Quote Originally Posted by retrogamer1990 View Post
I am having this problem too. unfortunately I did not see that it touched a capacitor before I turned it on. It shorted a capacitor and there was an acrid smell, luckily the card still works. I am not impressed! No instructions supplied with the backplate either did not help. If the card fails because of this I will be quite annoyed with you EK!

mine was with the nickel plated one btw
Hi!
I totally understand you. I am not happy ether...
Regarding instructions; you must be one of the first few backplates that was sold without manuals. They are uploaded with the product in web shop:
http://81.90.180.2/ekwaterblocks/sho...1109855003.pdf