A user just wanted to find out why his fans suddenly became louder. When he opened the expensive graphics card, he discovered a huge amount of thermal paste. The community can’t resist the jokes.
White paste everywhere. A user on Reddit dismantled his approximately one-year-old AORUS RTX 5090 and experienced an unpleasant surprise.
He actually just wanted to find out why the fans of his graphics card suddenly skyrocketed to 2,000 RPM while gaming. Instead of a minor issue, he found a complete mess of thermal paste in the GPU cooler.
The user explains that his graphics card was installed horizontally and he never worried about the known problem with migrating thermal paste. However, the surprise was still great after opening it.
Despite temperatures reaching a maximum of 76 degrees Celsius, he suspects issues with heat transfer. Therefore, he is now replacing the original layer with PTM7950 and advises other owners to check their card after about a year.
Not the first time
Is this an isolated case? Not quite. The distributor Gigabyte had to respond to criticism about leaking thermal paste a year ago, as VideoCardz reports. The manufacturer stated that in some early batches, slightly more material was intentionally applied.
Excess paste could become visible as a result, but according to Gigabyte, the performance or lifespan of the graphics card should not be affected.
The images of the irritated user lead to some memes, but also to sympathy.
Timely-Cattle-7221 writes, for example: “The factory applied so much filler and still achieved uneven chip coverage – that’s a truly impressive quality defect.”
CheesecakeMage42 also says: “At first, I thought it was shaving foam. How do you even clean something like that?”
Most people, however, are just making fun of it. In the comments, users compare the images to spilled cream or… “bodily substances” and some joke that a graphics card worth about 4,000 euros looks less neat inside than a self-built gaming PC.
Have you ever opened your graphics card or other PC hardware and experienced a nasty surprise? Or was there a moment when you wondered how a manufacturer could even deliver such a product? Let us know in the comments.
There are always some absurd and quite shocking stories about hardware issues from the community. Just recently, a user shared another nasty surprise. He actually ordered an RTX 5060 Ti and made a surprising discovery when unpacking it because the graphics card has an AMD Radeon marking on it.
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