EK-FC770 w/EK-FC780 backplate

[chd176]

I just got my waterblock and the backplate in for my EVGA GTX770 ACX the waterblock looks fairly straight forward to put on so I shouldn't have any issues with that. I was looking at EK's instructions for the backplate installation and it states to only use the thermal pads with the titian. It also shows a reference card without any vram chips on the back for the other compatible cards.  I'm wondering do I indeed need to use the thermal pads since I had vram chips on the back of my 770 or do I forgo using them since it states it's only for the titan? Thanks in advance guys I appreciate your help!

[fringie]

Contact EK. Someone might give you the wrong info on here by accident. Don't want to damage your graphics card when you can get info directly from the vendor.

[chd176]

I'm not sure what I was looking at lol I feel really dumb. The 770 even acx version doesn't have any vram chips, in my dark case it looked like it did and I didn't want to take my card out until I was prepared to install everything. Went to take a pic to post to EK to submit a ticket and found this out. Thanks fringie certainly a doh! moment :blush: