.html

While I'm not too familiar with overclocking I didn't do any heavy overclocking with my GTX 770.  I should be fine overclocking to 2000 to 2100 without a second pin?  From my understanding from what I have been reading I shouldn't need to mess with the voltage too much with a clock like that?  I'm also a big fan of the aestehtic of the Seahawk as my case is a corsair 500r White and it matches.   Additionaly, it's a bit smaller then the gaming X.  But I'm still not fully decided.

Well, many (but not all) sites have been able to reach 2000MHz, and they did it with the Founders Edition cards with 1x 8-pin power connector. Of course, to do that they had to raise the fan speed to 100% and hit the powr limit, but you won't have the first problem with the Seahawk.

Still, you don't have a guaranteed 2,0GMHz overclock. Even the MSI card I linked could just barely achieve it.