NVIDIA and AMD graphics cards have been out of stock from last year to this year, and there is still no improvement. Therefore, the factory is almost in a hurry every time it ships. Perhaps because of this reason, there have been many reports of quality control issues with graphics cards in the past few months. In addition to the rubber fingertips a while ago, a netizen recently shared his GeForce RTX 3080 Ti TUF OC graphics card’s entire row of GDDR6X on the Reddit forum. There is no heat dissipation glue on it, so no wonder the temperature cannot be lowered during operation.
GeForce RTX 3080 Ti TUF OC leaves the factory without any GDDR6X heat dissipation glue.
According to foreign media reports, a Reddit user kamaloo92 Users discovered the reason for the abnormal temperature of their GeForce RTX 3080 Ti TUF OC.
The text states that the VRAM temperature of his graphics card has never been right, and it is always overheated. He has tried various software troubleshooting methods but still has no improvement, and it is still around 110 degrees. Therefore, he decided to disassemble the graphics card and check. As a result, he saw that the VRAM chips in the row on the left are very clean, and the heat dissipation glue that should have been on the top is missing:
Obviously, this is a problem with quality control. Many netizens also left messages and replied that the graphics card shortage was so serious this time that the factory had to recruit some inexperienced operators to make such low-level mistakes.
There was one a few days ago obamaprism3 A user shared his experience that the RTX 3080 FE also overheated abnormally. Although the heat dissipation film was attached after opening, the position was completely crooked (on the right), and only about 20% of the area was attached:
Last month, there was an even more exaggerated case of rubber finger cots., also RTX 30 series graphics cards:
（Image source: Reddit）
Not just NVIDIA, but also AMD, last monthone userShare the photo below of Radeon RX 6700 XT. The heat dissipation tape on the outside has not been removed:
Therefore, for those of you who have recently purchased a new graphics card, if you notice abnormal temperatures, it is probably not a software setting problem, but rather an issue with the internal heat dissipation glue. Even so, it is not recommended to disassemble and inspect it by yourself, because according to the warranty policy, most graphics cards are not covered by the warranty after being disassembled. It is safer to send them to the store for them to disassemble.
Source: KOCPC Chinese