Probably , but for whatever reason these guys choose not to . Brian Baldinger ' s nasty ass fingers still look like that and he ' s an analyst now . Torrey Holt ' s finger is still jacked up too I think <| sep |> What a load of horse shit . <| sep |> well . they should just have had a damn Heatpipe on the VRMs . thermal pads are a good cheap fix but really the ACX 3 . 0 should have been connected to more than just the GPU . And that the VRAM pads didn ' t touch mine did not touch at all is just shoddy assembly . Still , the point is the VRMs are NOT exploding because of temperatures , so the entire Circle Jerk and calling EVGA liars on their own Forum for saying the Thermal Pad Mod is OPTIONAL , . welp some people should be eating their words now . Also there is no thermal issue and people can stop panicking about it .