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I had to remove this piece to remove the backplate. It has some sort of a liquidy substance underneath. Can I just screw it back in and go, or does this need to be replaced like thermal paste?

 

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First picture is where I removed it from

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I had to remove this piece to remove the backplate. It has some sort of a liquidy substance underneath. Can I just screw it back in and go, or does this need to be replaced like thermal paste?

Do you have a picture?

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Sorry, tried attaching a picture but it didn't go through.

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Is it a thermal pad? It might just be grease from that, which you can just clean off and reattach the pad. 

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Is that a DC2 card? IIRC that's what my 780 looked like with the top off. Yea it's just grease, you can wipe it off and put the thermal pad back on. 

 

Yep, it's just like mine. All it is is stuff from the factory, don't worry about it. 

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Is that a DC2 card? IIRC that's what my 780 looked like with the top off. Yea it's just grease, you can wipe it off and put the thermal pad back on. 

 

Yep, it's just like mine. All it is is stuff from the factory, don't worry about it. 

Yes, a DC2 card. Thanks for the info. Do you have any idea on why the grease is there in the first place?

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I'm not quite sure. Maybe it's just how those pads were made, maybe Asus just put a little dab of tim on the vrms (which those are). All I know is that both of my cards are doing fine with it cleaned off, just make sure that you DO reuse or use a new equivalent thermal pad.

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