Reference GTX 670 water blocks are going to be hillarious - Page 23

Originally Posted by error-id10t 

The model is: 04G-P4-2673-KR which from what I've gathered fits the reference blocks fine. Now I had hoped that the stock EVGA backplate that comes with it would have fit with any WC block but obviously that's not the case.
Seeing as there's only 3 options and I don't want the spaceship XSPC Razor LED one, that leaves EK and Heatkiller. If I can't get any other backplate for Heatkiller then I might as well go with the whole EK setup (ugly as the backplate is).

Originally Posted by Falknir 

You can use whatever water block backplate with other water blocks (as long as it's not one for a custom arranged PCB, i.g. EK GTX 670 DC2), as long as the back plate holes aren't smaller then the screws thread diameter for the actual water block.

Originally Posted by Ta0ism 

I think this is incorrect. A quick look at the hole arrangement on the backplates that are available shows that most of the bocks for this card seem to use the outer set of holes around the GPU, while the Heatkiller apparently uses the inner set of holes (someone who has one please verify this). This seems plainly visible in pictures of the mounted block/backplate for the XSPC block and not so easily seen in pictures of the back side of the other blocks.
From what I can gather looking at the different pics, the XSPC backplate will fit either their block or the Aquacool example but not the Heatkiller. The Heatkiller block will only fit their product. Last but not least, the EK backplate may not fit any of the above unless you (A) drill holes in it to accommodate the height of the heads of the bolts used to mount the other blocks, or (B) change the bolts out for screws/bolts with relatively shallow depth heads. There are slight recesses machined into the EK backplate to clear the mounting hardware they supply, but they generally use Phillips head screws with shallow head height.
This is kind of a shame if I turn out to be correct, as the Heatkiller's backplate appears useless for anything other than aesthetics (since it makes no useful contact with any part of the back of the card). Both the XSPC and EK cards have raised sections machined into them to make contact with the ram mounted on the back of the card, so as to at least offer some level of passive heat dissipation.

Originally Posted by Edbert 

I was thinking it is time to upgrade my GPU and while I am at it go ahead and put it onto the water circuit i already have.

I have an XSPC pump/reservior/cpu-block/radiator so I am sorta leaning (hard) towards this XSPC 670 kit. Has anyone here used one of these and if so can you recommend a card maker that fits the kit perfectly. Not everybody does the "reference" exactly right, and I'd like to avoid a mis-match by using a combination known to work.

Any other advice is welcome!.