Quote Originally Posted by luke997 View Post
So I've had a go at the problem, and it looks like:

1) There is a capacitor on the top of the card, in the middle, which has very long wires coming off the back of PCB.
When I checked my 3 cards, on 2 of them there was contact.
I suspect this could cause shorting so I've bent them

2) The 6 chips near middle 3 screws contact backplate but it would not cause shorting.
According to EK those chips were not on the reference card from nVidia which they used for the design of backplate.
Long term fix is additional channel during the milling
Short term is add PVC washer under each standof of the backplate

I'm very shortly doing the latter, fingers crossed
hmm he should have gone out and bought a retail reference card.