Sifting through the b-s

With evga's lack of ability to stock anything I'll most likely get a asus 20th anniversary gold 980,
Numbers are better anyway plus I have a asus board so compatibility should be more likely than not :/

Thrash, So long as you use a board with a X16 PCIe lane, you will have no compatibility issues.

In fact i've never heard of such a thing in the Hardware side, unless you look at AMD / nVidia compatibility issues and those were fixed years ago.

As for EVGAs lack of stock, it's because they have been announced, just not released yet. The expected shipping date is late July / early August.

EVGA has released quite a few new ones,
First the 980 hybrid 650.00
Then Titan x hybrid 1100.00
Then 980ti hybrid 750.00
Problem is amounts are not high enough to keep anything in stock
Possibly to blame is NVidia who knows EVGA has acknowledged manufacturing issues but that was there end not NVidia's but could very well be both ?

But either way gpu is the only item holding me back from firing this bad boy up and see what is up

Did finally just buy a evga 980 hybrid for 599.us from Newegg picking it up at UPS tonight :)
Settled being this is only the first card for my build 600. is pretty cheap for a back up card
Black Friday... is the real target for an ultimate gpu
Dust should settle by then and so should pricing on other better cards.