You are absolutely right. I just had these from when the 480's first came out. Gotta put them to good use
The ASIC quality on GPU-Z is 84.4% and 73.2% which is much better than some of my other cards.
So I made my fan curve more horizontal to make it less aggressive at the higher temps. This will have to do for now. My Windows 10 rigs have no issues but I always heard that if power goes out and the PC auto restarts, there could be a menu that it gets stuck at. Windows 7 has a timed one and always recovers back to normal startup.