Product review (5 stars): Elegant looking brushed Aluminum backplate that strengthens card and helps cool VRAM.
Very nice black brushed aluminum. Extremely easy to install but you will want a pair of needle nose pliers along with a Phillips or Frearson head screwdriver due to a single nut that needs to be secured when removing/inserting screws. Installation should take 5 minutes or less. A small bag of screws comes with the backplate and you are supposed to replace the screws you remove with these; a lot of people miss the screw bag when installing.

It looks quite elegant and helps strengthen the PCB and prevent sagging of the PCB and GPU. The backplate will slow down the rate the card heats up and keep the VRAM on the backside of the card cooler. Given enough time, like a marathon gaming session, the video card will still heat up to normal operating temps but the VRAM will not exceed temps of the backplate though, without backplate VRAM can hit temps around 90C during marathon gaming. Backplate does greatly increase the time it takes video card to reach normal operating temps.

Perfectly functional backplate. Looks nicer in person than my attached image (sorry my side panel keeps catching carpet reflections). Looks very nice and does not effect SLI cooling at all.