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Can I cut this part of the PCB off my graphics card?

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Hi folks,

I've got a GTX Titan X (Pascal) GPU which has faithfully served me for a couple years. Since day 1 I've had the stock cooler removed, and installed an AIO cooler. Most of the PCB is exposed. I'm currently in the process of moving my hardware to a new case, and there's just a fraction of the PCB that gets in the way of installing a cosmetic light box at the back of the new case.

Frustrating as I only need 1, maybe 2 mm more space for the light box. Have a look at the photos below - in theory I cut along the red dotted line. I can't see any issues, as the area seems to only be used for a screw (which I don't use as the original cooler isn't used) as looks like part of the SLI finger? I also won't be using SLI.

Not willing to kill my GPU for the sake of a cosmetic item though, but just thought I'd get some opinions from the lovely folk here on the forums, as I don't really know anything about PCBs.

Cheers

PCB front:
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PCB back:
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EDIT: more photos below (and as suggested, I'm probably better trying to cut a chunk out of the light box instead)

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DazQ87 said:
It looks like there are no components on that area and I highly suspect the copper contact area is for the earthing on the SLi connector, so seems pretty low risk to me.

I'd probably go for it, carefully ofcourse, and I say that as somebody who works in electronics and has designed PCBs before. I'd probably try and file it down though rather than go in with the cutters.
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I've got an oscillating tool similar to this photo, was considering using it.

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I can't really cut the case - the PCB in the red circle in the image below pushes the light box to the left a couple millimetres. I'd need to remove the entire "L" bracket that runs the length of the case (marked in green), but this holds the tempered glass of the case itself in place.
I think my best bet is to cut a small notch out of the light box, and if that goes south then I just find some other way to cover up the huge "Lian Li / Der-8auer" logo.

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