Remove Copper on 1080Ti Xtreme?

[VicciVicVic]

I was wondering if you can remove the copper part on the backplate from the Gigabyte Aorus Xtreme 1080Ti? And do Gigabyte include a replacement part that will fit?

 

[ravenjedmanicdao]

I'm not exactly sure, but tampering with the card may void warranty. Why would you want to remove the copper?

 

[VicciVicVic]

I'm not exactly sure, but tampering with the card may void warranty. Why would you want to remove the copper?

I just think it looks ugly as all hell and as Gamers Nexus shows, it provides no actual benefit, at least not unless you mod a fin stack on it or if you have a fan pointed directly at it.

 

[ravenjedmanicdao]

Fair enough. I wouldn't expect Gigabyte to have replacement parts for that specific part, because it's not exactly designed to be modular and to be removed.