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NVIDIA GTX 980 Founder's Edition Teardown

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  • This is just a partial disassembly in order to clean and repaste the GPU, so we wont be taking apart the entire back plate in this guide.

  • Once disassembled, you can use air and a soft paintbrush to clean up any dust in the fan or heatsinks.

  • If repasting, use 99% Isopropyl Alcohol and cotton swabs (qtips) to remove all of the old thermal paste from the GPU and copper plate on the back of the heatsink.

  • All done! Follow the steps in reverse order to reassemble.

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