Yeah, there's a local store chain where I live that's selling the Overclocked Strix 1080 for the same price as the Signature Edition. Though given some complaints about "aftermarket" cards I'm wondering if I should go the extra mile and apply better thermal compound to the card if purchased.
Also, does anyone know if cpu heatsinks and/or all in one water coolers work on graphics cards? I'm not talking the custom waterblocks intended for the card, but other mounted cooling solutions.
The reason why I bring this up is that there's a new cooler from Thermaltake, Engine 27 that looks like it could be mounted onto the backplate of the Strix. Because Strix has the Gpu fan controller, it might work as an interesting alternative to water cooling.