Hi can anyone help me out what happend ?
Bought this used gpu
Everything id running good but still decided to repadte and after opening up
I saw this abomination
Did the dude before tried to liquid cool it, or is then lid from gpu stuck in the heatsink ?
12 Comments
Whatever they did, its dead now. RIP.
That’s Liquid Metal, and it was not applied properly at all.
When the guide called for liquid metal and the lab had gallium.
That’s improperly applied liquid metal. Nothing really looks damaged except the torn thermal pads and the scratches in the cooper heatsink. Nothing you can really do with the cooper, except maybe sand/buff the whole face but too much work for a couple of C. Might want to replace those pads. Bad thermal paste clean up, might want to finish their work. If the person put it in a water loop he/she wouldn’t use the heatsink so if the fans and heatsink are like super clean then yes they did.
​
Anyone? Is the GPU chip lapped/sanded or is that how they look now?
Let me coreect myself after i opened the gpu there was thermal paste there i cleaned it and under it was this “metal” things and its hard as if it was ripped from the gpu lid itself
Did… did you just rip a chunk out of the die?
If you’ve got any buyer’s protection, I’d use it immediately. It looks like the top part of the die is fused to the heatsink. I have absolutely no clue how it’s still working other than the damage is literally on the surface.
​
If this wasn’t done by liquid metal, the only other explanation I could think of is that some idiot got in there and used thermal adhesive instead of thermal paste.
https://youtu.be/8Ejlt-7-h9o?si=46Bs9WrjrO8SBizP 14:38, very common with those “used” gpu
Am I the only one that can see what looks like a chunk of missing silicon? Or am I just seeing things
It looks like chunk of silicone melted into the copper. Does it still work?
No matter how I look at this I see ripped a part gpu die in which case it definitely wouldn’t work anymore. I wonder if this is just illusion?
Dog who put a glory hole in your card?