Quote Originally Posted by gabe View Post
There is one thing that everybody forgets to mention:

EVGA provides a factory warranty for the FTW cards. So there should be little if any concerns at all about VRM temps on this block.
I wasn't implying that the swiftech solution wasn't up to scratch, personally I think looks wise its at the tops. If we could get the EVGA cards locally I would have bought one simply not to have to deal with mounting it myself and voiding my warranty.

You do bring up a very important point, that out of all the solutions, it is the only one that doesn't void the warranty and so for beginners it should be the preferred choice.

VRMs in general have a pretty high temp tolerance and maybe its not such a critical issue as many make it out to be. I've pretty much air cooled my vram and vrms on all my water cooled GPUs and never once had a dead card.

I'm just still bummed you guys don't have a block available that we can all buy.