They are trying to same money with a thinner PCB and TIM. Their thinking is you want solder go socket 2011-3 or AMD. With a stagnate AMD this is what you get unfortunately.
I just got a MSI 970 I am thinking of water cooling the card(s) If I do this will I lose a warrenty from MSI. I have a pair of 570's from MSI already water cooled I bought the cards cheap with out a warrenty 2 yeard ago.
I noticed you running ivy bridge like me but I have a 3570k how long do you plan on keeping the system I was wanting to upgrade to a DC CPU and a Z97 WS board. I like the Z97 WS because of the PCI-E layout. I use quick sync which is not offered on the E parts. I like the idea of more PCI-E...