Behold, backplates lol. Courtesy to EVGA for these backplates.


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Nope, got it FOC from EVGA

everything is fine IMO, as long as it doesn't hit above 90 lol

Tested Zotac 770, max temp i can get for stressing it is 86.
EVGA 770 ACX also hit 82 with the same stress test.

just a simple furmark burn test for 1 hour+

what card you're using? If you're not going to take the risk (?), just stay with 314.22.
Mine works just fine. 680 & 770.

lol what do you guys think?

lol no

EVGA backplate with Galaxy 680

Carbon Fibre Vinyl to be exact
Plan to cover the whole shrould at 1st but then i was too lazy to disassemble the whole thing

LOL this has been done by several people in other community, it's not like they're claiming the copyrights of using carbon fibre vinyl on the shroud!

770 is fine if you're currently using 660

kindly refrain yourself from posting this kind of meaningless comment


They've been using the PCB for 780 instead of 780Ti, that's when things started to get scorching hot. They've already announced the suspension and recall.
290X will be sizzling hot on the reference cooler, but up to date I haven't seen any burnt 290X like what happened to the 780Ti.

well, that won't be much issue for most enthusiasts out there as they will pretty much WC this card.
The 780Ti tragedy... really burned the green camp a lot, right after the 320.18 WHQL which killed a lot of cards back then.
Nvidia really needs to start doing something different and better, or else...

They must, else red is going to be the new green lol.
which I don't think they want it to happen.

temp looks fine, curious to know what's your ambient temp and did you set the fan speed to auto or manually set it according to the temp curve?

Hardly but I did see one in Viewnet around October, not sure if it's still there.
But come to think of it, why 550 Ti when there's other newer models which performs better than it now?
And do state out your budget so these helpful peoples can recommend you a card that suits your budget & needs.

It seems that Nvidia's plan just got foiled.
Not a good sign, can't stand losing by price yet still reserving the Maxwell.
Wonder how will they get through all of these?