Bad Cooler Design Help

[lionsland]

First of all sorry if this isn't the right place for this. I recently picked up a asus rx 580 dual 4gb to replace my aging 780, it's a great card and I got a solid boost in performance, however temps on memory were getting quite hot so i took the card apart to maybe clean it or replace thermal pads, only to find that the cooler doesn't make contact with the memory at all. My current plan is to get some extra case fans to blow into the side of the card to push air over the memory, how effective would this be at keeping the memory cool? I was also looking at buying an aftermarket cooler but I can't seem to find one for this board. Thanks 

[bleedblue]

Wait what, there were no thermal pads?

[lionsland]

2 minutes ago, bleedblue said:

Wait what, there were no thermal pads?

No, the cooler doesn't make any contact with the memory whatsoever 

[Firewrath9]

Is it a MSI armor?

 

get some thermal pads and repaste with MX-4.

[lionsland]

1 minute ago, Firewrath9 said:

Is it a MSI armor?

 

get some thermal pads and repaste with MX-4.

No, it's this asus card, they would have to be fairly thick thermal pads to reach but I guess it's worth a shot 

[bleedblue]

5 minutes ago, lionsland said:

No, the cooler doesn't make any contact with the memory whatsoever 

That doesn't seem right...

 

 

[lionsland]

1 minute ago, bleedblue said:

That doesn't seem right...

 

 

It turns out it is a fairly large issue with this card, it's been widely complained about on newegg 

[bleedblue]

5 minutes ago, lionsland said:

It turns out it is a fairly large issue with this card, it's been widely complained about on newegg 

Man, that sucks. Can you still return it?

[lionsland]

Just now, bleedblue said:

Man, that sucks. Can you still return it?

Sadly I bought it used from a friend, and it wasn't his fault