I hate this just as much as you do trust me
Trust me I seriously hate the fact that I had to do this in order for it to stop overheating to the point where I may exchange the card at microcenter for one with a better cooler
So while playing starfield and fallout 4 my GPU likes to overheat which is unfortunately known issue with the 6950xt reference cards but I like playing at 4K so story time before this abortion of a modification while playing those two games the GPU would get up to 108°c which in my opinion I find unacceptable the card isn't even really overclocked I said it to a maximum of 2700 MHz for context the stock is 2690 MHz so very much not enough to thermally affect it on account that it never reaches either of those while gaming or in stress testing the highest has ever got to is 2458 MHz (regardless of OC because it's physically thermally limited) so I had to do this in order to get the temperatures down and for the car to run out of stable speed which is still nowhere near what it said at but I'll take what I can get in this I sore of a modification brought down the temperatures to 79 to 82 Celsius
Honestly I believe this card may be defective because even without an OC it does this I bought this card from micro center the only reason I haven't exchanged it is because they're rather far away