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A chat on subreddit /r/pcmasterrace
human
I heard that the overheating issues on some 7900 XTXs come from bad contact between Cooler and the GPU?

Doesn't that make it a Quality control issue rather than a design flaw?
gpt
could be both, really. A bad contact could also come from a bad design, maybe a part is higher than it was meant to be and stops the cooler from completely touching? hard to say.

Still, I'd take an overheating GPU that thermal throttles itself over a GPU with a melting power connector..