back plate with no waterblock?

Something Else · 12 Jan 2013 at 01:40

can you fit a back plate to gpu's which dont have a water block fitted?

i want one purely for aesthetics as i dont like the blue pcb on my gpu.

card is a sapphire dualx 7970 which uses a reference pcb

liquidfire · 12 Jan 2013 at 01:59

No reason why not. Should just be a case of dropping the screws off the cooler/pcb and putting the backplate on before reinserting the screws.

Only problem I can think of would be the x plate that sits on the bottom of the pcb, it might interfere with the backplate fittings.

pgi947 · 12 Jan 2013 at 08:46

Coldzero make backplates designed to drop on to air cooled cards, them also don't interfere with the xclamp

Bubo · 12 Jan 2013 at 09:52

If you were doing this I wouldn't attempt to screw the plate to the card via the existing screws unless the plate itself is specifically designed for it. A) the screws would probably not be long enough to cope with the extra gap, B) black plates , unless designed for it, do not have all the holes drilled, e.g. the EK CSQ one I have. If it is purely for the looks they why not simply fix it in place with a bit of blu tack or something non permanent, or even just thermal tape over the chips it is supposed to help cool.

Something Else · 12 Jan 2013 at 12:09

Bubo said:
If you were doing this I wouldn't attempt to screw the plate to the card via the existing screws unless the plate itself is specifically designed for it. A) the screws would probably not be long enough to cope with the extra gap, B) black plates , unless designed for it, do not have all the holes drilled, e.g. the EK CSQ one I have. If it is purely for the looks they why not simply fix it in place with a bit of blu tack or something non permanent, or even just thermal tape over the chips it is supposed to help cool.

if im going to do it then im gonna do it properly, not stick it down with blu tack lol

ill take a look at the cold zero backplates, cheers