Yeah that would make sense...
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EVGA High flow bracket
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Yeah that would make sense...
I sent my invoice from OcUK to EVGA through the "my stuff" link. They say this helps if you ever need to RMA and will speed up the process.
Just had to scan and make it a PDF file.
Cheers mate, I did it myself today!
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Just registered my 2 680's. Hope they send me two!(fingers crossed)
Just got email as I was typing "Thank you for registering your EVGA GTX 680 and requesting your free High Flow Bracket! You will receive an email soon with details on when it will ship."
Sounds good to me
Just got email as I was typing "Thank you for registering your EVGA GTX 680 and requesting your free High Flow Bracket! You will receive an email soon with details on when it will ship."
Sounds good to me
Available for pre-order already from OcUK
Are you going to get the 570/580's in ?
Nice, be sure to post some piccies when you get them.
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Hi, I've just registered my 680 and these are still availableI figured they would have all been taken by now.
I may be wrong but I can see this turning in to a farce!
They don't.
The primary aim with a back plate is to stiffen the card so when it expands and contracts it stays in position. Over a long space of time this can help the solder joints from cracking.
However, on cards such as the hot potato 260 and 280 it made bugger all difference, so was a bit of a waste of time.
In summation back plates make your card look nice. That's about it unless you are going to attach a heavy cooler.
They do. Just like the metal plates on VRAM keep it cool where it would otherwise overheat.
Ofcourse, the difference is pretty minimal. As Andy said, the main use of backplates is for "structural support" and coolness (lookwise, not temps)
Is that why Nvidia and AMD fit them to all of their cards then?
If the card doesn't need it when you buy it then the chances are it won't need it after the fact. And if it does it kind of sucks, considering Nvidia and AMD should have fitted them.
Whilst I agree that Aluminium is a great heat dissipater a 1mm or so thick piece could actually do worse, and trap the heat from the back of the card so it doesn't escape.
I claim snake oil unless you are trying to stiffen the card.
I sense there's been a comms breakdown here
I was saying they do help with the heat (although not very much) and that's one of the reasons they are sold, but the main reson people will buy them is to make their cards look cool and keep them straight.
They won't trap the heat. The solid is a better heat conductor than air so it will take in the heat and it will dissipate it along the area of the backplate rather than the tiny components on the back of the card having to dissipate their own heat.
I sense there's been a comms breakdown here
I was saying they do help with the heat (although not very much) and that's one of the reasons they are sold, but the main reson people will buy them is to make their cards look cool and keep them straight.
They won't trap the heat. The solid is a better heat conductor than air so it will take in the heat and it will dissipate it along the area of the backplate rather than the tiny components on the back of the card having to dissipate their own heat.
If you wrap something in silver foil and place it in the oven it traps the heat. That's the whole idea, so the steam doesn't evaporate and dry out what you are cooking. That's also why you put a lid on say a casserole (lol this is funny as heck
)Thus, covering the back of your card (where heat rises from because hot air is lighter than cool air, see also - hot air balloon) will prevent the heat from rising out. The parts that touch the back plate? yes, things like the ram if they are touching it will dissipate their heat as they are in direct contact. But the board itself and the back of the GPU where all the heat is rising from will simply reflect that heat back in.
TBH that may have been a part of the reason the fail rate on the 260 and 280 was so high? I have noted that my 275 does not have a back plate.
The 4 nuts on the dvi connectors hold the bracket on and also normally a couple of screws on that face and another one on a corner connected to the shroud.