I've been thinking they might do that with the RAM. If you look at the inside of EVGA's stock heatsinks they have twice the number of ram blocks in there and 1/2 of them were doing nothing. That might've been a good idea to do on the full cover waterblocks. This does present an issue with aftermarket cooling solutions. There may be alot of GPU blocks with RAM sinks again.

Dangit, I could order one of these to SLI and get one like this ona 280 and even the Unisink wouldn't work. I am getting a stadarnd non-fullcover block though. Might have to stepup and then go SLI later.

Watercooling these things does help them tremndously. They have alot of core and memory clock in them. I've found my max clocks already on the 280, but can't leave it there becasue of thermal runaway. I need more cooling. Watercooling these is really a great way to get solid max clocks from them.