Are you referring to the metal fins on the heat sink? Those are explicitly for cooling and you'll see them on pretty much any air-cooled GPU or CPU system. If y

Are you referring to the metal fins on the heat sink? Those are explicitly for cooling and you'll see them on pretty much any air-cooled GPU or CPU system. If you think those are excessive, you should see the cooler on the new Nvidia GPUs. They're like 80% cooler.