Support told me this "Thank you for the reply. There has been an update to this and we will be adding Thermal pads to the Vram as Well as the VRM. If you wish to do the modifications yourself we can send these out to you otherwise we send a replacement card to you with these done as well as an updated VBIOS. These will be treated as an RMA per our policy that any product outside of the 30 days of purchase will be a re-certified card as these are purely optional mods we are offering and are not required."
This is with my "Status: Next Step: Preparing to ship replacement product " status.
So hopefully it's applied to my card that I contacted them about yesterday for Advanced RMA.