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User Discovers PowerColor RX 6700 XT Card with Thermal Pad Covers Still On

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Processor AMD Ryzen 9 9900x, Ryzen 9 5980HX
Motherboard Gigabyte B850 Gaming X
Cooling Be Quiet Dark Rock Pro 4(With Noctua Fans)
Memory 128GB Crucial Pro 6400
Video Card(s) Gigabyte RTX 3080, Asus 6800M
Storage Adata SX8200 1TB NVME/WD Black 1TB NVME
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Case Lian Li A3 Mini
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Mouse Logitech G502 SE Hero
Keyboard Corsair K70 RGB Mk.2
VR HMD Samsung Odyssey Plus/ Quest 3
Software Windows 11
Just finished changing the trash pads on my Gigabyte 3080 and the temps dropped from 102C to 74C with the RTX Demo(turned off DLSS) running and at 74C the fan speed was even lower so the stock pads really are trash. Swapped them with Gelid and Thermalright pads.
 
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