Anyone tell me the size of the liquid cooling connections on the EVGA Hydro Copper water cooled GPU's?
 
Are the barbs detachable enabling  you to attach what ever fitting you need/want?
 
I would'nt mind a couple of these fellas in SLI for my build. I suppose you could fit a waterblock yourself for a bit less than these go for but I really like the low profile look of these cards.
 
Anyone got any experience with the 470 version they could give me a quick run down of it's Pros & Cons?
 
Thanks guys

Well, the 470 and 480 water cooling blocks are basically the same design from I understand.  The barb fittings that come with it are 1/4" / 1/2" (1/4" for the sockets and 1/2" for the hose fittings.)  I'm not a big fan of the the fittings that come with the hydro copper cards though - they are very short fittings and I like to use metal worm-drive clamps to secure them so something a bid longer is better for me.  I prefer the Danger Den fat boy fittings or Bitspower. 
The pros of the hydro copper cards IMHO are that they have a life time warranty and they come pre-installed!  They are also top of the line in cooling capacty.  The downside is that they EXTREMELY restrictive.  You need to plan on a robust pump set up if you include them in your water cooling loop()

As long as the FTW's are in their own loop the restrictiveness doesn't matter.
 
Pros for the FTW block- best GPU and Memory Temps of any block. It's low profile so you can do 4 way SLI, not to mention leave other slots open if only doing SLI or Tri-SLI. The cards for the FTW's seemed to be the highest binned cards of the 400 series.
 
Cons- Should really be in own loop. As Wryknow said you need a good pump to run these, an exceptional one to run them in the same loop as your CPU/anything else. The VRM temps aren't as good as on the DD blocks, but they're not as bad as reported. Mine hit around 79-81c on full load (used a spot temp guage to check). Perfectly fine for any sane voltages you might want to try.
 
If I was you I would hold off until the 500 series though. Only 4 more days (rumored).

That is actually the same pump I use. To me, it is an exceptional pump.

The only reason I say it should be in a separate loop is if you're using a block that needs high flow it wouldn't be wise to include it with the ftw hc.

Morandir835

That is actually the same pump I use. To me, it is an exceptional pump.

The only reason I say it should be in a separate loop is if you're using a block that needs high flow it wouldn't be wise to include it with the ftw hc.

 
LOL.  My bad.  I guess I consider the 655 a "normal" pump...  I will admit it does an "exceptional" job in my loop (I actually have three liquid cooled rigs running and two of them have 655s in them.  The other one uses 2 x 355 pumps and they do well in that particular rig).  I'm still not convinced that the HCs "need" to be on a separate loop, but that depends on the size and number of heat exchangers used I suppose.  The HCs are fairly restrictive, but just like every GPU I've seen, they respond well to liquid.