I would not even think to buy EK backplate... I would rather keep naked card with water block or with EVGA original than EKWB.
They should produce waterblock full compatible with their and EVGA backplate and customers to chose.
Imagine you need to destroy this look because backplate is not compatible with block
and instead of that you must EKWB flat to cover fonts and everything else... hee heee...
funny guys from EKWB. I would laugh only... And no one can't see CLASSIFIED or LEDs K|NGP|N ... funny really.
But we must be fair... EKWB is leader without any doubt on water-cooling field.
Cooling of all custom graphic card models are only on their back and they are 75% of water-cooling world.
Without them liquid cooling drop on reference models.
Bitspower maybe have more selection of small parts but most important things are on EKWB sites.
But yes they are expensive, prices of blocks for mid range cards should be max 60e, high end 80-90e.