Well worth the slight increase in core temps, in my opinion for better cooled and longer lasting power circuitry.-Unlike reference models (including the MSI Seahawk), this comes with much better VRM circuitry, so you will never run into the power limiter while overclocking

but I still tried another power cord and still no luck

Very powerful card, I only wish it had more available power to attain higher stable overclocks but for the Price compared to some of the other manufactures this is a great 1080, I plan in the future to pick up a second one to SLI with, and very stable temps I might add the cooler design here is great and efficient, so far I have not run into any issues of Coil whine or throttling, even when using an overclocked frequency, I went out on a limb going with gigabyte, I had always been a fan of M

The factory OC is more than enough to give the everyday gamer enough power to drive any game at ultra in most resolutions

I enjoyed the cards power but the company, the rma, and there cooling solution is where gigabyte will always fall short

I assumed they could spin slower with the same cooling power