A quick and easy 4c drop in temps by removing my cards LED bar.

[ivanrcks95]

This was just a fun curiosity experiment, that ended up with great results. For the longest time outlets like Gamers Nexus made comments about certain cards blocking a lot of airflow by having the sides of the cooler blocked off. My particular card has the same "issue", there is a small gap between the cooler and the LED bar that goes across, but it does definitely block a majority of it. I decided to see if it 1 - could be removed and 2 - if it will make a difference. Removing it was very simple, 6 small screws and a plug later it all came off, and the difference it made was not insignificant. I wish I recorded all data I had before, but I did this mostly for shits and giggles not thinking it would actually make a difference, so i dont have actual screenshots of the before results, but without changing anything else, fan profiles all being the same, I saw a 4c drop in temps. With both attempts I ran cyberpunk with RT on for 30min, and the edge and hotspot temp both dropped by 4-6c, going down from 71c and 90c to 67c and 84c respectively, those are the max temps. Average temps were more closer to 4c all round. Surprised how much of a difference its made and how easy it is to do it. I also noticed that XFX stopped putting this LED bar on the 7000 series, so maybe they noticed these results too.