I dont have a lot of data (n=1, 1 day of experience) but mine was so bad, disconnecting, felt pretty hot all the time, that I decided I’d take it apart and try and see what was wrong. I was going to drill some holes in it for ventilation if nothing else, but I think I found out what’s wrong with most of these.
I followed this video and when I got to the end found a GIANT chunk of thermal “paste” at the very end. I replaced it with arctic silver and it’s been working flawlessly for a day…
I had peeled part of the paste up (I thought it was one of those non-spreadable pads) and it may not show it very well, but it was like 2mm…WAY too thick…