I do think the 3 slot design is a misstep by EVGA. A growing trend is to vertically mount GPUs in cases, of which many cases offer only 2 slot vertical mounting capabilities. I appreciate EVGA has a couple of reference based air cooled products for 2 slot , but the bulk of their differentiated air cooled product stack is looking like 3 slot solutions. Competitors are offering 2.75+ slot designs on 2 slot bracket fittings. This makes the cards viable for all permutations of fitment in most cases. Also if you put something like the FTW3 under water you will have the footprint of a single slot card requiring 3 slots to fit. I think it would be a good idea for EVGA to offer card bracket retrofit options to open up different installation requirements.

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