EK backplate with reference cooler?

[danoedel97]

Greetings beautiful people of this forum!

For an upcoming build, I want to make look as clean, and simplistic as possible, I am wanting to get some backplates for my reference 780ti s.

I personally think that asthetically the EVGA ones do more harm than is worth it.

 

I just have the standard blower style stock cooler, as comes with most reference 700 series cards. I was wondering if this plate would fit on it w/o a waterblock

 

I also do not want to watercool, because the lack of humidity in my area cracks the tubes (at least the flexible ones) and considering the time and money I am spending on this build already, I do not even want to consider acrylic tubing.

http://www.ekwb.com/shop/blocks/vga-blocks/fc-backplates/nvidia-geforce-series/ek-fc780-gtx-ti-backplate-black.html

Maybe I'm just an idiot and completely reading this wrong, but I understand it as it only fits on those waterblocks.

Thanks for all your help, and may the force be with you!

[Monty007]

I successfully did this with my Gigabyte GTX 670.  You need to look at your stock reference card and see if the holes on the backplate would have anything interfering.  I was able to use 2 out of the 6 and get some different hardware with a nut on the backside to hold the backplate on.