Quote Originally Posted by Pen3 View Post
Sadly mine shorted on a HIS 5870 and i believe it is reference. I already sent the card back for RMA and will double check with the backplate again when it arrives. I had the card and waterblock since it was available and had no problems till i decided to install the backplate. All i did was remove old screws and stock backplate and put the ek one on and used the new allen screws.
Please send e-mail to info@ek... as we would like to check what was the cause of your cards failure. Did you recognize the problem? Anything to see on the card?