I am new to watercooling and just started a new build. I have received the EK Titan X gpu block for my 980ti and the instructions that it comes with indicates to apply non-conductive thermal paste onto the phase regulators and then put a piece of thermal pad over top of it. Has anyone done this step or can it be avoided? Seems like it could be messy and I don't know if mixing thermal pad and thermal paste together can cause some sort of reaction. Can this also be done on to VRMs/VRAM?