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Gigabyte used a "Server Grade Thermal Gel" in their 50 series GPUs and recently users have reported that it has started to ooze out of their GPUs... so I decided to tear down my AORUS (Gigabyte) 5090 and immediately regretted it....

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[–] Romkslrqusz@lemmy.zip 7 points 2 months ago

This type of thermal putty has been increasingly common in laptops over the past 5-6 years, I’m kinda surprised it took this long for it to start displacing pads in GPUs