Looks beautiful but what about reliability... ?

 

OMG! Im so glad I waited. I just hope this thing doesn't cost an arm and a leg.

The excerpt that you quoted is reffering to the GTX 980 right? I mean I don't think the GTX 970 would have 2 x 8pin power.

 

They should have put a Black and Red hood and "I want to play a game" instead of "What's your game".
Would've been a bit more fun

I like the card thought.

 

Wow! I'll take a 970 HOF please!

 

Wow, Talk about good looking....

that's sweet

 

Looks like I've found the card for my build... I hope they dont take too long to hit retail

 

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Originally Posted by Ragsters

OMG! Im so glad I waited. I just hope this thing doesn't cost an arm and a leg.

The excerpt that you quoted is reffering to the GTX 980 right? I mean I don't think the GTX 970 would have 2 x 8pin power.

Well, both of the Zotac 970 AMP editions cards are 2x 8-pin cards, so ya never know.

 

Would love to see a mITX 970 from Galax/Galaxy too since Gigabyte currently has that monopoly (although MSi and ASUS are sure to follow).

 

Dem cards... it's so tempting to dump my r270x and get one3 of those...

Saw that some people finally bypassed the power limit on >9xx serie, how much of a difference does it do on OCing? if it's WCing worthy, I may as well grab a 970 or two.

 

Looks fantastic.

 

looks legoish

shoulda made everything aluminium.

 

Now to find one of these available from retail in NA..

 

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Now to find one of these available from retail in NA..

Unfortunately these cards will not be for sale on Newegg, Amazon, TigerDirect, Microcenter etc.... You will only be able to exclusively purchase them through their web store - http://www.galaxstore.net/

Here's also a quote from their Marketing Manager -

The GTX 980 SOC will available very soon but I'm not yet able to confirm any GTX 900 series HOF edition cards just yet. New HOFs will no doubt be available at some point in the future but for now my advice would be to visit us at www.facebook.com/2014galax and give us a like so you'll be the first to know as soon as new cards are announced. All new products will be available for order direct online at store.galaxytechus.com, and there are not currently any plans to sell through any other etailers or retailers for the time being.

Best,

Andrew Fischer
North American Marketing
GALAX

 

I had figured, unfortunately their webstore doesn't yet have it for stock but I guess it'll pop up soon (hopefully). HoF's a nice card and a perfect match for ASUS's X99 Deluxe + Corsair 760T.

 

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Now to find one of these available from retail in NA..

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Originally Posted by kiwiis

I had figured, unfortunately their webstore doesn't yet have it for stock but I guess it'll pop up soon (hopefully). HoF's a nice card and a perfect match for ASUS's X99 Deluxe + Corsair 760T.

Funny you should say that because I have the exact same mobo + case. I'm picking up two 980 HOF's as soon as they come in stock!

 

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Originally Posted by Joxx

Looks beautiful but what about reliability... ?

Top notch.

Galaxy, and especially their HOF line, are amazing cards. They are also consistently some of the sexiest damn cards in the world! If you are interested in getting one, good luck, they can be really hard to get your hands on.

 

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Funny you should say that because I have the exact same mobo + case. I'm picking up two 980 HOF's as soon as they come in stock!

Great minds think alike. Two of those cards in SLI will definitely look great with your setup

 

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Great minds think alike. Two of those cards in SLI will definitely look great with your setup

They most certainly will! Sorry for the potato quality I took this with my cellphone, I'll be using a Sony RX100 when I'll be posting up my rig gallery!

Also ocUK has an ETA that says Nov 14th - http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-008-GX
So I expect to see availability on their webstore sometime within the next two weeks hopefully.

 

How do these fit into the picture ?

 

I remember their 780 had issues with overclocking and phases were.... blowing. I am not purchasing another HOF card again.

 

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I remember their 780 had issues with overclocking and phases were.... blowing. I am not purchasing another HOF card again.

That's why I asked earlier. I also remember serious issues with previous HOFs.

 

I've had my HOF for almost 1 year and I haven't had an issue with it. It runs at 1254 Mhz stable (gaming) and I haven't had any problems at all. I think you're talking about a couple of cards that had issues, I think basing the whole line-up on a couple of bad cards is like saying the X99 deluxe from Asus that has had a handful of board failures (vrm popping / exploding) means the whole line-up is bad.

 

Love the white PCB - would be cool if an aftermarket liquid block manufacturer made a black specifically for this.

 

Seriously enjoying my Galax card. Great cooling solution (with backplate) and a good overclock for a cheap price.

 

Always thought they were a bit of an underrated brand that didn't really get a lot of coverage despite being the only exclusively NVIDIA partner besides EVGA ever since I got a Galaxy GTX680. Was disappointed they never provided a GOP UEFI vBios for the card but nothing that crossflashing an ASUS GOP vBios didn't solve.