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The PCB is not the same, the FTW has 8 power phases. Sadly i do not know of the "Arctic accelerometer", but Arctic Cooling has serveral coolers, of which some does support the stacked power connector, and others doesen't. I believe a "Accelero Twin Turbo II" would fit just fine.

http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h259/usforces/FTW.jpg

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The PCB is not the same, the FTW has 8 power phases. Sadly i do not know of the "Arctic accelerometer", but Arctic Cooling has serveral coolers, of which some does support the stacked power connector, and others doesen't. I believe a "Accelero Twin Turbo II" would fit just fine.

http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h259/usforces/FTW.jpg

I meant arctic accelero hybrid lol. Damn auto correct.
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The accelero hybrid *should* work just fine on the 680 FTW. The VRM's on the FTW are really top quality, and they do not need as much cooling as the reference does.

On a side note, did you consider mounting a CPU closed-loop cooler? :) those are way cheaper! (but will require zip-ties and ghetto mounted fans for the VRM)

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Why would you want to use aftermarket cooling on a 680 anyway ? The card doesn't overvolt so there is no overclocking advantage .
1- All nVidia kepler cards are voltage locked except TItan.

2- Overclocking potential will come down to build quality since the cards are voltage locked.

2- Most non reference designed cards are very quiet and quite cool.

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Why would you want to use aftermarket cooling on a 680 anyway ? The card doesn't overvolt so there is no overclocking advantage .
1. Until you start playing with the BIOS

2. Cooler cards overclock better, especially with the power delivery of the 680 FTW

3. We are talking about the EVGA 680 FTW, which is not "most non reference designed cards"

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Why would you want to use aftermarket cooling on a 680 anyway ? The card doesn't overvolt so there is no overclocking advantage .
All 600 series cards are voltage locked on the hardware level you cannot unlock them.

The bios settings only allow adjustments within the power limit set by the hardware voltage cap, so no matter what you do you cannot exceed the power limit.

That's why MSI had done hardware changes to the design of the 660 ti, 670 power edition to allow over-volting .

Please understand that you cannot overvolt 600 series cards, they are locked on the hardware level and there is no way around it .

http://www.overclockers.com/nvidia-says-no-to-voltage-control

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/MSI-GTX-660-670-overvolting-PowerEdition,18013.html

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/msi-gpu-GTX-660-Ti-670-Power-Edition-Overvolting,18240.html

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Why would you want to use aftermarket cooling on a 680 anyway ? The card doesn't overvolt so there is no overclocking advantage .
They are not voltage locked on a hardware level, except for the physical limits of the chips. Yes, you can overvolt, to 1.2125 volt, this is a limit set by the BIOS. The 670 Power Edition (my card) uses the same voltage regulator chip thingy as the 680.
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The accelero hybrid *should* work just fine on the 680 FTW. The VRM's on the FTW are really top quality, and they do not need as much cooling as the reference does.

On a side note, did you consider mounting a CPU closed-loop cooler? :) those are way cheaper! (but will require zip-ties and ghetto mounted fans for the VRM)

Whats the difference between ftw and ftw +? I have 2 ftw+ models
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The accelero hybrid *should* work just fine on the 680 FTW. The VRM's on the FTW are really top quality, and they do not need as much cooling as the reference does.

On a side note, did you consider mounting a CPU closed-loop cooler? :) those are way cheaper! (but will require zip-ties and ghetto mounted fans for the VRM)

I believe its the backplate
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