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I got a replacement order from Amazon but the plastic protective film over the back plate is missing and one of the sticker on the PCB is ripped, but still on the PCB. I was wondering did anyone ordered a new Strix 970 and the plastic protective film is missing. I had a feeling mine is...

I reverted everything back to default setting in the BIOS but it has no impact on the temperature. And the southbridge is sandwiched between the two gpus, so an aftermarket heatsink is not an option for me.

I have a Asus M5A99FX Pro R2.0 mobo with a AMD FX-8320 CPU OC'd at 4.6 GHz and a pair of Radeon HD 7850 running in Crossfire. Ambient temperature around here is about 26C, but during idle, the southbridge heatsink is around 40C. I could put my finger on it for awhile, but not long. During...