see that is the problem when they do a shit job, imagine if you tell them that you are returning the card because thermal pads are bad, they will never let you rma it and if you try to fix the shit job then you are the one to lose in the end, my point is, warranty law should be revised, reason i think in the future, you will buy only the gpu core chip and place inside the gpu backbone that you already have, just like your cpu. You will buy the gpu board memory and core and that is how supposed to be, right now any silly thing happens to the gpu, you need to send back.