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silence redefined November 2014 excellent hello everyone and welcome to Paul's hardware this is a fairly impromptu video because I just received this this package in the mail from EVGA and what this actually is is my back plate for my GTX 970 so I'm going to do what I hope is going to be a tutorial on how to install this thing but honestly if you can't already tell I have not opened this I've actually not I can't say I've never installed a back plate on a video card before but definitely not this particular model or anything like that so let's see what comes in the box nicely packaged all you have to do if you so I did this for free because I bought the 970 so I just had to register that on EVGA website and then they they have a temporary free upgrade plan going on right now for the 970 but apart from that you get to very very easily easily laid out two color instructions here remove the five circled screws indicated below okay it's cool and this is specific to the 972 so a nice nice attention to detail here alright so the screws are actually already there one two three four five and then there's some protective covering on the back plates and you get a line the screws and then you screw in the screws alright so maybe this type of thing does not need a tutorial perhaps this is so easy that all I am doing is is talking at the camera for your few minutes while I do what is actually a fairly simple installation but you know what I'm going to press on if nothing else I'm going to give you guys a look at this once its installed I like the backplate so far looks pretty cool all right so this protective covering on here it says to remove it but you know what the screws are actually the screws are not covered up so I'm going to leave that on while I install here's a protip right leave that on while you do the installation I use a Phillips head screw that's pro tip number two oh yeah I'm gonna leave that on while I do this installation maybe that will help to to keep me from getting it all fingerprinted up um apart from this I did I had to frantically well not frantically but this package arrived and I was like ooh I want to install this but maybe I should do a video out of it but I just had to go over there and pull this out of the htpc everyone was excited that I that I went and used the 970 in the HTPC well they were either excited or they were pissed off because it was crazy overkill but um I did anyway and like I predicted I was going to have to pull it out very soon although I didn't pull it out to run benchmarks I pulled it out to install this backplate this screw doesn't want to come out oh this one has a nut a nut one second oh you know this is attention to detail the mounting hole closest at the top will need the included net to secure the screw hold the nut centered over the hole and thread the screw through the nut this will keep it in place so let's see they even pointed that out to me I just didn't read the instructions thoroughly enough okay this is recommended type of pliers for this activity there we go just trying to keep things pretty okay so screws have been removed there's this they do have a bit of a bit of thermal padding in there for contact with some of the heat sinks or another heat sink so that the pads will actually go over some of the memory modules on there so that's cool that provides ostensibly a bit more functionality by maybe providing a little bit more cooling for those memory model maybe I can now overclock my memory even more that'd be sweet okay so got lined up there and now we will just replace those five screws this has been a riveting tutorial so far right guys if anyone needs any special tips on screws screwing in screws the proper methods of doing so let me know in the comment section because a how to screw tutorial I think could be something that I might I might decide to put together some at some point definitely has it been requested but who knows maybe it was just something that people didn't know I was even considering doing maybe now that I've mentioned its it will be the most requested thing a screwing tutorial okay one more this is the tricky one with the nut again going to go with my patented technique here folding the nut with large oversized angle tipped pliers and then like it's always easier to hand thread a screw like this than it is to just go right out with the screwdriver I mean if you can get it you can get just like a turn of two threaded and you know it doesn't want to do it oh I am going to need to use a screwdriver hold on hold on haha success alright and there we go back plate installed massive upgrade and now the reveal of the EVGA GeForce GTX 970 superclocked Edition back plate there we go that's pretty that's so pretty so the EVGA it's got to cut out right there GeForce GTX 970 on it sort of a varied size of the holes there which gives kind of a cool effect they're kind of larger towards the center and they get smaller towards the outside there you can see the the backplate area around the GPU itself that's very nice and then they continue the design over on that side so the look you're going to get at your card now from the side you're going to be seeing that that goodness so provides extra protection I think it looks a heck of a lot nicer than just going with the bare PCB besides that it's got this really really great brushed metal finish black brushed aluminum and again this was a hastily set up video so I apologize if this quality isn't fantastic but there is at least a closer look at this EVGA back plates so I will put a link in the video's description guys if you're interested in where I went on the EVGA sights to get to this card or to get this backplate I should say feel free to sign up for one for yourself I do think they improve the look of the card and especially if you have a visible graphics card like a side panel or something like that very nice to have but thank you all so much for watching this video really appreciate it don't forget to click all those links down in the description they lead to useful places for helpful things I don't forget to hit the like button if you enjoyed this video and we'll see you all very very soon