Hey! My old 1080 just retired from my wife’s desktop after many years of good work.

I wanted to open it for fun and I just saw that it seems like MSI forgot to remove plastic protection on thermal pads from the cooler.

Am I dumb or?

12 Comments

  1. ssddsquare

    Open the card, void warranty. Don’t open the card, can’t tell what’s wrong…

  2. thenoobtanker

    When you made hundred thousand of card stuff like this happens from time to time.

  3. Final-Wrangler-4996

    Wtf. I’ve never seen that until today.
    Makes me want to check mine. Especially because I got one from msi.

  4. Single_Aardvark_7082

    MSI is short for MIStakes, they even misspelled their abbreviation.

  5. The_Machine80

    Yea they fucked up. Put on new pads and repaste with something like thermalright TFX. Card would be a awesome first GPU for a beginner or kid.

  6. FalseBuddha

    “Am I dumb or…”

    One of the pieces literally says ‘remove’ on it? What else could it possibly be?

  7. PhyNxFyre

    I was looking at the pads themselves thinking it’s possible that the protective film was embossed and it got imprint into the pad itself but then I looked up lmao

  8. MSI doesnt even always thermal pad the vrms etc. notorious for it. The worst 40series cards.

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