Badly applied thermal paste out of factory - experiences?

[demolitionGoat]

Since i bought my 2070 turbo (a blower style card) i always thought it was just it's build type that made it as loud as a jet engine when under load. 
Recently i decided to just clean it. Turns out you have to fully disassemble the thing to get to the fin stack.
In the process i found out that the thermal paste on there was just terribly applied. Not at all covering the whole die. 
Have any of you guys had similar experiences? 
Should one just open cards up every time after purchase?

[DoctorNick]

15 minutes ago, demolitionGoat said:

Since i bought my 2070 turbo (a blower style card) i always thought it was just it's build type that made it as loud as a jet engine when under load. 
Recently i decided to just clean it. Turns out you have to fully disassemble the thing to get to the fin stack.
In the process i found out that the thermal paste on there was just terribly applied. Not at all covering the whole die. 
Have any of you guys had similar experiences? 
Should one just open cards up every time after purchase?

Most of the time the thermal applications is spot on. Depends if you got high temps then maybe. Normally I would advice to just return or RMA the card to not void the warranty. 

[porina]

Every time I decided to repaste a GPU once it got more than a couple years old, I never saw a bad pasting. Even redoing it with a high end paste of the time, it made no practical difference to temperatures.

 

I can't rule out there may be bad applications out there. Was it out of the factory? Did a previous owner do it? Beware also it wasn't disturbed in the removal process.

[demolitionGoat]

1 minute ago, porina said:

Every time I decided to repaste a GPU once it got more than a couple years old, I never saw a bad pasting. Even redoing it with a high end paste of the time, it made no practical difference to temperatures.

 

I can't rule out there may be bad applications out there. Was it out of the factory? Did a previous owner do it? Beware also it wasn't disturbed in the removal process.

I bought it years back new and rarely had the opportunity to run it full load. 
I can't rule out that i disturbed it though i was as careful as i could. 
The before/after was night and day though. It's not silent but it's quiet for sure now when used normally and even under some solid load. The paste wasn't overly dry so I doubt that was it.
I guess if it's rarely a thing i can rest easy when i get my next card eventually.

[OhioYJ]

45 minutes ago, DoctorNick said:

Normally I would advice to just return or RMA the card to not void the warranty. 

Probably depends on where you live, but in the US, that SHOULD not void your warranty.  However, you have horrible companies like ASRock that ignore these things (they aren't the only one, just a recent example, and a GPU, so a good example for this thread). 

 

Knowing how RMAs have been going for people recently through some of these companies, I think I'd be checking the card as soon as you get it, and just returning it to the vendor within the return window if you think something is wrong with it.