This is my feeling so far. I certainly don’t feel competent to take the thing apart, and aside from the occasional MSFS crash which is obviously a stability issue with the sim, I’ve not had any crashes or performance issues since owning the machine.
I wouldn’t have know I had a problem until I started watching Youtube videos about VRAM temps.
I think I’ll just monitor the situation for now and see how it goes. I definitely don’t intend to RMA the card and be without a PC for several days/weeks, and I’m loathe to void my warranty and open up my card to attempt a fix on something that isn’t broken.