Well, bad news... I picked one of them up, but it's going right back... it hard locks within 30 seconds - 2 minutes of gaming, and I'm not the only one having this problem with the Gigabyte card.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B...ailpage_o01_s01?ie=UTF8&psc=1#customerReviews
(neither one of those 2 current reviews are from me)
Not to spread FUD... I trust Gigabyte well enough to engineer a PCB, but perhaps this product needs to mature a little?
Now that I know the Sapphire is still viable for my space limitations, I should have one in hand tomorrow.
And sorry for the double post -- still not sure how to work multiquote properly.