@Panos The Nitro+ is an amazing card, I had the limited edition version that comes with 3 x 8 pins and as we saw with the Fury Tri-x range Sapphire do make the best high-end AMD cards. I still question my decision to sell mine with a tinge of regret.
I will delve to it next few days while waiting a waterblock for it (yes there is one in China for the Nitro+, and pretty damn good it seems).
I need to install MSIAB for the overlay again but at what ever stock fan, speeds etc the card is, is 60% faster than the FuryX @ 1190.
Since you had one, do I have to connect the 2 extra fan headers? The card seems working fine.
the sapphire is a cracking looking card.
even comes with its own scaffolding hehe
Which is exactly what I thought when saw it in the box. Hence used the word contraption to describe it, as is better than bracket.
Is just a relative inexpensive solution that could cost them $3-5 even $10 but stops the card from sagging. That is a very good thinking there and must give credit to Sapphire.
Also the backplate is well thought also with all these gaps for airflow.
On the Aorus Xtreme, even at 100% fan speed when gaming, you could easily cook some eggs on the backplate.
With the Nitro+ even at 60C degrees while gaming few minutes ago, it was easy on touch and not hot.
And I have 2 140mm fans at 60% speed blowing down to the backplate in both occasions.