I wouldn't go so far as it wasn't properly assembled. Who knows where the card was before you bought it. there might have been bumpy rides in the delivery trucks or someone was careless and dropped it when they were putting it on the shelf waiting to be sold. Contact MSI and see if there is anything that can be done. I know it sucks but if you can get a new card without spending much or anything at all then I think that's a win. Trust me when I say that a company would rather please the customer if it's simple enough than get that customer talking about how bad their products are, and this seems like a simple fix. I had something similar with my last computer and the CPU cooler, it was stock but designed so poorly that trying to take it out to put new thermal paste felt like I could have broken the motherboard and been totally screwed. I had to take out the whole motherboard one time because I couldn't get the cooler back on and couldn't get it off to try and see what was going on. Best of luck Fergutor.
