And for an $20 a pop on their upper echelon cards too when other vendors are including them.

Fennicillin
And for an $20 a pop on their upper echelon cards too when other vendors are including them.

Yup. I hear ya. Ive PM'd them about it, but havent heard anything back yet. As far as destroying the card by turnin it on with the backplate, i dont know. But id say you have a pretty good chance. Announcing the the world that their backplates dont fit looks pretty bad as far as company image goes. Which is probably why they havent said anything. Nor did they announce they were redoing the 970s before they released them, even though they did it because of community response. I dont like it either, but i do like evga, and i want backplates... So rather than make a huge case about it, im going to wait patiently and hope theyre on the tech gods nice list.

VVhiplashYup. I hear ya. Ive PM'd them about it, but havent heard anything back yet. As far as destroying the card by turnin it on with the backplate, i dont know. But id say you have a pretty good chance. Announcing the the world that their backplates dont fit looks pretty bad as far as company image goes. Which is probably why they havent said anything. Nor did they announce they were redoing the 970s before they released them, even though they did it because of community response. I dont like it either, but i do like evga, and i want backplates... So rather than make a huge case about it, im going to wait patiently and hope theyre on the tech gods nice list.

The 900 series release was like a train of mine carts crashing. Someone wanted to go way too fast to get the product through that tunnel. It seems to have been mostly cleaned up with cards being rereleased with new skus as revisions but it's eerily reminiscent of AAA game title patches. Release now, polish later.

Since I'v decided to buy a FTW & backplate, I looked so carefully at the backplate 100-BP-2984-B9.
Finally I found that, maybe EVGA exchanged the pics of 100-BP-2981-B9 and 100-BP-2984-B9 by mistakes?
 
EVGA GTX 980 Backplate
http://www.evga.com/Products/Product.aspx?pn=100-BP-2981-B9

EVGA GTX 980 FTW Backplate
http://www.evga.com/Products/Product.aspx?pn=100-BP-2984-B9

This one is for the FTW, but looks familiar, right? Yes, you can see it in GTX 980 Backplate Installation, too.
http://www.evga.com/products/pdf/m021-00-000056.pdf

So I'm quite confused now. I ordered a backplate for FTW, but I dont know which style of backplate will be delivered to me. Especially considering I'm not living in US.
 

Well it seems that EVGA got their backplate for SC and FTW mixed up in their inventory so that what should have been a backplate for SC is now a backplate for FTW and the other way around. Here is a full picture of my backplate where you can see that the part number is correct it is just that this backplate might be for the FTW version
 Thank you FlankerWang for the research

FlankerWang
So I'm quite confused now. I ordered a backplate for FTW, but I dont know which style of backplate will be delivered to me. Especially considering I'm not living in US.
 

It will be very interesting if your backplate will fit, please get back us and fo ryour info I live in EU and ordered from the German warehouse it says it has been packaged in germany on the partnumber of the backplate so maybe the mixup is only in the EU warehouse.

I have exactly the same issue, i received my backplate yesterday, 100-BP-2981-B9, for my 980SC ( 04G-P4-2983-KR as the ts mentioned) and 4 screws out of 9 do not allign. I was about to open a thread today, but i stumbled on this one, so i don't think we need more images to understand the issue. I have already removed the backplate, not only because it was trembling, i know maybe there is no danger, but i didn't like having it that loose, but also there is obviously a real good chance for shortcutting the board as VVhiplash said (although it ran fine on me). Any chance we will be getting an formal answer from EVGA here?  Trip4w what did you do?

N.i.C
I have exactly the same issue, i received my backplate yesterday, 100-BP-2981-B9, for my 980SC ( 04G-P4-2983-KR as the ts mentioned) and 4 screws out of 9 do not allign. I was about to open a thread today, but i stumbled on this one, so i don't think we need more images to understand the issue. I have already removed the backplate, not only because it was trembling, i know maybe there is no danger, but i didn't like having it that loose, but also there is obviously a real good chance for shortcutting the board as VVhiplash said (although it ran fine on me). Any chance we will be getting an formal answer from EVGA here?  Trip4w what did you do?

Good you didnt by accident shortcut the card because that middle hole is dangerous. I hope that FlankerWang solved the problem by identifying that it looks like a mixup by EVGA btw SC and FTW version of the backplate.
I have a support ticket running and EVGA replied that they are checking with their tech team.

Trip4w

N.i.C
I have exactly the same issue, i received my backplate yesterday, 100-BP-2981-B9, for my 980SC ( 04G-P4-2983-KR as the ts mentioned) and 4 screws out of 9 do not allign. I was about to open a thread today, but i stumbled on this one, so i don't think we need more images to understand the issue. I have already removed the backplate, not only because it was trembling, i know maybe there is no danger, but i didn't like having it that loose, but also there is obviously a real good chance for shortcutting the board as VVhiplash said (although it ran fine on me). Any chance we will be getting an formal answer from EVGA here?  Trip4w what did you do?

Good you didnt by accident shortcut the card because that middle hole is dangerous. I hope that FlankerWag solved the problem by identifying that it looks like a mixup by EVGA btw SC and FTW version of the backplate.
I have a support ticket running and EVGA replied that they are checking with their tech team.

I see, i guess i need to open myself one too. Yep, FlankerWag let us know about your findings, if it's possible. Also, there were no instructions inside the package, i've changed a couple backplates in the past and i knew the drill (the "sticky" kinda plastic covers between the backplate and the card fooled a lot of people) and the .pdf file does not match, as you pointed out too. I think it will be good to have an official answer here, when this is sorted out.