Every Zalman fan I looked at has the back-plate. I ended up taking a Dremel-tool and carving little notches where the back-plate met little capacitors. AND I had to shave a little metal off of the spring-loaded, retaining clip to get it to fit on my nVidia 780sli motherboard.
After a re-greasing (or two).. I've got my Q6600 at 3.0ghz, stable and cool
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