@Graphite8five : Installation of the EKWB was pretty straight foward, taking apart the card was more of a challenge. Now I was thinking, what a waste of money it would be to ditch the air cooler. Well to make myself feel better, I took apart the most appealing part of the FTW3 (appealing to me). The thermal indicators is what I find cool about the card. Sure you can look at them in Precision XOC, but having indicators right inside your rig to see the lights that you can set temps to, is very convenient. Interestingly, few members find that backplate logo doesn't work right with the rest of the LEDs removed. I presume that connecting the logo bar with the temp indicators seem to close the loop of circuits for the LEDs to work right. Everything works right on my FTW3.